- #1
It's disappointing. Author had a good blueprint for a deconstruction of xianxia/xuanhuan genre. And totally flubs it.Story starts slow goes piece by piece. In a "relatively" grounded level from interpersonal relationships. This happens because of that, that happens because of the other thing. So you expect this to be norm. Then around halfway point story goes back to standard nonsense. Realms mean nothing, protagonists and antagonists pulls stuff from nowhere. Later half of the novel goes on autopilot. You get a 10 year timeskip at 420 and story ends in 40 chapters in a GoT season 8 fashion.Which frankly is a waste. People who like that type of junk food already skipped the novel by now. And people who are interested in something different now are disappointed. So it makes no one happy. Author admits themselves this is not a well written novel in 460 postscript. Paraphrasing; "When I started writing this, book I only conceived an opening, and there was no outline."In short author was not good enough to write the thing they envisioned. Which is a shame.
