House of the Dragon: Let Me Be King!

Personally, I think that the flashback in that chapter came too early. It would have been much better if it appeared as a side story several dozen chapters later. Revealing the fates of many characters all at once like this somewhat affects the reading experience.

Overall, it's a good book. The word choice and sentence structure are very similar to those of some Western writers. The first and fourteenth chapters pay homage to Márquez, and the style of the whole book is also similar. However, precisely because of this, updates are very slow, and the author overlooked one point: nowadays, books can't attract readers just by their writing style; what matters…

Try not to spoil the future. We want to enjoy the excitement of the present. Spoiling the ending beforehand ruins the fun. You can hint or foreshadow, but don't write it outright. It's like someone telling you you'll be a billionaire someday—would you still be motivated to work and earn money? The unknown is what makes it interesting. I've read very few books that explicitly describe the future.

It's a tribute to Western fantasy, and you can tell it pays homage to works like "How the Steel Was Tempered," "The Million Pound Note," "Lord of Mysteries," and "The Devil's Law." While it's not particularly amazing, the premise is quite good. We need to read the rest of the text to see if this article has presented anything "new".

It's difficult to read, not in the sense of being hard to understand, but rather it's difficult to wonder why the author wrote it this way.

The first chapter was about a dragon getting imprisoned, the second chapter was about a beggar living a miserable life, that's it. I didn't read the third chapter; the three golden chapters were all a mess.

Personally, I think that writing about certain things in the future too often is problematic because you can't guarantee you'll actually finish the book. Gabriel García Márquez's *One Hundred Years of Solitude* is a complete work; its timeline is in the past, which is a completely different genre from your online serialized novel. You can abandon it at any time, and the two require different reading experiences.

For example, with the character Elsa, I had just started to look forward to her character, and then you tell me that she will die young in the future. It's really hard to hold back. Writing this kind of plot occasionally can increase the anticipation, but writing it all the time will actually decrease the anticipation. I already know the ending, so why are you still writing it?

I don't understand. The previous card said it couldn't be told to outsiders, but the next card said it was told to family and knights. Does that mean these things don't count?

The writing is really good, and the Western fantasy elements are authentic, unlike other novels that use the Western fantasy theme but are essentially just monster-slaying and leveling-up tropes. I feel its popularity shouldn't be this low.