The Huntress, Your Knight Next Door Chapter 14 & dropped Discussion

I know this is harsh for just barely having gotten started on reading this story. It probably does get better. But I don't see anything worth reading further for this story and that fact alone astounded me enough to write this review and keep this book in mind as an example of what not to look for when picking up a future story.

I tried to read this story with an open mind but I just got pissed while reading it. If you are more patient than I you'll probably discover something you like. I did not.

It's just that it goes way too fast with little to no reason to. Feels like the beginning got cut for some reason and we start with the middle of the story. And the problem with that is that you don't care anything about the characters yet the characters are going through some tough problems. You need to be invested in these characters to care about what they're going through and I just did not care. At all.

You would think a strong female MC in a world filled with dungeons would be interesting enough right? But somehow the creator just sapped all my initial expectations when reading this. And I put anime openings in the background to encourage me to read this! That usually gets me pumped up even if the story is boring. It feels like an adventure is starting! But surprise, that did not work at all.

And there was nothing else that fascinated me enough for me to deal with my utter lack of interest in these characters.

I normally would not write a review when I drop a novel this early in but this was a very rare phenomenon for me where I just did not care after like 3 chapters and then for two hours after I was torturing myself to read this. I am utterly baffled by the way this story just made me lose all interest immediately. Like you have all the right ingredients but how did you eff it up????? Confounded.

Edit bc I felt I was being a little mean: the story has promise, the translation is an A+. But what I read did not contain any detail that sparked an interest in me and that is incredibly weird. I have read some awfully written stories and even those made me more interested than this. Maybe someone else has a complex enough vocabulary to properly articulate what the hell the author did in the beginning that just turned me off because even I don't know. Felt like I was reading through a fog and I even tried to skim and nothing could get me to like this story. What a wild phenomenon. I think it was the pacing that was the key issue but its so hard to describe. Like the author presumes you love their characters from the start and proceeds to write their story that way, but you don't so you have to read for hours about characters you don't like going through some heavy stuff so you get frustrated but the author just keeps on going not realizing the fundamental problem. The house was unstable from the beginning of its construction. There is no foundation for anything else.