Charles Axelrad

A slow start but good finish. Needs better editing

Revisado: 04-22-23

The beginning is a slow buildup and lots of dialog, conversations, and speeches. if you made it to book 9, you know Jason is going to talk at great length about morals and power and inequities.

The action starts about halfway in and keeps getting better. lots of great moments for side characters to shine Clive, Taika, Hump, Belinda.

there are two glaring editing errors in later chapters. One sentence cuts off. "Are we done?" was the narrator talking to the recording booth guy was left in.

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Good but has a few small annoying issues.

Revisado: 10-12-22

I overall enjoyed this book. But there are two things that are offputting.

#1 One reoccurring side character doesnt seem to have an official name, just a title. "Instructor"

Spoilers below:

#2 The main character Max hides his trait from almost everyone even his best friend. But later he shows how he can use powers from others and no one is shocked or surprised or even questions it. Unless I am mistaken they never went over how his powers work with his best friend and she just doesn't seem phased when he is usung multiple powers from other people. Not even a throwaway line like: "I figured out your powers ages ago" It's a small thing but it sticks out.

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This felt more like 1.5 than a sequel.

Revisado: 09-11-22

Its not bad and i want to read the next one. it juat felt kinda flat like not enough eas happening compaired to book 1.

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Talk about a fumble at the 1 yard line.

Revisado: 05-16-22

Without spoiling anything, loved the book but the last few minutes of the epilog... blah! How boring! It's the kind of trope where you roll your eyes so hard they actually start to hurt.

I literally paused before and said "Oh shit X is going to happen..." now normally if i can predict what will happen in a book its kinda fun, it means i picked up on the foreshadowing or something. but this was the opposite. still liked the book just a sour note to end on. I'll still be reading the next one.

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Not bad but

Revisado: 03-04-22

the majority of the book is pretty good but the amount of romance and sex scenes crammed into the last bit of the book seems like an afterthought/forced and gratuitous. I found myself skipping through looking for any sort of dialogue or action that wasn't sex scene or reminiscing about the sex scene just happened. Don't get me wrong the first few were fine it was just getting old after a while.

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Great story unfortunate audio

Revisado: 02-17-22

several times the audio levels are different and occasionally the same sentence or paragraph is repeated.

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Starts a little slow but gets really good!

Revisado: 01-27-22

It took a bit to get into but once it got going, I couldn't put it down for long.

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It starts SO STRONG!

Revisado: 01-16-22

Jake's magical Market starts so strong that i cant give it less than a 4 star. but about halfway through it starts to falter it goes up and down but never hits the same height it started at.

it goes in directions that i don't particularly like and then when things seem like they are getting back on track it has another downturn and then ends abruptly.

I'm still interested in seeing the next book, but I am feeling cautious.

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Rough start byt a great finish

Revisado: 10-07-21

Pretty good, definitely give it longer than the first few chapters i could see some of what others have said about the beginning but it wasn't that bad.

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A Great book held back by editing

Revisado: 08-16-21

This is a great dungeon book held back only by the mighty need of a continuity editor. far too often I found myself thinking "Didn't they just say this in the last chapter? Are they repeating themselves just with slightly different language?" at other times things happened slightly out of order the characters reference something that doesn't occur until a little bit later.

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