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The transition into a harem was a dissapointing on

Revisado: 02-16-25

The first 3 books of this series was pretty top tier action/progression fantasy, For whatever reason the author decided to transition pretty hard into harem fantasy with this one and unless that is specifically what you are hoping for I suggest ending the story on a high note in your mind.

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This book is just way too stressful to listen to

Revisado: 02-13-25

Performance: The actor made me anxious, everything was read in this constant anxious excited breathy half shout.,.. it was exhausting...

Story - Mediocre solo power fantasy - the story is just nonstop combat for the entire book with almost no breaks... its below average at best... two hours of combat is exhausting 21 hours of nonstop combat is disappointing...

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this book is so much worse than the first couple

Revisado: 10-16-24

Mc simping for beautiful girl character, Mc making constant bad choice as in sociol situations...

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This is... Not good

Revisado: 08-12-24

Performance:
The performance... Does not help this story... Jamie does an incredibly bad Asian accent for most of the characters, which makes them all sound basically the same, its worse when he's trying to pronounce all the foreign words, which is its own issue worth talking about ...

Story: The story has all the flaws that Tao Wong has avoided with his other works, to the point that I actually question if he wrote this, or if it was a ghost writer and he is attaching his name to some one elses work. This is generic tower climber/Xianxia, and has all the flaws that you expect from those types of books.
Everyone is a mortal enemy with no real justification beyond "I want your stuff" the few people that aren't actively trying to kill the MC are so openly hostile that it is hard to feel any kind of attachment to them. The MC is not exactly likeable on his own either which doesn't help things...

Other issues... Then there are some completely unnecessary losses that the story takes for absolutely no reason - especially early in the story but really all throughout there is a lot of foreign words mixed in. Entire sentences, paragraphs in Malay, or Mandarin... this is incredibly distracting as some one who doesn't speak those languages you are left out of the loop of what is going on... and to be clear its more than a word or two here or there to add flavour, there are entire conversations that are just not in English because the author thought that was a good choice...
The main character is also constantly speaking in this strange rhyming/rapping style, and the upbeat lighthearted joking style just does not mix with the otherwise dark work that the author has created where everyone is ready to murder first and ask questions never at the drop of a hat, where friendships don't exist and betrayal is the norm... Even if you do find that type of humor funny (which I will admit I don't, it would work better in a much more upbeat story like Naruto, not this one).

The sad thing is, the actual story itself was fine... it wasn't amazing or really even good compared to other tower climbing stories... but the issues that I brought up made me DnF this story...

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A combat log isn't a story

Revisado: 08-10-24

This is a 16 hour combat log, There is no character interaction, there is no story, there is no motivation... Hell even the inner monologue is more just a description of constant ongoing combat...

This is not a story, the other reviews on this site are paid actors or brain dead I'm not sure which but this is NOT worth your time...

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Yeah not worth the credits

Revisado: 08-08-24

This series is a waste of time. The author spends 90% of the time running around in circles on bs instead of actually moving the story forward, in book one it was manageable because the author was developing the characters and setting up the world, but in book two, it devolves entirely with half the book focused on wasting time running circles around with some dumb bird, and the other half repeating the exact same information we learned in book one over and over again.

Read literally anything else, anyways I am returning this and asking for my money back, If I could I would bill audible for the time I wasted...

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This is bad

Revisado: 07-21-24

Ok I'll start with the good.
The story is built around a very interesting concept where people/items/places/etc all have worlds inside them that can be levelled up. These "worlds", the various metaphors around the things they represent, and exploring them are actually pretty interesting and fun...
You are getting a 80 hours for a single credit, that's a great deal!

Ok now for the piles of bad...
The main character is an insufferable narcisistic prick with a giant and frail ego, who talks and thinks like the whole world revolves around them. On its own this wouldn't be so bad, but half the time the character is also whining non stop about one thing or another which makes things feel exponentially worse...

Beyond that the author builds the story around these open secrets so he can avoid answering hard questions about the world on a regular basis, and the longer the story goes this gets worse not better as the answers you DO get are rarely satisfying, and for 90% of the story basically undermine the entire book because the reader and the main character isn't allowed to find out what they want to find out...

The rules of the world are retconned on a relatively frequent basis, (at least once or twice per book), so that the author can make their new idea work as part of the story, but the more you pay attention the more flawed the story feels...

Beyond that I could get into all the specific places I had problems with the story, whether its the author giving abilities to the MC that they don't use for entire books at a time, acting like he is proving himself to everyone after every single fight. The main character having "epiphanies" that are basic common sense, coming up with absolute basic strategy not even thinking a single move ahead and calling it "4d chess"... I can keep going but I would be here writing for 80 hours...

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This book was a mistake...

Revisado: 02-15-23

Where the first 3-4 books felt like a wonderful side story in a world we are already familiar with... something went horribly wrong with the transition into CAL's soul space.

With minimal spoilers, I'll start with the fact that the story reads like an unedited or disconnected thought stream. Like the author has a whole bunch of cool ideas they want to do all at once, but no real idea on how to tether them to a narrative which makes the book feel like 13 hours of non stop exposition.

Unfortunately the problems only really start there... because of Artorian's deal with CAL and his relationship with all the most powerful people in his new world there is no real sense of dramatic tension or conflict, and even the tasks he spends most of the book doing come off as feeling mostly hollow, arbitrary or kind of dumb.

For some of the book its made out like he's taking on a role of a deity or something for the world, but it feels hollow because the little "World Building" he does is done with his sarcastic undertones, the author keeps as much of the writing as possible from getting into the details, and hand waves/time skips any world building he would be doing... and since there isn't really any conflict of interest to hold the rest of the narrative together the book feels honestly jarring to read.

I'm not really sure how the author can fix this problem in the future books though, so long as Artorian is CAL's right hand man, and intimately involved with the most powerful person other than cal in their little world, unless the writing changes so Artorian is essentially another dungeon core and treats people like numbers (Something that is anathema to his personality), there really can't be any meaningful conflict going forward...

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So here's the thing

Revisado: 12-30-22

About half way through the book I would have rated this book 4/5 or 5/5. But starting about half way through the book it starts going down hill.

First, more and more things happen very conveniently for the MC to move the plot forward and while it kind of feels natural in the first half of the book, the farther into the book you get, the more often it happens and the less natural it feels.

Second, a lot about the world either seems contradictory, out right doesn't make sense, or just isn't explained very well... As an example we learn very early that

Finally I had to take a star off for the whole thief aspects... it is so contradictory to how the MC is portrayed during most of the book, and you can tell the author feels that way as well - with monologues trying to justify actions that go against his persona for the rest of the book...

In the end though It is still fairly good and worth a listen.

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Its the little things that get you

Revisado: 12-22-22

If your reading this after reading the first book you know that one of the major flaws of Arthur Stone's writing style is he never writes anything in one sentence he can write in a paragraph, or better yet a whole chapter, often while repeating the same point several times. If that bothered you about the first book, the issue doesn't really get better.
Now for the real meat of it, the whole story (or most of it) of the second book is basically devoted to getting back to the fort from the first book. Essentially if you skipped the whole second book, other than a couple of key events that happen in the last hour or two of the second book you will have missed nothing relevant to the story other than some power creep.
Moving on lets talk about the power creep... Instead of gaining ascendancy, the author just keeps changing the rules for how he can gain power so he can keep the main character at "level zero". Going from having a limit on their stats, and talents, to just grabbing whatever talent is convenient to the plot, earning new types of powers since we have limited the old types of powers... etc...
Then there is combat itself... so many combat situations completely ignore previously established rules.... In one of the very first combat scenes we see in the first book, an "Alpha 25" is stopped dead in their tracks without even being dodged, by an estimated level 40, But we spend most of book 2 killing level 20s, and 30s...
Then ok maybe I can just turn my brain off and try to enjoy the story... well like I said nothing happens in the story, and its hard to take the MC constantly referring to themself as a "Level Zero Nobody" basically just makes everyone in the world look like an idiot as he treks through an area everyone in the world treats like an extremely dangerous deathtrap like its a walk in the park.
Then there is the gollum rip off side kick character, that kind of worked as a short term thing in book one, but really doesn't add anything to book two except to distract from the recklessness with the extreme greed.
I think the premise is still interesting, but that's all it is is a premise... if the author spends more effort keeping the level zero hero thing going instead of moving the plot forward I'll probably drop the series at book 3.

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