Review Detail of Kevin_Middleton in Honey : The Empire's Treasure

Just want to let everyone know that as of writing this review I read up to chapter 116 before dropping it. The story started out as amazing. It was a sci-fi novel that gradually shifted into the fantasy setting which is really cool. The main character was not a total idiot and had a good personality. Things started getting worse once the author got to world building. “Honey” was he thing that gave the world its life and without it everything would end up dying. Basically a rich person’s water, but like water, the world itself also depends on it to stay functioning. MC’s ancestor was responsible for saving the world by planting trees that produced the honey, but people got greedy and everything started going to ****. The time period the story takes place in is one where their resources are beginning to run out, but they probably have enough for another generation or two. The world building makes the world itself seem really, really small. Forget about oceans, the planet seems to be the size of a small country here on Earth. This is probably just the portrayal, but it’s really limiting the events that could come up. After the sci-fi portion of the story, it’s not really talked about again. Seems like kind of a waste. The main character was supposed to be a genius prodigy but she doesn’t apply that knowledge anywhere in her new life. There was also a lot of potential to mixing the sci-fi elements with fantasy. Despite still liking the MC, one of the sub characters was so insanely bad I ended up dropping it. You know how the story is tagged LGBT? I can tell you right now there’s BL in this story, I haven’t seen any GL yet. I could probably gloss over it, but it was so incredibly forced that it made me mad just reading about it. So MC is 12 years old and her bodyguard doesn’t have a set age, but it’s assumed he’s quite a bit older since she calls him an old man at some point. Even then they fool around with training a lot and are more like friends. The bodyguard makes a pact with his soul saying he’s always going to protect her and put her first. Skip ahead a little, the bodyguard ends up falling in love with a kid a little older than MC who happens to be a boy after talking with him like 2 or 3 times. What the hell? There wasn’t anything they talked about that could have led the bodyguard character to like the kid except for one time he decided to tease him in training a bit and before this the kid was straight. Because the bodyguard is in love at this point with the little kid he ends up throwing the MC in to dangerous situations that he knows he shouldn’t be doing, but does so anyways. Seriously? He already made a pact with his soul. The situation is forced to the max and it only seems included to use the LGBT tag. It’s really creepy too just picturing the situation. At this point I dropped it, but skipping around and skimming some future chapters the book that seemed like it could have been a fantasy, adventure, slice-of-life, seems to be a fantasy, political, romance novel. There’s a lot of talk about kingdom inheritances, marriages, and political scheming. Some of you guys may prefer it, but it’s not my cup of tea. By the way MC is 12 when she first meets the love interest who happens to be a 19 year old guy. Again the ages seem to be too off. Sure she’s reincarnated but everybody else doesn’t know that okay? I didn’t read the details though, but the age gap should still be there. Story had really good potential early on, but it crashed due to forced themes and genre shift. I wish I could read the story that this could have been. If there was no romance at all and the characters ended up staying as friends instead of love interests, it would have cleared up most of its problems I think.