Xintong “Equinox” Si

Disclamer: This review is about the entire series. The first few books are nice though The plot is interesting and the powers are decently unique. However it was terribly written as in the author clearly did not do any further research into the places he sent the characters other than “what language do they speak here” or “what does a typical street/environment look like here), and medical stuff. My main source of irritation comes from when the characters were on this island in asia where the tribe spoke chinese to them. As a native chinese speaker, I was extremely confused on how the chinese was written. It wasn’t chinese characters or even pinyin, it was just how it would sound in english. Which I guess is expected so it was fine at first. But some of the sentences and grammar was clunky which is to be expected if the author doesn’t know chinese, but it was kinda disappointing. It was also super awkward trying to sound out the words and trying to figure out what the heck they were trying to say and seeing the words was also extremely awkward. Personally I would’ve just written the linear in english but specify that it was said in chinese. My second biggest source of irritation was when a normal, non-powered character, literally broke his ribs and was STILL ABLE TO RUN AROUND AND EVEN CRAWL ON HIS BELLY IN A TIGHT SPACE. Like WHAT??? He would’ve been dead, or at least not have been able to move since broken ribs hurt extremely bad and can puncture lungs (very very likely to happen especially in this case). And then it was seemingly just forgotten about? I don’t know if I missed something but I remember keeping that in mind and reading in, specifically looking for when that injury would be addressed, but it just never was. My final biggest source of irritation was that the author seemed to have just gotten lazy at the end and when (SPOILER ALERT) One of the characters who went to the same school as the mc died when helping out, it was said that the school just basically didn’t notice (despite him being pretty well-known) and forgot about him. I mean, he was a bully but it just felt like lazy writing. Other things is that the main villain was too boring. literally the same motive as any other villain and it was very repetitive. And a lot of the plot started getting repetitive too. Some of the big discoveries or whatever genius thing the villain had done or whatever kinda felt just made me go “Ok and?”