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I gave this one a try after being very disappointed with the hotel dungeon novel. This one won't get a rating from me because it is far superior to the other one (I don't know who plagiarized who, but even the starting stats on the MC seem the same), it's just not to my taste. First off, translation. Not as good as I hoped it to be, but much better than the several novels I've read recently. Again, narration in past tense, please. The premise is what drew me to this novel and the dungeon hotel novel, but the execution wasn't really to my taste. I think maybe it suffers from bad writing on the author's end. I found myself very uncaring towards the perspectives of other people that the author switches to occasionally. This kind of switch can work, but I believe it should be done for important characters, not every single character that comes in contact with MC and wishes to worship under her feet. In my eyes, this kind of thing is just bloat. There are betters ways to show the reader the reactions and emotions of the MC's surroundings than to just switch perspectives and tell them, this is what this character is thinking and feeling. If the author really, really wanted to info dump the feelings and thoughts onto the reader, they should have just gone into third person omniscient viewpoint for the entire novel. Also I scrolled past all the forum board postings that were present at the beginning of each real chapter. They add no value to the novel. Again, it is bloat. The last point that made me quit this novel, and the main reason why I say this is just a difference in taste is the pet peeve that I have developed for sentient systems. I have come to hate sentient systems. I do not want to read about an MC who has no agency, no direction, and is basically slaving under what is supposed to be a tool for whatever it is that the system was made for. It's annoying. That is what is basically happening here. MC has a sentient system, MC doesn't want to do something, system forces them to do something, repeat, repeat, repeat. Having a sentient system be the main plot driver for your story is boring. It gets old fast. So, I have quit this novel. If you don't mind the above points, feel free to try the novel out.
