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On the good side of meh

Revisado: 08-24-23

MC is a tree, fine, but there’s no real struggle, no smart usage of skills or a complex interesting world. Performance was great, but the story is just kind of missing something to make it really compelling.

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Stop wasting your time reading reviews and buy this book

Revisado: 06-08-21

This book is great. It continues along the same line as the first, so if you liked the first book this should be an easy buy.
I love how the world around the MC struggles to deal with him, and how there’s always plenty of jokes to go around, but the philosophical discussions and examination of people’s behaviour and actions are what really set this series apart.
It’s that mesh of lighthearted banter and deep, thought provoking discussions that got this book 5 stars from me. I almost never give a book a perfect score, preferring to save that rating for when a book really stands out, this is one of those books.
Narration by Heath Miller is also pretty flawless, enough so that if there were any issues I didn’t notice, which is really all you can ask for.
So yeah, buy this book now, unless you didn’t read the first one, in which case buy that now and this one later.

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Fix chapter 82, and I’ll fix my review

Revisado: 05-30-21

This is a good book, well written and performed. The characters have grown, the world has changed, and everyone who doesn’t die lives. It’s a good ending, nothing mind blowing, but a solid good.

My reason for the low score is that one chapter near the end is missing all the audio except the narrator. It’s like listening to one part of a conversation. Now while that might not sound too bad since it’s only one, fairly short chapter, it happens in the middle of everything and really took me out of story. If they fix the chapter (and someone lets me know), I’d gladly bump my score up.

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esto le resultó útil a 2 personas

Better

Revisado: 05-25-21

This is a big improvement after the first book. I wrote about hating the fairy in the last book, and she’s definitely balanced out in this one. It’s a solid dungeon core series so far and if you like that kind of book and you managed to get past the fairy in book 1, then this is easily worth the credit. Hoping the 3rd continues the trend.

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I want the fairy to die.

Revisado: 05-23-21

This is actually not an awful book despite my 3 rating. Pretty standard as far as dungeon building goes, no surprises there. Plenty of pop culture references, which I always find strange in alternative universes, and lots of puns. Reminded me a bit of Divine dungeon. I actually like the universe and will definitely read the next book.

The fairy is the worst though. I think the narrator nailed the voice, as annoying as she does it, but the character itself is useless and annoying and only seems to slow the dungeon down. I wanted it to just eat her right off the start and be done with it. That said, if you can get past the “tutorial” chapters, she’s in the book less and is easier to ignore.

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esto le resultó útil a 3 personas

Run you fools!

Revisado: 05-02-20

First, this is a great story performed well.

That said, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU SEE THAT BOOK 3 HAS BEEN RELEASED.

It has been a third of my life since the first book was published, and when asked for an update, the writer just gets outraged that people would be curious. He does tours and interviews, blogs and writes short stories, he even created a card game, but nothing on a trilogy he claimed was finished when he released the first part. Just read the description to understand how truly frustrating this is. Positive reviews, awards won, millions sold. It’s a stroke to the authors ego, but it’s made that much more annoying by the fact that he would deserve all that praise and more, if he would just finish it.

I really DO recommend this book, as well as the other two in the series (book 2 and a side story), but I am so frustrated every time I see it that I lowered the overall rating for the feelings it brings up. Do yourself a favor and wait.

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Don’t waste the credits (vague spoilers)

Revisado: 07-15-19

First let me say i’ve never written a review for any of the 200+ books i’ve Listened to on audible, but I felt the need for this series. I’m writing this after having paused halfway through the last book in annoyance.

First the small amount of good. The magic system and world built by Vall is pretty interesting. The interactions with the characters the MC isn’t having sex with are funny and pretty well done, but he sleeps with just about every women around him almost immediately, so those interactions don’t last too long for anyone with a vagina. The narrator is also pretty solid, which helps slightly, but not enough.

Moving on, this “series”, which cost me a total of 6 credits, has about the same content as 1 book. (Think Harry Potter if he never got past his first year). Granted each book is under 10 hours, but the actual story is probably only 20 hours total. If you listen back to back (which I did for 3 of them), you can really notice the fact that these are not 6 separate books, but one book chopped up.
This is heavy on the harem, which, let’s be honest, is kinda expected in this kind of book, but the detail and length of the sex scenes are brutal. Based on another review I tried just skipping ahead, but found myself skipping 2-10+ minutes at a time. Normally I don’t care and just accept it as part of the book, but with this series it’s excessive. I’m not exaggerating when I say he sleeps with nearly every girl he interacts with. He makes an exception and doesn’t sleep with his “lovers” (a word the writer uses with cringe worthy regularity) sister, but if she wasn’t married i’m sure he would have.
On that same note, even in book 6 the MC gets constantly lost in thought about the beauty of his companions, even the ones introduced in the first book. I get it, she’s hot, isn’t the world under attack by monsters trying to wipe out the human race? Aren’t you surrounded by enemies on all sides? Isn’t your own government trying to kill/capture you while your friends and other sex objects are in danger... oh, but it is a pretty patch of grass, you better stop and have sex in this random creepy forest. Wait, aren’t there other people with you?

I started into this series while waiting for other books to release. In the future I will actively avoid anything written by Eric Vall, and I implore you save your credits/money.

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