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A review by ibri
The Builder's Sword by J.A. Cipriano
Not finished and I don't know whether I will finish it but I wanted to say something before I forget it. To describe the book until now in one word I would call it lazy. Cramming a game system on a non game world is nothing I am a fan of (even if I still read some litrpgs) but can be excused as a genre conceit. Though I think it is done in one of the worse ways here. Also there are some game elements put into a real world that I am less tolerant off, an actual taunt skill just makes little sense though I guess it can be handwaved with magic and the item ranks and that the demotion can influence the item value like that are a tad weird. Anyway why I call it lazy? For instance Black smith lady says she was demoted to rank 6 next chapter his skill shows him a demotion to rank 5. Come on it has been one damn chapter. Then she says this when he wants to look at her stats "It probably doesn't seem like it but you are reducing me to ones at zeroes ". She touched her hand to her chest "I am more than the sum of my stats"" the demon world doesn't seem to be at the tech level for people to play games at pcs why would she bring up ones and zeroes, yes they have some connection to the human world but that is not enough for that to be a natural comment. Also she professes non knowledge of stat systems, skill trees and stuff. Of course she might be hiding knowledge but still.
Then the way the world was cleared from male demons. The darkness just creates a plague that kills all male demons and only the male demons? Seriously that is how you get rid of unnecessary elements for harem building? By giving your enemy the ability to just wipe out half the enemy species and for some reason only half? Maybe later a reason is given why they would not just use a plague that wipes out all their enemies, maybe I will see if I read on.
And then there is Gwen just giving him control of the village. So that he can use his ability might make sense at first glance as a reason. But the system already considered him sufficiently in control so there was no real reason to really declare him the leader. Just continue leading the village and if the skill stuff makes trouble later on because he isn't actually in control of the city handle it then. Her just shrugging and handing him control of the town she ruled a thousand years at least just seems lazy.
In general the world building and character interaction just seem low effort. Though looking at the number of books from the author he probably really is just mass producing stuff.
Then the way the world was cleared from male demons. The darkness just creates a plague that kills all male demons and only the male demons? Seriously that is how you get rid of unnecessary elements for harem building? By giving your enemy the ability to just wipe out half the enemy species and for some reason only half? Maybe later a reason is given why they would not just use a plague that wipes out all their enemies, maybe I will see if I read on.
And then there is Gwen just giving him control of the village. So that he can use his ability might make sense at first glance as a reason. But the system already considered him sufficiently in control so there was no real reason to really declare him the leader. Just continue leading the village and if the skill stuff makes trouble later on because he isn't actually in control of the city handle it then. Her just shrugging and handing him control of the town she ruled a thousand years at least just seems lazy.
In general the world building and character interaction just seem low effort. Though looking at the number of books from the author he probably really is just mass producing stuff.