The Origins of Magic
魔法始记
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 2.8M Words
- Genre
- Western Fantasy
- Subgenre
- Sword & Sorcery
- Updated
- 4y ago
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Since I rarely see a well-written book, I'll just ramble a bit more. I've been having such a reading slump lately, and I rarely read more than three chapters... It's rare to find a book with such a serious attitude and high quality. Let me praise you a bit first. Then I'll nitpick a bit.
The writing style is decent, but the plot and character development are terrible. The characters lack a clear backstory; the girlfriend is dumped without warning. The plot is riddled with inconsistencies; the butler's son could easily replace the female mercenary's storyline, and the cashier didn't need to reveal her secret to break up with the man.
The protagonist is basically crushing a level nine knight after leveling up, right? And he still has the mind to manage these political matters? The mage class, where personal power is paramount, has been turned into a farming/development game... In the early stages, you were involved in politics to serve yourself; what about now?
It's a decent Western fantasy, worth a look, but it's still not quite top-tier.
Having read the part about arriving at the tribe, overall it's much better than the many light novels on Qidian. It doesn't have overly silly plots or excessively toxic elements, making it a worthwhile Western fantasy work to read when you're looking for something to read. There are several areas I feel could be improved:
I must admit that at first I thought the protagonist would be an evil figure like those in the Kexma Empire, but the more I watched, the more I felt he leaned towards neutrality or even benevolence within the established order. Take, for example, the incident with the 70,000 gold pound purchase.
I found it on the new book chart before, and it was okay to read. But after I signed the contract, I couldn't find it on any of the charts anymore. As a new author and a new book, you have to find ways to promote it. For example, you can chat with some well-known authors, make friends, fawn over them, ask for introductions, and ask them to mention it at the end of a certain chapter.
I almost subscribed to the whole thing, but then I discovered there's a promotion where you can buy the entire book for 999 points...
I started recommending your book with all 12 votes when you had only written a few chapters. For a new author to achieve this level of writing, I always thought it was quite good. My monthly votes are mostly distributed among the books I'm following, and yours gets at least one vote per month.
After reading it, I felt it strayed a bit from the main point. I came here for the magic, but it turned out to be a book disguised as a political novel.
There's too much focus on politics and power, and too little on magic.