![]() ![]() Fortunately, since he's an isekai fan and also very even-tempered, this doesn't faze him much he leaves the monastery with the goal of becoming a farmer somewhere quiet, without much qi, where hopefully arrogant, megalomaniacal cultivators won't bother him too much. ![]() The premise is that a young man from our world (Canadian, like the author), with something of a farming background, is pulled into a xianxia cultivation world in the body of Jin, a low-level disciple of one of the qi cultivation sects, whose heart has just stopped in the course of a beating from his arrogant fellow disciples. Still, 80+ errors keeps it out of the Gold tier of my Best of the Year, which it otherwise would deserve (I consider anything above about a couple of dozen issues to qualify as Seriously Needs Editing). These are not hard to fix (or for the author to learn the simple rules for, so he doesn't make the error in the first place). ![]() Never was a book more deserving of my Deserves Better Editing tag.Īnd even though I marked about 80 errors, 80% of those are dialog punctuation, a good many of the rest are putting the apostrophe in the wrong place when the noun is plural, and the remainder are mostly number agreement, narrative tense inconsistency, and straight-up typos. ![]() Beware of Chicken: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel by CasualFarmer ![]()
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