I don't know if its the translation or the authors writing skills but it's difficult to make sense of what is going on outside of a broad sense at any given point. Dialogue is a mess. There is no distinction between thoughts and actions.

Actually, a good deal of things in the novel are outright contradictory ... more>>

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The MC motivations for example. He's outright stated at any given point to eant to be discharged from the military, but is constantly acting in a way that gets him more entrenched in it. Of course this could be a misunderstanding due to the terrible translation/writing, but that's hard to tell.

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Frankly, the main problem here is that its just difficult to understand whats going on. Its hard to put into words without reading it yourself.

I made this review very early on, so maybe these problems won't persist, but for now at least its not worth the time. <<less