Sep 13, 2021
I like that your story uses a soft-magic system and delayed exposition. Where a lot of the web novels I've browsed are forced to give exposition dumps in order to make sense of their setting and hard-magic systems, you slowly answer my questions through the story you tell. Some questions are even left unanswered, which I think adds to the mysterious fairy-tale atmosphere of the story.
For example, why is Dolly a living doll? How do the mechanics of it work? I don't really know, and that gets me invested into paying attention to the details of how and when Dolly acts. Same with Ficus! The past two chapters that revealed her peculiar abilities and built upon her character were extremely interesting, and makes me want to continue reading to the end.