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Not a lot happened, disjointed, ended abruptly

Revisado: 04-24-25

It’s just a reset / stage-setting book. Lots of time spent talking about minor details like his businesses. No real adversity or challenges. Setting up a new villain that’s kinda boring - feels like a dead spot whenever the narration cuts to scenes about the stalker. I just kinda wish he didn’t exist for the sake of a better alternative bad guy.

MC does a lot of stuff that’s unrelated. I get that his power is growing dynamically, but I honestly lost track of why he’s doing random stuff like cutting off his soul to grow his mana pool or building a naval shipping company. Several disjointed parallel story lines.

And then the book ended randomly. Like not finishing a

It’s been a good story overall, but if the next book is as underwhelming as this one, I’ll spend my credits on more well-rounded series like He Who Fights W Monsters or The Wandering Inn.

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A lull in the saga

Revisado: 03-25-25

The whole witch storyline is more drawn out and boring than other books. The characters are kind of flat. Not much happens the whole book.

Gonna stop binging the series and take a break after this one. Realizing how much these books influence one’s feelings, especially when the characters do stupid stuff or get infuriatingly whiny.

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10/10 world building, hot and cold narration, slow and lumbering pace, frustrating MCs

Revisado: 02-05-25

Same as the other books. When characters lose their shit and there’s 5 minutes of moping, just FFWD.

MCs are stuck in their loops of being idiots. They make the same mistakes repeatedly. I’m still kinda wondering if Aba is a Christian apologist. Celebrates the religion while condemning other things like racism, as if they don’t regularly go hand in hand

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Better than the first book

Revisado: 01-25-25

The first book was infuriating. Second, third, abd fourth have been better and more worthwhile. Overall, the book is great.

The chapters on wistrom are boring and drawn out. Nothing really happens, and the characters are two-dimensional. It feels like a really weak attempt at replicating The Name of the Wind, but it’s just not. By a long shot.
There are still moments where Andrea does SUCH a good job whining and moping as one of the characters that it drives me up a wall. SO WHINY. These scenes are a master class in how to pathetically wallow in self-pity. And they go on and on…

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Unbearably stupid protagonists. Besides that, there is some good. Slow, overly detailed, not for everyone

Revisado: 01-03-25

Update: Nevermind. The protagonists are unbearable whiny idiots with the emotional intelligence of a bratty 13 year old. Write better characters. Pissed off, angsty, rude people who can’t tell when they’re smiling. Really. Who TF can’t tell when they’re smiling? Ug.

You can tell there’s something here, but the story just takes absolutely forever to get going. It’s a slow, plodding storyline. The protagonists are, at times, infuriating. The voice they picked for the main protagonist is nails on a chalkboard.

A Reddit thread said this book was one of the best LitRPGs of all time. In my mind, that’s He Who Fights With Monsters. This is a good book, but not one that stands out as better than many other LitRPGs.

I will say that I’m a guy. With only female protagonists, a female-sounding narrator, and IMO over-the-top emotionality in the narration (to the point of feeling annoying and whiny), it’s a book that doesn’t quite hit the spot for me, and I’m likely not the intended audience. So it might be a 5-star book for someone else.

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10/10 - just get rid of the chanting

Revisado: 12-18-24

The only part of these books I want to skip, and I want to skip it aggressively every single time, is when crowds annoyingly cheer a name over and over, usually in the games. The audiobook performance goes from 10/10 to 0/10 for a split second each time Travis is forced to emulate a crowds cheers. For future books, maybe just have the crowd cheering w/o actually including the cheers in the writing.

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Ok story. Poor world building, nothing to set it apart

Revisado: 09-13-24

It’s another hunger game/maze runner clone. Ok story, but not a creative, original plot line.
Underdog is overly talented
Underdog finds themselves in a gamified challenge with houses against
Underdog collects a group of ragtag and unlikely allies
Underdog breaks the game and wins, only embedding themselves further in the system that oppresses them

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The best

Revisado: 08-01-24

Between the exceptional character development, 10/10 performance, massive yet comprehensible world building, and philosophy/psychology at the core of the story, the HWFWMs series is head and shoulders above every other LitRPG series I’ve listened to.

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Character flaws and lack of development is getting annoying

Revisado: 07-20-24

The main character keeps acting like an idiot to a degree that is infuriating this many books in.

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It really picks up in this book

Revisado: 07-19-24

The story and characters are starting to fill out and it feels like the world building is getting there too.

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