From Misery to Majesty

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1. Goaties

   It’s not great, nor terrible. Very mid.

   Art is decent enough, but not exactly “good”.

   The story starts fast, then slows down jarringly, giving us no context for most of what’s happening. We get a one paragraph explanantion that an Aleph defeated a demon, but are left to piece together what that means in the current context.

   It follows the generic “neglected girl saved by prince and raised as royalty” trope, but I do give it credit for her former master actually being a good dude who tried to save her at the start, instead of the source of misery.

   Characters are dropping in without any idea of who they are or why they are; we get their names, and then they just start doing their thing. This is not a bad thing, per se; it follows from the perspective of the main girl to a degree, but it feels rushed here and we seem to be shown characters to establish that they’ll be in the story later, but not because they’re currently involved.

   Pacing’s inconsistent and story is unspectacular; a firm 5/10 for doing nothing new, but not exactly doing it badly.

   August 19, 2024 at 3:42 pm

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   1. Goaties

      Update: it starts to get a good pace going by about the mid-teen chapters and develops extant characters a bit more.
      Content is very standard for the genre, nothing special or unique as yet.
      Art is consistent, drama is pretty mild.
      Granting this a 6/10 as the characters have not done anything ridiculously forced or stupid to make plot drama occur.

      August 19, 2024 at 8:16 pm
   2. Goaties

      Update 2: Improves greatly as it goes on. Around 30 chapters in I’m going to rate it a 6.5/10.
      Art is not special, but consistent and clear.
      Characters are not particularly deep, nor is the story particularly exceptional, but it stays on track and keeps things relevant.
      FL is not too bright, but is overly kind to everyone and invites trouble because of it.
      ML is very smart behind the scenes, but often does stupid shit in scene.

      August 20, 2024 at 6:47 pm
2. PizzaParty

   Why are there no reviews. Is it bad?

   June 3, 2024 at 7:52 pm

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3. AshCast

   Anybody read this yet?

   November 20, 2023 at 7:20 pm

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