The Cornflower Witch矢车菊魔女

Interesting world building and lore. Flexible and fascinating powersystem. Characters that are shallower than a puddle. And a non existent story. The worst problem in this story for me is the mc. She is a complete Mary Sue that never fails or deals with any consequences, infact she has never even gotten hurt at all other than maybe a few scratches that healed immediately. 4/10. Do not recommend for anything other than a time passer


Edit:
I tried to continue reading this because of sunk cost and the interesting world building but I just find this story so f#cking frustrating. I am dropping this but I feel like I should leave a more detailed review.

The world building is actually interesting and fascinating. There are a lot of Factions with their own histories and philosophies. Coherent world history that seems to connect with current in story events without glaring contradictions. Ultimately, it simply feels like a world that is lived in and existed before the mc and not for the mc.

The powersystem is very intriguing too. It's based on vague concepts with strict enough rules to give a direction for progression. There are restrictions that can feel stifling but it still allows room for creativity. It's reminiscent of the pathway systems of Dorothy's forbidden grimoire and the speed run manual of miss witch, with the same problems those stories had of mc advancing too quickly with no logic. Unfortunately, the way we explore it is through the shit mc, so it's not explored well at all. The mc pretty much just does the basics that everyone else does and plotarmor gifts her progression, while the author piles on cheat after cheat to make sure she never feels like she earns anything.

Then there is the story. It is like I wrote before, completely nonexistent. The author simply has the mc do things from time to time without an overarching goal. Basically just a collection of side quests. Even in book 3 where there is finally an actual overarching goal for the story, it still just side quests while the goal pretty much achieves itself in the background, because there are simply no struggles or consequences to speak of.

Then finally there is the protagonist, the worst part of this story. I truly hate her. She is basically a wishy washy happy go lucky isekai protagonist. I will put more details in Spoiler so it doesn't clog up the review and because of a few spoilers. Tldr she never grows and is one dimensional, naive, contradictory and childish. All in addition to being a Mary Sue that gets everything handed to her.