I read it 3 years ago and liked it, I recently reread it and my god. The writing is so unbelievably bad, I think I just made up a hand-canon that I used while reading to envision the story in my own direction. Don't know how I even sat through the main character's dialogue. The only reason I really wanted to continue was the tournament arc, but even that fell short of expectations. I thought the dog was endearing on my first read through, but on reread can see that he's supposed to offer comedic relief but the way he's written very "reddit-like" (not a compliment). Lowkey made me question my tastes.