This is probably my first full 5 star review since reading Dance With the Nightingale 9 months ago. Needless to say, it's one of the best books on this site. I'm using simple words, but this isn't cap.
Anyways, time for the line by line:
First is Writing Quality, which, although is a pretty mediocre in the first 20 or so chaps, it gets infinitely better as the author writes more chapters and by chapter 40, writing mistakes are nonexistent from the Author's writing. You can like, literally see the author's growth, and it's pretty cool. Also, if you don't trust me on this, well, I'm American student with a law major taking english courses on the side, so...
Onto Stability of Updates which has no problems at all with a steady rate of 2 chapters a day. This is easily 5 stars, I don't think anybody could put 4 stars for this.
Next, Story Development, which I think is perfectly paced. I honestly don't know how the author did it, but the novel's pace is just so, pure. Like, it's at the point where it slows down when it needs to slow down to give you a break between action scenes, and it speeds up when it needs to to give the reader that heart pumping adrenaline high that I love to get when reading books. Like, last time I had such a high from reading was a few months back whilst reading LoTM, which just shows how good this book is.
Fourth is Character Design, and what do you know, somehow, the author made it so that all the character are phucing amazing. Like, it's probably because, in the first place, the world is a tragic world, so all the characters are definitely not two dimensional and are at least three dimensional with some branching out into the fourth dimension (Don't ask me how this works). Anyways, the design of the characters is just really great, as they actually have unique personalities, that, although having been used in some other books before, as all personalities have already been used by this point, I still believe the author does it a lot better than all others that have used these types of character designs before.
Finally, world background, which, like the character design, isn't that unique, with just some different names for the same things found in other novels, but once again, the author writing just makes it somehow hit differently. And like, you can tell that some parts are inspired from other novels, but again, unlike the other types of novels that are just cheap knock-offs of TAPOV, this one definitely isn't, as it changes it a lot and makes many things unique. Like... well, that'd be spoilers, but trust me, the world building is absolutely different.
Welp, that's all, don't know how you got all the way down here so quickly, but I promise it was a lengthy review :)
Anyways, would definitely recommend this fervently to anyone that asked for a good novel, especially starters, cause the best I've seen in a while.
Also, one more thing author, like, that cover, change it. It's pretty bad (pretty bad means "pretty" bad) and just makes other readers gloss over it, cause, well, people here judge books by their cover (Take it from a fellow author himself).
One more thing, do you have a discord server?
That's all, thank you so much for writing this author, and keep up the good work!
