- #1
I think that the author has a grand plan laid out, with all the ambitious setting of God, religion, faith and so on, but perhaps because they're new to writing... there are too many problems to actually do that ambitious plan justice.The novel started out quite well, and I especially like how the foreshadowing elements were made. It really showed that the author has actually planned their plot instead of impromptu writing. Too bad there were too many unnecessary elements in the process. Yes, the food scenes, the idle talks, the random monologues that don't serve any purpose. And I know that both the MC (Yeseo/Jesse) and the original FL (Ga-in/Christelle) were Earth residents and Koreans, but the excessive mentions of memes, movie references, and shows really, terribly kill the immersion. Like, even for a modern fantasy novel it'd have been excessive, let alone this Western-style setting. It didn't even serve a purpose like showing the characters' past or so on; it was just for 'comedy' purposes.I really can't stand the random monologues either. Those monologues exist even during serious fight scenes, and there is practically no use for it. For that reason alone, whenever I read a chapter of this book, I'd feel like reading just half the actual word count— because you can literally omit half the chapter and the whole content would still be understood.I enjoyed the characters a lot in the earlier half of the book, but now I really can't see their appeal anymore. Yeseo/Jesse was always kind like an angel and I loved that of him, but now he is just like a flower-headed MC with too much naivety even during something as serious as a war setting. The villains also feel like plot device meant to drag on the plot for some dramatic effect, and the actual characterization isn't there at all.