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What the Hell happened?

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-14-24

Multi-thousand year old Torment of Lust who we are repeatedly told is super powerful and a badass bla bla bla gets easily slapped back to Hell by someone who is supposedly super bad at sorcery and all of a sudden hes having moral compunctions about killing demons? In Hell? What? He keeps getting the snot knocked out of him by the same tactic over and over. I cant tell if its a failing of the MC or a failing of the writer to come up with something different to counter his MCs powers.

The story was great up until now but its at this point that things stop making any sense.

Parsneau is great as always. Love her.

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Good Story but the romantic plot is a flop

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-09-24

I really enjoyed the overall plot of this book, but I really felt like the Romantic Plot fell off a cliff.

Right out of the gate MC gets gaslighted by his new "harem" as they all turn on him. Its straight up "you did everything wrong, but since Im so nice Ill let you off the hook as long as you spill all your secrets." I dont expect much realism in the realm of fantasy stories, but lets be honest, between the way MC has acted like an anime harem protag by ignoring and pushing off developing relationships in book 1 and now the girls turning on him and gaslighting him, this screams red flags and a flopped relationship already.

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Dont let the cover art fool you no competency here

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-12-23

Despite the badass look of the characters in the cover, theyre all pretty stupid. Im all for stupidity for the sake of comedic relief, but theres a point where its too much and you REALLY sit there an wonder "how did these people survive being adventurers for more than a day?" Just about every fantasy has a story or trope about that one adventurer party who got killed because they did something monumentally stupid. In this story, the MC and his party are that trope. They never have any plans going into any situation and just run out there, they dont even set a watch when camping in the wilderness, the MC has about as much agency as a hamster never really stepping aside to practice his magic until hes in a fight, and the only reason none of them are dead is pretty gratuitous use of plot armor.

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Really glad I stuck with this series

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-25-22

I'm really glad I stuck with this series. MC is still a bit of an idiot, but at least now he has enough power that it doesn't matter so much.

Now if only he could start keeping his promises to the girls... Rob strings along Daria so much I'm doubly convinced this is a fantasy title because any other girl would have left him after getting turned away so much. Seriously, at the beginning she's frustrated that he hasn't made good on his promises and by the end STILL HE HASNT DONE SHIT. She doesn't deserve this crap.

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Great SoL with a great cast.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-21-22

I really enjoyed this one. It was so easy to listen to and just gave me all the warm fuzzies you come to expect from a good SoL. Despite not having much experience with the girls in his previous life, MC doesnt drop the ball which I thought was really nice. Im very much looking forward to the next installment and it probably be an instabuy for me. This is my first book by this author and from what I see so far, Im looking forward to getting into his other works!

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Good story, but with a single digit IQ MC

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-16-22

This series does so many things right. Good world building, interesting power mechanics, great female characters, but it's all brought down by a brain dead MC. It's like painting the Mona Lisa... and then punching a hole through the face of it. Every single time MC gets in a fight he forgets, I am not embellishing, half his repertoire of skills and equipment and then promptly loses said fight forcing one of the girls, literal plot armor, or the goodwill of his enemies to save his butt. Why have a literal hour of exposition on him training how to fight mages only for him to use absolutely nothing he learned the next time he fights a mage? Spends hours and hours making potions to help him in a fight, uses none of them. Why have him monologue about how Honor has its place, but can get you killed, then have him get all hot and bothered about honoring a duel that is stupidly one sided.

I get writing in suspense, but don't sacrifice the IQ of your characters in order to do it. It's lazy and extremely frustrating.

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Great story so far, but its lacking in some ways..

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-27-22

Really enjoying this story so far. Plot is 5/5. My only gripe is the extreme lack of romantic and explicit content for what is considered a harem fantasy. Its VERY slow burn. So much so that I dont even know how the romance between the different characters is progressing. They just hit milestones in their relationships very slowly without any kind of build up or explanation. There is one event where two characters talk about their relationship in this entire book and by the end nothing comes of it.

Dont get me wrong. I'm here for the plot, but I'm also here for the "Plot"

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Great story for a Harem lit, but..

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4 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-20-22

Made it a little over half way through this book but I think Ill just leave off the audible version and go read it on Kindle. The story is good and I am engaged, but the choice of narration style just isnt my cup of tea. Like many others I got super excited seeing Andrea Parsneau's name on the cover and J.F Harding has a good voice, but they do not stick to characters. Each narrator gets their own chapters. That means that the same character has two different voices depending on which narrator is reading the chapter. It really pulls me out and jars me around. Especially hearing a male voice a female in a HAREM book. Ew.

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Very good series, but...

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-19-22

This is so far one of my favorite series in the harem genre. My biggest issue and hang up, however, comes from the MC. He drags his feet on every major decision and keeps putting it off and putting it off. This dude is the king of decision procrastination. Very frustrating, but honestly its really the only major negative for me in the series. Girls are great, Fights are great. Progression is great. MC drags around a moral anchor that literally gets multiple people killed, then keeps it.

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Parsneau is PERFECT

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-12-22

If you ever want to know what peak voice acting is, pick up this title and go about 10 minutes into chapter 24 and just listen. Andrea Parsneau is peak voice acting skill.

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