Reviews of The Great Thief
The Great Thief
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The novel is referenced off World of Warcraft. The main character and his crew keep maintaining a winning record which is repetitive but at times understandable too in certain circumstances. At the beginning it was a bit overbearing how the mc kept winning every challenge he faced but I started liking more character development that is added later through the story and later on, achievement isn't just basing on the mc, but his teammates and the entirety of his guild. Winning is a lot harder for him later on the story and his advantage of rebirth is not as effective unlike the beginning, but most important of all is that he's starting to show development on social issues later on, considering his low EQ.
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This book is really great but relies heavily on wow lore so u either love it or hate it. World back round is interesting because of this if your a wow fan u can skip most of the world building they are some slight differences but not much. Lastly the character development is really great especially the main character and his interactions with his cast of team members and a certain lady. Overall a great read would recommend...
Copyright at there, Copyright at these. Why don't you just put it away rom your list. If it bothers you just read a fackin fantasy so that your brain can be known as imaginary. Everything can be copied but not everything can be copystriked so put your asses down and right now I can only say sike. This is just a review that you could definitely view but I just liked the EXP so I can get to level three.
The translation quality is good enough to figure out what is going on, but each chapter has errors of some kind. Not great but not terrible either. There are some face-palming lines like “The MC is so persistent, he is persistent” and something about Easter eggs in games being a term that originated in China rather than Europe. If people in China don’t celebrate Easter, how does it makes sense the term would originate from there…? The MC can transform into a big cat, but the translation is inconsistent about whether it is a panther, leopard, or cheetah, which drives me a little bonkers. Which one is it, dammit?! The story development is weak. The plot is that the MC’s sister is sick, and he has to earn money to save her. He failed the first time and was then sent back into the past. He gets his sister diagnosed and earns a bunch of money. Although he dies in dungeon raids several times, he never loses anything significant. He never faces any true setbacks. Although he said people cheated him out of money in his past life, no one has tried to do so in this life, which is actually quite shocking, considering his terrible sense of money and extraordinary *****tte. Also, never pay attention to the numbers. Although numbers are an important part of this story, it’s best to turn a blind eye to them. If the MC can’t equip a weapon because he has to be level 10 to equip it, he will still equip it a few chapters later, even though his level is too low. If there are fifty monsters in front of him, and he kills all fifty, somehow there will still be several dozen left behind. If he lists the Seven Great Thieves, only six will be given. The same goes for other numbers or lists. Percentages of a boost or something will also change from one chapter to the next, although this may be a translation error instead of the author’s fault. The MC’s personality is contradictory and inconsistent. He wants to earn money for his sister. At the same time, he refuses donations from his rich roommates, bails a person he hates out of jail, spends millions of dollars for jewelry his sister might not like in both the game and reality, gives away 20% of his stocks to other guild members, and lets a merchant handle all the money for their schemes with absolute trust. Several people have rage quit in the comments section for chapters because of his foolish money-handling. Honestly, I kind of want to see him get swindled, so he can learn a lesson. Is he a greedy money-grubber or a generous person with dough to spare? The author can’t seem to make up his/her mind. Other than the sister-plot, the MC’s personality is rather shallow and guarded. I am over 300 chapters in, and he still hasn’t undergone any character development. Speaking of which, why does he team up with people he regards as weak when his plan is to become strong and make a lot of money? Since he’s supposed to have such a ruthless nature, shouldn’t he coldly throw some of them away and then learn from his mistakes? Given his past and betrayals, it doesn’t make sense for him to value friendship so much except from one person who was always with him. The sister only exists as a plot device, not as a character of her own. She is fourteen but treated like a little kid. She doesn’t appear much at all in the beginning of the series and hardly does anything of consequence other than motivating the MC. Most of the other characters are also quite flat in their character depth and development, too. They each have one defining character trait, and that is that. The girls in this series are written really weirdly, too. They are supposed to be good gamers, but they are scared of things that aren’t that creepy and are seriously fixated on being cute. I thought they were supposed to be obsessive gamers? It’s not hard to write female characters. You just write them the same way you would a male character but use female pronouns instead. Then again, with this series, the male characters don’t have much depth either. They only benefit from not being written as weird as the women. Also, when women win the MVP awards for the classes they play, they only win because they are beautiful or cute, not because they crushed they crushed the competition and made it to the semi-finals or won the biggest tournament of the year. Their strength and contributions are completely disregarded. While one of the female characters appears to genuinely be mentally handicapped, the others just act extremely childishly for no reason at all. Men don’t have this problem. The MC looks down on everyone in his team, especially the women. Even for his male comrades, he doesn’t seem to regard them too highly. None of the characters are particularly memorable. The only thing going for this series is the action, but there isn't much of a world to develop any setting on. When more characters are introduced, the quality drops quickly. The setting is a slightly dystopic sci-fi setting with an immense gap between the poor and the rich. Although this is an interesting set-up and could be developed out further and elaborated on, barely any attention is given to this issue. The story could have gone into what defines a poor home in this era but didn’t. Do they have running water? Hot water? Access to food? Air conditioning? Are they living on straw mats in an adobe house and waging war against bed bugs? Unfortunately, nothing is given. This could have been a significant point to develop the novel around, but it has been completely disregarded instead. What does the world look like 200 years in the future? There is hardly any imagery in the novel, so the readers have no clue. Furthermore, none of the monsters or types of people in this World of Warcraft-based novel are described. As a person who has never played that game, I had no idea what things looked like until I Googled them and hoped the interpretation from WoW fansites matched what the author had in mind. I pictured the Night Elves like Dark Elves or Drow and expected them to have grayish-blue or brown skin… Their skin is purple. I imagined things wrong from the start. It’d also be nice if the races of other characters were mentioned at least once or more than once. I picture most of the MC’s team as elves or Night Elves since they met early in the game, but that’s all I’ve got to go off of. The series doesn’t dive into the numerous medical problems the MC and other major gamers must be suffering from. The most obvious things are bed sores, blood clots, and malnutrition. Although he sits around playing games all day, he’s built so well that women gawk at him when he goes jogging. What kind of fantasy is this?! Although this has action that can be fun for a couple of hundred chapters, the foundation of the world, characters, and plot is too weak to continue carrying the story and keeping it engaging at the same time. Furthermore, there's no description for any of the monsters, which makes it incredibly weak... If the readers have to lookup the reviews to find out this series is based on World of Warcraft and then visit those sites just to find visualize the scenes here, that is a sign of poor writing.
I generally give novels a chance, but it would be very hard for me to give this novel anything more then 2-3 overall stars. One of the main things that annoys me is during the times the story goes from one part to another without a transition leaving me (the reader) confused and trying to understand what happened. I also find the story and character development lacking. The author automatically assumes that the reader will have a tactile understanding of specific parts of the setting as well as the character without at the least explaining why or how it came to be. Lastly, I find it hard to believe that the main character is all of a sudden an expert with the thief class when that was not his main in the past and eve harder to believe that he is able to master it on manual. The author does not even try and give an explanation on it.
Basically a fanfiction of WoW, the author didn't even change any of the names. This doesn't even speak to the story of WoW, because the author took the WoW story apart. The story here is so confused mess of the original as the author just threw all the names and events like five and put it on paper without putting any new ideas other than characters who we don't actually know anything about except that they want money. How did this even get selected to be here in the first place? Fill out some forms, submit a story and presto manifesto!
I just give this 5 star to bring this up. What's wrong if it copied World of Warcraft, this does'nt copy another novel anyway. And since i don't play World of Warcraft, it become more funny and interesting to me. I found this is unique novel in Qidian, the MC is not overpowered, no cheat gift, no skill that other player does'nt have. Just memory from past life, and a ring, that ring is OP but cost too much to upgrade, and if you compare to other powerhouse he actually more or less the same level. This is a game, so there's no cruel killing like other novel, and he actually can't play alone. This give friendly and good atmosfer in team party, and thrilling since he is not too OP.
