The Amber Sword

As a reader who has reread Amber Sword countless times, I have some regrets about this book. I first read it around the second year of junior high school, when it was about 1.5 Million words long. I finished it in two or three days and found it incredibly good.

Everyone says the first half is a masterpiece, but I personally feel it's just passable. There are two parts that feel a bit awkward: one is the cards that are out of place in the world, and the other is the player's feelings for their country in their previous life.

Thank you, Fei Yan. Although you like eunuchs, and you're a fat guy, not a big-eyed, fair-skinned, beautiful girl in black stockings, thank you still. I first read *The Amber Sword* in high school. At first, I thought it was just an online game novel; I couldn't understand the title, and the synopsis was too complicated.

The settings are complex, involving various stitching and stacking configurations, but the logic between these settings remains unclear. The plot is driven entirely by unexpected events; the goals are never achieved, and unexpected events are inevitable along the way, one after another, with a bunch of inexplicable side quests.

Yes, that's exactly what I think! Fei Yan was born into the wrong body. With his personality, he should have been born in the ancient West as a lazy, short-tailed rabbit! Gentlemen, join me for a fun rabbit-hunting feast, let's get the fat rabbits in the manor moving! Our fun should be chasing the prey… otherwise, this fat rabbit will die a comfortable death! 🤭

There are so many embarrassing parts... It's not just the endless repetition of chapters. The first half was excellent, absolutely fantastic. But around 50%, it started completely contradicting the earlier plot points. Not only did it contradict the established settings, but it also contradicted the gifts given out and the causes of the enemies' deaths.

Regardless of its flaws, and despite how much Brando's later harem development tarnished his established image, *Amber Sword* is the only novel I've ever read that truly shines with classical idealism. Unlike Western fantasy works like *Blasphemy* and *Dust of History*, which carry a heavy sense of fatalism, or the simplistic, feel-good stories common on Qidian, or the wildly popular Cthulhu…

Looking back, the quality of "Amber" is in no way inferior to the currently popular "Mystery." The only thing that left me with a slight complaint was the world-saving element, which made the story a bit formulaic and reduced its openness. But on the other hand, which online novel doesn't have that? If it were written with a truly open-ended premise, it would probably be another "lifetime series" for someone like me. Thankfully, it's finished. Thank goodness.

I came back to buy a ticket, and I didn't expect the comments section to be like this, so I couldn't help but say a few words... *Amber Sword* does have its problems and shortcomings. Unlike traditional Western fantasy and online game novels, its setting is more like a Japanese light novel romance, it suffers from the limitations and clichés of novels from over a decade ago, and the author has…

Fans of The Amber Sword all want to teach me how to read, so I guess I'll have to give up on this book. Such an elegant work isn't for me. 😒