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2024-04-12 04:00

I have read 30 chapters. I really wanted to love this work, but I just couldn't... Usually when I write bad reviews, I devote most of them to logical holes and other irrationalities of the author... but in the case of this work, there are other problems (some of them are very subjective and may even be a plus for someone). 1) Unhealthy relationships. It feels like absolutely any relationship in the work has a different degree of unhealthiness (whether it's parents and children, lovers or a master-servant)... Well, partly this can be said about real life, but still, here it is brought to the extreme. 2) Abuse and torture stuff. I have nothing against that when the story requires it, but it seemed that the author just wondered if they could write it, and went on a writing spree and gave out several dark chapters in a row. When such heavy topics are thrown in huge quantities without any purpose, it just becomes boring and tasteless! 3) Creative magic. Well... the author tried. But didn't succeed. Well, perhaps in future chapters the author will make that mess recognizeble, but right now it feels like a lot of random cool concepts without any clay between. 4) Well, the author mentions this quite early, but there will be a rapidly developing romance with SM inclinations and much more unhealthy moments. Keep in mind. 5) The overall pace. The work is very inconsistent and the author feels the lack of writing style. We jump all the time from chapters full of inner monologues to full action. One second we get the thoughts of one character, the next line we switch our attention to the second. Slice of life abruptly turns to magic expositions, and than to romance. And so in everything. Sometimes I just get lost. I want to pay attention to one topic, but the author has already moved on to something else. In general, I can consider this novell as a bad copy of typical Korean romantic novels. P.S. A particularly subjective point, but in one chapter where the heroine talked about how her magic would be working with tattoos, there was the phrase "it was fair for her to worry that her partner might not like her future aesthetic." And although her partner obviously didn't mind, the same can't be said for me... And as for her partner herself, she's tall , toned, with abs and muscles... It is seriously annoying that every second author uses such type in yuri novels.

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