The story of a dragon that isn't a dragon. If you are expecting a bona fide dragon here, no, you will only find a human. Human both inside and outside really. Just writing this so people expecting a bona fide dragon won't be disappointed. Some would think this makes the MC more special, and from the novel worlds point of view, I bet it does! But for me as a reader, it makes it boring instead. I came to read about a monster, not a human. Every frikin monster novel seems to love to turn their monster mc's into human both inside and out. I just don't get the point tbh...

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PixelSteve

Status: chapter 151: anger is one letter...

Apr 27, 2019

Well, what to say. I find the story quite average, and while I enjoyed the beginning has it become by now a chore to read.

The grammar and the use of the language are fine with some mistakes here and there. Its no masterpiece but fine overall.

My problem lies with the story itself and its presentation, mostly 2 weaknesses.

One is inconsistency. Throughout the story are elements which are not consistent, like conversations that later never happened. Or information a charakter had, but later on somehow not anymore.

The other one is the constant faceslapping. No matter where our protag goes, there is always someone who doesnt recognize her, wants to take advantage of her and gets beaten by her in the progress. Its fine to do that from time to time, but reading about it in nearly every 5th chapter just gets annoying.

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I dont even understand how these other nobels cant recognize her, she has regular public appearances at the court, she is a dukes daughter and a scarf is no mask. It should never obstruct enough of her features to make her unrecognisable.

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Oh, and she is a Mary Sue. Can do anything and is loved by everyone she doenst try her best to piss off.

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Sonneillor

Status: chapter 63: taking a dive

Sep 2, 2019

It started very well; It was an interesting concept to see a novel from the point of a dragon from its birth but quickly and literally humanized the creature and it became another novel of wish fulfillment, from there things began to fall deeply and did not have the same desire to Continue reading since the MC (Mary Sue) can do everything right despite having almost no common sense and if you make a mistake there are no consequences.

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LiquidCallous

Status: c12

May 11, 2021

from chapter 12 and on it turns from a story about a dragon to a wish-fulfillment story and it's just stupid

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around chapter 12 the MC gets injured and meets some random (dude forgot his name) and a week later he dies, the MC also says that she only has seen him once or twice... can you guess what the MC does.... she makes a promise to the goddess of death that she won't leave the area of his death and will stay with the dude that MC met a week ago over going back to the siblings MC has been with for years. the story is cancer after this

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Surilexa

Status: chapter 229: the [blackroot plague]

Jun 12, 2023

I'm not quite caught up, but have probably read enough to form an opinion.

Positives: Interesting world, Good early development, somehow keeps you hooked and hopeful, some well thought out characters. Some Interesting plot points.

Criticism:

In my opinion, the most important point. A lot of the time words were never able to have an implication or allow the reader to speculate on anything. Everything must have an attached explanation leading to long chapters but little meaningful content.
Too many unnecessary info dumps.
Most side characters do not enhance the story, but luckily dont destroy it either.
Everything is painfully slow. The character development, reaching new goals, progressing the story, etc.
Misremembered facts when revisited in the future. (It's more apparent when reading more at a time) This hurts the story a lot because something the MC should have learned already gets thrown out the window down the line.
MC has that trope where they are only smart when necessary. They are developed to be smart but naive, unfortunately her education falls by the wayside when tackling simple problems or massive holes in her knowledge are very apparent no matter how simple and somehow not covered in her education. Example: money, political power structures.
Supporting characters do not seem to ever support later on. Lots of under utilized resources, and massive oversight by close side characters.
The story really wants to sell the "mentality" of a dragon, but the mc's actions juxtapose that notion. Her pitiful progression in strength, the lack of wanting to stand out, she is supposed to have a sky high pride in competitions, but stays quiet and sticks to a background character approach.
The MC is shown to be hardworking (cool) but that work gets shoved under a rug due to the slow pacing, lack of results/progression, and an unclear reference of timeframes between events.
Power is inconsistent and nothing seems to make the MC struggle in a meaningful way.
Due to a ton of extraneous info and events, lots of plot points get cut off or forgotten.

These are my opinions, and I tried not to be disrespectful. There were tons of moments where I felt like this book had so much potential. Personally, it felt like the author had a simple plan, but was feeling around with their ideas too often which lead to attention being diverted into a tangent. For anyone who have read this far, give it a try. This book could catch your fancy, it caught mine enough to write this.

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KatherineFtw

Status: chapter 4: looking for followers

Feb 14, 2021

An untagged cultivation story that misleadingly isn't really a monster evolution story. Frustratingly, it's barily a monster story. Monsters are just psudo-humans that have a chance of not getting past the baby stage. Nothing distict either, humans cultivate with manuals and monsters cultivate with good food and a nights rest.

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MrAres

Status: chapter 58: thieves

Jun 8, 2024

I'm disappointed with this story. As far as I can tell, author was trying to make some overpowered MC, but in a body and mind of a kid... And they failed miserably. Forgetting about complaints of others, that MC does not feel like true dragon, I can not see even a person there. She can be a genius and alpha in one chapter only to turn dumb and crybaby in another, mercilessly slaughter her enemies in one paragraph, and then panic because off blood on her hands in another. It was not so evident in beginning, but with each next chapter I have a feeling I am reading the story about a person with schizophrenia.

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Naavi

Status: chapter 242: struggle to survive

Aug 14, 2021

Small criticism from France (so sorry for my English) :- If the beginning is nice, with the siblings, I find that things get messed up a bit with the transformation. The transformation only changes the form, yet the MC also adopts human traits (first blood for example).- From a moment the monster part of the MC hardly has the slightest interest, except justifying its overkill or its talent.- The feeling that the story is too complicated for what it is.

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Typically, why is the Dragon God raising the MC like this? No reason, it's just to have a human context.

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- It's incredibly slow. I'm at C242, I feel like I'm at a C80 ~. We should have completed at least two major story arcs, but we have only a finished one (in the forest).

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And to say how slow it is, after a while I skipped the chapters about Terus fencing. No problem to follow the rest of the story. Typically we were sold a glimpse of the universe with the Abyss, the bestial and human clans, multiple planes,... But at the speed at which it is progressing, C1500 we are there is still on Ator. Unless there is an explosion of talent, to speed things up, but here it is over we will lose the public I think.

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In short, it can be read. But already should not expect an MC with a lot of monstrous traits (other than her talent) and really should not expect a rapid (or just normal) evolution of the story.

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CosmicTony

Status: chapter 224: combat standard

Jan 29, 2021

Other than a few times where the wrong name is used and the wrong number is said the story is overall amazing.

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UnknownSaint171

Status: c0

Sep 26, 2019

I’ll have to disagree. It’s not a wish fulfillment. It’s a fresh story.

But honestly I had no idea what’s going on that I just dropped it somewhere along the way. I can’t help but question the writing quality but I’m not sure, I’m not judging this or giving it a rating, I’ll leave it to someone else to properly review this

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