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First, translator awesome. No hate on them.Onto the novel, I found it boring and not terribly interesting as a horror novel.First frustration is that basically in the 2 complete arcs I’ve read, the MC solved it with a lot of the ML’s help. Like MC wouldn’t have gained access to areas without the ML’s help. So there’s no way we, the readers, could have solved the mystery or that the other characters would solve it either. So what’s the point? I guess to make the MC look best.Second, I swear, this novel could have been 5 chapters shorter (IN JUST WHAT I READ) if the author stopped writing about how the character was the prettiest, most beautiful, most <insert positive adjective>. It was sometimes painful how the author would just start talking about the MC’s appearance in the middle of something else.Third, the MC and ML are caricatures of BL novels. Can’t really say much more of personalities. MC is the best, overpowered, and most beautiful. ML is overpowered, most handsome, high key r*pey, and likes black box play (aka lock up MC so only he can have MC). Aka boring and unoriginal personalities.Fourth, there’s a lack of narrative tension. Because the MC is OP and ML is holding his hand the entire time, nothing has negative consequences. It happens to other players but not to MC. The lack of tension and consequences hurts it lot as a horror novel. Why should you be scared if nothing is going to hurt you?Last, the hook (s). Usually the author has something to hook an audience. I believe this is the MC’s terrible luck and god husband. Terrible luck hasn’t done anything (it is suppose to put him in the worst games, so far he’s not had any trouble. If there is a HINT of trouble, gets solved in a chapter bc plot armor). Husband? Uninteresting and randomly is interested in MC cause the power of love? Spoiler
Idk, foreshadowing (more like fore-hit you over the head with a boulder) that husband is trapped. That is the only thread making me slightly interested.
[collapse]eh. Basically you want something brain dead without any narrative tension then perfect story. You want something that makes you stay up until 3am both because you can’t put it down and you are too scared to sleep? I recommend going elsewhere.