A Sleepy Summoner Wants To Rest

Key BirdAndTree says:

I have only read 46 chapters, but I no longer had any desire to continue. And it’s not even about the translation quality, but let’s start from the beginning.

The book itself is not necessarily bad, rather it is quite unusual and entertaining, but there are too many irritating things in it that, when accumulated, made me give up reading further.

As for the main love interest, we have a rather mischievous female character whose feelings towards the main character cannot be called attachment or love. It is simply a form of emotions without any substance. There is no care, attachment, or even a sincere desire to think about what he wants. She simply enjoys herself, showing him the form of what people call love. This sincerely annoys me. Maybe I misunderstood this character, or maybe the author deliberately made her like this in order to later fill this form of love with true feelings so that she would grow as a character and be loved by readers, I don’t know. But during reading, this character sincerely annoyed me.

Furthermore, the main character’s power and summoning are incredibly dull. I mean, it’s normal for the main character’s power to be dull, as we are already used to another simply overpowered main character, but what annoys me is how the potential for interesting characters, which could have been his pets, was irretrievably lost on dull and bland individuals or even those without any individuality at all.

As for the main character, he is extremely inconsistent and poorly thought out. Apparently, in his past life, he was a military man, and then, in his childhood in this life, he became an explorer. I will not dwell on the fact that I have never seen soldiers become scientists after combat – perhaps my knowledge is too limited, and this main character has a completely different life now. Fine. The main character is described as someone who wants to rest, but he never feels that way. He is constantly thinking about something, doing something, and planning. In battle, he is always full of energy to confront his enemy. If it weren’t for occasional mentions of his complaints about wanting to rest, I would have long forgotten about it and considered him a workaholic.

Lastly, the narrative style. The reason why this book is difficult to read is not the translation, but rather the narrative style, which is particularly hard to understand with mtl. However, in itself, it’s not really a problem. If you get used to how thoughts are presented and occasionally go back to the beginning of a paragraph or previous paragraphs to properly formulate in your head what is being said in the text, it’s not so bad. What annoys me is that behind this complex narrative style, there is no substance. Despite the relatively unique concept of the book, the text itself is bland and uninspired, and what should be interesting in this story remains extremely irritating or boring – the love interest, summoned creatures, secondary characters, and inconsistent main character.