What Witch? This Alchemist is Breaking Bad!什么魔女？绝命药师！

Reviewed at ch160:

Solid fast food, the best in this batch (mainly because the others are just too bad). 3.5/5.

This novel definitely has it's problems, but I feel that many reviews are disliking this for the wrong reasons. For example many call the mc dumb, but I don't think he ever was introduced as some criminal 200iq mastermind. He is just a pretty average dude forced to take a criminal path who isn't even totally clear how the world works because of his low position.

Though I think some of the hate is justified, because the beginning of the story is misleading as to what content follows. This isn't really (mainly) a story about growing a criminal empire, but more like relationship/politics drama. Much of the story is spent on dialogues and navigating between commitments to different parties. Also the beginning of the story seems to promise a "sinking to corruption and misery", but later it's pretty much a feel-good story and no sacrifices or hard forced decisions are made.

I think my main complaint about the story is that the tension level isn't controlled properly. There are too many parts where the tension is pretty much lost, while the interactions or world building happening during those times aren't enough to justify that.

Also this seems to be turning into a harem story (which is taking too much space for my taste), so beware if you don't like that.

Edit at ch220: Probably dropping this soon, the harem-element takes too much space, and it often feels that the actual plot progress is just told pretty off-handedly. The story has now shifted into political maneuvering, but I feel like the style of story telling doesn't work very well. It's not engaging.

Busque la novela en Fenrir Translations, pero el nombre es diferente, porque si lo pongo igual no salé, el nombre de la novela en Fenrir este What Witch? A Deadly Apothecary! Tal vez esté mal, pero la descripción es basicamente la misma

Creo que de ahora en adelante dejaré de leer los géneros, sobre todo si hay un lindo romance y luego aparece el genero "Harem", me siento igual que cuando vi los extra de "The second comming of glotonny" una de mis novelas favoritas, pero los extra arruinaron el romance

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don't read, mc is not fang yuan, and mc's ambition is unclear, then i thought mc would help a man take revenge for his wife's death but mc betrayed the man and killed his daughter.

(English not my mother tongue)

Well I was expecting some copy of Breaking bad somehow but for the moment (chapter 116) you got some vibes yeah but it’s not without any work at all.

I find the novel very good it’s not boring I was expecting some chapters who were empty to filled the chapters but it’s not.. Right now I’m expecting one like that cause some interactions or moment are skipped because author judge it was not deserving a chapter so it’s okay to just write it in short to keep the reader in the storyline

Also I’m a strong opponent of things related to divinity/god in general in novels but it’s bearable for me for the moment.

I wish this author to continue because this novel has the potential to make something wonderful.

I didn’t expect anything special from a novel whose plot is based on a movie/TV series/another story. I understand this happens because the authors lack the necessary skills and are forced to borrow ideas from others… So how can one expect anything good from such writers?

But the plot intrigued me a little; I was hoping for a clever protagonist who, working for the Inquisition, would build his empire in the shadows while his witches worked as chemists. Instead, I got a foolish protagonist, a foolish plot, nothing dark or criminal (which should have been expected, given the storyline), and from the Inquisition you never expect anything good; they are essentially society’s refuse! But not here.

Overall, for me it’s just average reading, difficult for someone who has read many novels.

Peak

Peak

Honestly, it's pretty mediocre. The main character doesn't sell drugs that kill people, but rather medications that literally prolong life, performs good deeds, and saves those around him who find themselves in dire straits. Even a touch of darkness is mitigated by the fact that all of the protagonist's enemies are villains; by the end of 180 chapters, not a single positive or innocent character has been killed. The protagonist's narrative armor is so strong that, like Naruto, he can use dialogue to win people over to his side and command them without consequences, show everyone his face, and remain unnoticed in a medieval city with a population of 30,000-60,000. The protagonist's reincarnator intelligence is completely unimaginable—he's literally as dumb as a brick. Parts of the story drag heavily in places; I think if it were half as long, it would be more interesting.