- #1
This Book is pretty neat its half decent at writing children like characters and that is the main focus and premise almost. It falls flat on worldbuilding and overall plot as the book meanders quite a bit folding in on itself quite often. It also fell off quickly falling into misunderstanding comedy making everyone be simply flabbergasted and shocked at almost everything the character says without adding too much. It almost felt like the author was trapped in the premise they created.The interesting thing that I liked the most was the idea of the beast-men treatment that allows the character to survive her ab*se at the beginning. But really they don't lean into it all that much. They kinda focused on making the story as cute as they can possible make it damn the consequences. And that leads to the story being very one note as most elements start to get glazed over in favor of cute things. The adventuring side is almost nonexistent. The money making side is simplistic and usually glossed over (they are kinda just collecting bottles and they are still doing that for some odd reason. Even if they make a shop or sell tea or do anything else.) And the worldbuilding relies heavily on you almost inherently understanding what a stereotypical Korean modern fantasy is. Making the story almost kinda confusing as to what type of world it even is or where the character even comes from at points.Character development is almost nonexistent for the main character the side characters grow somewhat. The main Character is that sorta mary sue type that is "Good" that's what she is, that's what her character is. Its Just Good. She is just the bestest of the bestest the sweetest of the angels. And everything changes based on how people perceive her or just her basic existence. And well as one of those types she is well written in that aspect the characters grow in interesting ways around her and is prob one of the most interesting parts. The plot and the overall world isn't the focus its the characters and I do say having the worldbuilding support this (although this was quite late into my reading) through things like how emotions create dungeons was neat.My main issue is kinda hammering of these changes throughout the novel. Its a slow burn novel so the changes are just hammered and hammered. We get the same plot detail looked over and looked over and things like the misunderstanding aspect and the overexaggerated nature of how the characters see their own "sins" of sorts just push the quality of these things down by a few notches.Despite how negative I am with this I will give it a 3 mostly because even I can explain a lot of the bad its mostly just hard to explain the good. They are doing good emotional character work might be the best way to describe it. But the bad puts it into that sorta mixed category where its not mediocre its just very good and very bad at the same time. Its an annoying novel. Even for a mary sue like novel where being a bit whimsical is common its a bit too whimsical to the point of being terrible. But the mary sue itself is well written enough to be neat and have a lot of neat character moments. So its in an annoying spot, hence, the general feeling the author doesn't really know where to take it at points. Its prob the better kinda 3 tbh though, Schizo 3 rather than mediocre 3.
