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TrueDawn
It has been a year since I made my first review of this novel, and I just realized that I didn't talk about the plot of the novel at all. Here's an updated review just for that sole reason. Aurus used to be a God-level player of ISE, who was chosen by Kurohana, the Greater Goddess of Reincarnation, to become the main part of her masterwork weapon. He dies, Kurohana reincarnates him, and he becomes a stick. Of course, he doesn't just become an ordinary stick. He becomes a stick...with a system! With this system, he actually becomes...a stronger stick! ...what? You were expecting some powerful being instead? He does become incredibly powerful, but I suggest you read the novel. Have fun!
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Quill_of_Salt
I must say(since everyone starts out thinking the same way with this novel due to the uniqueness of it), I didn't expect this novel to be as grand as it is becoming. It is truly a well thought out concept, and it wonderfully encompasses the idea of an isekai in the most rediculous and tasteful of fashions. Before I begin my review, my rating is completely accurate. When I started out reading, I was like... "What is this stick going to do, roll over its enemies? ", and behold, that was legit the first thing the MC did!! I was like, "Well, my expectations have been met. Add to favorites." Within 15 days, I got to current and I am excited for each new release. The character development for this novel is a bit confusing to get at first, but soon you will fall in love with the sayings and quirks of the characters. One might even begin to "ship sticks", and that thought is just freaking wild lol. Overall, you will love and hate certain characters at different times, and maybe even disagree with how the MC does certain things; however, this only adds to the reading experience, let me assure you. The story development is far from being a finished product, even at its current point(272). Even so, while some may see this story as slow, it is all leading to a larger, more grand and more defined picture. This novel, currently, is in Volume 4, so finding out there are story arcs... It blew my mind to think a "stick story" could get so far, AND IT'S NOT STOPPING! With consistent and daily updates, along with an author who listens to the comments and consistently improves upon the work as a whole, it is very encouraging to see a story and the world develop more and more, day by day. I have found myself laughing over certain scenarios, amazed by the world building and descriptions of locations, and even enticed by the battles between sticks lol. (trust me, rolling is just the start...) If you have the opportunity to get as far as me, I recommend joining the discord. It's one fun time in there, for sure. Tldr; if you enjoy a captivating and wild, but a completely unexpected story filled with adventure, looming danger, phenomenal character development, and modernized humor for those relief moments- - Please, check out this novel. You won't regret it :)
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Reverendbonafide
To be honest I'm only writing this review, that is likely to be lost in the sea of other reviews, because I don't see a lot of people actually reviewing the book. It was either people just going off on a tangent, labeling the their most frustrating scenes in the book, using a myriad of offensive words to describe it, or Just plain old white Knighting. There is also a large block of text dedicated to fans that are enjoying the book, which to be honest is pretty nice. At least I don't have to deal with a copiously long toxic comment with no constructive criticism to be seen. It also shows that a large portion of the community has some patience. Now (disclaimer!!!!!), I never really made it past the first 50 reviews. There are too many to read. Second (Disclaimer!!!), If someone is still reading this don't expect anything great I'm not a professional book reviewer. So to start off, this is a pretty interesting concept. Fairly original, and carves out it's own place in the reincarnation genre's inanimate object corner. The story "itself" is also well thought out. however the protrayel of the story isn't the "greatest". let me tell what I mean by that... The writer has this habit of telling and not showing. For the people who are not aware of what that means, I will describe it in a different way. When painting or drawing a picture for someone to see you usually flesh the image out give the picture depth and meaning in every stroke of the brush. I do not mean literally, like every square centimetre of paint has some kind of mystical meaning. It has meaning in the terms of portraying the depth of a video whilst it still being a still image. For example: shading, perspective, minute detail like pores on the skin or individual leaves on a tree. It gives the picture life. There is quite a bit of similarity between a painting and a book, in that they both try to describe a living scene, an entire world, on a still canvas. I'm sorry if my description still didn't help.๐Ÿ˜” The point is the there is visible depth when you show, which isn't an effect you get when you tell. Telling is literally encapsulating the entirety of the scene in a couple of descriptive, but limited words. To show, is to describe the nuances of the scene, give the skeleton of the story flesh, describe what the author themselves see, to paint the picture in the readers' mind. As a writer you don't have to do this too often, you actually shouldn't. It's a device used when trying to really bring to life an important scene. However there is a difference between just right and too little. The entirety of that block of probably unnecessary text is me just saying the author's writing itself lacks depth. Not the story, just the writing. I think this is my last point. This is just my opinion on this one but, I feel like there is too much info dump, or the info dump is just not spaced out well enough, or the info dump just doesn't have any life. The last one might be on purpose seeing as it is just the characters grinding skills. Either way the writing isn't particularly well paced when around 60%(Not an exact meausrement) of 4+ chapters (Also not an exact measurement) straight is dedicated to an info dump. ๐Ÿค” But again this easily remedied if you just give the info dump more meaning and life, I think... ๐Ÿคจ But who Am I to judge, I could just be spouting nonsense... Which makes this an immense waste of a morning that could have been spent watching Gawr Gura read Konosuba. Ah whatever, I enjoy the world the Author is trying to portray and I hope they continue to evolve the writing and the story.
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James_Mckae
This novel is so funny, it helps my mood when I read it and is a nice break from the more serious stuff I read?
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Zepher_Catch
Originally I was interested in the story due to the variety of skills and their potential, but the author got lazy with that pretty quickly. Though the other forms of gaining strength attract my intrust, I can't help but notice that I've stoped reading most of the bs and jumping ahead. (BS = long and boring side stories that are written in low quality)
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Im_Ded
Was going to say Webnovel should make it a comic but realized sticks wont really convert well into one
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PyrrhicWriter
I'm currently at the end of chonks part, I don't get why bro was tortured THAT much, and his balls getting cut off gives me a horrible premonition of this being another cliche and overused: Dude does something wrong (from looking at a person wrong to somebody being r*ped every 2 chapters) has his balls obliterated, rinse repeat. would be a huge disappointment but hey I ain't gon decide before I've read it, So far it's been great and no complaints though
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Argelicano309
No Romance No like >:v No contenido +18 no like, no chicas lindas no like capishi เฒ เฒฟโ ใƒฎโ เฒ  realmente no entiendo como a gente Le gusta novelas tan largas pero no hay ningรบn tipo de romance o algo de limรณn para hacer que la historia tenga alma. Aunque no digo que pongan en cada capรญtulo eso almenos se necesita no?
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Serendipityy
Mc so beta, bored af. Lot of nonsense and stupid decision from MC, frustating
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Joshua_S_8759
The writing for the first 50 chapters or so is horrendous. I'm considering dropping this story at this point. Heck, I wanted to earlier but stuck through it hoping it'd get better. Within 30 chapters the premise seems pointless, he's hardly a stick anymore, more like some wood spirit thing. None of the characters so far are interesting in the slightest, not the least being the mc himself. The progression of his strength is unsatisfying, with time skipping and him just gaining levels in several skills, boring fights, and boring skills in of themself. And what's with the idea presented in ch35-ish that the sticks, can be intimate? What pointlessly weird and uncomfortable world building, if you could call it that. And the diologue, good god it's atrocious. Bland, completely without nuance, and adds little to nothing to the reading experience. And the word "snigger" and "sniggered" is used way too often. There was a chapter it was used like 3 times. Grab a thesaurus. I'm going to try to keep going, and I'll change the review if I feel like it gets better, but for the first few dozen chapters at least, it's really bottom of the barrel, first ever story type of material.
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ethan_mcwaters
I just came to write or complain that 3\4 of the book or more doesn't even have the MC in it just switched to another character for more than 150 chapters. Just my opinion but you would expect to see the MC of the story more often.
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Asbeltrion
The story is acceptable, except the part where the author spends 22 chapters describing a battle against lightning. That was annoying and boring. I don't recommend this novel to anyone, because it has been most probably abandoned. The author did not finish any of the previous novels they wrote, and it seems that this one will suffer the same destiny.
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John_Kula
Let me start this review by saying that I read until chapter 380 before getting so frustrated that I rage quit. So don't think that I hate this webnovel or anything. It has a lot of good things going for it. I wouldn't have read for so long If it had nothing going for it. And PancakesWitch wouldn't have been able to make her amazing webnovel Epic of Caterpillar without being inspired by this one. That inspiration is why I checked this out in the first place. But the longer I read this, the more I realized where she took inspiration from your novel, and where she decided to trim the fat. So let my rant commence. The biggest problem this novel has is that the pacing is far too slow. This is not just a problem in the beginning, this is a problem throughout the entire series. It never feels like Aurus is going anywhere. Even after all this time he's still in the forest he started in. The thing that makes this problem worse is the side characters. They're a ball and chain on the ankles of the story that's trying to move forward at a reasonable pace. Most egregiously of all, a side character chapter always comes right after the main character does anything interesting that would make you want to continue reading. Not to mention the side characters (ESPECIALLY Vanadir and company) are simply not very interesting. They also take up far more time than they realistically need to. You could probably cut out around 70 of these character chapters with no consequences to the story. I get that the side characters are meant to help with world building and making the world feel bigger. But the problem with that is that since Aurus is still in the forest he started in, there's no point in expanding the size of the world when Aurus is not ready to go to or very involved with that expanded world yet. By introducing all these side characters and locations that Aurus is not ready to interact with, you're making it so we have to talk about the whole world all the time. This slows things down even more. Argentum slows things down even more by his very existence as a second main character. I don't hate him or anything, but that's what he does. But the thing that made me rage quit was when Aurus fell into the trap of the goddess. This whole story was built on the promise that he would figure out what she was really after and screw over her plans. So seeing him do exactly what she wanted after all this waiting, that was the last straw. And maybe he does eventually do what we all want him to do, but how long am I going to have to wait for that to happen? How long am I gonna have to wait for this story to feel like it's going somewhere? I don't know, but I'm done waiting to find out. I'm making this review just to get this off my chest. Maybe this GIF is a good representation of how slow the story feels like it's moving.
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izuku_midoriya_1820
It cool and funny unexpected plot were the mc is a stick a powerful stick! So its good and I would like to recommend it to all the people who would like to see this kind of novel
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Aurey
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Aurey

I am currently reading chap 423, the novel start off very good. The concept does seen interesting, occasional typo can be put off and language is understandable However, eventhough world background scale is created to be gigantic, the character development and realism in choices have rooms for improvement. Story can certainly be easily predicted with readers where this isn't their first novel. Overall, it can be read in your free time but not heavily invest in it is a good choice
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Flooper21
bro, thus stuff is amazing and so many other people should read it. Sincerely I wish you luck in future endeavors. I wish the everyone find a boon like this one.
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Deb_Nath_6301
The story started well, had some world background, mc making though not the best but just somewhat reasonable choices(like not focusing on skills and focusing on leveling up) but it can be somewhat ignored. So it continues like that for a while until the part where he evolves into a spiritas. I don't know how a character can change so drastically. I have read some really horrible books but even they don't have such a drastic change in character in a single chapter. One moment he is a somewhat intelligent stick and then next moment he is a stuttering idiot who (it is then mentioned that he is a 16 y old virgin) loses the ability to think and reveals every bit of his secrets to someone he just met (just because he thinks that they are 'compatriots' and totally were not forcing him a moment ago). Tells them that he is getting skills knowing fully well that it will be tough to explain how he knows the details and yet revealing it very easily, as easy as breathing. (Why do you want to go to the ruin ? Oh, nothing much. Just want to get some op skills that I can keep to myself for some advantage but now I telling you this because you are my friend and don't ask why I know,not telling you ). And when asked about is he is blessed by a god, he easily reveals it and even goes on to tell his story pretty eagerly and with great details(since they are compatriots of course). He reveals to a stranger he met some time ago about secrets one would take it to their graves, like being a human and getting reincarnated. Anyway, if it wasn't enough to leave a bad taste we have a mc who gets flustered by imaginging stick on stick when Herelia or something mentions something and behaves just how I imagine a 16y old would be and then we learn that he is a 16y old virgin. See, I have no problem with any kind of stick and personally love it but was it really needed to make the mc be a 16 y old virgin just for the sake of having a reason to be flustered?. From the start of the story I was expecting the mc to be 21 or older guy since he was behaving in a somewhat rational way?. Anyway, I think this is my second time reading it. The first time I read this was a long ago. It was these few chapters where he met Herelia that bothered me so much with the drastic character changes that I dropped it. And after so long I tried it again, I really wanted to give it a chance, read from the beginning..I really tried. But this part again made it so much unbearable for me to continue even a sentence. I really felt my brain throb and stop with every word I read( mostly how easily he revealed everything to a stranger where he could answer with a yes). I love books. When you invest so much feelings and time into something and get smacked straight on your face with something illogical and irrational, it really makes you doubt your life for a second. The author seems nice enough to take criticism in a good way, so I hope they improve because we really need some good writers. Every story I read leaves me with so much disappointment and unmet expectations, it is heartbreaking
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BosMafia
Tambahkan ulasan Kualitas menulis Memperbarui Stabilitas Pengembangan Cerita Desain karakter latar belakang dunia Tarif Keseluruhan 5.0 Ulasan harus lebih dari 140 karakter
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DaoistnYJbzA
interesting never thought someone would come up the idea of being reborn as a stick that it sounds hilarious! anyway i'm definitely reading this
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rockinroll39
a few cliche here and there but overall pretty solid and unique novel, reason im raiting 4/5 is because currently the update stability is a fat 0/5. maybe the author has stuff going on and cant write often, so maybe it will get back to normal eventually.
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bewoulf3000
Overall a solid story with alot of funny parts and some dad jokes included. Start might be a little slow but I like that about it. Hope to see alot more chapters
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BlindCav
Just a bit of fun, Well written and refreshing change of pace. Yeah itโ€™s silly but what did you expect from someone In an mmo where You play as a stick .
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needa_name
great story, great charater, well I'm not an expert but I'm having fun reading it. mad props for the author[img=recommend][img=recommend][img=recommend]
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Klaudius
I give this a 2.5/5. Its a mediocre story with good ideas, poorly implemented. It also suffers from SAO syndrome meaning cool world design but a horrible game to actually play. The stick idea is a really interesting one and does have some good jokes and gags, but after a while it gets stale. The MC also spends way to long in that form. I mean it's called " Reincarnated As A Stick" not "My Life As A Stick". I kept hoping that what would come next, would change things up for the better, but eventually my interest was worn out.
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IAmACow
This seems like a really interesting concept. I hope that the main character of this webnovel gets stronger a little faster, unlike other webnovels. This webnovel is really good. Thanks
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Elder
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Elder

Don't recommend reading it if you want to stay sane... If you want to have any desire to read at all start after chapter 6 at least. There will be less 4 wall breaking, and you don't miss anything, but save you mind from author stupidity and bad humour...
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The_Saint_Blood401
well I can't say to much but this is a very interesting concept and decent enough writing I also like how people want to use him as a weapon Material.
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