The Villain's Side of the Novel by Fri123

Don't bother with this one, with the author pace its no different than being dropped

A reader waiting for a new chapter of this beautiful work.

Writing this review at chapter 167:

Brief summary:


MC is not a villain, he is more of an anti-hero. He is very attached to people around him (or at least starts to attach great care/importance to people around him by ch100 ).
This is kinda disappointing and leaves an annoying and bad aftertaste since MC was introduced as someone ruthless and cold during the first 50ch and then he suddenly changes. There is also a cliche love triangle between MC, Luke(original protagonist), and one of his harem members (MC's crush). Although the author said that MC doesn't care much about her, She is mentioned every time when there is a scene between MC and Luck and to top that up, it also has some flashbacks between the three when they were in the academy.

It was a good novel during the first 50 chapters with immense potential. The author clearly gave a lot of thought in the beginning in order to ignore cliches and he was fairly successful. The problem starts from ~chapter 100 where the story almost became stagnant with little to no development in the plot. It became even more annoying after ch ~150 where the author started filling 10 chapters with the same scene from different POVs. The author also leaves many empty plot openings to fill them up in the future but seeing the pace novel is going, it will take forever.

It could be great, but simply isnt
Some parts feel like filler
And to me it feels like it got worse after 100 or so chapters
Author overexplains simple actions of mob characters now
Lack sustance when its trying to be grand
Middle of the pack on webnovels in everything, nothing is helping it to shine

Too many misspellings and MC doesn't show mature attributes of an old man just a flustered MC even after preparation

Interesting story but shallow writing with occasional mistakes

INTERESTING!!

at most rank C-

Only read 6 chapters
From what's available it seems the story could be good, interesting premise..

Won't read further though

It may just me being picky but the grammar and layout is terrible (ex: c6, not on webnovel though). Not confusing like hard MTL but not very enjoyable to read.. Also author is talking to us a few times already (when it would usually be written as author note at the end of the chapter or explained through writting as "info paragraphs").

So.. I'd say give it a shot, if you don't mind the flaws