Eridel Domicus was the trash of the Domicus family, an extremely powerful family that had dominion over a large part of the world, having riches upon riches and ways upon ways. However, it was their greatest pride turned biggest shame to have a young master that... no. Let it not be said.
But one night, the 22 year old Eridel had incomprehensibly... died.
But even more unfathomable was the fact that against all logic he began to see again. And what Eridel saw... terrified him.
Or at least that was supposed to be how he reacted right? Why is it that...
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The first light novel of [ The Monarch ].
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Started off fairly well and the concept, whilst not unique, was at least interesting. The technical writing skills are also not bad either. However the story is really brought down by MC and poor decision making (which is often rewarded by titanium plot armor). MC also has an extremely 'wishy washy personality' making decisions and sweeping statements one chapter then going back on them the next.
I really dislike the omnipotent fourth wall breaking narrator author likes to write in as well. The constant comparisons to others to brag about how amazing MC or 'so and so' is starts to get on anyones nerves when it happens so often.
One of the biggest problems for me personally is that Author seems to style himself after the 'Chinese' school of writing. Normally, it would be fine, if one were writing in chinese and translating to other languages or cherrypicking small parts but it does not come across well in English fics, especially when the fic isn't a full on chinese setting. No, here only the bad parts are coming through. The tedious info dumps, annoying comparisons, super arrogant MCs and other characters, , referring to animal groups as 'clans', Tigers with 'King Character' on its forehead etc.
This seems to Authors first fic so I hope they can build on this and improve as there definitely is potential, but for me, I'm going to drop this here
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Do not hop into this expecting any engaging conflicts or even characters.
Everyone is very flat, half the time a chapter will be spent just saying how cool and unique a certain action is even if it's brought up 50 times.
The MC has unstoppable plot armor that shields anything bad from every happening. He literally tries to commit suicide and it just makes him twice as strong.
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I tried liking it, honestly. But, there are plenty of issues. The grammar is off pretty commonly. That in and of itself isn't a dealbreaker for me though, just a distraction. But the writing style itself is also slightly annoying, with a quarter of the words being FULLY CAPITALIZES FOR EMPHASIS, with plenty of empty sentences like "oh you wanna know what monsters are? Find out later!". It's also incredibly info-dumpy, likely a result of the scale that is being attempted. The main character is supposed to be (in the author's own words) among the top 10 smartest beings in the universe. However, you'll find that he's really just incredibly impatient and arrogant, often taking incredibly stupid risks and actions for quick gains and getting rewarded for it because he's the MC. So far, every character introduced can be summed up in a couple words with very little in the way of depth. Which, I guess may be a problem of having far, far too many characters to focus on. I could go on, but I'm not particularly interested in thinking about this anymore. I'll leave off with this: I cannot, in good faith, recommend this to anyone.
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This is a great novel. A lot of potential. The author is good at English and the releases are very frequent and consistent. I hope that it doesn't get dropped. Best of luck @author.
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World building on POINT ! Unique story where the MC is actually not the focus of the story. The story is evenly balanced and the main point is the plot. Character building is wonderful and you feel like you truly understand who they are. With each turn of events I feel like I'm on the edge of my seat watching TV.
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Potential readers, beware. This is not a conventional novel.
The right 'mindset' to reading this novel would be something like watching a playthrough of Rimworld/Dwarf Fortress.
You know when you create a new world on DF and it generates the entire lore of the world from its inception with all sorts of events? Thats it.
This is no one's story but the world itself.
You most likely wont stick with a specific character's pov but it will cycle around insteresting events and notable characters that add lore to the world.
Might not be for everyone but I vibe very hard with this, at least I prefer it over 'World Keeper' that doesn't know if it wants to have a decentralized storytelling or not.
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The concept is pretty interesting and the author has a lot of good ideas, these ideas just need some more structuring to them so they fit in seamlessly with the rest of the story. There are some errors in grammar mistakes, but they are mostly relatively minor, and as such are quite tolerable.
While sometimes the story can get repetitive in its showings of the MC's awesomeness, I actually quite think Eridel's fickleness adds to the story. It feels somewhat reminiscent of the Greek Gods which I think is honestly refreshing with the many worldbuilding stories that try to portray their MC as some kind of great person, because let's be honest, a being of immense power like a god wouldn't really have much incentive if any at all to care about their people as individuals. I think Eridel's indifference to the thoughts of his people is actually a plus rather than a minus as it really gets the idea into your head that Eridel is a god while the inhabitants of his planet are mere mortals, an idea that I find increases my immersion.
The only somewhat major problem I have with this story is the fourth wall breaks that the author does to inform us of some info which is important at the time, it breaks your immersion and really isn't necessary if you can just insert that info into the actual situation in a way that makes sense.
Overall it's a good story with some occasional grammar mistakes and some unneeded fourth wall breaks which really aren't something that can make a good novel into a bad one, I recommend it.
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I really enjoyed it! While the start seemed a bit off, It became really well done in the later chapters. Hope you keep up the good work in the future.
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Honestly, this book is so fascinating, at the beginning when the protagonist was human I thought I wouldn't find it interesting to read, but it became more and more addictive to read the whole story! Thank you for creating such an incredible book, I look forward to more chapters, and I can't understand people who didn't really like the book, because for me it's wonderful and super addictive!I find reading, the protagonist's creations, the events, the choices, very fun, sincerely thank you very much
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