Rebekah

Amazing approach to sharing the Gospel

Revisado: 04-23-25

I loved this book, found it very convicting and at the same time a beautiful answer to questions I have had to learn over years of my walk with Christ. I highly recommend this book for young or new Christians, or parents trying to find a way to articulate their walk to their teens who are being exposed to the culture of the world.

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Logical Consistency is Nonexistant

Revisado: 07-08-24

Main characters are the best thing about this book. They're decent, not too dumb with their powers and bring some straight man humor about the absurdity of their situation to the story.
Harem wouldn't be intolerable if every female character wasn't a condescending know it all. They talk to the mcs like they're redheaded step children, but then profess how much they like them.
The decision of the main characters to join a clan that manipulates, insults and ultimately sends them to their deaths was too infuriating to handle. Everyone knows they've been on the planet for less than a month but has absolutely unhinged reactions any time they make a social faux pas, but these guys chooses to stay with them for .... reasons? The author thought it would be cool, idk, it's stupid as a hell.

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Sloppy editor or scatterbrained author

Revisado: 09-25-23

This book tries to be a little bit of everything and ends up being mediocre at it all.

It's too mature for YA, too juvenile in style and content for adults. How old is this kid? Cause he reads like a twelve year old which makes all the harem elements jarring and gross.

It's either a magic academy book, a dystopia scifi, or crafting, depending on the chapter, but never fleshes out anything enough to be a truly unique take on any of that.

What it is definitely not is a progression fantasy because the main character can't progress if they're powerful and amazing at everything and have no personal flaws or social obligations holding them back and everyone loves them and immediately trusts them no matter what.

I have a lot of very specific gripes about the world building, but let's just say none of it holds together or has any logical consistency. Each chapter reads like the author just saw someone else's story, thought that it was cool and decided to add it to his stuff. What this story needs more than anything is a ruthless editor.

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Very Engaging

Revisado: 05-08-23

This book does a very good job of looking down on no opinion except those people who won't have a honest discussion. Though at some points names, dates and locations can get a bit jumbled (maybe more of a problem from an audio standpoint) the overall narrative and perspective keeps the story flowing and its not difficult to reorient yourself.

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Amazing Worldbuilding

Revisado: 02-03-23

This was a phenomenal book and though it was long I thought it had good pacing. The main character is a sympathetic driven individual with a whole arc of growth that correlates with the themes that the authors seems to be weaving into this book.

The side characters are individuals who have their own backgrounds, feelings, and motivations that weave into the larger story and themes. No one is a cardboard cutout.

The world building is the largest draw of this story, though if you're not the type to enjoy expansive colorful descriptions this might not be the book for you. The author has clearly put a lot of effort into not only creating the world but into finding the right ways the describe it to the audience. Revealed through the perspective and growth of the main character the world unfolds at what feels like a natural pace with hints of deeper mysteries and a plot of a grander scale that grows to the climax of the story.

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I can see the reason for the complaints....

Revisado: 05-02-22

If you skip every part with the new brain training and associated character the story loses absolutely nothing and moves at an okay pace.

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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Revisado: 03-16-22

The Good : Good world building and pretty solid fight and dungeon dynamics, and an interesting take on the genre

The Bad : the main character is a bowl of oatmeal, wholesome but bland. In the context of his upbringing I could forgive it in the beginning, but it doesn't really change. All other characters are cardboard cutouts that the author just moves around for the convenience of the story.

The Ugly: Isa, the main female character of the book. She's whiny, entitled, clingy, abusive and her narration voice does her overall awful character no favors.

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A little extra with the sex but overall great

Revisado: 02-20-22

I really enjoy all the characters and the story. The narration was great and some of the interactions had me laughing at points.

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MC is devoid of character development....

Revisado: 01-11-22

...and that's a problem because he's a jersey. He's a preachy, self-congratulating, poly-sci atheist. That would be fine for "stranger in a strange land" style character arc. But that isn't what the author chooses to do.

The best example of what kind of person this character is, how his vaunted atheist, socially conscious morals are reflected in his actions is comes mid mark in the book.

The MC approaches a background character with an apology for being a jerk. This background character is, in this authors own words, about 16 years old, has been trained since childhood to fight life and death battles, has just failed a major exam that all that training has been for, has failed to make the important social connections that his family might need for the coming monster surge, and has been repeatedly embarrassed by the MC in front of all his peers.

The kid rejects the apology in the spirit which is was given. The grown adult MC approaches this kid maybe at the lowest point in his life and embarrasses him in public as a political theater move to impress and gain access to the elite of society.

The hypocrisy and cruelty of this action actually surprised me. Sure the kid was a spoiled noble, but the "hero" using deliberate personal cruelty to gain societal power seems to be more indicative of his morals than his giving away something that cost him nothing in time, effort or energy.

TLDR- MC thinks kicking kids while they're down for social points is cool cause he doesn't like stratified social structures.

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Slow start, but overall very enjoyable

Revisado: 12-23-21

The one big narration complaint I have is that the main characters speaking voice can be jarring. Its very nasally at times.

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