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Bad Virtue Signaling Bumbling

Reviewed: 01-15-25

MC is a gold plated idiot with the most black and white morality you can imagine. He just white knights his way through the worst decisions and everything just happens to magically work out.
He is sooo good he talks the bad guys into good guys every time, and they even pay him for the privilege. Everything works out perfectly and he is the savior of the worlds without even trying, what moronic drivel.
All the characters drool all over him and spill their inner motivations for no reason except that the MC has the perfect faux platitudes to solve all their tiny problems.
This would be great for a 10 year old if you wanted them to go fight bullies with words only to get the most gnarly swirly of their life.

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Badly written stressful waste of time

Reviewed: 03-14-24

It’s so bad, the MC is literally so dumb, the writing is wordy and cringey, everything is hyper emotional for no reason.
It is a constant argument between the two characters, the mc has “brilliant” ideas and the other character ALWAYS gets mad and yells at them, then realizes they were right. Getting upset at the tiniest things, doing dumb things and calling them smart, at one point the mc “invents” a ball to show the new world, like the whole population had never thought to make a simple ball.
How can you write a whole book where almost nothing happens. I keep waiting for some big bad or cool invention like in Wandering Inn but all it is is them doing basic stuff calling it brilliant and making tons of money then talking about how bored they are.

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Half-Baked Heroics

Reviewed: 02-20-24

"Grilled Armageddon" falls short of the narrative feast readers expect from Dakota's work. The story's premise uniquely equips the protagonist with foreknowledge, setting the stage for a compelling adventure. However, the execution is lackluster. The hero, despite being a top assassin with years of brutal experience, reverts to a timid college student, failing to use his knowledge proactively. His decisions are uninspired; he relies on luck rather than skill to obtain crucial items, diminishing the impact of his supposed expertise.

The supporting characters are one-dimensional, serving as mere conduits for "humor" without any real development. Their reactions to the apocalyptic setting are superficial, and their continuous reliance on puns, despite claiming to despise them, contributes to a narrative inconsistency that undermines the story's potential gravity.

The antagonist epitomizes cliché, lacking any genuine threat, and succumbing to convenient plot devices that ensure the protagonist's survival. This inconsistency extends to the portrayal of powers, further weakening the storyline.

Overall, "Grilled Armageddon" misses the opportunity to explore its dark setting meaningfully, opting instead for a haphazard assembly of clichés and missed chances for character growth. The result is a narrative that, despite its promising setup, becomes an overcooked, textureless sludge, lacking the depth and engagement found in Dakota's other narratives.

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You are what you write

Reviewed: 11-29-23

Rothfuss is the hero who forgot, forgot that we do not choose the big bad wolf, and one cannot wish it away with pretty lies.

One who is lost in trying to cut a story to fit in with the culture, instead of letting it stand unique.

Our hope remains the same as all those who read the first book, that the hero will wake up and realize his purpose.

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Author of Cringetown

Reviewed: 11-28-23

This reads as if written by a teen who has never interacted with anyone, jokes are all blatant innuendo and the low effort random references corny instead of the clever.

Author also doesn’t understand English, he says things like “randomly assigned to your lowest stat” and many many other roughshod lines that don’t make sense.

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Nauseating Cotton Candy

Reviewed: 08-20-23

This book started out great, it’s promising concept like an alluring bag of cotton candy at a fair, the interesting take of an AI adapting to life with humans in a fantasy world, but it turned out to be nothing but fluff writing packed with enough literary sins and sugar to make the stomach sick.

The main character is so overpowered literally nothing is a challenge. The most trouble he faces is almost dying from how overpowered his own skills are. The other characters are literally only there to somehow randomly have exactly what he needs to advance and solve the next problem.

This is a prime example of show, don’t tell. The main character somehow senses the motivations and thoughts of all the other characters as if it were obvious, both with his magical superpowers and just sensing exactly what they mean in their look. It’s just a cheap way to write in the backstory instead of having the characters actually talk and interact with each other. Although the characters are so one dimensional actual conversation between them wouldn’t be possible so I see why he wrote it that way.

The narrator has incredibly annoying voices and a monotone yet still pretentious tone, every accent is slightly Italian, he continually mispronounces words (twoo-ward instead of tuh-ward), and quietly drifts away from the mic then spikes the volume in the next line.

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Great if you remove all the political garbage

Reviewed: 04-07-23

Pretty good except for the soap box preaching. We all get injustice is a thing in the world, but the author goes on and on in the most whitewashed blatantly strong handed garbage of advice about how to social justice warrior instead of coming up with ways to creatively tackle the issue in a personal and meaningful way.

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Killer narration

Reviewed: 04-04-23

Man, Nick is always on point with his narrations, the voices and animation really brings the book to life. The characters are very believable and the subtle emotions he adds make it a blast to listen to!

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How Not To Write A LitRPG

Reviewed: 03-10-23

This book has all the sins of the genre and not many redeeming qualities.
Walls of skill/stat text, every character is a “hot chick”, overpowered character never struggles, calls players murder-hobos when he is one, to much magical/stat boosting gear to keep straight.
This is like the mobile phone gatcha version of litrpg. If you like being inundated by notifications and pop up’s and levels and gear and numbers and skills until your head is spinning this is the book for you.
Why do I have the description of a troll nursing in my head now? This book, wth.

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Great Book, Fantastic Narrator

Reviewed: 03-21-21

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this series, the books were great and the narrator really brought it to life! It was great listening to the bOb as he meandered through space!

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