- #1
It's quite frustrating to read, very inconsistent and kind of a mass.MC used to be an opera singer, his new body is a singer, and while he does have to train it a bit to get up to his former standard, he mysteriously decides to become an actor.Something he has no experience in but somehow does better than people who know how to act.He's set up as clever and mature, then turns around and does the dumbest thing you could possibly do, causing chaos and misunderstandings wherever he goes.It just so happens that he's never the one who suffers because of it, thanks to plot armour it always turns out to be good for him – it just never makes any sense.MC is the typical self-insert Gary Stu with tons of talents and skills who never does anything wrong, who's always right, and at the right place at the right time to get benefits.That would be fine, the problem here is that the main-character coating is so thick that the story is immensely bland and artificial, as well as his character a walking contradiction.Of course he has the "tragic backstory" mandatory for writers who don't know how many stereotypical MC-traits are too many.He's simply too perfect and the world too convenient for any kind of enjoyment to be found, you know exactly how everything will turn out after reading the first 10 or so chapters.It's more or less one single formula reused countless times in the same novel.Other characters aren't better, they are shallow and most of them nothing but plot devices.Plot points are mentioned once then never again, they silently vanish into obscurity and leave you wondering why they were there in the first place.There's a reason why the writer tends to include long comments every few chapters, because readers just can't buy nor understand what she's trying to do with the story and characters.After 30 chapters, I'm pretty sure she herself didn't even know and made it up while writing, there's no rhythm to the plot or at least clear outline visible anywhere.Two stars because there's nothing seriously wrong with it, it's just a case of an inexperienced writer not being good at writing (just yet).
