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If Gary Stu's bother you, you will be bothered.

Revisado: 05-27-18

This book has several elements, some common to this genre or Isekai , so Ill just give you some dot points on their quality, as you probobly know what bits are most important to you:

- The world: interesting, logical (even if the geography comes off a little "gamey") but many important or interesting elements are skipped over like "Wraiths", "chaos", "the goddess" it seems like these are to be expanded upon in the sequels, but I could have really used them in this book to avoid a little confusion.

- Characters: quite good, there are perhaps a few too many names introduced too quickly at times, but some of this books best bits are the little character moments where you get to jump to another characters perspective to see how a scene played out for their inner monologue. A crap ton of political intrigue, but it is presented so so, motivations and history are often skipped and instead you are just presented with "this is what happened" or "this is what I'm trying to make happen" rather than seeing how the political side characters played out problems, its all post or future tense.

- The RPG system: good. basically when you come of age "the goddess" literally blesses you with the ability to manipulate mana and a class (2 if your lucky) that is simply presented as a (short) RPG stat screen, everyone gets one, be it [Warrior] or [Baker]. It's kept simple, every class gets only 1 skill, and when you level up by consuming "world essence" (XP) you get a boost to 1 or 2 basic stats. The narrating of these screens is brief and uncommon.

- The Magic system: you kind of just push mana around in different ways, its logical and simple but the book doesn't get too much into it (our MC is a melee boy), the only real "spells" are just class skills or magic items.

- The MC: bad BAD BAD. sorry folks this is where it gets super boring and dull, his character is actually ok, likable, understandable, even has sypathetic personality flaws.
Problem is that he never gets to do anything, he is written with very little agency in the story, he never seems to make any decisions or resolve any hard situations. The few times he had a choice in something, it actually turned out later to be mind controlled during said choices.
Whenever something happens, either someone else is making the big play and fixing it for him (often without any input from him) OR he just casually walks through the situation with his unstoppable power.
Which brings up the biggest problem, he is a HUGE Gary Stu that has unimaginable power and upgrades CONSTANTLY thrown upon him without him doing ANYTHING to earn them.
Remember how everyone gets 1 class or 2 if they are lucky, he gets 4! and he gets to choose which one (so of course picks only the best, rarest, and most unique).
Leveling up is hard? sorry, here is an entire dungeons worth of XP all you have to do is carry this bag.
You still don't know how stuff works? sorry here is an academy scholarship because you bumped into the owners heir.
The academy is social class based and expensive? sorry, here is the house for princes and a servant.
Learning is hard? sorry, here is the best teacher and a secret best tutor.
The final boss is tough? sorry, here is an instant win artifact that activates itself.

and so on and so on, EVERYTHING just falls into his lap INSTANTLY

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Author falling back into bad habits

Revisado: 11-06-17

After 2 good books the writer falls back into bad habits from the first half of the first book.

Swapping between past and present tense erratically.
Dot point summerys of interesting conversations instead of actually having them, and said summerys taking longer than the conversation would have.
The bad kind of minutia when describing some scenes and events, going off on irrelevant tangents that kill the pace and tension.

It's more like a screenplay outline than a book at times.

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Enjoyable, but feels short even though it isn't?

Revisado: 11-05-17

thoroughly enjoyable however by the end you're left wondering "wait it's over", because it feels like nothing's really progressed from the start.
As someone who has been reading ahead in this series, it does lay some groundwork for the next book, but it feels like half of the next book should have been included in this book and the next book should have had a couple extra wrap up chapters.

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Very different, but very interesting

Revisado: 08-11-17

this book was a weird one lots of politicking lots of small minutiae but not too much. it was interesting from start to finish even if it did drag at some points I was just intrigued enough to keep going through the entire book, and it doesn't hurt that the voice actor knocked it out of the park!
it portrays a very different and very far in the future portrayal of different cultures without ever getting aliens involved.
I'm actually rather struggling to describe it to you, just know that it's worth a look, and worth your time to give it a try, you'll know within an hour or two if this books for you.

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How to make intergalactic war boring

Revisado: 04-29-17

it's just mind numbing most of the time, I don't know if it's the narrator, the writing, or a combination of both, but even in the midst of a fire fight it feels like nothing is happening.

many times instead of having an interesting conversation/moment the MC will just time skip or sum it up in a big info dump, and do so slower than if we had gotten to hear the actual conversation.

the monologue changes between current and past tense erratically as if you were reading an after action report.

it gets entertaining half way through after he meets "Skippy" when we start getting conversations with more than his inner monologue.

In short: the first 10 chapters should have been pared down to 5, and you need to listen to it at 1.25x speed if you want to get any enjoyment out of it

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Yay Pratchett!

Revisado: 10-20-13

a wonderful one shot set in a war between two piddly little Nations that mean nothing to the rest of Discworld but are still touched by rest of Discworld.

For existing Discworld fans: this one was better than the rincewind series of books, worse than the watch books, on par with some of the early witches books.

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A Bit too slow, For hardcore fans only

Revisado: 05-22-13

The story is fairly interesting but takes way to long to do things with extensive first person descriptions from multiple characters, just a very slow pace in general.

Narrator is fine not great but nothing really bad, just not as expressive or voices aren't as distinct as i would like, not being able to tell who is talking by voice alone(often I have to wait till the end of sentences to hear "*** said" to realize who said it)

The background music/sounds? don't seem to have any context either, just generic spooky moodsetters, not sound effects like a radio play just sounds.

For hardcore Doctor Who fans only, and not a good introduction to the Whoverse, in fact you Require some previous knowledge to get whats going on.

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WARNING: not the first Drizzt book

Revisado: 05-13-13

The narration is excellent but beware this is not the first Drizzt book, half an hour in and I am completely lost due to many references to past events, and already established characters and places.

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