- #1
It starts out as good dumb fun with interesting personalities and edgy love. Maybe even great. It feels aimless after the start, though, like it's a serial novel with no goal besides churning out chapters for practice. The complicated and interesting skills of the POV character are underutilized other than plant Pokemon, simple medicine, and instakills, because the arcs revolve around the strong-to-overwhelmingly-strong growth of her partner. As with many cultivation stories, progress becomes a slog and the relationships between both major and minor characters become dull and unsurprising over time.Eventually I realized I was very bored and continuing on sheer momentum. You may as well read a system novel obsessed with stat blocks, or repetitive action comics. I don't need this distraction anymore, but I didn't hate it.