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18soft_green 's review for:
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
by Jonathan L. Howard
Author is a coward. If you want to make the MC morally grey let him be morally grey. Let him do bad things for selfish reasons and make it relatable, not necessarily forgivable. If you want two men to flirt and still be masculine and don’t question their manliness. The reader is going to think what you give them space to think. If you are questioning your character’s masculinity don’t let me know. Assume that these traits don’t contradict and they won’t.
Stop trying to advocate for things you don’t understand and assume every persons value and reasoning is sound no matter their identities and intentions. If Howard would have carried the momentum he had in the beginning chapters of the story throughout the entirety of it and didn’t start questioning himself I think the story would have been great. Instead he faulted and the story became weak and squishy and scared. He let his own morality get in the way of a good story and it seemed like he began to think the readers would question his humanity if he didn’t make his characters “good”. I don’t think the story started with the goal to teach anything but in the end Howard decided to be profound and touching. It ruined everything. He could have made the story profound and touching if he would have wove the whole of the story around these goals. But I don’t think these characters were originally created to be teachers.
1.75/5 would not recommend to anyone that thinks
Stop trying to advocate for things you don’t understand and assume every persons value and reasoning is sound no matter their identities and intentions. If Howard would have carried the momentum he had in the beginning chapters of the story throughout the entirety of it and didn’t start questioning himself I think the story would have been great. Instead he faulted and the story became weak and squishy and scared. He let his own morality get in the way of a good story and it seemed like he began to think the readers would question his humanity if he didn’t make his characters “good”. I don’t think the story started with the goal to teach anything but in the end Howard decided to be profound and touching. It ruined everything. He could have made the story profound and touching if he would have wove the whole of the story around these goals. But I don’t think these characters were originally created to be teachers.
1.75/5 would not recommend to anyone that thinks