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Pretty ok

Revisado: 12-14-23

Not bad but I’m not hooked after 20 hrs. Overall an ok book, but it struggles with a inconsistent tone.

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Fine but I won’t be buying the next.

Revisado: 12-06-23

The story is decent but it’s not worth following up.

I like the narrator but 1.0x speed is way too slow. I listened to the book on 1.7-2.5x speed.

This is not an exaggeration, I kept track, there is over two hours of status updates. The system is overly tedious.

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A flawed but interesting story, hindered by an incompetent narrator.

Revisado: 12-04-23

The writing is inconsistent and amateurish. The story is a bit intriguing. The author needed help with editing and proper English.

The narrator’s performance was nearly malicious in its execution. Their voice is actually pleasant, but this performance was horrible. Errors included Incorrect pronunciations, poor editing and nearly random changes in character voices. There really was no consistency in regard to the voice used to read a character’s lines.

There’s little chance I will finish the book in an audio setting.

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Not as fun as the first. Need more resolution.

Revisado: 11-17-23

The book is essentially a men’s adventure fantasy. It’s supposed to be sexy, simple, and entertaining. The books biggest issue is the number of things going on at once. There’s got to be at least 5 antagonists (Ashli, Luca, Richard, hector, two gods, biker gang, small town dignitaries, the system, Charlie, that stag) the reader has to keep track of at any one time. It’s all too much and the MC shouldn’t have the capacity to deal with it, which makes the story imbalanced. Too many new issues that go unresolved before the next problem comes from left field. It’s unsatisfying and disorganized.

I’m not 100% sure I prefer Faye Bishop to the male narrator doing all the female characters. Her performance is phoned-in and inconsistent.

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Mid-Tier- One Glaringly Bad Writing Habit

Revisado: 10-15-23

The book starts off pretty strong, but drops in writing quality when our MC starts sharing scientific information with others. A good hour or two of the book should have been removed because it’s all overly detailed descriptions of fairly advanced scientific knowledge. It’s basically completely pointless. I’m struggling to understand the rationale behind adding it.

Does it advance the plot? No. Is it interesting? No. Does it make me want to gouge my eardrums out, out of boredom? Yes.

I’d love to have read this book without the science lessons. It would have been a much better product.

“The insight was improved by teaching xyz” There. Done. No gratuitous internal dialogues from our MC of what college level math and science knowledge to drop on the ignorant other worlders. Its a bit meta but, including a character’s internal debate on how to convey, completely pointless to the story, technical information was an extreme example of sloppy storytelling. It’s very cringe and only serves to pad the length of the book. I took a lot of those classes in college it wasn’t fun learning about then and it wasn’t fun revisiting them in a progression fantasy of all things.

I also find the execution flawed. Is electromagnetism and light better described by math? Yes. Can you describe them without mind numbing descriptions of math? Also yes. So why do so in a fantasy book? Why add so much detail? 30% of Americans have a college degree. A small percentage of those have a STEM background enough to understand what the author is even talking about. It’s very puzzling and again very boring!

I liked the author’s writing in general and if they can clean up this particularly bad habit, I’d be very interested in whatever else they publish! Maybe they’ll get some feedback and fix it in the next book.

I really enjoyed the first half of the book. And I love the concept of using science in a fantasy setting but it should have been kept conceptual. This book could have been pretty exceptional if the author would have kept their focus on execution of good storytelling!

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I’m not done yet…

Revisado: 09-20-23

And neither are the other reviewers. So far the book is ok.. it’s not extra special but the writing is decent. A little loose-y goose-y on extraneous details and internal thought processes. As in there’s too much of it.

A good passive listen so far.

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I thought it would be funny

Revisado: 09-15-23

The book in general lacks appeal. It’s ridiculous but not funny. It’s outrageous but boring. I thought maybe it was receiving bad reviews because it was tongue-in-cheek in the same vein as many of Virlyce’s work but the story is just not engaging.

Can honestly say I regret this purchase.

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Just not my cup of tea.

Revisado: 09-08-23

Here’s how the story goes in broad strokes:

The MC lives in two worlds in two different bodies at once and conveniently only exists in those worlds while “asleep” in the other. One side is a normal human girl, the other is spider thing.

The MC is a lesbian with social justice warrior angst. I’m pretty much good with it except instead of subtle prodding and believable off screen characters, it’s mostly over done caricatures of “bad” people.

Be prepared to suspend your disbelief in the “real” world. The book is a mashup of urban horror and epic fantasy. You’re reading two parallel mostly independent plots. (Atleast halfway through the book). The urban fantasy just doesn’t work well IMO. Too much craziness going on. The MC is pretty unhinged which is a little taxing on the reader. I read a lot of fantasy and it’s just too off quilter for me.

I found it a tad… try hard? Eye roll-y? That half the characters (or more) were
A) on the spectrum
B) LGBT
C) a combination of a and b

I mean the whole book is a bit of a metaphor of trans and being comfortable in your own skin right? I just thought that less would’ve been more in this case.

Not horrible but I just don’t enjoy the back and forth.

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Great All Around

Revisado: 09-07-23

Overall I’m very glad to have continued this series. The story remains engaging and the narration is good. Other than the somewhat abrupt end, this book is 5 stars. What a great hook in the final interlude.

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Incorrect word usage and idioms-

Revisado: 08-23-23

I think the title explains the issue I have with the book. Maybe it was deliberate or translated? Either way the book is very hard to understand with frequent improper grammar and word choice.

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