Stopped at chapter 2. When I begin books , i always go in with the thought : " I'll read at the very least 10 chapters and drop it if i can't". And i tried to do exactly the same thing with this one. However , the first two chapters were too hard to digest for me. * The pros : - The writing quality is above average. - The chapters are long. * The cons : - Trying to do everything all at once is not easy. When we start a book , we are firstly interested in the main character , since he is the one that introduces us to the plot. Therefore , it's essentiel to present your main character to the readers in the very first chapter. This way , they quickly get drawn into the story. But what is a good Mc without a good reason to start his journey ? Hence , it's also important to introduce both things quickly and effeciently. Here , the author understood this. But he tried to do everything all at once to quickly start the plot-line and failed. Not only did the frist chapter not tell us anything compelling about the Mc , the reason why he was sent to this world was also quickly dealt with. Then why was the chapter so long ? Because by rushing things as he intended to , the author knew he risked getting some people confused. Hence why he delved into long and tedious-to -read-through, paragraphs of explainations. So needless to say , that first chapter was really badly executed. Then what about the second one ? It was worse. In that chapter , we were propelled into the Vr world where the Mc was.... fighting . And that's all we were shown. This whole chapter was basically about action , and nothing was properly explained. It was also very long , which in turns prolongs the frustration of not knowing what happens . What about introducing properly the vr world ? What about expanding our understanding of the Mc ? Such important points were ignored at the profit of fights whom we do not even care about since the one fighting is so distant to us that we don´t care about him too. All in all , the plot progression isn´t encouraging. - " why are you running ?" I want to ask the Mc that . Why are people so focused on vr ? Is there a famine in their world ? Is their world on the brink of death , which pushes them to drown themselves into vr to cope with it ? Would it prevent any world-wide catastrophe from happening ? We don't know why a better connexion and immersion into the vr world is so dear to that world. "If he fails ,he dies " only serves as a mean of pression so that the Mc gets the plot started. But it doesn´t explain why the gouvernement and the whole world is so interested in the vr world . This absence of clear stakes is further not engaging. - The updates are irregular I've had this book in my librairie for a long time already. And it hasn´t even gone past the hundred chapters boundary yet. It's true that the author has many others books. However , if he was organized enough , it wouldn´t be a problem in the first place. So what to say in the end ? I droped this book early but some of you might be patient enough to go further and like it so read it if you wnat to. Also , may God help you with your works author . Over all note : 2,5/5 ( ~ average)
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