
Is Starting Over as a Tree Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
The best LitRPG hook in years is being told by a writer who occasionally forgets what made his own premise interesting.
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The best LitRPG hook in years is being told by a writer who occasionally forgets what made his own premise interesting.

The hook, raise your killer as his own daughter, is great; the story mostly stops using it after the first handful of chapters.

Funny, warm, and one of the few 2000s shoujo romances where the joke is never really on the heroine.

Fun premise, low commitment required, and a quality curve that bends downward the longer it goes.

This comedy is willing to make its heroines genuinely unlikable when they deserve it, which is exactly why it works.

The hook about a twin who finally stops covering for the sister who gets all the credit is strong; the plot that keeps making things up as it goes is not.

Crawling back from burnout, told with real patience — until the pacing trips over itself in the later chapters.

Fast, disposable murim comfort food that never slows down long enough to become anything more.

The family you're trapped with is the whole show here, and they're vicious enough to make every chapter tense.

Having the female lead stay the stronger, steadier half of the pair the whole way through is rarer than it should be, and that alone makes the rocky opening worth pushing through.

Tanasia would rather redecorate than plot revenge, and that low-key ambition is both the charm and the ceiling here.

Cutting the sister loose instead of forgiving her is a blunt, satisfying pivot, even if the story around it plays everything else safe.