Review Detail of J_Striker in Tyranny of Steel

Let me preface by saying that this book os a hidden gem. It is a unique book that is rarely seen on webnovel. It is well thought out, properly executed and overall fun to read. However, I ended up dropping it after 350 chapters. Let me tell you why. 1) Hypocritical mc. While Berengar is a good strategist who plans well for the future, and is an amazing kingdom building protagonist, he’s a huge hypocrite. He often says something is bad as justification to kill his enemies, then ends up doing the exact same thing while giving some kind of a moral justification that is extremely of-putting. I think tha the fact that he has skewed morals doesn’t irk me as much as the fact that he tries to justify them. Ultimately, I hate the fact that he doesn’t have a moral bottom line- something that he wouldn’t do regardless of hundreds of temptations. 2) Harem. Most of the times, harem sucks. It’s a messy genre that often fails because the girls have no personality and straight up fall over the mc. This novel is good in the fact that the women aren’t cardboard cut-outs, but fails in the ‘fall over mc’ aspect. It’s frankly pretty annoying how almost every woman that appears falls in love with Berengar, and I wish that their ‘oh, he’s such a great man, Idc if he cheats on me’ attitude would go away. 3) Incest. Oh god author why didn’t you put tags????!!!! . . Ultimately, this novel is good. It’s better aspects are exemplary, making it a hidden gem, while its worse aspects are, well, terrible. So it comes down to whether you, the reader can stand thise bad aspects and enjoy the novel for what’s good in it. Kinda like the mushoku tensei dilemna. I couldn’t stand this novel’s bad aspects. But I could wade through mushoku tensei and appreciate its good parts. It comes down to you as a reader. And anyways, maybe after I’ve let off enough steam by mentally cursing Berengar for two weeks, I’ll come back. Because that’s how entertaining and exciting the kingdom building aspect of this novel is. Enough to make you forget its worser parts. Great job on your research, author! I liked the book very much despite my qualms with it. So keep writing! Bye! J_Striker out!