Elydes by Drewells

Let's get this out of the way; yes the MC was born with a heart condition that limited him greatly and ultimately ended his life. I am stating this because it does not take a scholar to know that a 17 year old with 8th grade syndrome doesn't know everything there is in the world. With that said I have to be blunt and honest with how disappointing it turned so quickly. While everyone has their own ways of reacting to things, and most MC's get their reactions by how the Author would feel in the given moment, I have to call out the hypocrisy of the MC. As the MC grew up instead of taking those novels we all have read as even a soft guide, he ignores any and anything about it. Yes he meditates but he never pushes himself to swim, or to go out to hunt, fish, etc. 'Oh, but he is just a kid' Yes, but the world he lives in objectively does not give a single care about the lives of weak beings and instead of using that as motivation the MC tries to hopelessly teach kids his age about things. I have read up to chapter 36 and around the time his father was killed was when I started to lose faith and interest in this book.

Now I can very much understand the crushing grief, despair, and sadness one would go through with something like that; however what does the MC do? Nothing. Doesn't do a damn thing besides constantly bitch about how unfair the world is without even attempting to fight back in some manner. I know that he had a heart condition but I with put my foot down and say 'Bullshit' to the MC not knowing even basic exercises or stretches, let alone the foreign concepts from novels that could work in his new world. That isn't the only thing he bitched about either. When his mother found him a magic teacher, or was wanting to, he persuaded her to wait until spring which I can get if the MC had a plan or something. Nope, he had nothing in mind and even as they made their way to the magic teacher's home all the MC did was whine, bitch, complain, and try to talk his mom out of basically trying to get him a foothold in the shit life they were living. I can give more leeway with the MC being a literal kid but that leeway I gave was yanked away very quick since at Chapter 15-ish the MC tells his mother that he reincarnated.

Of course I can get in some stories the MC telling those close to them about them being reincarnated but this story hasn't even given itself a lick of solid foundation before throwing out that plot point that could have been used much more cleverly or just better, given time. Anyway, I am not going to continue with this novel as I am not going to do mental gymnastics to make sense of the story while the author continues to do rapid info dumps without giving the reader any time to digest it before hopping off to the next thing.

I might be overtly critical about this story but it is rather frustrating to read through an MC's child arc especially when said MC should, by many merits, be able to at least not act so rashly at every choice or challenge thrown their way. I may or may not revisit this but with the author, in my plain words, ruining the potential of revealing his reincarnating so early; I do not think I will unless I hear very positive things about it.