The Runesmith

Quite nice plot if you like anime. Would like to read more of it but cannot bring myself to ignore the bad grammer all the 'that' and 'which' and badly written suspense puts me off. Would really help the author andthe readers if the story was lookes at by a good editer. Overall I liked the plot and the system but it can be made so much more better if it were edited.

The world building in this book is well done, it's well defined and understandable without seeming to be limited, the plot is reasonable and the MC's strength and growth are the result of his own work, he's not some 'chosen one' who gets op plot armour and he has simple and realistic goals. Overall it's a well done progression fantasy focusing on crafting and slice of life with a nice side of adventure and voilence.

I wanted to like this story soooooo bad. And I did, for like the first 30-40 chapters. It's turned in a slog though. Here's why:

1. The grammar is mediocre at best, but the prose is f'ing atrocious. This is clearly written by someone who isn't a native English speaker. That isn't a problem, in and of itself, but the author started off by having well written, well edited chapters. By chapter 25 ish, that fell off completely. It went from reading like a well written novel, to a machine translated light novel.

2. Speaking of light novels, this thing is littered with terribly executed manga/anime tropes. From a tsundere gnome that everyone hates, to "soul leaving the body during a hug". If that's what you're expecting going into a series, it's fine, but this series starts like a fantasy novel that's taking itself seriously, so these little moments are EXTREMELY immersion breaking.

3. The MC starts out as a fairly relatable nerd, but turns into paranoid, self-centered loser, who just ends up having random women flock to him out of nowhere. He's extremely unlikable. Every time he's presented with an opportunity to grow as a person, and stop being a hyper-paranoid moron, he makes the wrong decision.

4. All the fun stuff about runes that is brought up in the beginning of the story, is quickly and thoroughly forgotten about. The MC spends tons of time grinding, and, in the beginning, using his knowledge of hardware repair to do some really fun things that scratch the "nerd in a fantasy world" itch, but then his paranoia takes over and you have to spend 20 chapters watching him putz around as he runs away to some new location.

Like I said, I wanted to like this series, but I just can't. Don't waste your time.

The initial story was ok, bit it has degraded ever since. Now it seems to be taking the same direction as took by the Rain story in this website. Lots of words but too less content. There isn't much happening in the last 5 chapters which when compared to the intial pace could have been covered in 2 or 3 chapters. Another big fault is the lack of good supporting characters. The MC is the best and everyone follows the MC. Goes for the nobles are bad attitude too.

MC isekai / reincarnates. Some noble / politics hijinx. Breaks off to go solo.

Gets a good class / abilities. Some Fighting / Some crafting.

Mostly solo. In later arcs he picks up some companions.

Worth it as soon as he gets a Four Legged Friend :)

System mechanic has some new ideas.

Ima just preface my review with this. Tsundre characters tend to ruin a story for me . And guess what. A tsundre is likely to become a pretty important character if the story continues in its current direction! Otherwise, the story ls perfectly fine as a crafting fantasy. Nothing groundbreaking, but not bad either. So , if you dont mind tsundres or are willing to ignore it, this very well might be the story for you! 
PS: the worldbuilding is pretty good, and the system is what you would expect.

This is a fantastic story.  The plot is gripping, and the characterisation gets better and better as the story goes on.  To start with it is a fairly solo tale, but later characters are well defined and have strong personalities.

The mechanics of the system are well developed.  This is not a "crunchy" tale, but the development is clear and well thought out.

The story continuously develops and maintains ones interest.  The plot delelopment is a lot better than in many other good RR stories.

The style is fine, except that the main characters thoughts are often put in single quotes which doesn't really work.  In addition at the start of each chapter the end of the last chapter is summarised which, if you are reading lots of chapters at a time becomes irritating.  I can see see that if there is a gap between chapters it might be ok.

The big issue is the grammar, word selection, and typos.  There are just so many errors it does detract from the story.  On occasion a "not" is missed out so a sentence is clearly the reverse of what is intencontinuesly ded.  The author needs to get someone to proof read each chapter before submitting it.   This story is absolutely worthy of being sold on Amazon but only if it is thourily cleaned up first.  If that was done I can see it being very successful.

In summary this is a great story and I am looking forward to seeing it develop, but there needs to be more attention paid to proof reading.

Great world building and decent magic system that goes downhill the more complex it gets.  The MC is a hardcore loner that forces the story into long crafting arcs with pretty contrived enemies to relieve boredom.  That being said I love exploring a new magic system and because MC doesn't interact with anybody outside of his runecraft we get much more of that magic exploration than any other fiction I've read on RR.

I just can't get over the spelling, grammar, and poor writing.  This is the 3rd time I've tried to read this story and I drop it around 70 chapters each time.  The world building and characters are good enough to keep me wondering what happens next, but at some point, I just don't want to support an author that hasn't put any time into polishing their work.  This is the only fiction on RR that I desperately want to get picked up on KU because the author might have to hire an editor before releasing it there.  On the other hand, its probably as popular as it is because its never going to be stubbed since no one will put in the effort to clean up the passive voice and the rest of this tedious style.

really like the character and the magic the story in general is good the joke is funny and the conversation is enjoyable .

action and event is good but is not that many and that is a good thing but i wish for more close death moment it more satisfying .

I like Runesmith, really. But it has fallen into LitRPG entropy. The MC is amoung the least interesting characters in the story, I say story, but it presents more as padded out meandering stodge. This is infuriating as there is some solid world building here. I will admit to having less experience with the crafting focused LitRPG's but it often feels live several chapters are just the MC going to town to pick up milk an bread. It is largely safe and very boring. Conflict needs not be violence, and when there was interpersonal drama (MC hiding his identity from someone in his former life as a noble) it was good, though streched thin. Other conflicts such as with rival businesses just seem to fizzle out leaving nothing but narrative blue balls. 

A personal beef I have with the writing is overuse of 'a certain' when introducing or speaking about someone. It's vague, infuriating and not as clever as it thinks it is. To get away with that the narrative needs to be dead sure you know who the mystery person is, often it's a new character or one we haven't seen in some time and if we do know who the 'certain' person is then just say it's them instead of dressing it up in bullshit purple prose.

I hope Runesmith can pull together some kind of arc plot and if it gets a commercial release has the hard brutal edit / rewrites it deserves to shine.