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Rachel

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not the fun kind of shocking

Total
2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-13-23

As a fan of Matt Dinneman's other work, this one unfortunately missed the mark for me. It was not fun enough to be a romp, not impactful enough to be a drama, and I didn't care enough about the characters to make the painful bits anything but a slog.
Framing the story as an "isekai" style narrative removed any reason for me to care about any characters except our main duo, leaving huge swaths of narrative as the book equivalent of listening to my brother describe Dark Souls lore. Directly telling me, the reader, that all the characters are computer simulations immediately saddles the author with the incredible task of making me care about them anyways, and in this case the author did not achieve the impossible.

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great as always

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-11-22

I have re-listened to this book at least five times, and it's great every time.

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A lighter BrandoSando

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-16-22

Mr. Sanderson often writes absolute cinderblock novels filled with lore, complex and interwoven plots, flawless world building, incredible action, and gutwrenching drama. I love them. But sometimes, you just want to watch a cowboy named Wax launch himself through a building like a wrecking ball. While indulging in slightly lighter world building, plots, drama, and lore. When I'm 20 chapters into one of the cinderblocks and my emotional center is exhausted, I come back here and I reread these novels for the joy of actually being able to finish a book in two days flat.

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strongly character-focused

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-16-22

Like other books in this series, The Grief Of Stones is strongly focused on the emotional and spiritual journey of the protagonist, and is less concerned with trimming out scenes that are not directly related to the central plot. It thoroughly kept my attention all the way through but some aspects of the book feel like a series of short stories centered on a theme rather than a single story unit. Depending on your reading preferences, this could either be a positive or a negative for you.

That said, the main plot of the story is compelling, Addison's writing is excellent as always, the cast of characters are well-developed and complex, the narration was great, and I highly recommend this book series for folks that like character-driven plots that demonstrate fascinating world building. I do not recommend this novel to my dad, who likes action-filled plot-centric novels and doesn't care as much about the internal emotional journey of the protagonist.

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boring, obnoxious, and dumb

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-21-22

When I saw a book with "murderhobo" in the title, I thought I was in for a romp. A gore-fest. The literary version of what happens when I introduce a slightly annoying NPC to my D&D group. That is not what I got. What I got is the equivalent of listening to a 13-year-old describe the lore behind Magic The Gathering. There were literal pages of exposition hidden under the barest veneer of "let me describe the way the world works to my dumb sister", and that's before we get to video-game-land.

Once we transition out of the shallow, barely-thought-out pseudo-medieval world into video-game-land, we have LITERAL HOURS of the author describing the experience of grinding in a video game. Through the POV of the least likeable, bland, undeveloped characters you will ever meet. I am a solid four hours in and I cannot take it any more.

I'm giving this book two stars because it never pretends to be something it's not. If your best buddy in middleschool wrote a dumb story where you and all your friends beat up monsters and he delivered that story to you in 2-page installments written in perforated notebook paper with little illustrations in the margins, and you've been jonesing to replicate that experience, this is the book for you.

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