Beginning After The End Review

Read it. But keep a tissue box nearby. Not for the action—for the moments when Arthur looks at his mother’s face and remembers that in his last life, no one ever looked at him that way.

We’ve all seen the trope: an overpowered protagonist gets reincarnated into a fantasy world and proceeds to speed-run life with the cheat codes of their past existence. It’s comfortable. It’s wish fulfillment. beginning after the end

9.5/10 (minus half a point for the early novel’s pacing, plus infinite points for the "Volume 7 cliffhanger" that broke the entire fandom). Read it

The narrative punishes this relentlessly. beginning after the end