This is a review 5 months after finishing the novel. Overall I still fondly enjoy the experience of reading the novel. Although a lot of the elements are cliche, generic and convenient, it wasn't to the point that it distracted me from the core of the story which was the characters. Though some say that MC (Kim Hajin) is bland I disagree. He develops complex relationships between a lot of the characters creating a lot of drama. However the story does have glaring flaw when it comes to the unnecessary... more>> addition of love interests and unused characters.

Chae Nayun - First Love interest. She falls in love after a series of interactions which peaks after MC gives an item which allows that person to recall a distant memory which she uses to recall her past with her mother. However due to an event it will complicate their relationship. Overall satisfied with her development throughout the story.

Yoo Yeonha - Mostly Platonic (Friends/Business) relationship with the MC. However at a later point she develops feeling for Hajin which were completely unwarranted and also unnecessary within the story. Her being a love interest had brought no change in their dynamic except for the 'harem'

Rachel - English Student from the Cube. She's adorable yes, however she only serves as a damsel in distress for Hajin over and over again. Though she did have her moments they were forgettable at best since after 5 months I cannot recall any of her significant contributions to the story. A missed opportunity.

Boss - I find her story arc in the series to be one of the best and have no complaints.

Jin Sahyuk - Though setup to be the BBEG of the story she gets outsmarted and outplayed by the MC and due to some revelations with the Hajin and Chundong forms a very complicated partnership. Many things could have been done better with her partnership with Hajin however I wish she had more interaction with Suho and Hajin together instead of only Hajin as they have good chemistry.

Kim Suho - Best Friend and Original MC in the novel Hajin wrote. I wish there was more actual friendship between him and Hajin like their adventures in the cube. Most of the time afterwards was spent avoiding him intentionally or unintentionally through circumstance. It would have been a good development if instead of Rachel, Suho had found out about Hajin's Double Identity and formed a stronger chemistry. The only people the MC contacts and talks to are girls which gets stale.

Shin Jonghak - The Rival of Suho but becomes completely and entirely irrelevant up until the last 50 or so chapters. If he was developed more and formed a friendship/rivalry with both Suho and Hajin, I feel that the story would be much better for it as there are too many love interests and not many real friends.

A bit of a disappointing ending <<less

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This novel is over rated. I read the manhwa which stops at chapter 21, then I continue reading it as a novel. At first chapters, it is good. MC is too op, every now and then he'll have new power or upgraded skills. I like the excitement of hiding powers and etc. But then, I noticed that the MC mostly encounter and mostly interact with girls. Misunderstandings keep filling up. MC rarely interact with guys. I dont like harem and when I first saw this novel... more>> I didnt saw any tags of "Harem" so I thought I would be good but im disappointed. <<less

A really interesting novel in the first arc which is in the academy, after that, the story kept getting worse but still a very good one until the last chapters which are worthy of being called tr*shes

At least the female lead is freaking adorable, she is the reason why I kept reading this novel until the end lol

The best isekai I have ever read. It is isekai done right, not leaning towards the bland jp novels where you got a socially awkward kid in a man's body trying to have 6 different girlfriends with one of them being a supernatural being. Nor does it lean towards the totally cold and calculative novels that most korean isekai's do that focus on the magic system or the world.

There is actual character progression for all characters.... INCLUDING THE MC!!! Usually you never get those.

Read it.

After reading the reviews, I come to the conclusion that I shall be dropping this novel.... honestly it was the romance subplot that ruined it for me-

Generally having action packed things and romance things in one plate is very distasteful for me...

One of the reasons I read this to a point was to be invested with the main character (Kim Hajin) and after reading the reviews, it seems that I would need to let go of this novel so that I won’t be able to regret that I read this,... more>> hopefully this is a good stopping place before all the nonsense (although I could already sense the nonsense incoming) even at this point... Which is why I came to read the reviews in the first place- I feel for them... I found myself agreeing on all the things the reviews pointed out... <<less

Based on my review scale I gave it a 3.5 in other words better than your average web novel but not good enough to make me remember it after a couple of months.

Summary- MC gets reincarnated into his own book after a fan ask him to rewrite it just for him. MC is suppose to be a extra in the novel while he gets close to the main cast of the original works and take items that he knows of to survive.

Lets start with Cons-

Medium level con- MC has no... more>> personality. Seriously, zero the only time he shown to have an original that other than to survive was that he didnt want to use close range weapons because he was scared of getting hurt, that's it.

Medium level problem on the verge to major level problem The power system isnt properly explained the power system and rankings are based on super powers rather than cultavating however stats are just as important the problem is we dont know the average stat for the ranking in the hero society nor do we know roughly how strong is a weak individual mid level individual or high level individual. We do know of the intermediate level and it has 3 sub levels low mid and high and that there is a master rank but we dont know individuals who are that rank beside characters who where told are way to strong to be considered in that level (since it's based on achievement).

Medium level problem world powers/country's dont make sense. I understand making your country the strongest and at the center of attention I would too but what ridiculous is having all other country guilds and strong individual non existant. Take England for example their countrys guild the best of the best is ranked I believe 40 in the world. Are you fricken serious especially when they are the leader of the United federation in the novel, any country that is considered a major power should be in the top twenty at least not to mention half of the top is korean. I repeat half doesnt that Korea could take on the world by itself with its top powers? Why have separate country in that case?

Medium level problem- Only the girls have a personality that's not 2d. So the main good guys cast has 7 people in the book that the MC got transported into. 4 boys and 3 girls, Soho is the MC in that book you would think we would delve into his back story and interact with him the most since he is the MC but nope it's pretty uncommon for him to show up in a scene and do something with the MC of novel extra not to mention pretty cookie cutter personality justice seeking hero with no bad traits.

Next is the antagonist/rival to the hero jonghak, again you would think we would get to know him more especially since he should be the one creating problems for the MC or at least competing but nope SPOILERS; just him sending lackeys to bully hanjin (MC we are reading from) by making rumors about him. Personality is the stereotypical elitist mentality that slowly changes.

Now we have the two lackeys one that follows Soho the other that follows jonghak I wont bother naming them because they appear so little in the book that you will forget about them until the author mention their name and you sot there for a sec wondering who the f*ck are these guys? Even though they are apart of the main cast at the same level as racheal and yoo who are constantly talked about along with nayeun and these 3 have complex emotion motives and backstory that get delved into quite a lot (I will go over them in the pros)

Small nitpick Name of book should be changed. You would think with the book called extra that the MC would try to act like a extra but nope that gets thrown out quite early on in the book and has little to do with the plot pretty similar to the book tr*sh of the count family in that sense.

Medium level problem both the plot and the world building is very generic and boring. MC knows all that is happening in the book and know where are the good items are which make the world feel small the author could have tried to make it where MC randomly find rare items that he didnt write into the book or plot points but nope the author uses the fact that the MC knows all the plot points in the book to make the MC move from one scene the the next which really highlights the fact the MC has no personality/ motivation or even a goal. Even though there is a simple one laying right in front of the author of exploring the world outside of what the MC wrote and them MC writing those things down and gain inspiration for when he presumably leaves his novel.

Time for pros.

Like I said previously three of the main cast do have a personality quite good ones for a web novel too.

You have racheal someone who intentionally doesnt get close with people in Korean since ahe is a princess and a up and coming talent that can take her country (england) guild up in the ranks. She was brought up to put her country and guild first before her feelings since she is there only hope as a very talented superhero and when interacting with the main cast especially MC creates tension and interesting thoughts and conversations.

Yoo who is apart of a family who is the dog of the chae family her goal is to bring her family position high and rebel again the chae family (mostly the head). She is very career focused and only trust people she has full control over, besides MC, one of her quirks being she love fast food or commoners food but her mother doesnt like her eating that to maintain her image as a noble lady so she pretends to eat only high class food.

Lastly we have nayuen, she is a self center bit*h who had her mother killed by dijnn and brother hospitalized anyone so much as mention them has to face her anger and she will immediately start fighting them even when SPOILER; MC saves her live she also had jonghak spread rumors about the MC because of this later she realise this and ends up falling in love with mc

Powers are pretty decent though not too eye catching

Tdrl: That's about it now would I recommend this novel to people no not at all there is a lack of emotion when I read this MC has no personality there was little world building and the power system isnt define what so ever. The whole the read like this a happen so then b happen and so on. A book is suppose to be enjoyable this wasn't if you dont mind that and are really bored you can go for it otherwise dont bother. <<less

Many people have already talked about the story going downdard causing disappointment, but I think this novel is better than most of the 'transmigrating into novel' webnovels. The MC seems nonchalant, some ppl don't like this side of him but I find it intriguing. The fact that he is nonchalant help him to have enough courage and eagerness to commit crimes to save the world (I like this part soooo much). I find his hope and longing for his return to Earth meaningful too, he's a person with too many... more>> regrets to turn over a new leaf. I also like the developments of all the chars in the story, the way the author depicts their personality and emotions made it easy to understand and symperthize with them. The plot is fascinating and enjoyable, it's humorous some times and sad and teary some times.

The only thing disappointed me is the ending. Though the author had already added the satisfying ending when the MC chose to stay in the novel's world, I don't know if I found it bitter or disappointing. But it lingered somewhat annoyance after I finished reading (include the HE part), maybe because of the 'What-if' side-story where the MC didn't join the Chameleon Troupe or lost his memory when Chae Nayun turned back time. Anyway, the story is good (at least the first half, the second is so-so, the ending sucks, but HE the author added is OK)

Overall, it's worth reading <<less

I....I didn't know what I expected here... Truly, the decision that the author decided to take the story in is idiotic, I think I lost brain cells when I realized what the author decided to do here.

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I didn't mind the misunderstanding trope, I didn't mind the cheesy line, romance and misunderstanding ab*se that is happening here, f*ck I didn't even mind the clear favouritism/nationalism being shown here (really? you're telling me somehow a united Korea has more "master-rank" heroes than the entirety of Europe and the USA combined? and that the reason that happened is apparently, everyone decided to become a Korean citizen, and that every nation is a pushover to let a single individual trampled around swinging their d*ck and not suffering any consequence). What made me dropped this novel is the tower.

I will say it simply, the decision to make the tower an "alternate world" and change the story from something reminiscent to here to a full-blown tower climbing is idiotic at best and at worst, the author didn't know how else to make the MC strongest, so he cheated by making everyone who's stronger than him weaker by restricting their power, problem solved, now, the entire world can marvel as MC show how "superior" he is without himself noticing.

I don't know why this is rated so highly, it might get better, but I suffered enough brain aneurysms to last a book. so I'll be dropping it

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It was a very good experience. Normally, I don't like 'Modern Magic' genre in general. But, I personally enjoyed this one very much.

I literally read it non-stop from start till end. It was a good read. Everything was interesting and fascinating - From storyline to plot and even Romance too !

Give it a try !!!

Just the most amusing lines in the novel

I laughed 2 days straight thinking about all the novels I have read

"The final truth... that this world is nothing more than a ‘novel’ written by a certain man would be buried with me. I only found out because I looked into Kim Hajin’s head

It was frustrating to find out that the four, five hundred years I suffered weren’t even mentioned in the damn novel, "

I like this novel simply because of the character development and nothing else.

All the other things like the plot, the system, the concept of magic power, spirit power, gifts, skills, arts, attributes all are convoluted mess, inconsistent and make no sense.

Good writing, good characters, good story. I like stories with OP isekai MC stacking up the powerups, so enjoyed that.

Doesn't get super-convoluted or s*upid, okay except maybe some stuff with Nayun.

I can't blame MC for being such a bad "father", but it made me uncomfortable anyway.

Dropped it 2/3 through, read the spoilers and doesn't look like I missed anything, just more of the same, so cool, moving on to another story, hopefully a five star that isn't longer than it should be.

I finished the series and my reviews were as such:

1. The ending was FINISHED and satisfactory. But personally, I dont like how ... more>>

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some characters forgot abt the mc

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somethings turned out.

2. The story was enjoyable with likeable characters! And even though there's a lot of girls in favor of Hajin, it was not to a harem level. I dont enjoy harems v much so yeah.

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i personally ship him with yeonha tho but it didn't turn out that way

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3. I love the hype and Yeonha's misunderstandings were hilarious af haha

I would reccomend this to anyone and since it's a finished series, you could start em right away and binge it all thoo <<less

1. Since the story is taking place in a novel the MC has personally written, the MCs righteous acts comes out as hypocrite
2. MC kills his girlfriend brother Chae.... because it needs to be done, but later we find out that only MC is week but those strong existence like Chae joechool (grandfather) they are very strong, so even if the brother had turned into devil
3. The MC as a writer, considers every djinn as evil, but if you read the story it is clear that the setting is such that hard work, talent does not equal to success, so it's understandable, if people turned evil because the system was unfair
4. MC gets too many buffs and it gets boring and irritating, when there is always a hidden/unused setting in the original novel which the MC didn't bother to use, but now it acts as a cheat

It's been a while since I've read this but from memory, it started off really well I'd say it peaked at a 4/5 I went on to try my hardest to finish this novel since I really liked it at the time but at one point I wanna say in the latter half it started going downhill the novel doesn't have a tragedy tag atm but it needs one if this novel isn't tragedy idk what is anymore.

The situation between MC and another character was just depressing it was dragged... more>> on and shoved in your face so often

Spoiler

Way later on the situation improved but when it finally did I already didn't feel enthusiastic about the novel anymore (Felt like reading 100 ch of ntr, my soul left my body long ago)

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and the story got repetitive I ended up reading it just to finish it since I really liked the story at the start but eventually, It got to the point where each chapter left a bad feeling behind as I read felt as if I was in a loop of stepping in dung and I eventually dropped it. I have real mixed feeling about this review because I really liked this novel in the beginning and to give it a 2/5 when it could have been so great but, well... you get my point. <<less

Showing a lot of potential in the early chapter, but as this author sucks ass at making an ending (cuz, it's like every novel that he wrote have a good start but he always rushes the ending which I hate that about him)

Our MC (Hajin) suddenly possessed somebody in his novel that he wrote which I think it's the author dream to be s**ked into his novel but then he realizes that the novel he wrote is s**ked and then he scratched all of his idea of writing a... more>> novel and just ended them with a sucks balls ending.

I mean, He didn't even give an effort in ending his novel which I hope that I didn't read this novel at all.

The game aspect element is great though, and it shows how our MC has grown, in a sense that he is getting stronger, we can see how Hajin really feels about his character creation, and then at the end, the world is suddenly ending (a lot of apocalypses, monster, djinn, meteor, etc) in which we don't even get a chance to look deeper at his life in the real world,

Arrgh, I mean I hate the author, not the novel. The novel is really good but it looks like the author got corona or som' which result in his brain malfunction and then cuz he wanted to go to the hospital to cure himself he decided to give us the most despicable ending in the history of novel. F**ck this sh*t

final score

Character development : 7/10

plot : 3/10 (start out strong and then the author got a brain malfunction)

re-readability : 0/10

pace : 8/10

story : -9999999/10

final score : -1, 999, 996.2 (yes I use calc. For this)

is this a good novel ? Yes, but the author is sucks balls so the novel become sucks ball as well <<less

This novel was honestly a great read. Kudos to the author for the endless creativity and not adhering to the classic overpowered, undefeatable MC trope. The character development is excellent, and I absolutely love seeing the character change and grow as the story progresses. The MC is not perfect. His flaws are not concealed, and readers can see how each of the situations and enemies he encounters allow him to grow.

The novel definitely made me shed a few tears, and the author did a great job in adding an emotional aspect to the plot. However, this novel seems to lack the "show don't tell" aspect that should be apparent in great novels. There is a lack of descriptions and readers are dependent entirely on their imagination to understand how characters, objects, settings, fighting scenes look.

Furthermore, things seem to happen too fast. The plot sometimes has too many things happening at ones which led to numerous plotholes and easily left readers confused.

Despite the excellent character development, the character relationships still needed to be fleshed out. The development of the relationship between Kim Hajin and Chae Nayun is excellent, but for the other characters, it seems to be severely lacking. I especially wanted to see more bromance / friendship with Kim Suho and Kim Hajin, and the inconclusive ending fails to tie up the unrequited love between different characters.

On that note, the ending was definitely a disappointment. There were too many questions left unanswered and new situations and plots were presented that left readers hanging on a great cliff. I listed only a few of all the questions I had towards the end of the book below.

I personally do not think it deserves more than 4 stars due to the APPARENT plotholes throughout the plot as well as the slightly disappointing conclusion.

TL;DR --> This novel is a great novel to use to pass time. You might spend a little bit of time racking up your brains thinking about how certain situations came to be, however, it's a good novel nonetheless.

I found this novel on one of the recommended list, and I agree that this is a good read, fairly different from other generic type (in my opinion). Of course it has its weakness and negative parts but its tolerable and the strength has kept me reading it.

It was a great pleasure speed reading it through one week and even made me jump right to the ending to see a glimpse of the end (hoping for a happy ending).

The multiple support characters are written well and the interaction with the... more>> MC is good, in fact sometimes I would wish for filler chapters to explore the side characters (but the current is just fine, short and concise, instead of those >1500 draggy chapters for some LN).

A small glimpse of potential harem, with most supporting girls have good intention to the hero but he ended monogamy. A good choice but I do feel sad for the other girl (who I felt he does like initially and should still like).

Anyway, a good read and I'm satisfied (enough to write this review). <<less

I LIKE THIS STORY SO MUUUUCH. Hahaha. Thumb up for author and translator. Tho most of the characters are female and it's definitely a Harem (but the ML never thought about it and end up with the person I never thought about), I like it. However the 140+ chapters kinda... too fast? But nah. I still like it tho.

Meh... Shitty MC thoughts and inaction leading to numerous misunderstanding that can be easily resolved by just COMMUNICATING makes me just want to choke him to death... not to mention numerous korean rom-com plots peppered throughout the novels...

1/5