Reviews of Archean Eon Art by I Eat Tomatoes - Webnovel

If IET is anything, it is consistent. He consistently delivers a good experience, but never a great one. This is a story about the struggles and sacrifices a world makes when trying to resist those stronger than them. If you enjoy the beginning, you'll enjoy the full novel. I recommend reading it, but understanding it won't be one of the greats. The ending is bad as usual but doesn't detract from the story. His stories actual endings are usually around the 70-80% mark, and everything after is to make a conclusion for his fans. If you're new to IET, there's something you should understand - to IET plot comes first, and the story setting comes last. IET uses a story's setting to further his plot and will disregard it or abandon it when convenient. It's the opposite methodology to novels like, say, Lord of The Rings. This means his Painting Dao is largely a plot device and we don't see much investment into its development. The paintings he makes, however, are beautiful and you really feel invested into them. Each of those scenes are really immersive. It's a shame that they're disregarded immediately after however. We never see them exist beyond their creation. His talent goes up and down wildly throughout the story because it's used to drive his storyline rather than follow consistent rules. When he needs more talent, he gets 'lucky'. Cultivation difficulty depends on the main character's realm. The story always begins with explaining how incredibly difficult it is to reach a realm. As he climbs higher, those 'difficult realms' become littered with enough people to leave the ants of our world in shame. While you can attribute this to the character seeing more now that he's a higher existence, it's really because without enough people at those realms it's much harder to drive plot devices. Plot first and setting last. Romance is bad as usual. Don't get me wrong - the FL is always a good character. You'll enjoy reading their romance for the most part. She's just never a real character. IET follows the traditional version of cultivation novels that are the one character storyline. Everything and everyone that appears in the novel exist or revolve around the story and progress of the main character. Because of this romance can never shine, and the FL can never develop to mean anything to the story. Which is a shame because IET's FL usually have a lot of potential as their own character. To sum it up: this is a good story. But it's a mediocre cultivation novel.

It's an improvement over I eat tomatoes previous works. the journey is good but it's lost directions after he resolve his home realm threat. The outer realm arc lost the novel early charms but the ending is still better than the most novel out there, at least iet didn't drag the story.