Reviews of The Sacred Ruins
The Sacred Ruins
Chen Dong
- Overall Rate
- Translation Quality
- Updating Stability
- Story Development
- Character Design
- world background
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The story line has been great so far, with diverse characters, great world background, along with many secrets not revealed, which will be known along the way. Don’t let the first few chapters discourage you, the story gets better as it progresses. The updating speed is quite slow, faster updates might give it a better ranking.
Translation quality is very poor ruining what could be one of the top stories on QI. For the most part the translation is overly verbose which detracts from the story. MTL translations of the first chapter read better than the QI. Even the synopsis has glaring errors that have yet to be resolved: Moons wax and wane! While it may seem alright to use Moon wanes and grows it's ridiculous to partially use the correct terms in a sentence. Attempts to politely point out problems with the synopsis and initial chapters have been met with silence hence this post.
Very poor updating stability. The novel's translations started when the site was first launched and the other novels which started at same time have already reached 50+ chapters. I don't want to sound ungrateful but if you're promising 5chapters a week at least try to fulfil the promise. The series is behind 15 chapters. Also, as stated before few paragraphs are missing.
Sacred Ruin is by far the most entertaining story I've read. I love that the character doesn't have dramatic changes but just a slow progress of evolving. I love the other characters, I can relate with some of the villains. I like that the character is shown that he's ordinary and he has a hard time obtaining his power.
The reviews are so overwhelmingly good (seriously every single one is 5 stars) that when I actually read the novel, I thought the reviewers and I read two different novels. The start of the novel is a mental grind, lots of words, lots of environment descriptions, but hardly any concrete info you expect at the beginning of any story. The good reviews were the only reason I kept on. When things do manage to get going, it's a sandwich of filler paragraphs and stress inducing dialogues (which lasts for the rest of the story). Lots of scenes are unimportant to the plot and can be skipped without the reader missing any integral details. There are lots of questionable points. The appearance of the villains (who are affiliated with his ex-girlfriend who he still loves) had me giggling, wondering whether these were adults or little kids. I'm curious though, it's said that the MC's hair was tested and he could not become a mutant. But the story never really delves into people who apparently can't. The whole mutant abilities is in the air. At first you had to eat a fruit, then later eating a fruit wasn't enough? And animals evolved, the mc even picked up an intelligent calf with horns who helps him get stronger. No kidding, he learning technique and cultivation from the calf. But then, won't pet owners become super powerful? I wanted more on this... And there was a director who filmed "real action scenes" of people getting killed for his movie, a plot prop to make the mc famous. Isn't that movie going to be seriously censored or banned? There were lots of similar points in the story that were not well thought out. The MC's background is fussy at best allowing space for plot armor. The romance? It is a guy chasing an uninterested ex, who controls a large company. Said large company is the cause (directly and indirectly) of the MC's confrontations (about 90% of it) and results in all sorts of brain dead people dropping by his doorstep like they don't know the meaning of EX. Well, that and the villains have a recycled mentality, they won't stop or cut their losses till they are dead. I wonder how these guys maintained their positions as the top dogs with such low IQ. Seriously, why waste some many resources and precious mutant lives on a commoner? And keep sending more after it is clear that they are killed? Even my dog knows when to give up. This is unbelievably my longest review, so it's time to end this. I'll leave with a deep chasm in my heart now that will make me wonder if I am a tasteless person till I stumble on another good novel on this site. Overall, it was a mesh of several ideas and a book that had me deeply pondering: What is the purpose of the mc? In what direction is the plot moving? Am I not literal enough to grasp the sparkle in this book? Is my common sense too shallow? Am I weird for speaking out when others seem to be enjoying a hodgepodge essay?
Started out good with an mc who is quite logical in making choices on his actions but in the later chapter and maybe by the side effects of yellow ox beating his head again and again made his brain downgraded a bit. Some of the force plot are quite upsetting followed by the fail funny situations the author tries to create. Overal this LN doesnt deserve the so called "top 3" popular LN that some people keeps calling it 🤦🏼♂️
The novel was good in the beginning. But mc's pathertic behaviour towards his ex is a big turn off. And the ex herself is a big turnoff. Shit mc, **** romance. And not very good story. People actually called this the best lol. I dont know what so funny in this novel because i never found it funny and when i did ,c runied it by imagining his ex.
Started off great but translation is a bit weird with words of higher lv thus making the flow unnatural. The plot and character build went to sht after 90~ chapter, the novel becoming a mess with senseless jokes, filler and stupid convinence situation like how the MC parent (slightly above middle class) actually has a best friend who's niece is a top class beauty whose best friend is a national class beauty. Then some how they convinced those girls to go on a blind date with MC,.... Constant contradiction in word usage later on. E.g: he hallow in horror but still fearless?? Overall, after 90~ chapter this novel degenerated from a slightly above average cultivation novel to your instant noodle type, cliche filled, fillered eastern book.
Couldnt stomache it any further. Incredibly boring for the first few chapters, from what I’ve seen. The author’s chosen style of writing disagrees with me- plunging me into a wordfest about the rediscovery of a pre-appcalyptic world from the point of view of someone who’s not had a character introduction. TL;DR It’s far too wordy and descriptive for what it’s trying to convey. The author doesn’t give the reader any reason to care from the get-go.
