I am the type of person who likes fiction because it is fiction, people read fiction and they go"it's totally not realistic" I say to those "well duh its FICTION".
I recently started to get into wuxia and xianxia (I don't know how to pronounce either of those words but now I know it when I see it) and I love it!!
Why do I love it? Because I have always liked fiction stories where MC is either OP or OP smart. Now this isn't to say OP doesn't have standards because in order to have OP MC you need to have an OP world, with dumb other characters that's the only way it works. It where you have 5 million pop all dumb 2 million somewhere in the middle 1 million way on top and like couple thousand OP.
I have read 3 of I Eat Tomatoes novels, and he's seems to have mastered this but what he lacks is story telling. Each one is the same essentially, (now I like to hear retelling so I'm fine with a slight twist but still the same juice overall) the twist is the characters usually start off differently, either from another world, going to another world or trying to be a god within that world... they all end up having the same goal at some point, but what i like is that each MC, still has their own view based on their past or their upbringing.
To me I Eat Tomatoes novels are like the interim until i find something better. It's average not ground shaking. Its enough to get you through that one rough patch where you feel like there just isn't anything good to read rn. Or if you are waiting for another release from a different novel and you just want that quick distraction this is it. All of the novels have like this up and down period where you feel like you don't want to read it anymore cause its just not enough, but because the MC is interesting enough (although OP, some may not like that) it keeps you guessing like "what is he gonna do next?"
*** I would also like to shout-out that from the 3 novels I have read by I Eat Tomatoes, there doesn't seem to be that common Theme that other xianxia novels have with the "shameless" or "ruthless" tag where they kind of just become douches and end up the classic antagonist (boasting and killing randoms raping and enslaving all) that cannot be beat because they are MC and OP. If you ever read those this is like a whole new world***
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