Aurora Scroll

the novel is fine, good action and servicable world and power system. The MC is annoying and the story does rely on references and tropes for many things, the side characters are mediocre and the story stucture needs work but overall a novel i have read and probably will read again sometime in the future when there are more chapters.

The story is good. I mean not that good, but not bad. Full of cliches and tropes but used as plots for the story.

If anything the problem is how many winks to other franchises the author makes. This is less a story and more an author trying to flex how much he reads (which just makes the story worse).

Another thing is that the author has a penchant for destroying the endings from each arc with some kind of "and this is the bad end that would have happened, but in reality this is what is going on". The author literally makes the ending of each arc into what you would see on an april fool chapter. Quite disappointing.

Its a good story.My only problem with the story is that the author goes overboard with the references at times.I don't mind them but i dont want one when the main character is about to die.They remove the tension when not used properly.Also many times the MC mentions other novels or movies without them bringing any benefit to the story.The author adds them just because.You could remove them from the chapter and the over all quality will increase and the reader hasn't missed anything important.

One of my favorite stories with a villainous protagonist. He prioritizes gaining power above all else, and takes whatever actions he believes have the best chance at allowing him to reach the highest, even if that means he does morally reprehensible things. But he is not evil for the sake of it, and generally does good things if it doesn't otherwise matter to him. This type of story is not especially rare, but usually not done as well as this one.

The MC makes a lot of references to other media and often lets the cliches guide him about what and what not to do, but this is because he actually believes they are relevant. The description is accurate in that regard, but it's mostly humorous and not overdone. Even if you really hate that type of thing it shouldn't bother you too much in this story

My review is biased since I'm not typically a fan of evil MCs.

I think the story is pretty good, I did read 200 chapters of it while I was sick with COVID. It held my attention, because I wanted to see how fucked up it would get. And it did. Don't really like stories about killing children, so I'm gonna call it quits here.

It pains me to give this story a low score but there is far too much wrong with the writing. The story itself is kind of a self aware parody that mocks the typical reincarnated/isekai tropes. Its funny at times and the scenarios make decent fun of what one might usually expect.

The downside, however, is the writing methods used. There is far too much showing and not telling contained in the writing. For example, if a character was of a certain state of mind mid narration the narrator would explain exactly what they were feeling and why instead of showing the reader. This is a very common amateur mistake in webnovels but its very fixable. If this was the only issue I would give this a 3.5/5

The main problem comes up in the chapters 44-46 when the author decides to completely nuke their own story. The entire time an air of mystery is purposefully created about the MC's abilities and where he came from. His three companions are also somewhat mysterious and the reader begins to wonder why they react the way they do and what their histories are based on how they react and the things they let slip in dialogue. Yet during these chapters the author decides to infodump every single characters backstory in the middle of the story for no apparent reason other than its between story arcs. This is...unbelievable. All the mystery that was built up, gone. Why bother constantly mentioning the hidden pasts of the MC, why make him not wanting to tell what he is to his companions and people around him if it was just going to be info dumped on the reader....

These chapters need to be removed, the narration needs to be cleaned up and I would probably tone down the random references to real world things a bit as it gets somewhat excessive. Unless ofc the 'insanity' bit of the MC is played up a bit more earlier on. If he is actually kinda insane due to his experiences then randomly rambling about things in his past life would make sense. Though atm it feels more like its for comedy and not insanity.

Through chapter 4 (maybe even as far as 6), we have a really strong start in the classic fantasy bit. Great, but subtle world building. A great side show to demonstrate the protagonist's character. And foreshadowing of what's to come. 

And then it just goes sideways. Our mature protagonist starts acting like a teenager. We are info dumped with this backstory to the protagonist which doesn't mesh with anything prior. And the protagonist pivots to some sort of meme and trope obsessed 2021 net citizen. Admittedly, that's what the synopsis said, but given how the story started, i really thought it was going in a more serious direction. 

Amazing, just amazing. For the most part, it's a bit too early to tell but just for the fact that hes funny and brutal in what he did in the latest chapter 

and his comment made me spill my drink when he did it. Funny but also serious. I just hope nobody will be able to replicate modern guns from having seen that guy using them and from all the shells left all over the place

As the author mentioned, xianxia needs to go through censorship so loyalty and familial piety is required. This story contains none of that, just a genre saavy teen who doesn't aspire to be the hero. It helps that he's not edgy or an overpuffed peacock MC who believes in warm fuzzy feelings and holding hands

Pacing is a bit off and some parts are bit jarring regarding to main character's speech patterns, but overall pretty enjoyable.

This is meant for long time readers who are tired of the oversaturation of dense protagonist white knights that makes up 99.99% of all fiction. 

Aurora scroll is unashamedly a power fantasy in all of the best ways. Like the MC itself the story is genuine in what it is and what it is not. Do not expect a grand work of literature or storytelling however this story will take you on a magical ride of sheer excitement and it doesn't let you go. 

Stylistically this story started of in the middle of the action. I later learned that there is a prequel book that nicely introduces the initial backstory. Overall the pacing is fast with some occasional slice of life. However the action is where this story shines. When the pacing picks up prepare you butt because it goes and it doesn't stop. Finally I love how meta this story is. I just can't get enough of all those references. It's on par with vanquier the dragon in that aspect. 

Grammer could be better, there are the occasional typos and tense issues but those are fiarly quickly fixed by the author. It's starts off rough but it gets a lot better later on. It never impairs the understanding of the story.

Story and characters are really intertwined in this story. Viers is the story and the story is about Viers. It's a hyper meta rendition of what a hardcore Royalroad reader would do is iskeaied into a cliche story. The whole premise is about Viers identifying tropes, killing off threats and enjoying his best life. 

All in all give this story a try. It's genuine, enjoyable, and a hell of a ride.