Wyvern Academy: Path of Ascension I

It's been a while since I've felt hard anger towards a character. Good job on the writing. I really wanna smack Tomi around.

I found this book to be generally well written with interesting MC characters, a better than average treatment of harem elements and an interesting story. Well done overall.Serious Flaws are in world building. The backstory is that demons are invading a modern earth and individuals are being trained in martial arts/ascension as those are the only individuals who can actually fight demons who are otherwise immune to guns and swords.* Flaw 1 - despite a world ending threat, there are only three schools to train these individuals with a graduating class each year of a couple thousand individuals total worldwide. No reasons given why they are not training a million ascended individuals each year rather than a few thousand given the world ending threat. There appears no limit on how many people can receive runes to explain this.* Flaw 2 - No psychological training. A lot of students (maybe 1/3rd) end up dropping out because of psychological reasons - basically thought of death, combat trauma, etc. Yet there is no training to prepare students for this.* Flaw 3 - Poor training. None of the students received careful training -- by that I mean actual guidance on how to develop their martial arts, eliminate flaws, develop new techniques, more effectively fight demons, etc. All the martial arts training seemed limited to conditioning and teacher supervised sparing between students. This is despite the fact that the MCs saw multiple students with serious flaws in their training if the goal is fighting demons. All the real combat development in the story is self-taught or learned by working with a fellow student through personal initiative.

I liked Alex, one of the two main characters even though he is the purest extraction of anime harem comedy "wimp" I've seen in a while. He lacks any confidence in his ability to attract women, and that slowly becomes his big quirk.His partner J, well, honestly he had me shaking my head. It felt like he was a bit of an author insert/proxy. The guy is a near orphan, and older than normal for the school, but soon has 3 girls he's openly banging and proves to be one of the best fighters in his class. (Gary Stu warnings about him kept ringing in the back of my head. He's NOT well written).Strangely despite my major reservations about the main character and the obvious anime influences that made it far too obvious what was going to happen next on several occasions, it was a fun tale. it works.I'll definitely check out the next book.One warning, this is NOT a cultivation story. There is no meditation to improve mana flow or concentrate mana. The author should really remove that claim from his title.

Fantasy martial arts haremThere are two MCs, which is a change from the usual setup. We have Alex Nakatone, a blond Japanese-American who is loved by his father and discriminated by those around him, and J (short for James) Mallory, a tough street kid a little older than most his peers, driven from home at a young age by an alcoholic father who used yell and torture his own son. Engaging backstories. They and hundreds of other martial artists attend one of three world class academies and complete to Ascend, that is -- earn magical runes to help channel ki to fight demons that invade and kill humans.I don't normally like first-person stories with more than one perspective. However, I've read two of the touted Chimera books, and based on that, bought this book and gave it a read. And I applaud the choice to include the name of the MC in the chapter-name to let me know up front whose perspective the chapter would focus on. No guessing. Thank you!The story itself is a great read, and I wish I had the funds to buy book 2. (Ah, next month.) Well done. Try it and see. Recommended.

Alex was turned down at the number one academy in the World because of his heritage . So his dad got him an interview at the second best academy in the World . It was his chance to prove to them that they were wrong about him . So he flew across the World to attend the interview and get into Wyvern Academy .Got in he did an he intended to fight to stay there an graduate .recommend reading excellent series .

Really, the review name says it all. This is a great wuxia novel with some solid influences from other genres that don’t take away from the general feel. Sometimes it felt like the romance was a bit too heavy with J, though, because we barely saw anything of the various girls. We know almost nothing about most of them, to the point that their names and appearances kind of become a blur. Alex also really needed a win that he never got, even when he did ‘win’ it was unjustly stolen from him by the chairwoman for no apparent reason. It made the whole book seem like a sick juxtaposition of J getting all the girls and everything he wanted on a silver platter and Alex getting beat up and abused for merely daring to exist when arguable he’s the more put together and skilled of the duo at this point.

I looked through the negative and neutral reviews and I think so people just missed the mark or review bombed it just cause. It runs an interesting line between Japanese light novel and a DC or Marvel comic book. I had fun reading it and if the second book and on are just as good or better, I’m going to count myself happy I picked this book up.

A book that is Wuxia and Harem with two MCs that have more realistic personalities than normal.Is there an MC with a group of women? Yes. But he had been an abused child and had many experiences with woman growing up and is now figuring out that women who understand and like him are a better answer than random encountersIs there another MC who who fits the trope of clueless harem protagonist? Almost. He is aware women like him. He is just shy, aware he is and is working through it. He does hook up with one, but has zero interest in screwing that relationship by including others [the book does leave that open ended though]

First of all, there is no cultivation in this book. Absolutely none. There may be in future books, but none in this one, and I think people should be aware of that. There are a lot of martial arts, but aside of throwing off a few names of obscure styles you don't get much more.The two main characters keep walking the "I'm just normal - please I'm perfect in everything I do" spectrum as convenience dictates, and this just makes it confusing because 30 pages earlier the authors said X was the most brutal style ever, shocking everyone, and now people just shrug and his opponents are always the perfect counter for this super secret and deadly martial style.The secondary characters are just cardboard and serve nor purpose besides being there for sex scenes with the protagonists. In no moment of the story you get to know their motivations, what they like, how some of them even met one of the main characters, despite being totally in love with each other. Some of them you don't even have to remember who they are, that's how relevant they are to the story.The plot has a good premise, but it falls short on everything the further you get in the book. Things that should be important are constantly glossed over, sometimes even skipping an entire month completely ignoring something huge that happened, and the next chapter you get a two page description of one of the main characters making breakfast. It simply doesn't make any sense.The worst of all for me, the plot seems to occur in a void. The authors tell you interesting things about the world, and then you experience none of it. Events that happen outside the academy are irrelevant to what happens inside it, and what happens inside the academy has no relevance to any overarching arc outside of it. Events that should cause a huge uproar and backlash sometimes aren't even mentioned, other times they are solved in a way so childish that completely threw me off, thinking "no one in the universe would react like that, at least not an adult."This wasn't a fun reading.

Personally I’m not a fan of books where the point of view switches between characters, but I don’t think it would have sold as well as you read the same scenarios from two different characters POV. The 2 MC’s are completely different, one a harem king confident in his abilities with plenty of matching sex scenes, the other a half Japanese boy who shyly holds his girlfriends hand while blushing... but it works. It seems to be a mix of martial arts and a high school scenario so you have all your standard bully tropes and boy girl angst, but J disrupts much of that by his multi-partner sex scenes.I liked this book and will hang out for the next in the series.

I’ve now read the 2 books available so far. My rating is with both in mind.The story is good, great even, but, and this is personal preference, having multiple main protagonists splitting the narrative isn’t a favourite of mine. I find it limits the depth of engagement. Although intellectually, I like the idea that two authors might each be writing one of the characters.Book 1 had lots of switching between MCs, but book 2 had a better balance of longer chapters, and I found myself getting into the story more thoroughly.Recap. Interesting world, lots of likeable characters, quality writing.

Decent book. Maincharacters started out a bit stereotypical but grew on me. Res of the characters were good with a few exceptions. This is a martial arts novel with decent academy elements, not a cultivation novel though.

Well written, non stop, fight academy and girls. Wyvern academy 200 years in the future, the youth of the world must train to fight the growing menace of inter dimensional demon incursions.