Review Detail of IamMountTai in Gifted Academy: The Perfect Student

I hope I'll change your mind in the upcoming chapters, then~ (It hurts a little to be called an upcoming rookie... since this is my alt account.) The thing is that I purposely wrote against Webnovel trends since I felt as if I was pushing myself too hard to write stuff I didn't like. (Just look at 'My OP Minion System in the Apocalypse', in an attempt to get popular, I wrote something that was both boring to write and objectively bad...) Anyways, thanks for the review. I don't usually reply to reviews, but I appreciate the effort you put into it. [img=recommend]

Thanks for the reply. Don't get discouraged. It's just the execution was wrong; you can write a story like this. While tropes do indeed matter, but it's more on shaping the story to conform to being successful on WN. For example, leaving each chapter with cliffhangers to encourage readers to read the next chapter. This type of story, just don't expect too many readers. Just how WN is unfortunately. As for how to execute, I already gave suggestions in my review. When writing your next novel or future chapters, think about what I said. Look forward to your future chaps!

yes bro

In all fairness that is entirely your fault for coming into this with expectations before even reading a single chapter, if you didn’t then why would it being slice-of-life be a criticism? Slice-of-life is a perfectly valid genre so marking the story down and acting like the genre objectively hurts the story is nonsense.

Everyone has expectations when going into something. I suggested that starting with the main system implementation would've been far better to make it interesting as that was 1/3 of the selling point in the synopsis and core to the setting. You don't randomly just pick up a book. You pick one after judging the cover and blurb which are vital to one's decision making in deciding if you wish to give it a go or not. That said, I DID NOT mark this novel down because of '"expectations" unless the story really told something that was completely different than what was marketed. Did I ever once say, "I expected..." or something along the lines of "I thought..." ? No I didn't. Furthermore, I NEVER once said that it CANNOT be a slice of life. Slice of life became criticism because of its execution which was done poorly. To me, I genuinely found it a snooze fest because what it tried to do was meh or poor.

From the slice-of-life chapters I've read we've made progress with the characters' relationships and introduced new ones which is exactly the selling point of every single romance sol, just that. To act like it is a 'snoozefest' and 'nothing happens' is in fact a direct complaint towards sol as a whole considering plenty of things do happen. So yes, you did come into this with bogus expectations. I'm assuming your expectations were due to the comparison to COTE and you just thought it was gonna be a dead rip off, else, again, why would it matter if 50+ chapters are spent on the characters' relationship rather than "implementing the school system"? It's very obvious that's the case since your only real complaint is completely unfounded.

This is the last reply I will make because I believe it would be pointless and I don't want to argue over something that does not unfortunately appear constructive. In fact, you seem to have misunderstandings in my criticisms and advice I wrote in my review. I will take back the "nothing happens" comment because I believe that is too harsh and arguably wrong ( It was more of a figure of speech). But you still don't understand that I'm saying it was executed poorly. The "progress" of relationships were not done well with the amount of chapters at the time. Therefore, the stuff that happened was done poorly and with how iffy it was paced it became a snooze fest. I can't help but frown. You seem to believe my complain is because you assume I believe it's a ripp off of COTE. I simply made a comparison between the two because it was obviously very inspired by it and directly mentioned by the author. I really don't know what you want me to say about this point. The school system is a SUGGESTION not a COMPLAINT. Although I did say it was a main issue which appears contradictory and can be perceived as a complaint, but that's because of how the slice of life was executed and how the story panned out. I will reiterate again, there is no real issue with it being a slice of life and very heavily so at the start. Read my review properly, I said "...Or rather should've limited it's focus on two heroines instead of 4. It would have been much better than trying to spread attention and cheaply characterise because there's nothing going on that's driving the plot." For your sake, the part where I state "...because there's nothing going on that's driving the plot," should be taken as a figure of speech (Yes stuff happens. But it feels like nothing is going on and what does go on is poorly done). Of course, not everything was executed poorly. But majority of it was IMO when looking it as a whole to construct the narrative.

That is all well and good, 3.8* for that though? Wild that it being slow-paced as well as slight grammar mistakes constitutes it being a 3.8 but it’s your opinion. My gripe with what you were saying is that you were treating it like objective fact and not a subjective opinion, like come on you preface your review by saying it would be incredibly boring to the average reader when all the problem is, is that it focuses on slice-of-life. To continue the whole point about ‘expectations’, User APendric and Daniel224 came into this expecting slice-of-life but were intrigued by the mystery which made them like it more, so I absolutely refuse to believe you would get upset over the “pacing” if you didn’t already come into this expecting some faster-paced story with intrigue and mystery mixed with romance like with COTE, for God’s sake you say you ‘can’t help but compare them’ when it comes to the pacing then you go onto suggest that a faster implementation should’ve been done, you very clearly just wanted a reskinned COTE. You say that was your last response so then have a good day.