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Just Bad

Revisado: 12-13-24

Same basic plot as first series - misunderstood girl falls for guy while EVERYONE defies all logic and hates her for only the barest of premises.

Book 2 in this series is especially bad since its logic is that nearly everyone in country would join a cult to worship a god after that god publicly acknowledges she's the cause of their problems - WHAT?

I generally judge how bad something is by how often I press the skip ahead button because of how dumb a plot gets. This one has had tons of skip aheads.

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Repetitive Stories & Somewhat Unlikeable Hero

Revisado: 02-21-24

Of the 9 books, only the first had a little suspense and had some spooky elements. In this world, apparently every ghost becomes murderous, looses any sense of right or wrong and has superhuman strength that allows them to physically impact everything around them while anyone living can't touch them outside a few elements.

Plot is full of the same scenarios - ghost breaks neck with simple twist and person dies, living realizes it's a ghost because they notice THEY CAN SEE THROUGH THEM....

As the books continue, some world building is abandoned - e.g. iron dispels ghost and sends them back to their bones where they must have time to reform - which later becomes ghost dispelled and immediately reforms with super human strength immediately.

Would have been nice if one of the books was focused on the living helping a ghost resolve something, but every book was one murderous ghost or group of ghost after another - again, repetitive.

There was also an odd fixation on the main character smoking (and field-stripping the cigarette) and drinking - seemed like it was brought up in odd places so often that the author was trying to make some unobvious point.

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Bad Trash

Revisado: 12-07-23

First part in the larger volume was pretty good - odd that a supernatural child rescue story was intermixed with a couple of bad porn narratives, but was still good.

That was followed by a few cute short stories.

The 3rd section was nothing but a narrated version of a bad porn (70% of that section). There were only occasional lapses into an actual plot. Even the actual plot seemed focused ONLY on setting up what would be the next 20 minute explicit interlude.

Irritating thing is the overall universe and plot had been built up and well done - it just got lost for the last many many hours of dull every-which-way-possible orgies and overly explicit narrative.

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Worst Series I've Listened to in a Long Time

Revisado: 08-13-21

This is the 3rd series from the author in the same world. This trilogy is actually placed in the middle of the other two.

Primary issue in this trilogy is 99% of the people are either purely good or purely evil with 97% of them being evil. It's just written in broad black and white strokes.

The plot starts off with a confounding supposition: after escaping a killing Blight caused by humans who ignored the ever wonderful Medium, they repeat all the exact same mistakes in less than 100 years. Forget that the Medium in this middle series seems petulant and VERY Old Testament like.

The magic system (the Mysteries or the Medium) in these series started off OK in the first group of books. It became progressively stupid in each following series. Essentially, the magic system will ignore its followers and even push them to death simply to prove they are worthy. Meanwhile, evil doers can craft a piece of jewelry and do whatever they want with the same power.

This last series kept presenting one "huh?" moment after another. The Nesters started book one as a race/nation who gave up the lands they found empty because they couldn't complete when the original people started trickling back in. By Book 3, the Nester's numbers were uncountable - huh? One nation whose home country is arctic-like suddenly has more warriors and powers than all other nations??

My biggest compliant is the heroine of the books apparently forgets she has any abilities 90% of the time. She's constantly threatened, attacked, poisoned, mistreated, tortured and almost executed but never once does she do anything to defend herself. Then - at the climax of everything in Book 3, she has so much power she does the absolute impossible using the Medium and that swiftly concludes the plot in about 1 page. huh?

I do recommend the first series even though there were some frustrating plot issues. Second series is a maybe. Third series is a waste of money and time.

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Hate Book 2 in Series

Revisado: 08-24-20

Why is this SO bad. There's constant, repetitive mental beration by a main character. There's an insistence that the MOST obvious solution to the melodrama between the 2 heros is a simple 30 second conversation that must wait until 3 or 4 hours into this book.

If the most logical path is open to the characters, they ignore it. The main characters become conveniently stupid and clumsy at nearly every critical turning point in this book.... if they can fall when being chased, they trip and fall like a bad horror movie.... if there's a 100% wrong decision to be made, that's the one they go with... if they decide not to use an obvious advantage they have, it's chalked up to just not thinking of it ???

This was non-stop misery when combined with the narration of the heroine in this specific book.

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Inconsistent

Revisado: 08-24-20

This is one of those series in which many parts are interesting, but the whole is brought down by a primary character. In this case, book 2 becomes a never-ending misery of mental castigation. This character stays in her head for what seems like hours. That flaw paired with an over-the-top narration of that character resulted in lots of 30 second skips in books 2 and 3,

Book 1 is the only interesting book overall for me as the final 2 books makes the characters conveniently stupid.

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NOT a 2 book series

Revisado: 10-16-19

Audible tends to get the series counts wrong fairly often. In this case, the 2 books end on a little cliff-hanger. After just finishing book 2, I checked online and there is minimally a 3rd book.

Books 1 and 2 focus on different characters. Book 1 does get pretty graphic in the sex dept at times if that bothers you. Book 2 only has 1 brief scene.

Both books are enjoyable, but completely different.

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Copies Harry Potter

Revisado: 06-29-19

I will say that even though these first 3 books are basically a VERY close variation of Harry Potter, these 3 books are much better than the last two in the series. The final 2 books are a huge letdown.

This is "supposed" to be something of a continuation of the Luminea series - just 10,000 years later. What spoils the world building is Luminea was apparently Earth's past. The author ignores the inconsistency of his geography - in what Earth would a land that you could travel cross in weeks on foot have reference locations in Central Asia, Japan and Louisiana?

The only positive for me were the characters on the "good" side. As the series continues book after book, the villains increasingly become more and more powerful. No explanation is provided for why the mythology and world building shifts to accommodate jumps in strength and abilities for the villains while it remains consistent for the good guys.

Overall, somewhat disappointing overall story/plot. Derek Perkins was a positive, as always.

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Tedious and Inconsistent

Revisado: 06-29-19

Basically the same as book 3 in the Luminea series - one long endless, repetitive series of battle scenes. Issue with this entire series is the mythology abruptly shifts simply to make the villains more and more powerful. Luminea had a billion against less than a million... this ends with "trillions" of villains.

When you start skipping ahead to get past one fight scene after another, not a good sign. The grand ending feels like half a chapter is devoted to concluding the series.

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Inconsistent wFirst Novel

Revisado: 09-26-18

New narrator and new pronunciations - since I started this book immediately at the conclusion of the 1st novel, I initially did not recognize character names and proper nouns. Ok - you adjust.

Biggest issue for me is the inconsistencies and plot holes. At the end of book one, the white drake is found and mysteriously has a brood of white eggs that are hatched as that novel ends - how exactly a single specimen of a species reproduces others of its kind... never explained. The Spoiled in book one are basic zombie-like creatures. In book 2, they suddenly are almost super-human in abilities... never explained why/how.

The book mostly flows through 4 plot lines (if you ignore the stupid reporter intros to new "parts" of the novel). Three of the four plot lines are pretty enjoyable. The line viewed from one of the Spoiled is just irritating. The more often I fast forward in a book the lower I eventually rate it. I did a fair amount of fast forwarding in this one... so disappointing.

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