Review Detail of Nyko in Dark King
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I was pretty astounded when I saw the ratings for this novel - if not saddened. This is... complicated. I was glad to see this on Qidian since I started to use this app and The Dark King was a pretty good and original novel IMO. I binged it up to around chapter 400 I guess ? Anyway, I was sad because I don't understand how people can give 5 stars to blatant copy pasta of typical xianxias, while trashing someone who, for once, did something a bit original. And succeeded at it. The Dark King is a post-apocalyptic novel about the survival of a young boy forsaken by the world. Clearly not the light-headed kind of novel, The Dark King brings the most out of its story by toying with the reader's emotions. I dunno if you ever cried reading a novel - I did - and somehow, I find it quite pleasant. It's a food for the soul - as some great man once said. The Dark King is, as usual in chinese novels, a story with a powerful main character. However, and this is where it differs from the norm, there is no oh-so-welcomed/blatantly obvious plot armor. Of course the main character won't die. Nevertheless it doesn't mean he'll never fail. The author tries to make it as realistic as possible, even if it means showing the readers the ugly side of humanity. So the hero is a normal boy starting as low as you can start : treated as a low-life by the lowest of low-lives. Nothing unusual. But surprisingly there is no multicolored thunder coming to make him a killing god, no sudden heaven-trashing artifact reversing single-handedly his fate. No, he simply just climbs the hierarchy using his guts and his wits. Such a shame that the author wouldn't allow the clever hero to live a blissful existence. Tragedy befalls him one after the other and he falls to a pathetic state. The author depicts the transition of cleverness to cunningness. Throughout the story the main character - who furthermore didn't live in a pink world of pixies and unicorns - gets the taint of society unraveled to him and becomes desillusioned. A very believable transformation happens. The hero wanted to survive, now, he wants to live. Even if it means being ruthless and using the most underhanded tactics. In a nutshell, the hero has to fight more against the human of the inside than the monsters of the outside world. He fights many action-packed battles, but prevail in the political curtains. He becomes strong both mentally and physically not through some heaven-sent opportunities, but because of what he experienced. So when I see this getting such a rating, I feel it is my duty to speak up. This is a wonderful novel. Thanks for your time.
Dark King
Gu Xi
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Yeah, I thought so myself. What you are saying is probably true. However I'm pretty tired of reading the same old so this is like a breath of fresh air to me. As you say I'm glorifying it, but I'm not really lying either. I believe reviews are supposed to help the reader understand the novel and look forward to it, so I'll indulge in such melodramaticness for now. Sorry if I ticked you off.
Zeph:It is definitely not a 'bad' novel, but you are definitely glorifying it. Very melodramatic review.
Nyko:Yeah, I thought so myself. What you are saying is probably true. However I'm pretty tired of reading the same old so this is like a breath of fresh air to me. As you say I'm glorifying it, but I'm not really lying either. I believe reviews are supposed to help the reader understand the novel and look forward to it, so I'll indulge in such melodramaticness for now. Sorry if I ticked you off.
My god this is a much better synopsis than the one depicted above makes me want to devour this novel real quick :P
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spitfireYG:My god this is a much better synopsis than the one depicted above makes me want to devour this novel real quick :P
Inspirador, acabei de conhecer o site pesquisando uma certa novela" ***.novelupdates.com/series/ancient-godly-monarch/ " e, fui ver a página principal, e vi essa novela, acabei lendo seu comentário, me interessei, agora vou ler.
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Dao_Pride_Sword:Because of your politeness, and explanation about the novel, I will try it out. 🐵 -Monkey Elder
Well, although I don't speak... Portuguesh was it? Google translation helped me a bit, so, I'll answer that it was a fortuitus encounter which will with a bit of luck lead to a blissful reading :P
QzbLG:Inspirador, acabei de conhecer o site pesquisando uma certa novela" ***.novelupdates.com/series/ancient-godly-monarch/ " e, fui ver a página principal, e vi essa novela, acabei lendo seu comentário, me interessei, agora vou ler.
I would give this novel a overall 3 star rating. Basically I like the world building and all but I just cannot connect to the MC or to the other characters in this novel. I dropped it around chapter 200+ I think. I found it more of a chore/routine to read it. I did not become eager or excited when a new chapter came out. So there you go. To each his own I guess 😪
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Back then it had and overall rating of 3,6 which I felt lacking comparing to this novel's quality :P
Yeah:The majority of ratings are 4-5 stars. The WORST rating is 3 stars, which just means "average".
I can't really say I understand how you feel since I binged it, which probably didn't give me as much frustration as it should have when some chapters were unfulfilling. I guess everyone has his own tastes though. That said, I feel the characters are much more fleshed out than some in the other novels out there, which would normally accentuate your ability to identify yourself to X character. Well, that's just my opinion anyway ^^'.
Jack_N_Mikhail:I would give this novel a overall 3 star rating. Basically I like the world building and all but I just cannot connect to the MC or to the other characters in this novel. I dropped it around chapter 200+ I think. I found it more of a chore/routine to read it. I did not become eager or excited when a new chapter came out. So there you go. To each his own I guess 😪
It's probably a 4.5 overall if you truly read it imo, the plot and characters are all well done, only the dark side of the book might not be for the less mature
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Shock:It's probably a 4.5 overall if you truly read it imo, the plot and characters are all well done, only the dark side of the book might not be for the less mature
I binged read to the latest chapter after reading this comment thanks for introducing me to this novel it was really good other than some few grammar errors the story is really superb
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spitfireYG:I binged read to the latest chapter after reading this comment thanks for introducing me to this novel it was really good other than some few grammar errors the story is really superb
I still think that the concept is similar to attact on titians when you change the enviroment to a raditaion one. A big ass wall. A wall in wall. Giant ass creatures. Poor people. A lot of bad superior. Some way too advance technology in a medieval era. Plus a lot of other stuff. I will give this novel a 4.5 stars Personal opinion.
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