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Tracking all the novels I've read with my review of them. May contain spoiler and controversial opinion. It is just me ranting bascically.

Only novels that I either completed reading or dropped.

Rating: 1-4: bad, not good, 5-6.5: okay, average, slightly above average, 7-10 good, great, amazinggg.

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Juleee

Created: Dec 26th, 2022, Updated: Apr 4th, 2025

Created Dec 26th, 2022

Updated Apr 4th, 2025

CN (4.3)

#26Pihanjin

102 Chapters Every 62.5 Day(s) 1257 Readers 26 Reviews 12-13-2022

Completed Adult Drama Fantasy Historical Mature Romance Tragedy

6/10... more>>

CN (2.8)

#27Paper Rose

196 Chapters Every 0.1 Day(s) 454 Readers 8 Reviews 08-06-2023

Completed Adult Drama Romance Slice of Life Tragedy

6.5/10

CN (4)

#28I Used Bullet Comments to Avoid the Plot

8 Chapters Every 49.3 Day(s) 731 Readers 9 Reviews 05-28-2024

Completed Drama Josei Romance Supernatural

Short, sweet, fresh

CN (4.3)

#29I Transmigrated As the Male Lead’s Jellyfish

9 Chapters Every 2000 Day(s) 712 Readers 6 Reviews 05-26-2024

Completed Fantasy Romance Supernatural

3/10 ... more>>

CN (4.6)

#30The Phoenix Once Roamed

7 Chapters Every 57.1 Day(s) 740 Readers 12 Reviews 05-21-2024

Completed Drama Historical Josei Romance Tragedy

8/10... more>>

CN (4.7)

#31I Am Average and Unremarkable

104 Chapters Every 25.9 Day(s) 2362 Readers 24 Reviews 06-12-2024

Completed Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Josei Romance Slice of Life Xianxia

7/10... more>>

CN (4.6)

#32This Is Ridiculous

40 Chapters Every 0.1 Day(s) 2965 Readers 42 Reviews 07-18-2024

Completed Comedy Drama Fantasy Historical Romance

8.5/10... more>>

KR (3.5)

#33Try Begging

190 Chapters Every 3.4 Day(s) 3375 Readers 10 Reviews 06-23-2025

Adult Drama Fantasy Romance Smut

0/10... more>>

This is the first and only novel that is 0 among all the novels/manga/webtoon I have read. It should be even negative because it is so repulsive. Bastian, Mathias or even Johann from "the double agent" seem not that bad infront of the ml here. Others are a**holes, but Leon(the ml here) is a criminal. Compare Leon to Johann, both are military men who find a spy infiltrated in their house. And both story has stockholm syndrome and torture but Johann still seems human, a vile human but a human. And he never violated ANY prisoners. Leon, though, is not human. I hate him so much and no amount of backstory will change it. He should be rotting in hell. And even that is not enough.

The whole character of his and the plot felt like some kind of disgusting mu*der/r*pe fantasy of author. What was the author thinking? The ml almost has the same characteristic, behaviour and symptom of a serial killer. He likes blood, torture and sexually humiliates and dominate fl. Why is he the ml and not a disgusting villain? Why do FL stay with ml in the end? Just looking at that happy family cover of the novel infuriates me. Why do authors insist on making such disgusting men the ml? Why do FL always go through rough, humiliating shits? Why is there always some sort of s*xual ab*se or non-consensual s*x involved? How can author call this a romance? It is concerning that someone was writing these violent, disgusting stuff in such detail. Every scene is so graphic. The r*pe parts were just hard to read. Absolutely disgusting the way author wrote almost 2000 words for just one scene alone. Then it keeps on going for more and more chapters of her confinement, torture, r*pe, humiliation. And not once author condemns ml for that. Why isn't he treated as the criminal and FL as victim? Because that's the only thing they are. A criminal and a victim.

"Dark romance" is not an excuse for the r*pe fantasy of the author. The pov of ml when he r*ped FL for the first time is this "The tears filled with the pain of being conquered by him were so sweet that it was dizzying." It is all about power, dominance, humiliation, a vile wish to break a person. This is not romance. This is horror. <<less

CN (4.4)

#34Goodnight, Miss Rose

11 Chapters Every 126.4 Day(s) 1020 Readers 11 Reviews 11-13-2021

Completed Josei Romance

5.5/10... more>>

CN (4.4)

#35Except Me, Everyone Else Is the Protagonist

219 Chapters Every 16.5 Day(s) 2323 Readers 24 Reviews 11-10-2024

Completed Comedy Drama Fantasy Mystery Psychological Romance Supernatural Xianxia Xuanhuan

5/10... more>>

It is not bad but it is boring. It is the same characters, same dynamic, same thing again and again and it is just not interesting any more. FL claims to be "side character" but she is very typical Mary sue FL. She saves ml from turning to villain, helps all the og MCs and they all form a team around her, all the inheritance is hers because she is the chosen one and everyone who disregards her is villain and everyone else becomes her side characters flattering her. She gets to the event at the right time and saves the world accidentally, demon king is powerless against her, she is the only one besides og MC to see the spirit, she again coincidentally have the most rare and powerful spirit beast, the sect masters personally invites her, her ability is said to be useless but then suddenly she unlocks rare old technique and can win tournaments.

Alright. The Mary sue is my pet peeve and i dislike them the most. But what annoys me more is that she is supposedly a "side character" who doesn't want to be involved with MCs and she is portrayed as indifferent, nonchalant, chill, but unlucky and broke(financially) character. But this whole thing come off as so pretentious because 'coincidentally' she keeps running into special events and she keeps gaining these powers and everything revolves around her. So many coincidences at right time at right place that everything feels fake and forced and it is so obvious that the novel world building is done just around her so it feels very 1 dimensional with very narrow perspective and shallow background.

With that said, it is well written and I was holding my stomach because it was so funny. Premise is also very interesting, unfortunately the plot becomes a Mary sue tunnel. I can tell exactly what happens next and who will appear and who will fall in love and how it will end. There is no cliffhanger, no twists, no ups and downs, no page turner. I am not curious to read because i have read hundreds of stories of this kind. So I dropped it. I stayed that far just because it is funny.

//Dropped at Christmas. 81// <<less

CN (4.1)

#36Xun Nuan

14 Chapters Every 10.1 Day(s) 571 Readers 5 Reviews 02-05-2025

Completed Drama Historical Romance Tragedy

7/10

CN (4.5)

#37The Princess’s Path: Dawn and Dusk

22 Chapters Every 0.1 Day(s) 498 Readers 6 Reviews 09-24-2024

Completed Drama Supernatural Tragedy

CN (4.9)

#38Pearl Light