Though the Heavens Should Fall

This turned out to be quite the surprise, when i found out that ClearMadness is writing this new story.

Normally i avoid reading stories of the Xianxia genre, unless they are well written, considering the huge amounts of cliches, badly used tropes, terrible throwaway characters and sheer unrealism in many Xianxia stories. Even this early, this story proves that it is so much more than being a normal Xianxia, and it is being written by ClearMadness, a author proven to be a very capable writer with Iron Teeth. If the author can keep what made Iron Teeth great, and add that to this Xianxia story, it could be a truly great story. 

As expected from a author as skilled as ClearMadness, the grammar in this story is near flawless with barely any mistakes to be spotted.

The writing style of this story is like the other story by this author, Iron Teeth. It feels very realistic, the writing is thoroughly descriptive yet not excessively so,  the story grips you in and keeps you reading until the latest chapter.

Anyone that has read Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale will feel at home with the writing style used for this story.

I will be fair that the story so far has a slow start, but a good one, this story is surely set to kick off soon in pacing, and then the fun part can begin.

The one main flaw of this story, is that there is not enough to read and most likely never will be!

There should be no doubt at all, that this will be one of the best written Xianxia stories on royalroad if not the very best, one that goes on a different path from the usual Xianxia stories and avoids their mistakes, while also being on the quality of a professionally written story. I have seriously high expecations for this story and i know i most certainly wont be disappointed by this story, ClearMadness is just that good as a author.

Review edited on 23 July, original review on 23 June.

I am totally hooked to this, and i recommend others to come read this story, you will be not disappointed by the quality.

Few things make one as happy as finding ones favourite author to drop another hot story.

As the creator of our favourite Hobgoblin Blacknail he always but a major R for realistic storytelling in his work that amazes me to this day. One can dive into the world, be fully submerged and when a the binge reading is over one would rise like from dream in another world.

Needless to say I have high expectations in regards to this story. Most Xianxia stories get unrealistic or over the top and have characters that feel too forced. I'm pretty sure this one is going to be very much different in that regard...

This story is well written, the MC iis intelligent and works hard to hone his skills, they don't fall into his lap with minimal effort on his behalt.

The worldbuilding is engaging, there haven't been any info dumps that i've noticed to fill out the world.

So as of chapter 17 its shaping up great, hope it will continue to be so, but judging as the author produced the excellent Iron Teeth series I reckon this story will work out well.

 For any who's read ClearMadness's previous work, "The Iron Teeth", will know that it's high quality work. Something you would expect to see displayed infront of a bookstore. Luckily for us their work is here for us to read online.

 While I wasn't a fan of "The Iron Teeth", that was merely because of how well ClearMadness wrote their characters and my prefences for something more light hearted. I highly recommened reading that whenever you are free though.

 Even with only a few chapters out, "Though the Heavens Should Fall" shows the care and effort ClearMadness put's into writing. With great world building and a compelling plot, this new adventure in a world full of Ki is one to look forward to reading.

One of the biggest strength of The Iron Teeth was its main character. Blacknail's unique perspective was funny and interesting to follow. I read 30 chapters at this point and the main character of this story seems very ordinary. His point of view isn't interesting enough (compared to Blacknails). This might change in the future but I hope the author would try to incorporate multiple viewpoints to spice things up a little. I am unsure how to rate this at the moment, I hope I will get pleasantly surprised how this story will turn out. 

 Yessss there is so much potential in this book, I'm so exited, you give an author like this a genre that can be so amazing when done right, man I'm exited.

iron teeth was a great story, and this is shaping up to be just as good or better. Bit of a slow start but I know it will speed up soon. The slow pace is fine even since the characters are well written.

This is definitely a story you will want to read.

I liked the hobgoblin's story for many reasons. One of them being it did not start with a sinister background conspiracy of forces beyond the starting scope of the story, it slowly introduced us to the world and its workings.

This one does start with exactly the sinister conspiracy of godlike entities. That presents a major turn off for me, mainly because those conspiracies are seldom well done and are mostly to the detriment of the story. 

Not that clearmadness does that. I don't know where he will take it, it's just instant turn off for me. Like...I don't know...finding your chocolate contains crickets. Some people love crickets in their chocolate, I don't.

Authors use it as a crutch for corraling the story to the conclusions they want, usually with a really heavy hand. How many times have you read a story where there was this stinking large background conspiracy looming over everything like a rotting corpse of a brontosaurus and stinking everything every couple of chapters with pieces of rotting flesh in a form of yet another inexplicably exteremely well timed and executed ambush or appearance where everything goes their way just so the heroes can struggle.

I'll give it arbitrary four stars because otherwise I could not post this, but if I could I would not put stars on top of this review mainly bacuse clearmadness is a skilled author and I have not read enough of this novel to give it a star rating.