Discussion Good novels you've dropped.

"Chaotic sword god" when the mc choose to use the favour given to her by a saint ruler to break the engagement of a girl that 1.tried to kill him because she was bathing at a river in broad daylight with the absence of guards or formations. When she failed even though she has a higher cultivation she called her uncle (who was not their to prevent the mc from walking to the river) to kill the mc(the uncle was a earth saint master like 3 realms above the mc) they left him for dead with life threatening injuries in the middle of the forest where beast,bandits,blood loss or infection would kill him (the reason the uncle didn't finish the job was because he was afraid the mc came from a large power or had a powerful master due to his young age and his talent) by plothole the mc survives timeskip many years later the mc meet the same bitch only to be instantly attacked with a ruler armament that would be impossible for even her uncle to dodge(the uncle is now a heaven saint master while the mc is now a nearing the level of a earth saint master) then some other young masters from other clans ambushed the girl and the mc so the mc killed one of the three and joined forces with the girl. They both shared a cave ,while the mc went to take his bath at the other end of the cave this same girl walked to the water and stood their watching her take his bath (what did the mc do? Absolutely nothing he just said we are even now) later one chick was flirting with the mc and she became angry . after the competition she invited him to visit her family . he later encountered her uncle and the uncle said " my young miss has been having sleepless nights and has been waiting to see you" . the Moronic mc went to her clan to visit and she put on perfume and went to hug him ( the same mc that has not hugged his fiance thats actually a princess or even held her hand the same fiance that has waited for him for years) when she told him she has been engaged he used the favour to break the engagement . what ticked me off was he was just recently attacked by a saint ruler and managed to survive because he was practicing a sick body forging technique that makes his body incredibly power even then he nearly died. But he didn't use the favour then but choose to use it to help some bitch that has tried to kill him every time they meet even at that getting married was not the end of the world neither would her husband to be mistreat her in anyway . the other guy is also from a wealthy powerful influencial clan she had absolutely no reason to reject the marriage and the mc had absolutely no reason to involve himself. By forcefully breaking off the engagement he automatically made an enemy for himself and his clan. I was like WTF I don't understand instead of staying as far away as possible from such a girl he was busy getting his entire clan in trouble because of her if he was remotely interested in her I would have said OK maybe he was blinded by love but no love lust or interest he just did it

 

It was that sort of ending where every person who tried to harm them in some way got punished and yeah the FL takes everything the ML does, she totally lost her cool from the beginning
And the ML turned even worse, he was all cold and yet totally obsessive, petty and brutal

 

Yeah, the best parts of the book were the food porn and the shenanigans. These disappeared by the end of the book; which became all about the love interest and the villains. And these in turn are the weakest parts of the book. And this is not even a problem unique to this book: it's pretty common for Romance novels to start out strong but are saddled with terrible male love interests that the endings inevitably revolve around.

 

As the translator, allow me to say that the author is probably doing that because of some kind of legal binding with his publisher lol

 

There were some good novels that i used to read which i've forgotten the titles of now and i remember dropping them due to the translator not using footnotes and having too many translator notes in alot of chapters. Occasionally even memeing from the time to time or even posting images in between.

 

I totally loved those food porn parts and how the people all turned into gluttons It would've been great if the FL stayed independent and indifferent to the ML, but that's how most novels work I guess.
I realized that many of those high-rated novels are like that when they're too long. Pretty good in the beginning but later on it's all about love interests, mary-sue-ing and so on...
I just droppped "Doomed to be a Cannon Fodder" because of this....

 

Then my apologies for being rude you know how we readers feel about that too thanks for sharing that with us

 

most of the novels I dropped that where still "good" I dropped either because they jumped sites more then the little frog in frogger and it got to be a headache, the whole translation needed a heavy edit with a bulldozer and a team of English professors or I just lost interest in it and moved it to the hold off section (mainly because the translation and edit pace where slow and I figured I'd wait for more chapters to build (so not really dropped just on hold))

 

Renegade immortal
This is one of favorite but... romance is really cringey

 

Not exactly "good stories I dropped", but a lot of times I find yet another power fantasy (and possibly Isekai) trash to burn time on, the premise seems interesting enough to draw my attention, it goes fine for a few chapters, then BOOM! I get slapped with the multi-whammy of harem, protagonist turns out to be generic light novel guy, the author uses the opposition to describe his view of every bully to ever torment him and gets back at them via the story... And I drop yet another disappointment.

On the other hand, I was a single chapter away from dropping Mushoku Tensei when I started it. Got to a point where I was mentally predicting cliche developments, then the author sidelined me with a development I didn't expect and I ended up reading on. Definitely not sorry I did.