It totally depends on what novel I am trying to MTL. Chinese is pretty easy and understandable except the names are messed up. JP novels are too hard to understand via MTL so I don't even bother lol. KR novels, I've only tried reading one novel I purchased via google play books (as KR raws for it were impossible to access otherwise because its meant for 19+ readers) and it was very much readable, even better than chinese ones imo.
The more I read MTL, the more my brain gets wired to understand it I guess (I'm a very impatient person and I want to immediately know what happens to the novel lol). And well, english is not my first language anyway so I'm used to poor grammar and sometimes broken english.