the stereotypical necromancer review ?

sn is a mixed bag id say of great ideas and excellent story but the whole purple prose to 11 really kill interest and makes me just skim around chapters putting together story beats and then going onto the next chapter not really reading 80% of what's written. i wont say its every chapter just feel around half are fluff to the max id say the worse chapter I've recently read is chapter 44 honestly you could condense it from its 14.6k words to maybe 3-4k words roughly and not lose really anything, i mean you it takes about the first 5th of it describing every little detail between 2 lines of dialogue .

i feel really bad skimming and skipping parts of the story as i thinks its a great story if a bit slow as hell (I'm mean really 240k words in and we haven't even gotten past nightmare moon) the pacing help build charactation and flesh's out the story but it feel like the author think he has to explain everything or make it super philosophical or something I mean by the time we get to discord or the changelings its gonna be prob 1m words unless he fast tracks the in-between.

i wont say the mc being a necromancer or having ability to interact with souls is unique but its interesting and a step above just generic ass sword play (i mean imo i have to compare it to necromancy for foals mainly because thats the only other story where the mc mainly or only does necromancy not just on the side) but his moment interacting with character in ponyville giving him a great backstory really fleshing out his motivation, goals and likes and dislikes.

his romance part in the story with applejack is a breath of fresh air opposed to the norm where she gets one compliment and goes well chucks and blush's then pines over the mc for the rest of the story turning into a tsundere. id have to reared it to get the more deeper parts out but her just being concerned neighbor to friend that looks out to secretly in denial that she cares about him maybe more than a friend seems pretty realistic although apple jacks like top 5 most common romance partner hopefully luna doesn't join his "herd" who made that a part of the fandom really makes romance stories despicably boring and hard to read.

one last thing is i kind of like the part where from the shadows luna as nightmare helps teach him or others have a vested interest in him to grow or learn more skills which I've only seen in like 1 other story although hopefully it doesn't turn into "oh no he does dark magic I'm princess celestia/ twilight who as deep as a piece of paper guess il fight or banish you because no matter the circumstance dark magic is bad" when he suddenly reveals(its gonna happen trust me) he can do necromancy/soul magic, hopefully it turns into "well I don't think necromancy is okay but it has uses that are helpful to many ponies and shunning it isn't a logical thing to do just curate or manage who does what with it".

i dont hate or wanna rag on the author about his purple prose syndrome i think the more descriptive a story the better but this story as great as it is just has too much leading to it being confusing to read id imagine half the readers dip before reaching the half way point.

il give it a a solid 7.5 pretty purple prose flowers with 10 paragraphs explaining how purple it is outa ten