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January 28, 2026
I gave this book by a first time author a whirl, and it just wasn't very good. The plot concept was good, but the execution wasn't what I was thinking it would be. I DNF it on page 65, as I wasn't engaged with the writing.
The MC starts as a man on Earth that is consumed with a program he can't debug, and gets truck-kun'ed for his obliviousness. He's reborn as a newborn in a world of magic. At some point in his youth, he is reading a book on magic when a console appears and tells him that he can learn magic and alter/debug it. He buys his first spell, and starts to try and "clean up the code" once he sees his mother perform the spell so the console can record it. He eventually masters the spell, and is able to display it to an elven mage that is there on behalf of the king to offer magic training to any who show aptitude. It was at this point I gave up on the story.
Obviously since he's a boy of unspoken age at the point I stopped, he didn't have any LIs. There was the elven mage he's fascinated by, and a neighbor's daughter that likes him but he barely knows. The MC's father was a bit of a cad before getting married, so people expect the boy to be similar. He's not at that point, more of the awkward/oblivious of his previous life, which he remembers fully.
The plot had potential, but the execution of the story starting with the MC as a young boy was a mistake to me. To go along with that, the writing itself just didn't hold my attention. There are lots of weird inconsistencies in the writing. Most of the time, the author refers to the energy needed to cast spells as "mana", but there are times it is "manna". There are often times there is a space before and after a comma, making my eyes stop for a moment. Finally, the writing is pretty dry. It feels more like a story written by someone used to writing technical documents than someone trying to write fiction. Lastly, while it says the book is 313 pages long, I suspect it is closer to 250, as the author uses a double vertical spacing between paragraphs.
The MC starts as a man on Earth that is consumed with a program he can't debug, and gets truck-kun'ed for his obliviousness. He's reborn as a newborn in a world of magic. At some point in his youth, he is reading a book on magic when a console appears and tells him that he can learn magic and alter/debug it. He buys his first spell, and starts to try and "clean up the code" once he sees his mother perform the spell so the console can record it. He eventually masters the spell, and is able to display it to an elven mage that is there on behalf of the king to offer magic training to any who show aptitude. It was at this point I gave up on the story.
Obviously since he's a boy of unspoken age at the point I stopped, he didn't have any LIs. There was the elven mage he's fascinated by, and a neighbor's daughter that likes him but he barely knows. The MC's father was a bit of a cad before getting married, so people expect the boy to be similar. He's not at that point, more of the awkward/oblivious of his previous life, which he remembers fully.
The plot had potential, but the execution of the story starting with the MC as a young boy was a mistake to me. To go along with that, the writing itself just didn't hold my attention. There are lots of weird inconsistencies in the writing. Most of the time, the author refers to the energy needed to cast spells as "mana", but there are times it is "manna". There are often times there is a space before and after a comma, making my eyes stop for a moment. Finally, the writing is pretty dry. It feels more like a story written by someone used to writing technical documents than someone trying to write fiction. Lastly, while it says the book is 313 pages long, I suspect it is closer to 250, as the author uses a double vertical spacing between paragraphs.
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