Deep coming of age book

It is brutal and usually not my cup of tea, However the story is superb, well written, and fanatically performed. I cannot understand the two negative reviews as this a professional product.

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a good wuxia audiobook

Great narrator, and the story was what one expects of a wuxia story, over the top and spectacular. loved it. I'm going to buy the next book. recommend it to people who like wuxia story's.

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amazing loved it

Great series absolutely loved it great narration and a epic story can not wait for the next one

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Brilliant

I have Listened to over 120 titles and it has been a long time since I have been so engrossed and absorbed in an audiobook. I have never listened to an audiobook narrated by 'Scott Merriman' and I am verry pleased with his performance.

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Loved it!

I thought this book was amazing. Love these come from nothing gain everything cultivation novels

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I dont understand the positive reviews

There is nothing wrong with the performance, but the writing itself is atrocious.
The people dont speak like humans, they dont act like humans, and they dont keep to what has already been said.
Early on the main character is looked down upon.
So his uncle murders a man in broad daylight for doing so, and says that he will kill anyone else who even dares to try again.
So obviously the neighbourbood kids instantly try to bully the main character.
But
”This ten year old had read too many books in the last week to be bullied by mere words”
(Yes, thats what happens)
So they hit him.
Knowing these two things, do you think the uncle kills them?
No
Because he doesnt know?
No, its clearly stated that he finds out
Because he doesnt care?
No, its written out that he has problems holding himself back from murdering several ten year old children.
But he doesnt
For no real reason
After having warned them, wanting to and already having murdered people.
It just goes on and on.
People shit-talk their bosses in front of them, new details are invented on the spot or after the fact with no buildup (like why the main character is weak) and people change their mind and whole personality on a whim.
Its a gary-stu powerfantasy, and a badly written one.

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MC has no redeeming features

Couldn't get past half way thru second book, I managed to survive the MC being called 'trash' 400 times in first book, but the fact he beckons a psychopath with no redeem characteristics was the final straw.

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Bleh

Though excellently narrated this is both a terribly written and terribly plotted story. It reads like a first draft from a teenage writer and hits nearly every trope featured on the 'Terrible writing advice' YouTube channel. If you are looking for long duration audio wallpaper and have a high tolerance for poor grammar, clumsy wording and mary sue level power fantasy then this may be for you, otherwise best avoid.

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Uninteresting

Just uninteresting and did not add anything to the genre. Also it just hitts most of the generic stereotypes.

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MC is strangely overpowered and it annoys me

This will contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.

The writing is mediocre. I can accept that. It happens..
MC loses everything and is adopted by his uncle. I found this to be a decent start to the story. Tragic beginning, builds him self up under the guidance of his warrior uncle. All of that is fine with me.

But the story and MC annoys me. MC is strangely overpowered and has a robotic personality.

For 5 years he is unable to cultivate and for some unknown reason, everybody else can apparently cultivate and those that cannot are called trash and is hated, but only our MC it seems is affected...

Another unknown reason, he is known from the start as being unable to cultivate and everybody calls him trash. So many times it is just the plot line that he is trash and everybody hates him.
Why? Surely some commoners and other nobles have hit this problem? Surely someone can be useful even if they cannot cultivate. Someone has to sell at the market, fish, cook food and so on. All done by cultivators? well apparently yes...

An entire town, which by the way, must consist of at least a few thousand people at a minimum, just hates our MC. Surely most people would just be on their own way, live their own lives and not care. Just random commoners, the maids, the nobles, everybody somehow knows our MC as that guy that cannot cultivate.. Makes no sense to me that he is the center of attention throughout the entire thing whenever he is in public.
He just reads books, no training, no cultivation, just reading books until he is left with a manual that finally works after 5 years.

Okay, so after 5 years, he is left with some resources and NOW he can cultivate, and he gets all the resources to sky rocket up in ranks. He has more techniques, more power and just more of everything than everybody else. At a rate where their rank no longer matters. He only has a year to train martial arts, new techniques and gain power. Seems to be a little short to learn all of that? Always picks up a new technique that just happens to be the next big thing to save him?

The villains are nobles whom for some reason just dedicates their entire life to destroy him, even at the cost of their own cultivation... From bullying to wanting to kill our MC in a matter of months. Again, why do they even bother to notice a 15 year old boy?
Even someone two ranks above him cannot catch him during a failed assassination attempt.

Is there nothing our MC cannot get away with? He has had no time to build up a fighting style, muscle memory, train his body and receive pointers through sparing. Just zero to hero by locking himself in and read the manual that was left to him...
Sure.. That's how that works..

Overall. you might enjoy it, if you can ignore the above, maybe its for you.
I personally enjoy cultivation novels that are more in line with A Thousand Li.
Overpowered or plot armour MC's are just not for me.
If I think like this on the first novel then I do not think I will enjoy the rest of the series..

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