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Xzy34
Xzy34Lv65yr
2019-07-27 21:23

My 2.8 stars is not given for the novel itself but for the translation quality. Henyee Translations has picked up a lot of novels, and while I appreciate the effort, THE QUALITY OF THE NOVEL HAS BEEN AFFECTED. I'm not sure about others, but it greatly affects my enjoyment of a novel when I have to constantly re-word and correct grammar in my head. It wouldn't be such a big deal if the grammar quality was bad from the beginning, because I would just not start the novel (like it is with some translation projects and a majority of the original stories I have tried). However, some of these novels were translated with good English before; but after moving to webnovels or being picked up by Henyee translations, the quality of the translated English has drastically decreased, even to the point of affecting my understanding and enjoyment of the plot. Henyee Translations is not alone in this, but I am talking about them specifically because a few of the novels I used to read have been taken over/picked up by them. So Webnovels, Henyee translations, and other translation groups, although I appreciate your efforts, since we are being charged so much for reading these translations, I think the least we readers deserve is more effort going into providing quality English syntax, grammar, and plot clarity. Thank you.

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Daoist589751
Daoist589751Lv3

Good one .Hope they don't ruin the original novel with a bad translation

PR_King24
PR_King24Lv14

Im nearly towards the end now and i didn’t find it that bad.

ACatWithNoName
ACatWithNoNameLv4

At the beginning the novel is good... Side characters are smart enough not to judge MC too quickly before tasting his food. And then suddenly all his competitors became dumb. "Just because it's smell good doesn't meant is taste good" it's what his competitors says. 1 of them said that one time? Sure, no problem. But nah they repeat that line every single damn time if given the chance. "What? Mammy Restaurant Chef cooked for the king once? No way He's better than me who can't even qualify as a chef in the Royal capital." "What? He cooked for the King and win the best dish of the day? No way its Inferior to my Roasted chicken that cooked by yours truly." "He's must be cheating the ranking board by bribing the staff with money! No way he's doing that with pure skill!" "He's was praised by the King for his delicious dish? He's a nobody compared to me who the city lord doesn't even know. Lets kill him!!" "The girl I have a crush on won't look at me because she secretly likes him? This guy must have seduced her! What a scumbag!" Stupid side character just won't stop flipping their gum. A wholesome cooking Novel with daughter became your generic Face sapping novel.

MudObserve_yunche
MudObserve_yuncheLv1

different expectations, different levels of enjoyment

PR_King24:Im nearly towards the end now and i didn’t find it that bad.
PR_King24
PR_King24Lv14

I suppose so. 😊

MudObserve_yunche:different expectations, different levels of enjoyment
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NoblePrime
NoblePrimeLv13
Cepheus_7439
Cepheus_7439Lv4

This book had great potential but it became more annoying by the time......the MC was given a system to force him to learn cooking because of his harsh reviews in his previous life and the system was quite witty and interesting but it soon became money-seeking system going to the point of selling kid’s toys,designs for clothes,bikes etc So MC starts a partnership with a chothing company in other world by giving them designs(bought from the system) for share of profits and also shares steam engine as well....the system should be preventing him from doing this as getting money from other venues will affect him from the restaurant..... The kid was absolutely adorable,she was timid,cautious and very easy to satisfy (less demanding in terms of toys,food etc) but just after getting good food and clothes and few people calling her cute she become very daring as well as demanding....she was happy with few copper coins to buy crude pancake but now she demands for desserts,clothes,toys etc....this might be good for a kid to a certain extent but the transformation was ways too fast and before she was more mature for her age but soon became bratty.... The kid is talented but her talent is very exaggerated(she can be called a powerhouse within one year after starting to learn magic) but no one suspects a thing. Everyone know that she is half-elf with white hair with similar personality as elf princess and also has great potential for magic and the MC does not change his name ....They are like ‘MC cannot be Mag Alex because Alex cannot cook and is supposed to be dead’...you can say that the whole world is as dense a harem protag in this situation...... Sometimes the system missions don’t have equal reward-penalty... the penalty is becoming a cripple who cannot leave the bed and reward is a recipe so the MC is forced to complete every mission the system gives him so it is more like system command rather than system mission..... MC tries to become a good parent and succedes in getting rid of her inferior mentality but fails in correcting her other mistake and ignores it saying that it is cute.....the child gives names which sometimes can be called cute but most times it is plain insulting and if the people scold her or don’t like it they become narrow-minded and if they don’t mind it than they are good people....and the MC never corrects her or becomes angry at her.....over one year the kid keeps on giving names where some side-characters laugh it off and people who don’t like it are face-slapped and she keeps on threatening others to set fire on them for various reasons....I think that MC should at least have educated her to call people properly as name calling insults would easily make people angry or hurt weak will people...... And finally the MC doesn’t have any ambitions except doting on his daughter...there is very less story development as MC only gives new recipes and restores his predecessors strength and the kid somehow become Op(becomes 6 or 7 th level out to ten levels) within a year where MC who is ‘restoring’ his previous strength with a cheat system can barely keep-up or surpass her.... There werw many interesting characters but they soon plunge in one directional characters...now I don’t see much difference character-wise in the waitresses who were vivid and ‘exotic’ when they first appeared... I am not going to comment on translation because you may have already read them in other comments...but anyway this is a typical face-slapping novel with a kid and food in the combo

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