I See One Second Into The Future: Loner In The Apocalypse is a story about about Kairos, someone who can see one second into the future. He uses this ability in order to survive a sudden apocalyptic event, where the sun is deadly, and monsters appear. Novel had at interesting design, and the main character had a interesting ability, however there's too many things that cause you to go "that just doesn't make sense". Writing quality is pretty good. It's readable, no obvious grammatical errors or mistakes. Nothing to write home about either. (4/5 stars) Onto the story development. Like I said previously, this novel had a interesting premise, where the sun can kill you, while it creates various monsters. However, there is a downright ridiculous amount of plot holes. I'll just make a quick list. - The words "loner in the apocalypse" are in the title. This is the opposite of what happens, the main character immediately makes a party with people who he doesn't trust. Later on, he accepted someone else into the party that he himself admitted that if the guy didn't have a certain weakness, he would try to kill them all. - The main character doesn't trust his party, so he doesn't upgrade his stats to show of his strength. A few chapters after stating this, he immediately fights ten+ monsters all on his own. (They are more powerful than humans) - Main character stocks up on stat points for no reason. You cannot add stat points while in combat as it would disrupt your attention. This happens over and over. He decided to attack a group of bandits with average-ish stats (2 - 4 points in each stat) while having 20+ points that aren't allocated. - Main character fights some random chick with red hair that has a katana. After making her surrender, the main character asks for her katana. She gets a new weapon before giving it to them. Main character for some reason accepts this stupid arrangement. Then, the main character, despite literally being able to see the future, lets her take one of his companions hostage. Theres more, but I can't be asked to write about this completely illogical story. (1/5 stars) Character design. It's meh. Side characters are rather useless, not sure why the main character decided to take them in. After all, part of the title is "loner in the apocalypse". Aside from that, the main character is exceedingly stupid. Nothing he does makes sense. He accepts people he doesn't trust into his group, including people who have every reason to kill him. He decides to hide his strength, before choosing to randomly show it off a few chapters later, etc. (2/5 stars) World background is a solid 3/5. I have only read eighteen chapters so I can't say a whole lot. There isn't a terrible amount of world-building, but the amount of content before the apocalypse was rather lackluster. Not much to say here. (3/5 stars) Overall, I feel like the novel would've been much better if the author went through his novel for the ridiculous amount of plot holes. I feel like the author didn't really have a plan. I give this novel 3 out of 5 stars.
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LIKEI hate shit like this personal experience is a novel I read with 400 chapters that had the villain tag I read the first 20 and there was no concept of the main character ever becoming a villain the story was about how he pretended to be the villain. I then proceeded to waste my time further by reading to chap 100 thinking maybe he become a villain later NOPE I was super frustrating and like in this case the title had villain in the name and as a tag it is super annoying when a author does that im not gonna sit here and tell you how to write but the villain tag is for when the mc is a villain and in that case he was not.
World building sucks the worst on the list because the only thing you have a description of something is the protagonist's house apart from that never been given a description of anything else (at least as far as I read) that is, you're going to get screwed trying to imagine the scenario of this novel which makes everything very boring so I dropped it
I agree about the title being kinda misleading but the mc situation does change over time and he does become more of a loner. Though I think your missing something about the mc. He parties up with other people because it increases his chance to survive(even when they would become way weaker than him as they can be used to get him time to escape and let them die in his place). Also he kinda seperates from most of them later in the story though he does help them as it kinda benifits him in a certain way. As for him trying to hide his power but then showing it off later thats due to the fact that it would be kinda stupid to not use your power to protect yourself and people that provide increase chance of survivle. Also if your life depended on working with people who u dont trust but theres no sign that they have illintent to u I think most people would work with people they dont trust. In other words in a unknown situation its best to have the power of numbers and to get into a group of people to increase odds of surviving. Escpecialy considering that the mc can see if someone tried to kill him before they do so the chances of him dying from the is low unless hes sleeping. If I missed something in my logic please tell me.
oh yea i forgot to say that he also saved his points because he didnt exactly know the best way to spend it and if there was side effects. So in his case that mightve been an actual good desision as he didnt know how good magic was or anything else about how the system worked.
yusef89:I agree about the title being kinda misleading but the mc situation does change over time and he does become more of a loner. Though I think your missing something about the mc. He parties up with other people because it increases his chance to survive(even when they would become way weaker than him as they can be used to get him time to escape and let them die in his place). Also he kinda seperates from most of them later in the story though he does help them as it kinda benifits him in a certain way. As for him trying to hide his power but then showing it off later thats due to the fact that it would be kinda stupid to not use your power to protect yourself and people that provide increase chance of survivle. Also if your life depended on working with people who u dont trust but theres no sign that they have illintent to u I think most people would work with people they dont trust. In other words in a unknown situation its best to have the power of numbers and to get into a group of people to increase odds of surviving. Escpecialy considering that the mc can see if someone tried to kill him before they do so the chances of him dying from the is low unless hes sleeping. If I missed something in my logic please tell me.
also not to say that i dont dislike the "problems" you have stated but I think most of them have a reason behind the choice that the mc took (tho I do think that this author like most authos is kinda trying to wing it in a sense)
yusef89:I agree about the title being kinda misleading but the mc situation does change over time and he does become more of a loner. Though I think your missing something about the mc. He parties up with other people because it increases his chance to survive(even when they would become way weaker than him as they can be used to get him time to escape and let them die in his place). Also he kinda seperates from most of them later in the story though he does help them as it kinda benifits him in a certain way. As for him trying to hide his power but then showing it off later thats due to the fact that it would be kinda stupid to not use your power to protect yourself and people that provide increase chance of survivle. Also if your life depended on working with people who u dont trust but theres no sign that they have illintent to u I think most people would work with people they dont trust. In other words in a unknown situation its best to have the power of numbers and to get into a group of people to increase odds of surviving. Escpecialy considering that the mc can see if someone tried to kill him before they do so the chances of him dying from the is low unless hes sleeping. If I missed something in my logic please tell me.