I read the raw on Qidian up to chapter 64 (I really put in a lot of effort for this).
To be honest, I’ve tried reading this novel several times before because the theme really interests me. That said, I still failed to stay interested every time I attempted it. I tried even harder after discovering that the author is 轻泉流响, the same author of "Unscientific Beast Taming." He only writes novels with the beast master trope, and I’ve enjoyed all his works, especially his most recent one, 御兽飞升 (Beast Tamer Ascension). However, this novel doesn’t even seem like it was written by him. It’s raw and lacks flavor. Every novel requires the reader to suspend disbelief, but this one abuses the reader’s good will with a ton of poorly used clichés and extremely convenient situations. Many times in the 64 chapters I’ve read, the situation is simply resolved with something that hadn’t even been informed to the reader before, almost like a retcon—the author decides the protagonist had something that hadn’t been mentioned previously, and you, the reader, just have to accept it.
To be fair, there are some positive points. I actually liked how, in many instances, the protagonist uses real biological knowledge to resolve situations with the beasts. I also liked Husky Doofus; I found him quite charismatic. The protagonist is also okay; the characters themselves aren’t the problem. The real issue is the writing—the thousands of poorly used clichés and the painfully predictable story direction. I think this work potentially irritated me more than it might irritate other readers because I know the potential of this author and I know he can write much better than this. I saw that this was one of his first major novels, so maybe that’s why it’s not very good. Lastly, the chapters are short, and even so, several chapters are just the protagonist's monologues, thinking about future plans. This doesn’t interfere much for those reading it all at once, but when you get to the point where you have to wait for more translated chapters, you might really get annoyed by this.
I read the raw on Qidian up to chapter 64 (I really put in a lot of effort for this).
To be honest, I’ve tried reading this novel several times before because the theme really interests me. That said, I still failed to stay interested every time I attempted it. I tried even harder after discovering that the author is 轻泉流响, the same author of "Unscientific Beast Taming." He only writes novels with the beast master trope, and I’ve enjoyed all his works, especially his most recent one, 御兽飞升 (Beast Tamer Ascension). However, this novel doesn’t even seem like it was written by him. It’s raw and lacks flavor. Every novel requires the reader to suspend disbelief, but this one abuses the reader’s good will with a ton of poorly used clichés and extremely convenient situations. Many times in the 64 chapters I’ve read, the situation is simply resolved with something that hadn’t even been informed to the reader before, almost like a retcon—the author decides the protagonist had something that hadn’t been mentioned previously, and you, the reader, just have to accept it.
To be fair, there are some positive points. I actually liked how, in many instances, the protagonist uses real biological knowledge to resolve situations with the beasts. I also liked Husky Doofus; I found him quite charismatic. The protagonist is also okay; the characters themselves aren’t the problem. The real issue is the writing—the thousands of poorly used clichés and the painfully predictable story direction. I think this work potentially irritated me more than it might irritate other readers because I know the potential of this author and I know he can write much better than this. I saw that this was one of his first major novels, so maybe that’s why it’s not very good. Lastly, the chapters are short, and even so, several chapters are just the protagonist's monologues, thinking about future plans. This doesn’t interfere much for those reading it all at once, but when you get to the point where you have to wait for more translated chapters, you might really get annoyed by this.
