I'm so conflicted asdfghjkl 2.5/5 - mostly war strife under an unserious premise. Also, moral of the story, as long as you have enough money, you can save the world lol.
The novel was entertaining and amusing, only because it is so unserious for a serious topic AHHAHAHA. For a situation where hundreds of thousands of people are starving, selling their children, eating each other, killing each other, and fighting in war, we have a modern girl sending an Ipad with power banks, solar panels and takeout food to save the day.
This was written well enough because you have a good idea about what was going on in terms of the war setting, but the target audience based on the whole direction of this novel seems like it's for PRETEENS, or maybe even younger because it is so childish in execution (if not for the war atrocities heavily mentioned). Because it is actually more on the war against several different groups with real-life war atrocities being discussed, you feel like you have to take it seriously, but then when the FL does something you forget about that and literally cannot anymore because ??? why do these soldiers who had their family members almost eaten now drink coke while playing games on their phones. ???? haha
The way the FL unreservedly decides to spend hundreds of millions to send provisions to a general she doesn't even know and also doesn't even know if he is a good person in the first place (because recorded history can be so misguided) RIGHT OFF the bat is such a...? wattpadesque move. She has no repercussions on the effects of her actions (although in general, I agree that they should be saved, just not in such an obvious way) when sending completely technologically advanced items to the past. "Using the future to save the past" was done in such a way that it was TOO on the nose.
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She also seems a bit naive, thinking that because one side suffered so much, the other side is definitely evil, and she was so happy to hear 40, 000 barbarians were DEAD. This is such naive and deaf behavior??? Like not everyone voluntarily went to the army, and not every soldier or barbarian is an evil person. She said she couldn't wait until 300, 000 were dead in total. Good thing the ML is well aware of it, and knew to lure soldiers on their side. I know she's a modern girl, but shes also an adult who should have common sense. She lets money solve everything too, letting people risk it all for the money she was offering and it just left a bad taste in my mouth. I would only recommend this to people who like taking it the easy way and has everything extremely convenient for MC.
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Like I said, this is an unserious approach to a serious topic, and so you honestly have to turn off your brain and moral compass for this one. Either way, I would have enjoyed this if I read this when I was 14 years old HAHAHA. tbh it was so unrealistic that it was pissing me off (not the fantasy time connection part), if this had just a little semblance to the real world it claims to be, she would have been killed/investigated by now with how blatantly she was spending and how much valuables she had. She literally spent BILLIONS in a few weeks and did not hire a single bodyguard lmao.
So far, it is actually mostly about the war that is happening in most chapters, not really focused on romance (yet). As far as romance goes, given the premise, it is slow. They both only get to know what each other look like around 100 chapters in. Also, the ML is a green flag, a young general who sincerely cares for the people; strong, smart, resilient and responsible!!!
