Scathing Reviewer [A LitRPG System Apocalypse] out now on Amazon!
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Description
Will the creator of the apocalypse survive?
Liu Peijin has spent the last decade writing a trashy LitRPG web novel. Too bad no one likes it, leaving poor Peijin bitter and far more interested in challenging negative reviews.
Until one day, after arguing with a commenter, she receives an ominous message: “Tomorrow, 1p.m. I have a surprise for you.”
Without fail, the Azure Dragon from her novel appears on the freeway before her—and slaughters dozens of humans in a flash. Blue screens flash all around. Murderous goblins flood the streets. Gods invest in humans to fight for their entertainment.
Peijin's book has infected her world. Technically, she has the knowledge and skills she needs to survive; it’s all those readers she blocked, who are now gods passing cosmic judgement on her, that she's worried about.
Or that one god who Peijin is certain never existed in her novel. And somehow, it knows more than the author herself.
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What to expect:
Female MC with emotional baggage. She is initially reactive due to her insecurities, but she grows considerably, since she really just wants to connect with others.
MC uses her existing knowledge to defeat challenges. Strong to dominant progression.
Countless interactions with traditional mythological gods—think Percy Jackson.
Eastern cultivation references.
Reasonable number of blue boxes. Some chapters have many, some chapters have none. Skill progression matters more than levels.
Although the system in Peijin's novel becomes a reality, the story does not take place inside Peijin's novel. It is technically a reverse isekai, so her novel merges into the MC's world. The world is as real as the real world is to me and you.
System inspired by Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. Although the system is similar, the plot rapidly goes in a different direction. Please do not compare a stone to a diamond (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint being the diamond!)
Information
- Status
- Ongoing
- Year
- 2025
- Author
- BananaDragon
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Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 4.3/ 5.0
- Followers
- 425
- Views
- 19,975
Chapters(6 total)
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Community Reviews(3)
- XenvasRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I'm conflicted about this story, it's equally great but feels suuuuuuper quick, I gave it 5 stars basically all around because I feel like it's a quality work. Seriously solid work, but it may just not be for me, I do not know honestly I will keep reading the book until I feel it must be dropped to keep my sanity lol.
Keep reading my review if you want to know my full thoughts.
Very few grammar mistakes, sentence comp is good so very little muddling around trying to guess what happened.
The story happens incredibly quickly, it gets right into the action after the first chapter so you don't have to wait, I wish the system rules were stated a little more clearly. Everyone seems to just auto adjust to "welp we now have a system" a little too quickly, but in context of the story the couple of side characters, except one glaring potentially critically important normal main side character, it makes sense.
I'm conflicted about it because it feels technically great, story beats are fairly clearly laid out, information is doled out from the perspective of that character. It's just incredibly fast feeling too, I mean the entire first book technically all happens in the first like 48 hours of the apocalypse from the main characters perspective, the timeline is meant to feel from the main characters perspective as she's in a huge rush to do everything but also it's not clearly stated except.... 3 times in the story how long of a time frame anything is 24 hours, 4 days, and 2 weeks are the only statements of time that occur that I can recall and 2 of those the main character doesn't experience, just other characters tell her about.
Things are very obfuscated regarding what's actually happening but also feel clear in some ways. Even in the little and a lot that happened throughout book 1 there's a good amount of foreshadowing.
Characters are very solid, good growth, very good with the perspectives and using knowledge they strictly know
*Spoilers and notes for characters and I don - softcorebashRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I think my last review still stands somewhere...
Anyways, so far the story is tighter than the previous version, but basically everything still stands! So far! The changes to the story are intricate and I would say work well with what I previously know, while also feeling better. I would copy + paste that review but that was a different me. A younger me. And I do not like repeating my words even though no one will see it eventually. But its something around Peijin being a cool protagonist, each character having their own feel, the story being interesting, the mystery being strange and inviting, the ride being a little epic, the main character getting into some shenanigans they do not need to get into but are worth it, and while there are "blue screens" there are no blue screens breaking up the paragraphs. Certain events were shuffled around into scenes that better fit them, and while I am enjoying more how the characters read now compared than the previous version (because BananaDragon really spent this time cinching up the characters), we have not really gotten to the meat yet. However, I like where this is going in terms of character arcs. I will not give 4.5 stars for grammar because as there are mustakes here and there, they do not destroy reading comprehension and are very minor. - s_Simplicity_sRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5I may be a but biased because I read the earlier version of this book but I think this new version is truly an upgrade and works well not only to improve the original story but add on to it as well and not be just the same thing copy and pasted with fancier words.
The skill ‘Scathing Reviewer’, even though as of now we’ve only seen it a few times, words differently in a way that fits better than the original. The sequence of events definitely flows better than in the original probably because it goes more into detail and doesn’t just jump around from one exciting thing to the next.
I am excited to see how Wei and Peijin’s room will go because while the original was alright it was a bit of a janky read(no offense) and I think in the original the story didn’t include Wei slowly remembering his past life so seeing what changes because of it has me on the edge of my seat. In this version we didn’t get a description of Peijin’s poster while I believe we did in the original, how mysterious! Alright I filled out the word count, I’m done now lol.
I am so glad that BananaDragon has come back better than ever!