THE BEAST IN ME

Very good book so far

am following you from His Sweet Bella and by far Killian rules my world of Male leads and Am sure Asher is making his entry

63 chapters 3/9/24

This book is sooo good and plz we wanna to read about harry

The anime title is different than the novel title, it’s the same for “That time I was reincarnated as a slime” In which the LN title is “Regarding reincarnating as a slime”

So I finally finished the novel. Gotta say, the story was pretty funny. While the end was slightly anticlimactic, for the most part, the story is funny and not really a serious story. Though IMO, the story was at its funniest at about 2/5th of the way (enough to put me constantly in tears), the story still consistently gave me a chuckle throughout. But this is on the premise that you can laugh at the MC’s actions. If you don’t like him, you’ll most likely hate him throughout the entire novel. His personality becomes somewhat milder near the end, but it’s still pretty static throughout. Super outrageous, very shameless, talking mad shjt throughout the entire novel to not only his enemies, but sometimes even his friends and underlings. Yeah, MC’s kinda a djck in general, but it’s pretty funny seeing him be extra djckish to others (racking up those rage points) and getting away with it.The story, while it isn’t really serious, does have some story structure to it that you don’t always see in Chinese novels. There are multiple storylines being juggled throughout it and all of them connect to the overall story arc in some way, which would affect MC’s situation, even if the MC himself isn’t a big part of them, so I do like that the world is fleshed out to us readers so we know what’s happening behind the scenes.I do like that all the powers in the novel seem fragmented, even those in different worlds. Many times I’ve seen novels where the MC’s world is fragmented but they’re facing a united monolith enemy so the MC has to unite his fragmented world to fight them. That’s not the case here. Not only are all the powers still fragmented throughout, even the different worlds’ factions are infighting, so there’s a lot of chaos on all sides that get taken advantage of. And many times, these factions will try to wipe each other out, too, just like how the MC’s world’s factions will, so everything feels a bit more organic than in other novels.Speaking of the worlds, there are mainly three worlds involved, the typical cultivation world MC starts in, a more modern-day technology world (not the same world MC comes from), and a Lovecraftian world. Three big worlds with their own factions fighting each other, and infighting in those factions, too. There are also secret factions, lone rangers who do whatever they want and cause trouble on their own just like MC, etc. The series is surprisingly packed for a relatively shorter novel (only 660 chapters compared to many other novel’s 1000-4000 chapters).While not a perfect novel by any means, there was a lot going on, enough to keep the pace going without dragging the story out. There are only a few points in the story where MC is truly disadvantaged, but it’s a result of his own hard work, I’d say. When his power is “making people mad = increases cultivation”, he shjt-talked his azz off and worked hard to become shameless— I mean OP, so no complaints here.The ending I feel was open enough for there to be a sequel if the author ever wanted to make one. MC finally gets what he wants. MC’s dad finally gets what he wants. Everything’s all fine and dandy. All and all, a good funny novel to waste a week on.…well, my only gripe is that MC’s a bit of a djck to his son, too, but other than that, good novel. Maybe that could be the foundations to an afterstory or a sequel? Who knows…

A "romantic subplot" being together with "dense protagonist" tag screams a yellow flag to me.

How bad is it? I'd rather read no romance at all rather than this b*llsh*t "dense protagonist"

It's pretty good imo, after all it's one of the very first book CF wrote. Compared to the mass-produced slob in the cultivation genre... honestly everything is masterpiece compared to those