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That opening chapter almost cost Drew Wells a big fat DNF.
Be so, so careful how you start a book. Opening with a dying teenager weeping in a hospital bed as he rages against the injustice of his congenital defect is just too harsh.
Isekai almost never need the last moments of the previous life. and even fewer books need children of cry as they die.
IF you can choke that down, it gets better
— Mar 29, 2026 02:38AM
Be so, so careful how you start a book. Opening with a dying teenager weeping in a hospital bed as he rages against the injustice of his congenital defect is just too harsh.
Isekai almost never need the last moments of the previous life. and even fewer books need children of cry as they die.
IF you can choke that down, it gets better
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