I have read up to the end of book 1 and will be dropping this book. The author and the world have great potential but there were two things that killed it for me personally.The first was that the details of this novel just seem subtly wrong. A good example of what I mean is the response to a comet coming near earth. This happens semi-regularly in the real world and the various responses people have to it (from cults proclaiming the end of days to nothing at all) are fairly well known. In this world though, every world leader gives an IDENTICAL speech at exactly the same time to reassure all citizens of their countries. Everyone in the world stops working and hides in their house with emergency food for days before the comet comes. After the comet flies by the planet, there is worldwide rioting for days. This is insane. Why??? There are a lot of oddities like this in the novel that stand out and were regularly breaking my immersion in the story.The other issue is the tone. This book is about teenagers in high school (one of whom has super powers). Great. But our super hero straight up permanently disables his fellow students because he doesn't like them. His principal murders a man for threatening a student (even when the man has no way to carry out such a threat). The good guys in this novel are violent and dark. That is the GOOD guys. In a novel about teenage super heroes. It reminds me of books like the meta world chronicles over at royal road and that is not a good thing. It feels like if I was reading the first Harry Potter book and Harry was permanently cursing kids in Slitherin because of fights at school and Dumbledore murdered Harry's muggle family for being pricks. It isn't that this is impossible just a really jarring tone in that kind of book.That said I really liked the original take on reincarnating. Selling music, videogames, Youtube channels, etc. were all great ideas. The cultivation system was well done. The characters were fairly well developed and change over time which is great. The writing is excellent with few to no noticeable grammatical or spelling issues. I definitely think the author is talented and is doing a great job for a first novel.
