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The only thing I liked about the novel's progression is the gradual change from "human memory taking over dragon body" to "human memory fades away to some sort of afterglow." That's it. The way it got slightly realistic in the way that there's zero probability of the human guy's memory actually having that much influence over a half-dragon's.
As for the way the story reads, it's too much filler. You could skip half the page down and still be on the same narration you tried to skip in the first place. The interactions seem forced, and it just reeked of pe*ophilia. The part with the bandits liking children was unnecessary, even to forward the plot. Seriously, bringing a young girl that's the same age as Aisha's body as a s*x sl*ve was as worthless as creating a prisoner with a dead husband and child, just to have her think of said child as her own. Despite including this, probably as the prisoner's perspective, the author tossed these characters aside the moment that portion of the story ended. What was the point of that information, aside from padding the story?
The MC even thought of Aisha in a s*xual way at some point, which made me more uncomfortable than anything. I get it, nudity is embarrassing, but getting all hot and bothered by a child? Saying you're glad to travel with a beautiful girl like her, again, a 7-8 year old? The passersby looking at Aisha in her maid outfit because she was pretty, even though she has the body of a 7 or 8 year old, was even more unnecessary. "Ooh look at this child in a strange outfit, so pretty! Oooohhh." No. A few people? Sure. The whole street? Even more no. Just because she's 20 doesn't mean her mentality is of a 20 year old human. She's still a child in her race.
I mean, even the interaction with one of the two great nobles in the free market city was bland. Because Aisha had never before seen jewelry you're going to send guards to a visitor's home? Does this make sense? She has enough influence to commission accessories with the highest quality materials, but insists on jewelry with unknown looks and materials. What???
The morality included in the dialogue with each incident was unnecessary as well. All of it, unnecessary. A dragon, meant to maintain the world order, comes to get rid of an anomaly that appeared, said anomaly has a bunch of this world's beings around it, what does it do? Obviously attempt to eliminate the anomaly at the expense of a group of humans, all in order to maintain world order and the balance of power. Why is it's sole purpose being questioned by a 20 year old half-elf that is also considered an anomaly due to her contract with Nacht? It didn't even understand, or comprehend, Aisha's point, so it can't be held accountable for actions seen from a human perspective. The morals in this novel, when they do show up, fail to showcase a solid set of values and instead end up making the MCs look naive and clueless.
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