BlinkToThePast - Profile

Updating my review because I'm really not enjoying where the novel is going in the latest chapters.

Bad grammar that slowly improves as the novel progresses, excellent story that made me glad that is stuck through it deep wanting to drop and first. If the author went back and edited the grammar in the early half of the novel he'd be able to get a lot more readers to stick through it and really appreciate this banger.

TLDR: 10/10 worldbuilding, 9/10 spelling & grammar, 8/10 characters, 9/10 plot, 6/10 pacing, 7/10 smut. This author has done his homework and it show in this story. There is a lot of technical discussion on topics the author has researched or knows from his real field of expertise. From how to build crossbows, bows, homes, administrations and armies to how to develop technologies of all sort be they from a forge to a farm, they are all discussed and shown at length in this story. As a result of this hard work the kingdom building that takes place after the first few hundred chapter of warfare and military strategy/tactics is very engrossing. The action when it takes place (A lot at the start but it's fallen off by where I am ch400) is interesting. The author tries and mostly succeeds in making the combat dynamic and when he describes troop to troop cambat I can still keep the image in my head. One major criticism however the author can be to verbose, he's almost indulgent in the amount of detail. For example an itemised military training handbook was lovingly read over three whole chapters. Expect to be sat alongside the MC in nearly every day to day meeting from the battlefield to the boardroom. Some of the time I feel like I'm reading the minutes some secretary has written. Some find it fascinating some may find it exhausting. Similarly the Smut while well written and very raunchy can drag on for multiple chapters and overstay it's welcome. A case of too much of a good thing. To expand on the smut writing, it definitely leans heavily of a few fetishes. some I like (S&M play, Anal, FFM) Some I don't (very very slutty side characters (One I specifically hate), F&F, Orgy) There has been no NTR and good given the MC stated preference I doubt there will be. All the characters have their own personality, goals, backgrounds and aspirations. While a lot of the female characters have some suspiciously similar sexual preferences they are diverse in all the other ways that matter. However a result of this is some characters may rub you the wrong way. One particular I dislike but due to the MC habit of indulging his adversaries until they fall into his traps and his horniness for beautiful enemies they tend to stick around for a while and interact a lot. All in all a great read I wish I discovered at 2000 chapter not 320 haha.