Trash of count family Review - Review4reader

*Warning* This is a pretty meaty review so here's a TL:DR for those who don't feel like reading all of it:

- The story has boring dialogues, and side characters that drink the kool aid from the MC's d*ck every moment they get. And most if not all of them are there to work as a fix-it-all for everything the MC might need, so he has no need to lift a finger himself.

There's a complete lack of personality in every character in the story, except for maybe the Crown Prince.

There's no crisis', no impending doom, no sense of loss, and nothing to drive the MC to improve himself or others. The MC is a weak 'slacker' who's entire (imo lack of) 'personality' is being indifferent and aloof in every single situation he finds himself in.

Even though he's supposed to be a normal human from our world, who's suddenly in a high fantasy setting with dragons, magic, beast people, elves, dwarves and all kinds of things that nobody 'normal' has ever experienced. And the MC is indifferent and bored throughout it all, he literally watches a fight with superhuman powers and finds it boring, which is just ridiculous.

Review:

A story about a completely indifferent MC who -no matter the situation- always stays cold and aloof. He literally watches superhuman battles being fought, sits through an entire 4 day long torture session, and speaks to royalty and basically everybody else; like he's not afraid of any repercussions for him speaking out of turn or being and arrogant piece of sh*t. All without it having ANY effect on him personally nor to his surrounding. And we learn absolutely nothing about his past, to make it even slightly realistic to have such a personality.

Characters:

Every single character that is not the MC, are only in the story so they can suck the kool aid out of the MC's d*ck every time he does or says something. Everybody is filled with respect and almost undying loyalty for him, but he has literally not done anything to deserve such loyalty from them in the first place. He shows no respect for anybody, but earns it himself in spades. Yes he helps a few of the characters, but all of it is for his own gains. And they know he has an indifferent, cold and calculative personality -or at least it's supposed to be known, but he doesn't have much of a personality in the first place- but they still love him for no reason.

All the side characters have 1 of 2 purposes:

1. Work as a fix-it-all for any shortcomings the MC might have, just so he doesn't need to improve or evolve as a character in any meaningful way.
2. Sucking the MC's d*ck every time he stays indifferent and aloof, or does something that really isn't impressive at all. Just so we as readers get a feeling of how amazing and 'smart' he is, although he really isn't. Everything he does is based on his omniscience gained for free by reading 5 volumes of a book.

None of the side characters have any personality either, so there's not even a reason to write anything in depth about anybody but the MC in this review.

Story/plot:

We know absolutely nothing about how or why the MC suddenly wakes up in the body of a character from a novel he's read 5 Vol. Of. There's no explanations, nothing about him having the memories of the count's tr*shy son, no mention about the body feeling odd, or weak. There's simply nothing for us to interpret on our own. It just IS, and then the MC goes on his merry way without a care in the world. I mean really? This is just so the MC can abuse his deus ex powers of insight (know it all) he's gained from reading the books. Which is an awful excuse to give him ridiculously OP knowledge he can abuse; right from the start. That's the only reason we learn it's a novel at all.

In the beginning I thought the premise was kind of interesting, I would've loved to see a calculative son of a count building up his fiefdom, and improving their county with out of box thinking, interesting ideas and well planned politic stratagems. That would've been very interesting when put into a fantasy world setting; but that's not how the story goes unfortunately.

It's basically the MC using his deus ex machina knowledge of every easy-to-get power-up he can, none of which takes any effort on his part. There's no sense of loss, no impending crisis, nor a feeling of impending doom and he doesn't lose anything important; his family is incredibly rich, and powerful so he doesn't have to change anything, nor improve himself or others in any way; which leads to him lacking any driving power at all.

Everybody else caters to his every need from the beginning of the story till were I currently got to. This just makes the story incredibly boring because he has no real goal, besides being a slacker, which is frankly not an enticing nor interesting character trait for a MC to have.

There's no threats looming in the background, no mysteries that sucks you in. The only antagonists in the story is some unknown organization which we know nothing about; we get no POV's of; we learn none of their goals, characters or anything which could've otherwise made the 'mystery' interesting. Also the MC knows about them from the beginning. So that also removes any intrigue we might've had.

Writing Style:

It's written quite poorly tbh, the conversations are boring because every character in the story lacks personality -MC included- and all of them worship the MC's every move. They keep giving him 'meaningful' looks when he doesn't see it, to showcase how much kool aid from his d*ck they like to drink. Even the cute 'animals' in the story have no 'cute' personalities either, and all of it shows in how it's written.

Closing words and thoughts:

Over hyped boring slogfest of a story, which had the potential to be something great and different. But instead feels lifeless, hollow, and uninspired. It has a theme that could've had amazing writing, well written dialogues; insightful and flavorful monologues. There could've been some very interesting character, and personality shaping POV's that gave us a reason to give a crap about the characters.

Unfortunately this story has none of that. So i'll give this a 2 star rating only because 1 star is for the truly horrible, and awful stories; which this story isn't quite. But it's not far from it either.

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