- #1
The MC is an emotional trainwreck, which was nice since I was expecting a lot of edge and instead I got a fantastic, fleshed out character. But there's a point where it's angsty and grating more than it's endearing and I've hit that point surprisingly quickly thanks to how bad the writing has been. The author just can't get over how pitiful the MC is so we spend chapters and chapters just going over this, sometimes from multiple perspectives, which I'm sure works for a certain audience. Look, I like tragedy p*rn as much as the next guy but sometimes you gotta show and not tell, and especially not drone on and on about it.The impression I'm getting is also that nothing is going to improve much in MCs life till near the end, so endless angst + nonsensical system = 2 stars off for me. I get that it's strongly hinted that there will be more story to why the system is the way that it is later, but knowing how poorly these novels tend to be paced, do I really want to slog through (probably) like 300 chapters of angst until then?
