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Author knows everything about everything...

Revisado: 01-13-25

These books are always a bit wish fulfillment, so I always come in to it expecting that. This book and the book that follows are just a level beyond what I can stomach. MC's that OP are par for the course but this author doesn't know anything about anything and every time he writes it just becomes extremely obvious. An example is when he starts training people, the author apparently thinks everyone is born with the talent for ONE WEAPON. PERIOD. Any deviation from this is absolute suicide, no amount of training can account for your inherent lack of talent. It makes you wonder why they bother training at all? You don't level up from training and weapon skills are things you level by combat. One character tries to take a class that the MC declares he is unfit for, because the character doesn't distance himself properly, take an appropriate stance, or strike in a way that the MC deems workable. This guy has no training in ANY weapon BTW. Conclusion? Said character can never overcome these shortcomings and MUST switch weapons at the earliest opportunity or be doomed. This is failure of intellect and experience. Any with who has any martial training knows that talent in anything is rare, training is what produces skill, period. The MC's retarded, and incessant assertions about reality that aren't even close to on the mark makes me wonder where the author even lives. It cant be Earth because nothing works the way he thinks it does here...

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This genre is hopeless...

Revisado: 01-19-24

Book 1 had a decent story and the cultivation concept as part of the RPG aspect was something I was very interested in at the start. Unfortunately, this author doesn't seem able to avoid all the same pitfalls that virtually all of his peers fall into, as well.

1. Ewww girls are icky. (Except when villains are raping them) I will never understand how an author expects casual readers to believe that people in their high teens or early 20's just don't have a sex drive, like, at all. Then that exact same author turns the rest of the world into a dystopian rape factory, because there is no middle ground in their imagination apparently. It's either monk-like abstinence (which is always practiced by the key characters in this series. Agras is a demon that loves brothels apparently but goes without sex for months without batting an eye cause reasons), or girls getting creeped on and raped by fat men (literally every scene where he meets a new woman almost, including when he finds his sister). Why do authors in this genre suck so bad at being adults about sex? Literally, all of them, with notable exceptions, make this mistake and it's just depressing and more than a little creepy.
2. Side Characters are boring. The supporting cast sucks. There just isn't enough of any of them, including the main character. I'm two books in and I don't know anything important about anyone that isn't the main. This is actually insane to me. The main and the main support don't trust each other and literally nobody cares. It's so badly written it's actually painful to read the moments when the author thinks he's cleverly creating suspense and he's actually just missing huge opportunities for character development. It's honestly a damn shame because I think he was on to something with Zac and Agras (like Hercules and Aeolus), but he just completely botches it somehow.
3. Undead....Again. I'm just so tired of zombies. I start reading this cool book about a guy in a game world, and FINALLY it's someone with a melee class. It's really cool when he starts using axes and I was all in for the 'god of destruction' type thing for once. Then he fights a zombie guy and all of a sudden undead stuff is his new thing and it becomes pretty apparent that its a staple part of the character now. Normally I wouldn't mind much but this in particular case its just been done to death (pun intended). I'm tired of reading about necromantic fighters and assassins.
4. Too much, too fast, too hard. There is just too much going on, with too little explanation. I won't go into this very much except to say that the author seems to think that withholding information is the same as being mysterious. It's not. The story is still very predictable in virtually every story line it possesses, but the author just puts a million irons in the fire to try distract you. I might work, too, if the distractions were halfway decent but they aren't. Several times I had to backtrack because I had the book on for a while and didnt realize it, so then I go back a relisten just to find out that I should have just skipped it. He could have accomplished so much more if he focused a bit more on a each individual thing. Instead it's a hodge-podge of the authors scatterbrained thoughts-oops- I mean MYSTERIOUS AND SUSPENSEFUL.

Well that's all I can think of for now but honestly this is just the beginning. Personally, I think the concept is great and I would read something else by this author later in his development just to see if he overcomes some of these shortcomings. I won't be continuing this series, though, as the combination of stale characters, chaotic storytelling, and juvenile attitudes toward sex in general just aggravate me to no end.

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Horrid

Revisado: 10-04-23

I don’t know where to start, I really gave this a chance. I guess the biggest letdown for me is that this story just never seems to go anywhere. Plenty of potential, with threads going in all directions but the MC just doesn’t seem to really care about anything. The author was so desperate to make this character edgy, dark, strong, mysterious, detached, ambitious, self-sufficient, independent, and tough that he forgot to make him even remotely believable. Just some average guy who happens to have a “Bloodline ability”, he seems to be the only-est and one person to have one at this point and boy if it isn’t just the bestest one too. His “all-perception” build is as ridiculous as it is stupid. It somehow manages to both overreach and underwhelm simultaneously, as the daring hero (antihero?) never seems to be truly outdone in anything despite his laughable logic and reasoning. The class and skill options are a complete waste of time as it’s immediately obvious which stupidly overpowered, ridiculously unearned superpower is going to be selected. The character keeps stacking the idiocy as he somehow befriends a God which quickly turns into the weirdest, narcissistic jerk-fest in the history of literature. Seriously, they just constantly use some kind of prayer connection like Verizon to see who the biggest edgelord is, despite the fact that the MC refuses to take a patron deity because… y’know… his balls are too big for him kneel and pray or something.

And why is every MC in this genre allergic women? Or relationships? Or sex? I can’t figure out why they seem perfectly okay writing about degenerate assholes that literally abuse young girls and kill them for extra power but god forbid the MC be attracted someone. Like it’s only okay to write about lust or sex if it’s somehow negative.

I hope all this gets better with later books in the series, but I’ll never know. It was difficult to finish this one.

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Guilty pleasure…

Revisado: 10-12-22

The author has a great story to tell but isn’t necessarily a good author. There are times when it’s all a bit much, and it’s definitely wish fulfillment to the nth degree. But I find myself enjoying it despite its shortcomings and the performance is nearly flawless.

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Great story.

Revisado: 06-10-20

Some of the accents are terrible. In some cases it's actually endearing but most of the time it just makes you wanna cringe. other than that I'm hooked.

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Loving this series!

Revisado: 06-07-20

you can tell how much time goes into the leveling and just the structure of the world in general. I hope these keep coming out.

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Love this series!

Revisado: 02-27-19

This story is getting better and better. I can't wait for the next book. The characters are so interesting and the performance really brings them to life.

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BEASTIALITY! No really...

Revisado: 02-06-19

When I first noticed the tag I thought it was maybe a technicality because of monsters or whatever. Nothing like a main support character that loves getting railed by dogs so much that she takes an profession that enables her perverse little hobby. It literally says she rides them to death. 4 chapters in and already this nonsense? Thanks but no thanks. Honestly it's a waste, too. I was enjoying it until that. What a waste of a credit. This severely lowered my opinion of the performers, as well, since they purport to read this often wherever it is they read it. I don't know where this is being read at that it's the "most requested", but y'all nasty.

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Too many contradictions.

Revisado: 12-26-18

The more I listen to this the more I'm convinced the author has never played an RPG, MMO or otherwise, in his life. The main defeats impossibly strong foes and is then almost immediately defeated by others weaker than he is. The economy and gear make no sense whatsoever (one of the defeats comes from an extremely powerful crafted item, but how they developed the item has no feasible explanation). The author is telling a decent story but centering it in a game world is really taking away from it, he clearly doesn't understand what he's writing about. This is before you get to the weird conspiracy theory garbage that doesn't make any sense, or GAI. I will likely finish it out of spite but I won't waste my credits on any other Shemer novels. Manufacturing drama and suspense isn't enough, the story has to be believable and make sense.

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So much fun!

Revisado: 06-19-18

I am loving this series and Podehl is the perfect narrator for this, his accents really bring the individual characters to life. I feel like he really captures each moment and dialogue and makes it memorable.

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