Come and Cry at My Funeral Chapter 95 Discussion

The writing is pretty decent, although lacking in adjectives and more so blunt, the writer spares no descriptor left untouched when it comes to the main leads but everything else falls flat around them. The world building is haphazardly done and little is described about the empire other than a massive class divide, it isn't even clear if there is more than one empire in the story, not even a general statement in regard to the geography of the world either.

The rest of my review will be under the spoiler tag, it mostly spoiled details from early chapters and are not really big spoilers at all regarding the plot.

Spoiler

Magic is mentioned throughout, but very little is described and it possibly may be in the later chapters I have yet to read, the author mentioned the ducal households having powers though what these powers are or why they are important to the empire as it's stated that House Antares fell in disfavour with the Emperor due to 'losing' whatever power that used to manifest in the Antares bloodline, so clearly the powers mean *something* to the empire. Otherwise, why make that statement?

In the novel, it is stated that the rebels were fallen nobles, there is so many reasons the author could've chose for the rebellion's existence, the class divide being one of them, but for it to turn out to be simply a bunch of fallen nobles angry that they were no longer nobles was incredibly disappointing and such a missed golden opportunity for politics to come into play and further flesh out the Celestica Empire's political scene for the reader in a way that not only makes sense, but draws a clear comparison readers can make between our world and the world within the novel, which would've further grounded it in reality and had given the novel a foundation to stand on.

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All in all, it's good enough to read I guess, I think I rated it too highly the first time around simply based on the first couple of chapters and after pouring over the details in the first 30 chapters in order to do a rewrite (yes I'm doing a rewrite, I got a personal vendetta against Izar and the author), I realized just how much the story falls flat. I could go on for days about this novel, I don't know why I've developed an obsession with it considering it's pretty subpar writing compared to other novels I've read, but I suppose I'm just upset at the missed opportunities the author had.