gabriel blessing's writing can go...very YMMV for people. For myself personally, it hasn't really aged super well; at first read it was quite a trip and introduced a trendsetting concept (Louise summoning F/SN characters etc etc), but upon hindsight it's flawed in some crucial ways. Definitely worth your time for a first read (and blessing sure knows how to write fight scenes, I'm not debating that) but try not to look too closely at the character relationships. Also plays kind of fast and loose with some aspects of Nasuverse mechanics that was kinda iffy for me, but then if Nasu himself can *jazz hands* "Kaleidoscope!" his way through everything I guess gabriel blessing has precedent for it... Some power balances are also off; I still feel that Karen's Heavy Wind spell being able to PIERCE ALL THE LAYERS OF RHO AIAS a little hard to swallow. That shield is something that took Cu Chulainn's thrown Gae Bolg, a B+ Rank Phantasm head on and managed to block it, if barely. A Caster, no matter how good, can't compete with that, and Karen is certainly no Medea . There is writing a good, engaging fight scene, but that really tested my suspension of disbelief.
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gabriel blessing's writing can go...very YMMV for people. For myself personally, it hasn't really aged super well; at first read it was quite a trip and introduced a trendsetting concept (Louise summoning F/SN characters etc etc), but upon hindsight it's flawed in some crucial ways. Definitely worth your time for a first read (and blessing sure knows how to write fight scenes, I'm not debating that) but try not to look too closely at the character relationships. Also plays kind of fast and loose with some aspects of Nasuverse mechanics that was kinda iffy for me, but then if Nasu himself can *jazz hands* "Kaleidoscope!" his way through everything I guess gabriel blessing has precedent for it... Some power balances are also off; I still feel that Karen's Heavy Wind spell being able to PIERCE ALL THE LAYERS OF RHO AIAS a little hard to swallow. That shield is something that took Cu Chulainn's thrown Gae Bolg, a B+ Rank Phantasm head on and managed to block it, if barely. A Caster, no matter how good, can't compete with that, and Karen is certainly no Medea . There is writing a good, engaging fight scene, but that really tested my suspension of disbelief.