The Ashlands

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I should give the maid a commendation. She was quite helpful already, it took skills to make a tea tray this good. Even the stereotype British Royal would have troubles meeting this challenge head-on. Besides, as far as I knew, there were no poisons in the drinks and biscuits, and it was good enough for me. However, life never went the way I wanted. The moment I turned my head towards her, the door flushed opened:

"What's in there?" William peeked over as Alex was opening the box.

Is he drunk? Deana thought. She could smell the alcohol yes.

Suguha: Good night.

I watched my little sister who is sleeping at my side after exhausting herself by crying all day.

"Oh of course I'm not forgot what happened when my Zeus and your Odin creation is destroyed the earth 781." While Light scratching his cheeks in shame.

"Car! Where the f"ck are you Carl!" I heard a voice, that voice! I tought  my suffer is already over? The monster? Why he still a life?

so far as of chapter 2 this is a great story can't what to see more.............................................................................................................................

A very good premise at the start.The world building and update stability are quite good, but I have to admit that I find the character design and story development severely lacking.The MC is naive to the point of stupidity up to chapter 100. He gets conned and betrayed to easily imo, not to mention the constant repeat mistakes. He talks to himself 80% of the time, and half of that is to remind himself not to repeat past mistakes. Yet, a few chapters later, he will be berating himself again that he is stupid and repeating his errors. The MC can be borderline stupid, but blatantly saying and repeating how stupid the MC is every 10 or so chapters, does not bode well for the book. At least make him seem smart is what I'm trying to say.The story development was fine, even when he was masquerading as a woman for 70% of it (sweat) 😰. But, that bomb drop at chapter 99 was too huge! I will be honest, I couldn't really tell who the target audience was for half the book. But it was interesting enough to stop me from investigating. The reason for this is quite simple, 99% of male audience can read novels about male MCs turning into animals, insects, ghosts etc. But to have them transgender is a huge taboo. I understand that it's 2022 and the lines are somewhat blurred nowadays. But, if you are writing a novel targeted at MALE audience, you SHOULD NOT transgender the MALE MC and LITERALLY put that he lost himself. It's too much, my brother. I literally had to back pedal at chapter 99 and check if this novel had an LGBTQ tag that I somehow missed. I even had to question myself and ask if I was being misguided for reading those 99 chapters. That's just how big an impact your chapter 99 had on me. I don't think that the sequence of events leading up to it were intentional, but the end result was questionable to say the least.At least, that's my two cents on those two issues. Otherwise, the book is readable and I would recommend it to female readers, or those who don't mind the blurred lines.Overall, I give this book 3.8 out of 5 but that's mainly for the writing quality, world building, and the somewhat unconventional plot. The MC setting and plot progression seems quite sketchy imo though.P.S. Please allow the MC to do ghostly things. You promised ghosts, so you should give ghosts.

Writing is my passion not my job. This piece is a product of my dedication and not obligation. Every character is relatable to someone out there and you just need to find yourself inside this imaginary world I created.

I really want to like this novel, I really do. But the Author use so much Nationalism that it put me off.There’s some sentences that just doesn’t need that particular “Nationalism” and it just flow weirdly and this is 19th century Europe. Yellow Peril is a thing back then.The story in general is decent enough if you can get past those.