ElementStorm - Profile

This is one of the better written reincarnation based stories. The main character is intelligent and crafty. Then again there’s lots of alchemy involved and I always love stories that involve crafting. With other planes, a pending world disaster, and lots of ridiculous ego and face slapping, the story moves along at a good clip. Enjoy the read! I know I am!

I love alchemy type stories with potions/elixirs/pills, etc. This is a very slow paced story that has a very daily slice of life kind of style to it. A lot of spending time with family and the nagging mom, quiet dad stuff while slowly coming to terms with the spontaneous appearance of a magical system that talks back occasionally. This leads to where the story starts to pick up pace once he finally starts to sell the one elixir that he can make just before the free chapters end. Overall, there’s a bit of magic. There’s no major conflict in the first 40 chapters. There’s a good friend, a gossipy town, an overbearing but loving mother, a ridiculous sister, a quiet father, the dog and the system. I like where the story is going but I could happily pass on the family visits and get to some more action, maybe have more of a purpose and I don’t get what he does with all the other medicines he makes. He doesn’t sell them, use them or otherwise do anything else with them…mild mystery there.

I absolutely love this story! It has to be one of the best alchemy development stories that I’ve ever read. The author builds the world and the magic in a truly believable way that is never boring. If all you want is punch this, face slap that, then it might not be the novel for you. There’s plenty of that to keep things interesting but the focus is the story. I love how almost every chapter has something key to the story. It’s honestly hard to skip any without losing part of the plot. That means very little filler chapters! Less of the repetitive tropes of face slap, young master’s ego, and such and more world building, character development. Don’t get me wrong. They are there and they’re very well done. It just happens in a realistic manner instead of a forced one where you wonder if most of the characters got dropped on their heads as babies since they are so childish and stupid. There’s even a big twist at the end of the first book and start of the next! I’m not spoiling it for you. You’ll just have to discover it for yourself. Highly recommended! Than you to the author for bringing this world to life for me! I love every minute of it.