Review Detail of SnejZ in The Lord’s Empire

Well then... What should I say about this novel? ALERT!!! at the beginning: Do not be fooled by the high rating! There are issus to this novel, that are not part of the evaluation criteria! Let's start! First and foremost: I like the story quite a bit BUT there are some major issuses in the writing. The problem is not the translation, but the original source I assume. In other words, there are scenes that simply sucks! Not really in the construction, but in the description. When half of a chapter is about lights of different colors and powers of different origins (which are not better defined than by a simple naming sense) clashing and merly saing "it is powerfull" and so on, that is NOT a good scene description and certainly a waste of wordspace. And believe me, this sickening trend for word-count is a major issu in this novel and not so rare, at least in the later chapters. Heck I would have less to coplain if every second paragraph would consist of 100 "blub" for the word count, since I would know what to skip without missing a detail that might be relevant!!! To give a bit of a positive, the idea and bachground story is nice and I liked the development that is put on display quite a bit. That consists of kingdom-building, world-background and even character-development... but that only applies to the beginning some 100s chapters. Later on it gets a bit monotone and to say the least, frustrating when there a battles about colors and names of different powers or starts which are not even discriped in their differences. It might work in a visual, but not a novel. To the characters: It is interessting since the setting gives a lot of possibilitys for historical figures and important personal and at the beginning I like that. The connections between the characters get more and more interesting, but somewhere that is lost... Later on there is no further interaction between characters, that gets above a scene description with more than 2 paragraphs and even MC is often lonesomly on the road and not greatly interacting even with accompaning characters (those tha already read furhter know what I mean, but I do not want to spoilers here). To sum it up: Great story-idea and I would LOVE to read it further, BUT... Nearly verything that makes the read enjoiable ends after a few hundred chapters and it becomes tedious... it remindes of the DBZ fights in the anime where half an episode cosists of them roaring to power-up and nothign more. It feels like I have to WORK by reading in order to follow the story further and that is definitly NOT a good sign for a novel. Good ideas! Good start! Nice characters! Great world-building! Interessting setting! ... but loosing everything in unncessary word-count and repetetive descriptions in the later chapters.