Webnovel Author: Letmeexplainguy - Novel Collection

So, I’ve read up to chapter 35, I believe, and here are my initial impressions: The story has promise, and I understand that this seems to be an isekai but not a system novel. I wanted to score it higher but I have three main complaints. The first is exposition, it needs to be done better. Find a way to write it in the story that feels natural, find the timing, and control the length. There have already been several exposition dumps where I reading paragraphs of information that not only broke up the current actions of the characters, but tested my patience because I felt this could have been relayed through the characters themselves. My second complaint is repetition, I don’t know how many times the main character’s motive has been told to me, and I’m tired of hearing about it. The MC wants to farm peacefully, you don’t need to tells over and over again. Last is the farming, where is it? I chose to read a novel about a farmer farming, but that seems to be lacking. All I get are chapters of him cultivating. Find a balance between the farming and cultivating or I’ll just assume this is another battle novel with the skin of ‘farming’. Just my two cents, sorry if it’s harsh.

I can understand what happened , I actually have two books on webnovel myself even though I haven’t had my application accepted yet. There have been chapters I have rewritten a few times because before I release a chapter I will read it. Then I’ll ask myself question, would this character do this? Why would they do this? Why did this event happen? How would this effect the story? If I’m not satisfied with the answers (which has happened) I’ll see how I can change things to fit the narrative I wish to make. Do I need to create a new character? If an event makes no sense, do I put it on the back burner and wait until it fits, etc. I should state that one of my favorite books is Black tech Internet cafe and I wish I could write like that but I try my best.

Sorry if I sounded harsh, and it’s not just you. Many titles and authors have done the same thing, and it just gets old. Fey Evolution Merchant? Take the merchant off because the MC hasn’t cared about selling nothing for a long in favor of battling. Astral Pet store? What store? The MC forgets about the store pretty quickly. I have the alchemy god in my head? The MC just constantly battles and rarely refines a pill just to push the the plot forward. I could continue to give examples but it’s tiring to search for a non battle related story about alchemy, blacksmithing, store ownership, restaurants, etc only to have an MC that constantly battles and doesn’t care about what the title of the book is.

I have to be honest, I liked the idea but quickly became disappointed reading the first 40 chapters First of all it’s a chef system which is what made decide to try it but there hardly any cooking. I was surprised when the system awarded him experience for battling and for having a summoning part to it? Once again it seems to be yet another story where the author wants to write a story about fighting but covers it up by naming the book a chef system. If you are going to write an action story, write an action story, I’m tired of all the stories where the contents don’t match the title.

Overall, I want to say it was a great read and I would recommend to most people as long as they aren’t like me. I’ll discuss the pros and cons for people to read in the future. I’ll do the cons first so they are seen. Cons: As the title suggests, this should be a system novel but that’s not quite right. While there is a system, it’s only relevant at the beginning of the story and a couple other moments also close to the beginning. My suggestion would have been to change the title of the book because the system sure isn’t important enough to be the title. It’s also an isekai story but honestly whether I speak of the system or the isekai aspect of this story, the truth is it both cliches wasn’t needed. As a reader that enjoys these types of stories I was disappointed in their ineffective inclusion. On a side note, I don’t like flexy and feel he appears way to often. Pros: Frankly everything else. The story is good, most the characters are good. If this story had a different title, the isekai and system elements removed, but kept the rags to riches rise of an orphan as he used streaming to ascend. I would have scored it much higher. Imagine, a story about an orphan that was bullied, so he learned parkour to outmaneuver his enemies when he was young. He is able to grow until adulthood where he lives in the projects, but through the help of his childhood friend is able to kick off a streaming career that displays his hidden talent. This sounds amazing to me while the current story including the isekai crossover and system comes off as unnecessary which is author seems to agree.

I was disappointed. I read the title and story description thinking that wine would be the primary focus of the story, but sadly this isn’t the case. Once again, a story I thought would center around a non battle profession was mostly about cultivation and battle. So to new readers who read this, if came here looking for a bartending story, you will be disappointed. If you came looking for a battle story, congratulations, here is yet another action story alongside the thousands amount this site.

Unfortunately, this is a book with a brilliant start that suffers from too many flaws. There are honestly not enough good sci-fi stories on this platform, and this was one of the good ones but I believe that the Author’s goal to reach 10k chapters has caused him to compromise the story. Examples of bad writing decisions are the questionable integration of information dumps, the inclusion of terrible jokes that aren’t entertaining, side or support characters that become one dimensional, and more. My personal beef with the story is that the MC is a mech designer, but the longer the story advances, the less frequent this happens. It’s so bad that a reader will have to wait hundreds of chapters to see a new mech design in later arcs, with no reasonable obstacles from preventing him from doing so. There is also a system in this book, one that is seen often in the beginning, but just like the designs, will also disappear for hundreds of chapters. So if you started reading this story because you enjoyed the process of the MC using the system to design, I’m sorry to say that like me, you will be disappointed the farther in the story you go. So this is the end for me, 5600+ chapters that resulted in a uninteresting experience that greatly deviated from the original vision.

Obviously I’ll parrot what a lot of others have said. The story is a slow burn and I read over 400 chapters. What ultimately made me drop this title was that it felt like a scam. Three chapters come out every day but it feels like one. It really feels the author writes one chapter and splits it into three and then fills the gaps with junk. If I was the editor for this story I would have taken out most the useless stuff and condensed it down so that people would get what they are paying for. It’s one thing if a story is slower than others buts it’s another if it feels like it’s done on purpose.