[CLOSED] Unreliable Biased Feedback v3

greyblob

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its been two years since the last one and two more since the one before. im getting the itch again.

i'll provide a simple review of what i read. I try to read more than the first few chapters before voicing an opinion which is why i have these few rules

1. No BL or GB or Smut. GL is fine but I do not enjoy so I will be biased.
2. No novels with less than 10k wordd.
3. I'll take 3 at a time and close the queue. I'll only review novels mentioned while the queue is open (do not comment a novel while thread is closed)
4. I won't leave reviews on the novels or comments. I won't send reviews in dms. I'll comment everything.
5. Post a link to your work.


for an example of how the review looks like, id recommend checking my older threads here. it should be somewhat similar
 
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JayMark

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Be as unreliable as you want.

 

Louhi

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I would like your unreliable opinion about this, RepresentingMenace.

 

great_sloth

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I'll take the last spot. I don't know if you still remembered, you also reviewed my last book, i dropped it. See if I improved a bit, lol. It has only 2 chapters for now.

 

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Hey, can you check out my work too? newer chapters, however. It is in my signature.
 

greyblob

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Be as unreliable as you want.

read up to: 30. Warning: Consequences

this is gonna be a short one because i honestly don't have much to critique. overall, the writing is solid. structure is good, characters feel distinct. this is not my cup of tea but the writing is easy to read so i just kept reading and was honestly intersted to see where the story would go.

my bigget and only issue with the novel is that I didn't sign up for politics and conspiracies and global intrigue. I don't care about the dragons or their lore or their governments. I just wanted to know the story about lily and her friend and where it would go. you're switching povs a lot for people i dont care for. not really a 'flaw' per say. im just not a big fan of multiple POVs especially when its on what i consider secondary characters. If the story focused solely on lily and the dragon boy and occasionly on her friend, i think it's be much better but this is a purely subjective view.


other than that, i don't have much to say. If i wanted to be nit-picky i'd say i dislike floating dialouges and the pace is a bit fast and some of the villians are cartoony but I don't necessary feel like this is a flaw also. It's a trademark of the lighnovel style so its meh. I just dont enjoy it as much.

overall pretty solid. I'd say if you had a proper cover and focused more on the main cast the novel would've been a lot more popular. It's a decently written lightnovel with a highscool nerdy girl MC. practically made for SH. if you make it a GL with her friend you'd have all the infinity stones.

or maybe not. I dunno. maybe the meta changed
 

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Be as unreliable as you want.

I'd say if you had a proper cover and focused more on the main cast the novel would've been a lot more popular.
I'd also add the novel would've been a lot more popular if the novel is released now after Tony nuked all illegal translations from SH and not last year.

It was hard for original novels to see the light of day back then because the latest updates were flooded.
 

JayMark

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I get the shakes if I'm not switching POV often. The experimental thing I'm writing doesn't help. It does return to Lily for the finale with all the players converging except the one agent, but maybe by then the people who want only MC focus tap out. And I thought I kept this one grounded, but I had to have my fun. I get bored staying with one person because my other 435~ personalities want input. You'd hate Alteration.

I'm trying to write GL and stay with the main characters for Silicon Based, but it's agonizing for me to not deal in the perspectives of the other players. Thanks for the review, I'm apreciating that it's not as bad as I thought it was.

I drew the cover myself btw, but the AI cover with boobs got more views.
 

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I get the shakes if I'm not switching POV often. The experimental thing I'm writing doesn't help. It does return to Lily for the finale with all the players converging except the one agent, but maybe by then the people who want only MC focus tap out. And I thought I kept this one grounded, but I had to have my fun. I get bored staying with one person because my other 435~ personalities want input. You'd hate Alteration.
I also use a multiple POV approach. You're not alone.
 

Bimbanana

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I get the shakes if I'm not switching POV often. The experimental thing I'm writing doesn't help. It does return to Lily for the finale with all the players converging except the one agent, but maybe by then the people who want only MC focus tap out. And I thought I kept this one grounded, but I had to have my fun. I get bored staying with one person because my other 435~ personalities want input. You'd hate Alteration.
I also use a multiple POV approach. You're not alone.
Dozens of protagonist with 5 POV sitting in 1 arc here ✋
Readers who tap out because your story doesn't focus on MC are never your reader to begin with.
If they like your premise, your worldbuilding, etc, they will stay.
If its a big problem that means i should be in problem too.
 

greyblob

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I drew the cover myself btw
yeah i can tell bro. ai cover or just stealing a random nerd jp girl will work. boobs will ironically be a bad cover for your novel.
I'm trying to write GL
despicable. will probably have more readers but despicable regardless.


for thr multiple povs, i do not enjoy them at all. the max amount of charctaers i followed in a novel was 3 and they were very very well polished and complete characters with their own personality, ambitions, and the like and they were intersting enough AND interacted with each other so i was intersted in seeing a character from another's POV for example.

actually there's one that had a lot but they were delusions of a character who escaped the mirror dimension and materialized in reality as his obsessions. doesn't count

id highly recommend against this unless you're going to put the time for each one. either they're all MCs or the rest is all secondary. no inbetween
 
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