This is my review of the novel, what do you guys think?


First of all, this novel is in a category of Light Novel, so there is not much of an expectation from me.

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I seriously enjoyed the story early on. It's an underdog story, about a kid who is fated to be nothing much, that even his father decide to keep him away so that he won't be a trouble when the war started. And by his own power (more or less...) he rise above that expectation and even more.

The MC himself is clearly portrayed as a kindhearted, highly motivated and dedicated martial artist, as well as treasuring (to a level of abnormality...) his family and friends. Or at least at first he was like that.

As the story drag on, the writer transform the MC into a manipulative egocentric lying assassin that would do ANYTHING to get what he wanted without ANY consideration to other people outside his circle. Seriously, he became a classic power hungry antagonist. This guy would insert himself to a group disguising himself as an ally and waiting for the right moment to stab someone in the back, seriously most of the story is like this. The concept of honor is alien to this guy (or this writer).

And the level of naivety of this MC (or writer) is humongous. I'm confuse most of the time, at one point the writer paint the world as a strong eat weak environment, like when the MC and his bird first came to underwater world, they would attack, enslave and consume any being that they wanted. But when the same thing is happening to the MC, he would act like it's some kind of heavenly injustice, what is he? an 8th grader?

Somebody killed his first master, and cut his father and uncle arm, of course he was angry that he wanted to kill the perpetrator, but no, he need to go further, he need to kill all thousand of people that happen to be near him, and also exterminate that guy school to the root. And when some people from teng long continent fight and unintentionally kill many of his relative and thousands of other innocent people, what did he do? He scheme and pit these two super power against each other that ultimately killed millions of innocent lives.

And by the way, the guy is not talented nor is he exceptional in any way (even his first master said so), his main feature is his luck, it's only because of his luck that he got that meteor tear (which alongside uncle Lan serve as deux ex machina a lot of time in this story) which allow him to reach peak houtian external master, it's only by luck that he managed to become the successor of stellar art, it's only by luck that he met with uncle Lan (and only god knows why the hell would this uncle Lan favored this guy so much) whose also give him that immortal puppet which the MC abuse its usage to the max (even though uncle Lan himself warn him not to).

In conclusion, this story would do well to be some kind of preparation for future story where Qin Yu is actually the main antagonist evil lord who is trying to control the universe.

I've noticed this in a number of chinese novels. I don't think they're supposed to be heroic in the western sense. I view these characters more like mafia characters, or wild west characters. Devoted to their family, but anyone else that gets in their way is annihilated. I think this stems from earlier chinese history and novels based on it where there wasn't much of a government or law and order. The might makes right stuff. A few of them do have that, "oh but I'm a righteous hero" thing tacked on which is what really bugs me. I don't really think stellar transformations was all that bad in that respect, I don't know that he was pretending to be righteous, he just wanted revenge. Of course I think the writing is somewhat immature in other ways, I still found it fun. Seriously though, I eat tomatoes characters like picking stupid fights that cause most of their problems and causing massive collateral damage. Can't you go 2 chapters without picking an unnecessary fight?

Being heroic or sense of justice is not just a western thing, at least in my country (Indonesia) and many Asian country (like Japan and Korea) it's a common thing in literature. And I've also read Romance of The Three Kingdom, and it's also there. So I don't know, maybe it's only for Chinese martial art literature.

I'm not really against the non heroic thing, i just hate the hypocrisy, I mean the MC basically does whatever he want to do, but when someone else does the same thing against him, he make a very big deal about it. And when the MC is void of sense of justice and would do everything he wanted to do, that would make him just like antagonist character, it's hard to feel sympathy toward this guy, and I don't see any reason to root for him.

I'm still reading it though, but without much expectation.

I agree 100%.... I find it really hard to root for the guy as well. good thing it's almost over... I'm dying to know how it ends, since I've been reading it this long.

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I've only read Stellar Transformations up to the fifth volume but it's a lot more righteous ( and simply better ) than the writer's previous works like Panlong, where a fucking village gets destroyed right at the beginning, and no one even hates the magician who killed their families.

At least the MC here has some personnality and is not a fucking psychopath.