Tales of Demons and Dragons - An Apocalyptic Xianxia!

Awesome story and great premise.  I love the overpowered people with advanced knowledge going back in time.  The ex who is a devil, the great love and the nut job sword are amazing.  Please keep it up!  Why do I have to write 50 words to leave a review?  If I could come up with 50 words on the spot, I would prob be an author.  Why can't "I loved it" be acceptable....  I almost never leave reviews cause of this. (The last part is a complaint for royal road, not the author)

Grammar is decent, not the greatest but very readable, theres a few choice bits that i stumble over but overall decent.

Story line is pretty good too, with just enough suspense that i'm looking forward to the next chapter but nothing that i would consider a cliffhanger, as of now. 

the authors notes are just as good a read as the actual story so theres that too.

Its very similiar to Tales of Demons and Gods webnovel so if you're familiar with that story (and its tropes) and enjoy it then this will be a good read as well. One of my favorite things about it is the actual character development in the MC as well as the side characters that show both mental growth as well as power growth.

Really good story but very unpolished, a diamond in the rough so to say. There are several false red flags that seem like the story going in a bad direction or being stupid, but then later we realize that things are more realistic than the surface shows, with better character development then seems plausible.

Fun concept. But the characters are inconsistent with their back stories to the point that it's immersion breaking. I'm over 50 chapters in and the main character gets more unrealistic and idiotic each chapter, and i still can't find a single character i like that didn't get horribly ruined. Some spelling and grammar check would be good especially for the first few chapters, but that doesn't matter to me, since an engaging story will shine through regardless.

Definitely not coming back to finish this one

The story is fine, if not exactly groundbreaking. The characters are on the shallow side, and seem to largely be tropes taken directly from every other novel in the genre then painted with a thin Italian veneer. The dialogue is awkward. Very stiff and not quite structured for English. The author needs to get a native English speaker to edit the heck out of this. 

Feels pretty rushed, no real challenges for the MC. I like the story arc in general, but the specific characters and interactions are just to basic. The core of a story is here, but the characters aren't really very different in meaningful ways. I hope the author is able to continue writing and refining the style. I just can't stay along for the ride.

I'm very blunt and my review will focus primarily on the negatives but you should know that despite them I am still enjoying this novel.

First off the story feels painfully slow sometimes, I get that some things need to be dragged out but the first day doesn't end until chapter 32 which makes it feel dragged out.  Though this may be due to short chapters.

Secondly, the MC fluctuates between acting like a 15-year-old and his older self this isn't even the end of it as despite his large amount of experience it often feels as though he's an idiot getting led by pure emotion rather than the more rational thinking someone of his age and circumstance would have. 

Thirdly obstacles are often thrown at him for what feels like no other reason than to make the MC struggle not to push the story forward. Though it should be noted that this is not with most of the obstacles just the ones that rely on bad luck.

Positives:

Characters other than the MC have personalities and motivations.

There are some really good points in the novel around the changing relationships between him and his old friends.

 The MC isn't the typical murder hobo MC found in most of these types of novels.

The MCs lack of talent whilst annoying provides a good way of limiting his power early on in the novel.

Tales of Demon and Gods was my first cultivation, and I like what you are trying to make. 

Everything is looking awesome at the moment. 

Grammar is good, 

Magic and Qi together looks interesting, 

MC is a bit too weak but we know he will thrive. 

Time to binge read!!! 

It's fine.

The premise is fairly stock; hero goes back in time to prevent a disaster but loses most of his immediate power in the process. Because you know and I know what site we're on, the disaster in question is of course the obligatory bland system apocalypse.

The execution of the premise is good, though: instead of being a cunning master time traveler, our boy only learned the reset by way of being a huge nerd who basically ONLY knows time magic and swords, so even before the butterfly effect comes for him he's consistently written as not really able to take advantage of things a normal person would.

My favorite part of this story by far is the mechanics of the time travel, unusually: the butterfly effect absolutely hates this guy and immediately comes for him guns blazing, and having a time travel protagonist constantly confused, on the defensive, and genuinely struggling is a rare and fun thing. It's absolutely vicious and I love it.

The big weakness is the character writing, which is... very, very loose. People sometimes make decisions that make no sense (e.g. the protagonist hides his time travel but doesn't hide that he's using knowledge from the future for... reasons?) or out of character (attachments between characters are at "never let me go" levels in one chapter and "eh, i could take or leave him" the next). This would be fine in comedy writing or if the premise was something super original and compelling, but since this is a willfully and I presume intentionally generic setup the characters are what we need to carry it and they're not quite there.

You won't regret reading this one, it's fine; an editing pass or two from publishable even; it's just unlikely to stand out and stick with you.

Look, the writer is italian and the quality sentence by sentence could be better.

However, IDGAF. This is basically a OG xianxia written in better, way less broken, english and with a sensible plot. its fun, its easy reading, I like it.

Its not a filet mignon, but its a damn fuckin good margharitta pizza if you pick up what im putting down