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Terrible narration and pronunciation, far too much explanation not enough substance

Revisado: 10-10-24

Almost no one is going to consume this book without knowing the Main series. We do not need a constant reference back to the MAGEOCRACY every few sentences. I’m fairly certain they just threw that word in here so many times just to piss people off with the terrible hard G pronunciation by the narrator. You could cut this story down to about an hour without all the extra fluff and explanation of things we already know. You could essentially skip this one and not miss anything, unfortunately that seems to be a pattern in the side stories. We saw a similar thing in where the Cadet series went. We didn’t really get MUCH in this book that we couldn’t already have figured out through our interactions with the characters in the main series. No one cares how much math is in the stars….or how difficult Gatina’s classes are. She just plot armors her way through everything anyway.

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Interesting story but the series title is completely inaccurate

Revisado: 11-30-23

The premise of the story is enjoyable but the series suffers from a few issues. First and foremost, the title of the series does not even remotely come into play in this series. Merlin is mentioned a few times by a single side character but beyond that, nothing. I have never seen a story so reluctant to incorporate the draw point of the title into its narrative. The second point it suffers from is a completely insufferable Main Character. The MC is literally the most powerful being on the planet yet he is constantly acting like a child and complaining because he can’t choose the life he wants. While this is a completely normal character archetype it comes off as childish and pathetic in this setting. Everything is essentially handed to him with little to no struggle so it just feels like a male version of a Mary Sue. It’s a neat read but the author clearly struggles to understand that characters need growth and need to face adversity in order to be likable. If you create an all powerful good guy with an insufferable woe is me attitude you just come off with an MC who is an angsty teenager in an adult setting.

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Calling this Firefly with magic is an insult to firefly

Revisado: 10-17-23

This series starts off great but quickly becomes a shallow mess of Deus Ex Machina plots. Morin seems to have approached each of these books as if he was doing homework from a creative writing class each based on horrible tropes. Long drawn out plots are suddenly ended in unsatisfactory ways because the ending demands it. Any and all character development is waved away, Every time a character is forced to face their flaws and addictions they find they are actually better off for having those crippling addictions and the story just somehow finds a way to make those addictions unending and the characters better for it. No lesson is ever learned properly, things either magically fall into place or the plot just works around them so that the big problems don’t actually matter in the end. This is yet another series that suffers from a lack of editorial input

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Starts off strong then author torpedos

Revisado: 10-06-23

The premise of the story is a neat one even with Litrpgs being all similar by nature. Dude wakes up with amnesia and goes through a series of events that introduce him to the rules of the world. Unfortunately the author decided that the MC was not only dumb but incapable of grasping even the most basic of prompts by the game UI even with other players explaining it to him. Granted for whatever reason the rest of the players all explain the system horribly as well for zero reason other than “we have no time” yet they spend minutes telling him they have no time to fill the empty space until something happens to prove they no longer have time. Part way through the story as the MC finally gets some progress the author regresses them even further by spending 30 minutes having him discuss his “perfect girl” on a mental checklist. This was completely out of left field and not something the character had shown as motivation or part of his character to this point and then the author kept doubling down on it having him make constant lewd innuendos that felt really out of place in a story that to this point has shoved down the readers throat that “time is short, death is everywhere” this isn’t your typical gallows humor; the author literally stops the action and danger in order to have this completely out of place conversation that lowers the maturity level of the MC by leaps and bounds. All of this time could be used to flesh out the game system and rule set which is a HUGE part of the LITRPG genre but in the end it just seems like most of this book is simply padding so the author can extend what should be one book into multiple for a larger payday.

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Great performance as always, slight disappointment in content of short stories

Revisado: 07-26-23

As always John Lee knocks it out of the park. Unfortunately this is one of the weaker of the short story books that makes it hard to justify the credit and the extended wait from the preorder. The stories have the typical Mancour style fans of the series including myself love and cherish but unlike previous short story anthologies nothing of consequence is really revealed and this just feels more like a cash grab at worst or a poor attempt at a holdover for fans until the series continues with a proper book. It is definitely enjoyable but by no means is it substantial enough to justify a credit

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Decent Narration, Juvenile author.

Revisado: 07-21-23

These books could be genuinely fantastic except for the fact that it feels written by a high school student. There are far too many references to movie plots and quotes almost every other line! It drags you out of the story. And the insistence of the author to continue to force long stale jokes on the reader just kills it for me. It’s a complete clash with the space opera theme and seems like a gimmick either to pad time and pages or a sad attempt at bringing humor to a dark story. Humor and sad stories can work but they cannot clash like this. Avoid wasting your time on this utter nonesense. Definitely getting a refund.

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Great performance, absolutely horrible story.

Revisado: 07-19-23

TLDR: skip if you like plot, grab if you like needless exposition and side plots that go absolutely nowhere and end up left forgotten.

The author suffers from the sin of believing every bit of plot has to be hidden within hours of subplots that go nowhere and only exist to reveal a single sentence of information about the overarching plot which is very thin. There is in reality one books worth of plot stretched across 3 books by an author who if he were an orator would love the sound of his voice so much he would make Nero jealous. Avoid this story, far too much exposition, not nearly enough plot and it is almost NEVER ok to have a character exposit in detail on the scene the reader just read in detail two pages before. The author does this several times as well as throwing in ridiculously padded scenes of copy/paste violence that are designed to make the reader feel the “danger” but in reality are just the same old sequences that interrupt at the worst possible times when the author is just finally starting to show a shimmer of plot.

The performance on the other hand is a masterpiece which contributed 98% toward me finishing the book, the other two percent is split evenly among wanting to see if the plot actually formed into something deserving of the author being called such and not wanting to waste the credit.

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Truly terrible wasted opportunity

Revisado: 02-09-23

Chris Fox is not a great author by any stretch of the imagination. Do not be fooled by the positive reviews. The main part of the series is mediocre at best. We have a beautiful universal setting that is constantly weighed down by an immature author who cannot make simple plot points meet his overarching plot which in caused him to force plot through terrible out of character decisions all for the sake of "THE PLOT DEMANDS IT!" This gets INFINITELY worse in the legacy series where the MC who im fairly certain is a self insert of Fox hands power over constantly to people who repeatedly screw him over for no reason other than "the author wrote it this way". Do not waste your time on this. The series is written only to sell the RPG.

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The story is to be expected, the narration is not

Revisado: 11-23-22

The story does have that Mancour feel to it even with the duo writer. Never once was I taken out of the story by a jarring disconnect with author changes like I have seen in other books. Emily Burch Harris did a wonderful job capturing the essence of the Spellmonger world and did a very good job with Gatina. The reason for 3 stars is due to the story not being as gripping or high stakes as the rest of the series which is understandable. It's good on its own but I like to rate these as part of the whole.

The narration is a different story. I have nothing but respect for these voice actors. The constant shift between voices and keeping track of them is phenomenal; but unfortunately once again comparing to the main series, compared to John Lee; Fiona struggles a lot. The mispronunciations are jarring. Im not sure if these are typos in the source material or a disregard for the established works but it is jarring. Some words like the names of places; I could understand, that can be up to interpretation, but words like Mageocracy and Magi being pronounced MaGoc-Cracy and Magee makes little sense and shows a profound drop in quality from what I have come to expect from the publishing company. I cant fully fault the Voice Actress because blame definitely lies on the recording studio and team management for not correcting this issues. I probably will buy the next in the series just to see Gatina's perspective on what happens to Count Victriol, er...Victoroll...um Overall? Oh right Vicitrol, my bad.

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Truly amazing and worth the wait

Revisado: 12-27-20

I love Terry Mancour. His writting is superb, his humor amazing, and his world build truly epic. Each installation keeps me entertained and filled with joy.

John Lee is a master of voices and narration and brings each character to life

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