Ian Stewart

Anything but Jake's market.

Revisado: 06-11-24

The book basically takes the outlined premise that starts out with and locks it in the basement chained up to a radiator and occasionally comes downstairs to Beat It with a garden hose.

it wastes no time going from what sounds like a cozy Adventure to some kind of Fairly generic somewhat gritty a story about defying fate and the gods and all that crap.

I could really go for that kind of story, but only if that's what I thought I was buying.

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Another toothless take on cosmic horror.

Revisado: 10-25-22

I have no idea if this was the author's intention or not, but the Eldredge means from outside the universe have about as much overall impact on me as a reader as hearing that a character passed gas.

I get the idea is that the protagonist actually works with them, so they can't be some sort of inherently evil thing, but even so there's just no personality to them.

the overall depictions of Madness in this book seem more like minor mental health issues in the grand scheme of things, spoken as a person with several of them chronically.

if you're expecting any sort of cosmic horror out of this book, don't pick it up. if you want a slightly different science fiction take on creepy monsters from outside our dimension, maybe this will work for you.

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The indefinitely long boring cave is a metaphor.

Revisado: 05-25-22

The entire story drug on three times aso g as it needed to, in a dull, lifeless dezcribed cave. Protagonist spends the whole time sabotaging herself, and causing almost all of her problems.

Despite the premise, it's just two people in drab, lifeless bath water sci fi arguing with eachother and being shitty.

It goes on forever, repeating the same lines of thinking, over and over again with very little variation. Perhaps the poorly described cave as a metaphor for the story as a whole.

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journey to a fantastic world devoid a pacing

Revisado: 12-24-19

I really wanted to write this book very highly, because there's some extremely interesting elements to it. but the twisting plot is incredibly unlikely, and the pacing is absolutely abysmal in the middle.

I think I may have actually long for death at some point.

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Necromancers, Intrigue, mystery and death.

Revisado: 10-26-19

This book could be a little slow at times, but I wouldn't trade those moments for anything.

I've seen a few one star reviews that complain the plot is hard to follow, but I'm pretty sure you'd have to be half listening to miss the character nuances, or overall plot.

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Terrible new narrator.

Revisado: 10-16-19

The narrator clearly didn't listen to any of the previous books, and doesn't even try to go for the same feel for any of the previous characters, and it's incredibly jarring.

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I wanted to love it.

Revisado: 05-10-19

I know it's supposed to be an entirely new kind of MMO, but it just feels heinously dated aside from being a virtual reality game.

aside from a few nebulous quests in the game, all the characters seem to be doing is running around and power grinding mobs, which is something MMOs haven't done in over a decade, and they almost immediately start jumping into raid content that's meant for level 10 to 15 players. Just feels weird.

there is so little mention of the sort of skills they're using, or the Spells they get as they level up, and their lack of enthusiasm will gushing about them but it doesn't really feel black the author has ever played MMOs, or is convinced that readers would think those kinds of details are boring.

the author keeps talking about how interesting the world is to the players, and how drawn in they were, and how real it was. But there just wasn't any actual draw behind told there was draw

it's really disappointing considering how much I was looking forward to a litrpg book with a female protagonist.

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