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Fell a bit flat for me

Revisado: 10-26-20 El oyente recibió este título gratis

I enjoyed the first Spirit Core book for what it was, a former serial killer (spree killer?) turned into a ghost whose goal was to haunt a couple to death. In this one, the protagonist is in a house with kids and the rules suddenly change so that almost everything he has to do is via the children, or "minions" as is frequently restated. I was anticipating a slow corruption, having the kids maybe get encouraged to play pranks and then ramping it up with them maybe getting cold feet that they had to be talked into. Instead, I think implied to be hastened by Clive keeping them on a constant drug high through his ability to introduce contentment in them, they become malicious very quickly, and homicidal with one accidental use of him applying an auditory hallucination to them. Maybe that was the point of the narrative, that all kids are one drug trip or false friend away from jumping into killing, but it just didn't appeal to me.

As a side note, it's good that the agents of Heaven are at least cottoning on to that there's something wrong going on, but I'm really hoping that the third book doesn't continue to have the bishop arriving too late, to borrow from Monty Python, always on the back foot. Honestly, I think that's also another area where the book fell a bit flat for me, in that I never really got a sense that Clive was genuinely in trouble despite arbitrary (yet very precise) deadlines given to him. Potential roadblocks appeared, but were eliminated just as quickly. In comparison, the first book felt like he really had to build up his power and use it creatively and that there was a genuine chance he could fail.

The narration was good. Unlike the first book, I listened to it as an audiobook without reading the text, so the statblocks raced by even faster as largely meaningless noise for me, but that's the nature of trying to move LitRPG into the audio environment.

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Interesting story, and good handling of narration

Revisado: 10-24-20

I'll admit that I had some misgivings about an Audible version of this story. It's LitRPG, which means oodles of stat screens. Fortunately, this pretty much limited to the ends of chapters, and they were spoken quickly, which means they could just be skimmed through.

The actual story? You follow an unrepentant serial killer (spree killer?) who is trying to scare people to death so their souls can be saved to Hell somehow. It's a testament to the author that this is entertaining.

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Just as enjoyable in audio form as in text

Revisado: 10-22-20

I'm a big fan of Charles's work, and this is a good example of how good it can be. He takes on the inherent ridiculousness of the Slasher genre and turns out bloody hilarious output. The person doing the reading did justice to the content with the characters being distinctly voiced and easily understandable.

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