Title: RuneMaster
Author: Tigerman
Rating: M
Category: Independent Harry
Status: WIP, 67k words
Summary: In third year, Harry decided to quit Divination, following Hermione. Having to take a substitute course, he end up choosing Ancient Runes and discover himself quite gifted. Smarter Harry. Slightly manipulative. Rated M for later subjects and language.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5077573/1/RuneMaster

Fairly good, with a few annoying moments (such as Ron's superchess ability that somehow makes him cleverer in chapter 9). Not an amazing fic, but it keeps you entertained and has a good update rate, and I'm sure some here will appreciate it.

3/5 (and before someone starts whining, yes you can recommend fics that you think are 3/5 quality, 3/5 meaning "average").

 

Ouch. And that's chapter 1.

Runes über alles. Harry's superpowers extend to being able to stare down dragons and brew potions better than Snape. I swear, if he turns into a mime in one of the later chapters, I'm going to have to throw down the gloves and punch the author in the eye. That'd be just too much power for anyone to handle.

 

I tried to get into it, but his instinctive understanding of runes after half an hour is very off-putting. Plus, the author's tendency to make words looooooooooooooooooong is just dumb. It could have been interesting, but it's not. I give it a 2/5, just because I like the idea of runes.

 

What are you talking about? The longest word I noticed was infiltrate... =/

Anyway, a super!Harry with decent writing and flow, nice light reading. 3/5

 

I've been following this story for some time now and I definitely agree on a 3/5. It would have been more if the author didn't draw out words. I even pm'ed him about the issue and while I think he understood what I meant, he didn't really seem to care because he keeps doing it.

The author also have a bad case of misspelling words, at least in the early chapters, but I found out he was French-Canadian so I suppose that's understandable now. I think he got himself a beta too.

I like the idea of using runes. Often I read those Indy!Harry fics where the author briefly mentions Harry learning runes and arithmancy, but the author never goes into detail about the subjects nor why Harry needs or for that matter, wants to learn them.

 

I couldn't really get into it, although I do like the idea of runes playing a bigger part in stories.

 

I enjoyed some parts, but others were really, for lack of a better word, irritating (annoying seems a bit harsh). The part I really didn't like was how rational and un-naturally mature Harry was, it just didn't fit and ticked me off slightly. Other than that, the story developed quite well.

 

I can see why. Mimes > ninjas.

 

I care very little about anything in fics but my enjoyment in reading them, and I highly enjoyed reading this one. Yes, it is super powered, yes, it is not realistic, but overall, it is still written in a way that is highly enjoyable to read, despite little bits that just make you cringe. (such as what Perspicacity pointed out in the first post)

This gets a 4.5/5 from me.

Edit: As a comment for long words, care to give an example? I really didn't notice any at all. :/

 

Am I missing something here? I still have no idea what you're talking about.

 

I've thought about posting it here, but it was IMO not good enough for the library thus posted it in the almost recommended thread.

Sent a list of those loooong words to the author in hope he corrects them - okay, seems DLP does that so can't post it but there's about one or two per chapter.

Okay, had to edit this post at least 5 times... my copy paste or edit post is broken

 

I liked it. Lately few stories have been able to keep my attention. This one managed it, and I enjoyed reading it.

4/5

 

The dialogue sucks, the mechanics sucks, the execution sucks... The novelty of the idea of using runes is completely wasted on this story. What a shame. 1/5

Edit:

 

Very boring. I'd give this a 1/5. I couldn't read it without skipping a lot.

 

As I said in the Almost Recommended thread, I both like and don't like and it's certainly not good enough for the library. It has several things that annoy me but yet I usually find it enjoyable enough to read. I give 2.5/5 but I'll put it at an even 3 in this thread, just because I'm in a good mood.

 

I tried reading that a few times. Hell, i think i may even be up to date on it.

The problem is that Harry is so super he is bland (nothing else, no hint of a personality) in this fic, and other characters are there just to show how much cleverer than them he is.

It's sad, as it has some good ideas. It just has more wank than plot or characterization. It's like a fic-long diagon alley shopping trip. After a while, you yawn.

 

Great idea. (Any rune master story is a great idea to me ) Poor execution, poor dialogue and it gets really annoying when the author makes Harry suddenly wise and love giving long winded speeches over the smallest of things.

Rating: 2.5/5
Only because I like stories with runes.

 

My beef is the same as Darey, this author has no real idea on how to execute a great idea. Instead, they use poor dialogue and so many plot bunnies, rushed writing, the ideas executed feel rush and it all feels over-all a classic fail.

2.5/5 cause I liked it at the start, felt ZOMG awesom story!! Then yer, it turned shit.