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Pearl clutching fantasy

Reviewed: 06-21-25

This story was pretty basic and predictable isekai. The amount of times that armored character comes up to some Pearl clutching noble or other idiot was way overplayed in this. It happens like 4 or 5 times. The relationships were shallow and kinda forced.

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Good book that is getting a bit too complicated.

Reviewed: 02-07-25

I feel like I have a pretty good memory, but the amount of subplots is getting hard to follow. I have read all of wheel of time, but now that things are coming together from different books in the cosmere and previous books I kept feeling like I am missing some hidden easter eggs. I liked the book overall, but really wish we got more Kaladin.

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Surprisingly good in a strange way.

Reviewed: 11-24-24

In many fantasy books the main character second guess a bunch of his decisions and abilities. Not here. It was almost strange how the main character just did things. He wanted something he just bam went and got it. He just gets down to buisness. Only reason I knocked off a star is because it is just really easy for him the entire time. He did go through some specialized training, but his power is nuts. Also while it is a nice change of pace having a character just power through everything it does leave the other characters behind as background characters.

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Weak world building makes for and unsatisfying story

Reviewed: 11-20-24

The world building is just flimsy. Some characters have powers so absurdly powerful it doesn't really make sense why the world is the way it is. The ease that one side can infiltrate another is absurd. Not being able to find the hero for years but then constant run ins when they are trying to hide. There is a lot of suspension of disbelief needed.

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Story was ruined by a bland and dumb MC

Reviewed: 11-13-24

I found the story to be somewhat cookie cutter. The main character is an orphan with a mysterious past that gets saved by some powerful adventurers and ends up getting set up to attend a fancy academy. (minor spoilers ahead) He gets in because he has almost the same amount of magic as a dragon and the begins to have dreams about what looks like to be his past. Then never really investigates anything about it. He makes some friends and does alright in school by working hard. The main character didn't have much personality other than not being a complete dirtbag and working hard. He is a former street rat, but doesn't seem to use that experience for anything other than being sneaky. There are plenty of problems he lets fester due to inaction and choices he makes to move the plot in a certain direction that doesn't make sense when you think about his past.

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Psyco in a childs body

Reviewed: 10-26-24

This is actually a review of the first 2 books. By the end of the second book the main character isn't even 10 years old and while and has killed a lot of people directly and indirectly. His family should know about most of these and they are still alright with it which is wild. The characters don't feel real to me and that tends to happen when the entire world revolves around the main character.

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Ruined by a terrible main character

Reviewed: 10-26-24

I wanted to like this book. Sound booth theatre really brought this book to life, but the main character just killed it for me. Some minor spoilers ahead. The main character's is a has been musician that is now in the body of a bard in a fantasy world. His entire backstory is pretty much irrelevant since he magically becomes able to play a lute, magically knows songs, and magically plays the lute. Also his lute ends up playing itself as well. So the whole reborn musician is irrelevant. Then we get to his personality of just whining and being an idiot at every turn. He doesn't try to understand his surroundings at all and it is frustrating. He makes many cultural blunders and acts like a know it all as well. I only got through a third of the book before I had to throw in the towel.

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Weak story, over the top narrating

Reviewed: 09-05-24

I read the first 2 books in this series and will not be continuing. Some minor spoilers ahead. The main character is a dao cultivator that goes on the path of the berserker. He literally uses rage, fear, and other emotions as fuel when regular cultivators use qi. His type of cultivation has almost every advantage over the qi cultivators other than it is kind of illegal, but no one uses it or knows about it really. You learn that there are survivors from earth and that others also have the ability to awaken their inner flame and become berserkers as well, but somehow he awakens first. The problem with this is that many of the other people have been in some crazy situations and should definitely awakened before him. I say the story is weak because the berserker ability is very dues ex machina prone. The more the odds are against you the more powerful you are.

The narration is way over the top. Kinda cringey to listen to really.

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A surprisingly fun book.

Reviewed: 09-05-24

Books that involve time travel can be a hit or a miss for me. The big problem is usually that most characters feel disposable and the consequences are nonexistent when the mc can just rewind time. In this series I did actually come to care for some of the characters that may have been just temporary, but the MC really steals the show. He is funny, somewhat honorable when it comes to his friends, and someone you can rely on. The MC also doesn't always take everything seriously and is kinda nuts. It was a fun story.

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Decent book, but stopped at book 3.

Reviewed: 09-05-24

This is a review of the first three books. The story follows a somewhat nerdy guy that gets transported into the his favorite mmorpg. It is quite unique since the world he is transported to is real and yet still a game to some back on earth. I found the power scaling in this world not to make sense really since the achievements that the MC has should make him much stronger experience wise then he is. The battles were complex and somewhat entertaining, but I feel that the progress in the main storyline was too slow for me.

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