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The writing on this is so bad. I’m not sure whether to blame that on the original author, their editor, the translator, or THEIR editor, or just everyone. Starts with characters at age 12 and I’m at where they’re about 17-18. They acted like 17-18 at 12, talking about sex appeal with clothing, and now act like 12 year olds with the idiotic arguments. Main boy character is a horrific bully to main character.
— Sep 27, 2020 11:26PM
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Sep 27, 2020 11:31PM
Possible spoilers: Magic school trope, fem main character is special because of her rare magic. Main boy character is super powerful and rich and handsome, but also basically tortures main gem character at one point (and then the school has a tournament (yay more tropes) and the girls and boys are separated where the girls’ test is basically torture again?!? Prolonged burning with fire is torture and that’s what happened in both instances I mentioned). Boys test is like a strip fight?!? What the fudge-buckets. Also, almost no characters have any real depth, and many are straight up forgettable. It’s also hard to tell who is speaking at times because dialogue is unlabeled for the most part. Book is also mainly awkward dialogue and awkward info dumping. Several scenes are basically announced by describing what happened at the end or after said scene and then the narrative goes back to actually describe the event, but not done well. It reads like a bad middle grade novel. Maybe light novels are just not for me, if this is representative of them.
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Argh, typo and I can’t edit my comment. “tortures main fem character at one point”
Just finished the book and it did get a little bit better, but it still reads horribly due to odd and inconsistent dialogue choices, as well as the aforementioned garbage. I don’t know if I will read the second book when it comes out, because I do want to know what happens since it ended with a cliffhanger (this feels like one book cut in half, or parts of multiple books cut down and shoved together). Meh. Low quality, quick, sort of fluffy read.
