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Reborn 1-5
Transported to a new world that reminds Ash of a game. Ash takes to the new world as a chance to remake himself. He fights and works to make himself stronger. He finds people to call friends and family but not all is well in this new world. The people are divided and those at the bottom are treated poorly. Ash must keep the secret of his blood otherwise everything he has built will fall down around him.
431 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 19, 2015
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D.W. Jackson
39 books172 followersD.W. Jackson was born in McAlester Oklahoma, Attended College at Oklahoma City University, and Northeastern State University. As soon as he graduated high school in 2001 he joined the Oklahoma National Guard. In 2003 he was Sent along with five others from his unit to Iraq where he spent slightly over a year in deployment. After returning home he worked as a pipeline surveyor traveling all across the U.S. in 2009 he took a job as a correctional officer for the state of Oklahoma where he worked at both a medium and minimal security level prison. In 2012 his heath declined and was unable to continue working. With time on his hands and out of books to read he decided to pursue his dream of being a writer.
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November 12, 2015
Don't waste your money or time with this one.
Normally I would not be so harsh reviewing a book, but this is one of the most expensive books I've bought on Amazon. After reading the authors whining, badly written excuse that he put so much time in writing it as an excuse for the high price, I was not amused to find the story facile, the characters one dimensional, the plot boring and predictable, I still would have given him three stars, except for the very obvious fact that he obviously spent little to no time proofreading it - the number of spelling and grammatical errors is appalling. If he did give it a once over, he did it half asleep or drunk.
The premise of the plot is a fairly common one, and there are numerous books with the same basic plot line, but written much better, with few to no spelling errors. They are so numerous it quickly becomes very annoying and distracting. Instead of this book, read the "Bathrobe Knight" series instead, same premise, but written much better, with characters who are more developed.
Don't spend the exorbitant price what amounts to a poorly written children's book, unless you prefer zero surprises, and one dimensional characters and stumbling over so many misspellings it becomes an obstacle to reading the story - you'll find yourself anticipating errors instead of falling into the story.
Normally I would not be so harsh reviewing a book, but this is one of the most expensive books I've bought on Amazon. After reading the authors whining, badly written excuse that he put so much time in writing it as an excuse for the high price, I was not amused to find the story facile, the characters one dimensional, the plot boring and predictable, I still would have given him three stars, except for the very obvious fact that he obviously spent little to no time proofreading it - the number of spelling and grammatical errors is appalling. If he did give it a once over, he did it half asleep or drunk.
The premise of the plot is a fairly common one, and there are numerous books with the same basic plot line, but written much better, with few to no spelling errors. They are so numerous it quickly becomes very annoying and distracting. Instead of this book, read the "Bathrobe Knight" series instead, same premise, but written much better, with characters who are more developed.
Don't spend the exorbitant price what amounts to a poorly written children's book, unless you prefer zero surprises, and one dimensional characters and stumbling over so many misspellings it becomes an obstacle to reading the story - you'll find yourself anticipating errors instead of falling into the story.
November 20, 2018
The Reborn Omnibus 1-5 by D. W. Jackson is an odd duckling. Even as I write this review I am not entirely sure the best way to go about it. First off, it is an omnibus of 5 short novellas as opposed to a book. I thought about reviewing each individually but figured that there wouldn’t be much of a point in going with the omnibus then.
Ok, so about the series. It is stylized as a Japanese isekai web novel; with a dense protagonist, slaves that fall in love with MC, and a womanizing combat instructor. Before I go any further, I will say I enjoyed this story, it was fun. Not much depth, but it was simple and enjoyable. MC somehow dies and then gets transported to another world with a stat system. When choosing a race, he picks random and ends up with a cheat ability.
Unfortunately, I have a laundry list of complaints to mention about it as well. First and foremost, book one is simply godawful. There were misplaced words all over the place (i.e. ‘week’ instead of ‘weak’), capitalization issues, and punctuation problems. Thankfully those were reduced significantly as I moved onto book 2 and above, though they still remained throughout. A bit strange to see a writer improve while reading a novel. The language is somewhat simplistic, which does match up with the web novel format, but one thing that really bothered me is the author’s constant overuse of the word ‘said’ for dialogue. There are so many more interesting ways of saying things, like ‘shouted’ or ‘spat’, just to name two.
There is also a moment in book two where I had to stop reading for a short while because of a thought that the MC had. Now picture for a second that the MC had just spent the last 100 or so pages dense-protagonisting his way out of learning any information that wasn’t immediately useful to him, then all of a sudden he says something to the effect of “knowledge is the key to surviving in this world.” I couldn’t handle it.
As far as story is concerned, almost all of it centers around one city with a labyrinth in it and only occasionally deviates from there. Little to no world building, even when the main character reads a history and/or geography book. The main problem though is the consistent lack of goals. Occasionally a short-term goal is given to him and he complies with it, but no long-term goals are ever discussed, and I don’t think he even considers why he needs/wants to kill things.
I found the stat system fairly unimpressive. The classes are barely gone over, the abilities are all over the place and I’m not sure I understand how the stats relate to damage and other functions. Another problem is the ability bloat, the MC picks up many abilities way too quickly, then just kind of sits on most of them without using them. I noticed that for one in particular that it had a level during one stat page but didn’t for another. Not sure which was the error.
Tl;dr: Though fun, with some formatting issues, ability bloat, a bland protagonist, and punctuation and capitalization issues, there are better options available for the Japanese web novel style story. I cannot recommend this one. Try Growth Cheat or Shield Bro. 1.5 stars
Ok, so about the series. It is stylized as a Japanese isekai web novel; with a dense protagonist, slaves that fall in love with MC, and a womanizing combat instructor. Before I go any further, I will say I enjoyed this story, it was fun. Not much depth, but it was simple and enjoyable. MC somehow dies and then gets transported to another world with a stat system. When choosing a race, he picks random and ends up with a cheat ability.
Unfortunately, I have a laundry list of complaints to mention about it as well. First and foremost, book one is simply godawful. There were misplaced words all over the place (i.e. ‘week’ instead of ‘weak’), capitalization issues, and punctuation problems. Thankfully those were reduced significantly as I moved onto book 2 and above, though they still remained throughout. A bit strange to see a writer improve while reading a novel. The language is somewhat simplistic, which does match up with the web novel format, but one thing that really bothered me is the author’s constant overuse of the word ‘said’ for dialogue. There are so many more interesting ways of saying things, like ‘shouted’ or ‘spat’, just to name two.
There is also a moment in book two where I had to stop reading for a short while because of a thought that the MC had. Now picture for a second that the MC had just spent the last 100 or so pages dense-protagonisting his way out of learning any information that wasn’t immediately useful to him, then all of a sudden he says something to the effect of “knowledge is the key to surviving in this world.” I couldn’t handle it.
As far as story is concerned, almost all of it centers around one city with a labyrinth in it and only occasionally deviates from there. Little to no world building, even when the main character reads a history and/or geography book. The main problem though is the consistent lack of goals. Occasionally a short-term goal is given to him and he complies with it, but no long-term goals are ever discussed, and I don’t think he even considers why he needs/wants to kill things.
I found the stat system fairly unimpressive. The classes are barely gone over, the abilities are all over the place and I’m not sure I understand how the stats relate to damage and other functions. Another problem is the ability bloat, the MC picks up many abilities way too quickly, then just kind of sits on most of them without using them. I noticed that for one in particular that it had a level during one stat page but didn’t for another. Not sure which was the error.
Tl;dr: Though fun, with some formatting issues, ability bloat, a bland protagonist, and punctuation and capitalization issues, there are better options available for the Japanese web novel style story. I cannot recommend this one. Try Growth Cheat or Shield Bro. 1.5 stars
January 19, 2016
Note: I have read all 10 "chapters" he has released.
Three reasons why you should avoid this series at all cost.
1.) There is a degradation of the story in each book. You will want to read them because you have invested time, but will be more and more disappointed.
2.) They are not edited at all. Grammar/spelling/sentence structure. The main character's name from his other story is accidentally used in parts..
3.) Each one is shorter than the last, with a longer character summary. So there is less actual story. Eg, as an estimate, the first book is like 125 pages of story, each one is less, book 10 is 85 pages.
Three reasons why you should avoid this series at all cost.
1.) There is a degradation of the story in each book. You will want to read them because you have invested time, but will be more and more disappointed.
2.) They are not edited at all. Grammar/spelling/sentence structure. The main character's name from his other story is accidentally used in parts..
3.) Each one is shorter than the last, with a longer character summary. So there is less actual story. Eg, as an estimate, the first book is like 125 pages of story, each one is less, book 10 is 85 pages.
January 23, 2017
I see the appeal of this series, but maybe because of how the book has been written (small novelettes) there's a lot of continuity issues and plot holes that are borderline cringe worthy.
Granted, the author catches himself and tries to explain things on the latter books but when you are dealing with an omnibus like this, take the time to do a once over editing to ensure that everything looks ok.
Also, for a world that is 5/6ths female, there's quite a bit of prejudice and misogyny.
Granted, the author catches himself and tries to explain things on the latter books but when you are dealing with an omnibus like this, take the time to do a once over editing to ensure that everything looks ok.
Also, for a world that is 5/6ths female, there's quite a bit of prejudice and misogyny.
July 14, 2016
Good story bad editing
Very much enjoyed the story,but the editing was terrible though if you can look past that I think you will enjoy it.
Very much enjoyed the story,but the editing was terrible though if you can look past that I think you will enjoy it.
January 23, 2016
This is really poorly edited. I would have given four stars otherwise.
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