Lightning Descends by Her Will

This novel only has a few chapters but trust me when I say you won’t be disappointed!! I love cultivation novels and have a lot of translation novels in my library. This is the first original cultivation novel I added. The first chapter was amazing! We get to meet her gods parents and the first scenes were quite intense. The author has a way of writing the events happening so that as readers we can easily imagine them.

This review is part of a review swap and valid as of chapter three. Since three chapters is nothing I'll concentrate on petty details. Observe that the three yanked stars are due to the sheer lack of content more than because of any poor writing. We have a solid third person limited point of view, past tense introduction of characters and world with only a little in the form of infodumps. Language is mostly flawless, even though the first chapter, or rather prologue, was prone to a little too much melodrama. The referral formatting for new terms both help and detract, probably depending on reader. This reader didn't like ad hoc foot notes, but I believe this is a matter of taste. As a matter of fact this reader dislikes any explaining at all. If it's important enough I can look it up. Once again, this is probably a matter of taste. I can only guess that it will end up as a cultivation story, but only because that word is used once. There simply isn't enough content to understand anything but that we're reading about the daughter of godlike beings growing up as a human in some alternate version of historical China. Stars. Writing: Five stars. Line editing pays off. Mostly flawless. This far the writing is very good, something that has little to do with wether it's flawless or not. Looks promising. Updates: Five stars. Three chapters is not enough to build an opinion upon. I'm just handing out the five stars. Story: Four stars. In this case it's a high grade. There is a story after just three chapters. There's not a whole lot of it, but it's there. Looks promising. Character: Four stars. This is a more neutral assessment. The characters introduced this far are archetypes rather than personalities. In difference from story you can't trust archetypes to grow into personalities just because there are more chapters published. World: Three stars. While seemingly harsh it's just because we only have three chapters available. World is one scene from Hel and a earthly mansion. Setting always suffer from when the beginning of a story isn't dragged down by huge lumps of infodumping or backstory. However, I can't grade what isn't there yet. Hopefully the setting will tag along together with the development of the story, in which case a four star by chapter 10 is a given and the fifth a little later. Looks promising. Lastly, this is not yet a story. It's an introduction. Give it another ten chapters. I hope the characters are fleshed out enough to become real people by then as well.