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3hrs into the book and he beats the mini bosses. A/K theiving family. Probably one of the dumbest scenes because everything is so over powered due to his helpers. The fight scenes aren't really well written in general. It feels like there's a list of what happens and someone is explaining the list. Maybe this book has more pictures? I'm not sure. So far not a bad book. But that one arc just made me worried about the whole seires because it was so flat.
After reading ascendance of a bookworm it ruins a lot of light novel writing because you realize sometimes great storytelling needs half way decent writing. So it fleshes out those good ideas. Instead of those ideas feeling like a list. I'm not sure if it's the translation issue or the writing style. But I think that book ruined me.
[collapse] so far I'm going to update this if I end up keep going but it's a solid 3.5 of a book. It reminds me a lot of bookworm but without the writing strength. I'm hope'n for better military though and we shall see. I respect the staying on sickly task and the blood stuff but honestly, the lavish discription of coughing up blood and the dry descriptions of fight scenes don't actually match. I'd be happy if it was 1 to 1 better job bring up the quailty of the fight scenes.Main reason why it's 3.5 is just a lack of translation quailty or writing quailty. And not that the author can't do it but that the author could but for some reason there's like this speed through on action moments for some reason. Extremely thin writing in those sections makes no sense. It's not a bad book it's passable but that weirdness is so loud it's distracting sometimes. I kept going a few chapters more and the excution isn't great. I just couldn't keep going even though I love military army building and kingdom building books combine and there's so few of those. I just couldn't do it. Nothing to really hook into as a human being. He just didn't have a redeeming moment where I'm like. Yeah, I like this guy. His bulter was a more interesting character