/lit/ - Literature

>>22482096
I gave up after the MC asspulls:
>Btw I've secretly mastered the ruling elite's style of swordfighting, 100% offscreen, in order to shit on a dude I should be losing to.
Every conflict seems to be resolved with the MC just doing *something* offscreen that allows them to win, or vice versa when the bad guys set him back a step. Makes it hard to give a shit.

I wish there was a middleground between concept sci fi and character sci fi, because so often the former is very dull and the latter better written, but with a pretty flat premise. Something like the Plageuis novel, but set in a more interesting setting than star wars.