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Either you embrace the chuuni or you die from cringe.I’m sorry to say that this book which is rated pretty much 5 stars is too much for me to bear, and here’s the reason why: it reads like a fanfiction written by a middle schooler on either fanfiction. net or wattpad. To be honest it’s something I had in my mind but didn’t write down when I was that age so it’s just very painful for me reading this while guessing what kind of intentions the author might have. Imagine you’re a poor kid living alone but having superpowers and then gets discovered and your whole world changes, from a dilapidated apartment to a fancy loft in the middle of a city with river view and 5-star michelin meals served at all times, everyone in your new workplace loves and takes care of you, everybody in the magical world pays attention to you... this is simply Harry Potter minus any hardship. Can you see how wish-fulfilling it is? Now i’m not gonna criticize all wish-fulfilling fics but my preference just tells me that it’s too cringey to suffer through.And don’t you hate japanese anime protagonists who try to stay low profile but dang it fate just won’t have it they’re just too special not to be noticed, our MC here arrives at the school (h—warts) and draws everyone’s eyes the moment he lands. Apparently nobody in the history of the school had been able to fight back a magical bird before and MC is apparently the first one. Oh and don’t get me started on the ML, I was guessing since the author likes to play it big it can’t be the guys who picked him up and brought him into his new life right? That seems too normal, even though plot wise it would really make sense that romance could develop because they literally became the first people he could rely on? But nooo they’re too normal (despite being monarch level or whatever) the ML is wayyy flashier than that.Spoiler
it’s an Outer God or something lol. The author spent half a chapter having Charles Darwin explain how special the ML is, iirc he says: there are gods born from myths, but more special are real gods, even MORE special is the Outer God, literally something like Chaos from Greek mythology, the lord of space and time. And that guy who’s lived for as long as the universe exists falls for MC... lol
[collapse]Another reviewer mentioned it too, it was fine up until the author literally almost copied Hogwarts and threw a bunch of well-known names (Newton, Darwin, Chinese philosopher, the headmaster pretty much a toned down version of Dumbledore) while trying to worldbuild. I got bored of those few chapters full of info dump because there was nothing new, it’s just a hotpot of Hogwarts and Lovecraft, nothing was original. Prior to that the MC was told he wouldn’t be studying there for long as well, he wanted to attend an elite Chinese university (Tsinghua) so if it isn’t that important to MC, why should I care about all that worldbuilding?So, uh, read at your own risk. (I got lured in by the high rating but I guess I’m just too picky lol)