About to start reading this, but first impression is that it's impressive they managed to crank out 400k words in four months. Love time travel docs, so diving in now. I'll update with a first impression after a few chapters.

 

Does he only ever open up to Kakashi and Jiraiya?

 

I quit after the Sanin made some perverted remarks about Sakura....

The old dude is perverted, sure, but he likes women. Not little girls. He's not a phedo.

And secondly, the author made Naruto into an idiot. Like, wtf? Canon Naruto was a 12-year-old kid, so yeah, of course he's allowed to be an idiot. But the 15-year-old Naruto was pretty smart, and reliable. He's got the tactics on the fly, and damn smart when it comes to planning ahead. Also, while Naruto is not book smart academically, he's got an incredibly emotional intelligence.

And this author made the naruto.... I don't know..

In any case, the only thing that really killed it was the Sanin making disgusting remarks about Sakura.

 

Trip report after 3 chapters. This fic is definitely the definition of 3.5/5. It has a lot of interesting ideas and completely avoids most time travel fics' habit of retreading canon with little changed. However, it is very poorly written. Those interesting ideas are thrown at the wall along with everything else the author can think of. It also is full of grammar issues. All in all this fic needed a beta from the start. It needed both proof reading and heavy editing.

That being said, I'm probably going to keep reading because it is a good guilty pleasure fic so far.

 

I couldn't read past chapter 1. It's not because it was terribly written or had retarded devices or whatever. It was just a collection of things ranging from questionable to bad with nothing really good to back it up and not particularly good writing to support it. There was no hook. Rather the opposite, I found myself repelled by a plethora of small things that individually might not matter, but altogether paint a not at all positive picture.

There is not nothing particularly noteworthy about this fic. Nothing to make me want to read more of it.

I won't rate it because I understand that I might not have a spherical/complete opinion about it, but I did want to share my thoughts on why I don't think this should be in the Library. It's just a collection of bad cliches with not almost-acceptable writing. Or at least, it starts that way.

 

I read this, at one point, maybe 2014. (How could I not, when it was complete with over 400k wordcount? That's a weakness for me. Plus, it has an original idea for how the time travel was possible.) And yet, the only thing I remember about it is this scene:

Spoiler

At one point, Kakashi wants to talk to Sasuke about the Mangekyo sharingan, and when Sasuke says he doesn't care whether they discuss this in front of Sakura and Naruto, a curious Kakashi asks if he wants them to know the secrets of sharingan. Sasuke easily responds with something along the lines of, "If Sakura ever turned on me, I'd drag her to a psychiatrist myself."

And at Kakashi's response of, "And what about Naruto?" Sasuke's response is priceless:

"It's not like Naruto is going to betray me. I'd like to see you try making him turn on me."

While I probably remembered this scene because it's a refreshing change from the usual bashing fics and one of the better measure-of-our-friendship scenes I've seen in Naruto fics, this is really the only thing I remember about it. Even after reading other people's reviews of it, I can't remember more. That is my personal measure of just how boring this fic is.

So yeah, it probably is only a guilty pleasure reading fic that just can't be read more than once. Don't know about you, but personally, time spent on 400k+ words on boring stuff that isn't work is time ill spent.