I Fed The Affectionate And Paranoid God Chapter 190 Discussion

It's an interesting, overall well-written novel.

The horror is definitely above average, a mix of gore, surrealism, and body horror.

Worldbuilding is very solid, there are a few moments when the writer seemed to have forgotten one or two established facts, but it's generally stable and consistent, with no major holes or errors.

Characterisation is the weakest point, not necessarily all of it, mostly the ML and certain aspects of the MC.

ML is written very amateurish and cliché, with a lot of repetitions that make him seem like someone with 8th-grader-syndrom, or the writer being very young and simply not good enough to write this kind of character.

And it's a shame because parts of him are done really well and are interesting, that makes it even worse whenever he's written badly – which sadly is more often than not.

Spoiler

Repeating the same three things hundreds of times just doesn't work.

He misunderstand MC, gets face slapped, is happy because he was wrong, misunderstands MC, gets face slapped, again and again.

The monster in his heart wants to break free, MC does anything, monster calms down or gets shredded by the ML, then he laments about how much of a monster he is.

"I want to destroy the world" – MC does anything – "I can't do that!" – and so on.

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I have no idea how many times these three variants have been done in the 190 chapters I've read, and it leads to ML's character development making basically no consistent progress, then when he finally starts to actually grow, there aren't many chapters left to do it properly.

There could have been, but the writer decided that everything between the MC and ML needs to be shown from both sides, every interaction repeats with a shift in perspective but isn't limited to their respective reaction, it recounts the whole situation.

The writer obviously just didn't know how to portray character development without a complete perspective shift, despite the novel being in third-person-omniscient.

It's a lack of knowledge about how to utilise it properly.

The last negative point is the "idiot plot".

Some things only work because the otherwise very intelligent MC is suddenly an idiot.

Spoiler

He takes the game as a game, knows that it was made by something that's connected to the monsters/black mist, yet thinks the ML is just a game character.

Despite constantly noting that he's too realistic for that, but never suspects that it's a real person.

In addition, he thinks ML is some harmless weak chicken, even though he knows that a lot of monsters pretend to be weak and/or human.

It makes absolutely no sense for him to be this dense, careless, and delusional when he's normally the complete opposite.

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Despite all the negative aspects, it's a fun novel for horror lovers that can accept flawed writing.