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TL;Dr: I like the novel, but it has some hiccups at the beginning. Nice ending and some adult storytelling.

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Why should you read this novel?

First and foremost (as a rarity among LNs/WNs) the story is complete and has a satisfying ending. The concepts in this world are very grounded in reality with a low fantasy aspect for it being a classical Medieval Fantasy world. Some plot twists are good, and the ending especially really got me thinking.

What problems could you have with this novel?

At the beginning the author starts right into the action, without the reader knowing whats going on, followed by a ... huge info dump with names, Locations and the history of the whole land. While world building is good and appreciated, it happens too fast. I was pretty confused up until half of the novel which place is which, what army is fighting whom, and why i should care.

In addition, the main character is very shallow, and gets often reduced to "i am a small girl that wants to eat and can fight good". You basically dont have any character development on her during the whole series. the side characters are more fleshed out.


All in all a recommendation to read, if you can survive the beginning first chapters. I have enjoyed it alot.






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Some additional critic. The concept of "Demons" and "Monsters" is never really explained. In addition we have a "B-plot" with a heroine that gets revived? reincarnated? reawakend? who only appears for one chapter and is never mentioned again, she served purely as a plot device for our MC to learn that she can eat demons (which never appear again, except once).

The concept of magic is not really explained, it is used sparingly (which can be good), but you have no rules. For example you have a Necromancer who can raise corpses and explodes them (but nothing more?) and only 2 at a time, but she can do this infinitely?