- #1
Trying to find shapeshifter protagonists that actually shapeshift frequently is as rare as hen’s teeth. As such, I really wanted to like this series. I would say 40 chapters is definitely giving the series a fair go, so trust me when I say that it’s not worth reading.Somehow the entire thing reads like a storyboard or rough draft. Actions are summarised with little detail as to the how. When a character speaks, it’s like they end up saying the conclusion they were supposed to come to, rather than what they should be saying. Ya know, if they had a personality. Instead, we have a main character who acts kind of like I imagine a potato with the word ‘brooding’ stuck on it with a cheap post-it note would act. The love interest is no better, mysteriously materialising out of nowhere and being infinitely loyal and clingy, again, for no reason, in both lives.The ‘villains’, if you can call them that, are laughably cartoony. The men are sexist and arrogant, and the women are scheming and sleep around. The moment the apocalypse descends, everyone in the situation (including the main characters) suddenly isn’t bound by the constraints of human empathy and are willing to watch each other die and suffer. And they spent nearly FORTY CHAPTERS fluffing around, doing zero character building, introducing something like four characters with the exact same last name and a ridiculous number of scenes where the MC goes and ‘catches prey’. Which are devoid of any meaningful description and a waste of words AND my time.This novel is just bad. I was hoping for a shapeshifting main character doing a BL revenge levelling fantasy. Instead, he’s just. Sitting there. In a single setting. Doing absolutely nothing to better himself, acting nothing like the protagonist we were promised, alongside a male lead who is just. There. I guess. MC is a GIANT TIGER. HOW DID YOU MESS THAT UP?