/ Fantasy / Frozen at Castle Everest
Synopsis
FACE is a return-to-the-past mystery with cultivation-action, magic, and a focus on spirit herbs. May contain phycological elements because the eldritch horrors believe the MC's mind is delicious, and the whole world mistakes him for someone else.
**MC's synopsis:**
I united the continent of Auster only to be betrayed by my sworn brother. Time froze Castle Everest with my body trapped inside, and an eldritch horror arrived to devour me. Luckily, my soul escaped and took possession of a young boy. Who is this boy? Why does everyone want to kill or capture him? Worst of all, this body is so useless. At least, I've gained supernatural senses… Wait! Too much! Is this a blessing or a curse? Am I going crazy?
Tags:
Mystery
Reincarnation?
Return to the Past
Cultivation/Non-Standard Cultivation
Magic
Adventure
Weak to Strong
Fantasy
Eastern and Western Elements/Xuanhuan
Spirit Herbs and Magical Plants
Alchemy
Phycological
Western Names
About the Author:
Native US English, Proficient with grammar.
Note: The release rate is temporarily unstable due to real life events. Not certain how many releases per week I can do at this point. It will likely stabilize again by the start of December.
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Note: I give 5/5 on everything despite whatever I write below. I've had this on my reading list and finally got to it. It's rare for me to come across a story engaging enough where I binge read it in one go, but I'm happy to say this story is one of them. Writing Quality 5/5: You'll be very hard pressed to find any story on this site that can compare to the grammar and quality of this story's writing. Updates 2.5/5: updates appear to be somewhat random and infrequent. Considering the books quality though, I find this acceptable. Especially as it seems the author is writing for his own enjoyment (from what I could tell). Story Development 5/5: The story is super engaging with mixes of mystery and action. Very enjoyable and original. Character design 4/5: Most characters are interesting and well designed. Minus one point for the MC, who I feel doesn't actually have much of a personality. If I was asked to describe the MC's personality, I can't think of how. Basically, he has no real personality defining traits, though he is consistent in how he acts. World Background 4/5: Let me start by saying the world is described very well and vividly. Scenes we're very detailed in my head while reading. It's a pretty standard cultivation world though. Minus a point for many things just sort of existing with the MC being aware of what it is and the reader only having an inkling of an idea of what it is. This doesn't really hurt the story as it allows it to keep fast pacing. Also, it's kind of expected when considering MC is a super expert in his past life. However, I don't think this novel would be a good starter for someone completely new to the cultivation genre. As for cultivation veterans? You'll probably understand everything fine. On a final and somewhat unrelated note, I'd like to thank Nitro for helping me improve my own writing drastically when I was just starting out. After reading this story, I can see that I still have a lot of room for improvement before catching up to Nitro in terms of quality. I highly recommend reading this book to anyone reading this review =p.
Made it to chapter 20. I was hooked after the first three chapters then I got lost in chapter 19 and was confused in chapter 20. At first I thought this was going to be a fantasy transmigration story but cultivation was thrown in there too and I internally groaned. THOUGH this story does have a different element to it. The sorting on ten year olds gives you that wonderful sense of Harry Potter with the sorting hat instead of a hat you touch an orb and instead of just one test there is three. There are literally very minimal grammatical errors and makes the flow absolutely wonderful except for some words you have to look up all but one was properly used. Can't remember the word it starts with a "d" near the end of the chapter when he's talking to granduncle Byron, it's a noun that was not used well but whatever, your novel. There is an air of mystery to it all, which I love but I think I have it worked out that I can see it coming. I will keep this one in my library and see if my guess is correct, but the hits are subtle that I think most people will come to the same conclusion the only question is why. I would love to post my theory but that's a major spoiler and I don't want the author to hate me or have to change the story. I was thrown in the first chapter when you quoted Shakespeare and thought it was going to be something completely else but your way with words are quite enchanting.
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It's a shameless tradition on this site to rate your own novel with 5 stars. I'm finally giving in and following this tradition. Let's see... I promise no harems and there will be an ending. I'm good at editing so quality should be great.