Reviews of New World - A New Beginning
New World - A New Beginning
kenkan
- Overall Rate
- Writing Quality
- Updating Stability
- Story Development
- Character Design
- world background
Hey guys, Author here. I just wanted to leave a few words regarding this story of mine: First and foremost, the book is inspired by The Beginning After the End by Turtleme. This beginning of this story mirrors TBATE, and if you've read the work, then you'll immediately recognize the plots and situations. Both stories obviously diverge later on, but you can expect the first few dozen chapters to be extremely similar. I'm also trying to improve my writing with this book. I'd say I did a decent job at checking for mistakes, but if you happen to find any, or just happen to read a sentence that doesn't sound right, just let me know. I always try and correct mistakes I missed. Pacing is also something I struggle with, so any tips on how to go about adjusting and setting the speed of events would be much appreciated. Here are also some questions I've gotten: Is this story a harem? - No. Is there R-18 content? - No. Is the story perfect? - Fuck no. Obviously, the last one isn't a question I've gotten, but please don't start reading this story expecting some modern masterpiece. I'm just a simple author who's trying to write their very first novel. That's all I've got for now. I really do hope you enjoy my story if you decide to try it out. If you have any questions, just ask away or ask me on discord. (Link will be in the synopsis of the story) Thanks for everything :)
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Firstly, I liked to say that I am a TBATE fan, and when I first saw this, like many other tbate fans, it had me a bit off guard. I've knew for a long time that some other fans like to write fan-fics, or other "novels" that's heavily similar to or even the same as TBATE. I first debated if I should read this since I thought that the story would just be similar and all that stuff, but thankfully, I gave it a chance. Now I like to move onto the ratings: Writing Quality- I really love the writing quality of this novel, like some other review, grammar has nothing on Kenkan. The writing is a part of why I love this novel so much now, things are being explained very well in his writing. Stability of Updates- Kenkan updates at least once everyday, and if he doesn't he will update us readers/audience of why he couldn't update as much. I really encourage the readers to read his author notes because it gives us a lot of important info. This section of my rating is another part of how I am sticking to this novel so far. Story Development- The story development if very good IMO. The pace is going pretty well, but sometimes it can get a bit faster then normal and I think thats okay. Like I said in my "Stability of Updates" section, Ken does asks questions on how we want the story to be paced and how it is going to go. He is very considerate on our comments and puts our thoughts into whats going to happen in the next chap. Character Design- This connects quite a lot to my "Writing Quality" section, his writing makes emotions flow out of the characters, sadness, happiness, regret, sorrow, excitement, e.t.c. I don't have much to say in this section but I'm satisfied on how the characters are so far. World Background- Kenkan explains the world background pretty well, in some chapters he will explain things about the world and its system while in others, he just fixes his time onto the plot. IMO, he doesn't rush in detailing the world in the story, Ken doesn't put too little or too much information in his paragraphs. Overall, I give this book a 5/5, for my taste I really do love (addicted) this novel So, please for new readers (mostly for readers who also read TBATE) to give this book a chance even if the cover and title looks similar because the author did explain in one of his chapters that he will be changing some things about this book soon (including the cover and title), also check the paragraph comments since he also does answer reader questions in there.
The world is quite a broad term, the story is clear and there is no major flaws. Info dumps aren’t that noticeable and the way the characters talk is understandable and really natural. There’s a clear objective an the way it’s building up the story leads to good expectations. Overall the story is a magnificent piece, understandable, lighthearted and grim at the right times.
If you are looking for a tbate clone this is the book for you. But to be completely honest you’d be better rereading tbate. It doesn’t have a majorly different plot, so you basically already know everything that is gonna happen. Also it doesn’t do anything better than tbate only worse. The pacing is very off. It will introduce pieces of the plot that happened in tbate but it won’t go into nearly as much detail or spend as much time on it. Like the academy. Nothing substantial happens at the academy. It is like Hi ADADEMY time!! Ohhh they had classes 1 year later bad thing happens and academy ends. However, even though I have been dragging this book through the mud it isn’t a bad book. I mean I read it, but it just set my standards too high by comparing it to tbate. Like it has the plot elements and characters similar to tbate, but it doesn’t have the essence of what makes tbate tbate. Tl;dr: It shouldn’t of tried so hard to be like tbate, but still miss the mark.
Honestly, although better than most of the garbage junk on this site it’s just a TBATE clone. It has the potential to actually be more and interesting but the author forces so many plots just to keep the same storyline as in TBATE. I mean here we have a reborn 18 year old that has never known familial love but runs off first thing to go train with dragons for years leaving his parents to think him dead. He comes back only to leave them after what 2 weeks to become an adventurer at like 7. Yeah okay makes sense for parents to finally get their son back and allow him a 7 year old to go off on adventures. Another thing is the “bind” honestly a terrible name that’s just awkward when magic could’ve worked because as said he came from Eath where magic and mana or essence or elemental anything could’ve worked but no we have bind and binders. Just doesn’t work other than wanting to be different from the otherwise same story TBATE. Early on we get informed that the average age of someone awakening is around 12 and our main character awoke at 3 you’d think this would give him an advantage but no not really everyone and their mother seems to be a 8 year old fully awakened genius that is close to being on par with our 18 year old combat veteran. Another thing I have to point out is the switching between pov’s because it doesn’t add anything to the story other than tooting the MC’s horn and saying how different he is from the other boys and how great he is. There is little to no development for the side characters other than being there to support the mc. But like I said it’s better than most novels on the site and the only reason I’m being harsh is because the author has potential it just makes me mad to see a possibly good novel turn bad because it’s trying to follow another story.
