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Unsatisfying ending

Reviewed: 12-24-24

That's about it. As usual the book was great. But the end.... eh. I dunno. This series will rival the best of the best when it's complete.

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Exactly what you would expect from a standard cyberpunk story

Reviewed: 10-21-24

This is not Cyberpunk Edgerunners. This is not an anti/hero story. For the most part it's fairly normal people getting blackmailed to do a job and of course nothing ever goes right. It has the Fargo feel where some goes wrong and everything that happens just makes it worse. It's not a terrible story, but it's not great either. Most of the characters didn't resonate, so they were difficult to care about.

Two things that really irked me. I have never heard anyone pronounce I.C.E. as three separate letters instead of just the word "ice". The other was that EVERY plot twist happens all at once right near the end of the book. One of those where the climax is at the end with no calm and no real epilogue. The ending didn't feel rushed, but it also didn't feel satisfying.

If you're here for a milk run gone sour, you'll enjoy it. If you're looking for Edgerunners, you're probably going to be disappointed.

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All dungeon, no adventure

Reviewed: 06-12-24

We all saw it coming, but yeah, 90% of the book is boss battle raids. The end of the book wraps a whole bunch of story leading up to here. That honestly felt great and made up for most of the rest of the book. It's not terrible by far, but it felt like the worst yes. Good news is the sequel sounds promising. Looking forward to the next one.

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Felt a lot more Ya than the rest of the series

Reviewed: 05-02-24

Later on in the book they hatch a plan that swings wildly away from the direction the rest of the series has gone so far. On the positive side there was a good amount of character development for several characters. Still, left a bad taste in my mouth. Next book may not be an instant buy.

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Non-LitRPG Scifi System Apocalypse

Reviewed: 04-23-24

Intergalactic Interdimensional Amazon Invades Earth.

It's a neat take on the System Apocalypse genre. There are a lot of fun interactions with the new system and how it affects the global economies and people's lives. This book is a lot of setup for more story later.

Unfortunately, there are some very annoying things. I get that BuyMort is supposed to bea dig on how people name things dumb, but it gets old and annoying. There are many situations where I sat and practically yelled at the book because the interactions were being obtuse. Earth as a collective imagined Clippy as BuyMort's AI helper? I doubt it. A more likely choice would probably have been Siri or Alexa. They made Clippy excruciating in this, I almost stopped the book there. There are also a few other character voice choices that I didn't enjoy and were a little difficult to understand at times.

It's not a terrible book, but it's not a great book either. Honestly I really wanted some LitRPG or at least more questing stuff that usually comes with System Apocalypse. It's just not there in this book. I won't be spending any credits on this series, only way I'll pick up more is on deep discount.

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A Life Well Lived

Reviewed: 12-25-23

Like others, I have seen Sir Patrick Stewart in many media. This book was a great insight to absolutely everything he has accomplished and the many great people he had interacted with over his life.
A couple not so great things. The narration. It's pretty terrible. You may have heard his narration in other things, but this is not that. Patrick even points it out near the end of the book. In this kind of book, it's fine. If it were a normal novel, I would have to refund it. The other thing is I have to take the whole book with a grain of salt. Maybe his memory is amazing, but I have a hard time believing people can remember so well even non-pivotal conversations from 30, 40, 50 years ago. Events sure. They can be researched and remembered with help from people, but even small conversations? I dunno. It was a good read nonetheless.

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Filler? Not totally, but yeah

Reviewed: 09-21-22

So the other reviewers aren't wrong, there is a lot of filler. But it's there in a way that we are reconnecting to the other world and with Jason's new perspectives from all the experiences he has had since.

There aren't many combat scenes, but there is some. I also felt like there were a few time/location skips.

It's honestly more of the same world that is enjoyed from previous books, even if it's not as exciting. It wasn't a bad sequel, just not great.

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Great combination of elements that works

Reviewed: 06-10-22

I was a bit worried about a zombie apocalypse LitRPG not really being my thing, but the author does a great job sucking you in. The setting has a great mixture of gritty apocalyptic reality mixed with humor.

The game aspect does take a bit to really kick in, and it's only really for certain characters, but it works.

Digby is a delight as he gets to experience technology and evolve into his class. Rebecca and another main character go through enough personality progression to keep them interesting.

All in all, great book.
I'm off to read the sequel right now.

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More adventure, Less cookbook

Reviewed: 05-06-22

Well, at least it was, until the last 2 hours or so of the book where it turned into Food Wars.

Anyways. The Narration is great. The story proceeds similar to the previous novel. We get some nice character progression, but it felt like the story lacked a bit. the characters tend to languish in one area or another for a while each time. There was definitely still some cooking, but not as much, but they made up for it with that ending. I have to be honest, I skipped a lot in those sections, listening to recipes and cooking instructions really isnt my thing. And then Eric said one of the dumbest things I've heard. "The majority of cooking is following your recipe." Yeah. I dunno. I really like the character power levels being on a percentage scale, but I'm tired of Fantasy cookbook. I'm also not quite sure how this is a LitRPG either? It's pretty fantasy.

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Lacklustre. 2.5 Stars

Reviewed: 03-31-22 Listener received this title free

First of all Neil Hellegers is an amazing narrator. Perfect job.

As for the book. Eh. Right off the bat, it's 2.5 hours shorter than the previous book. At 1.5 speed it's just over 6 hours long.

Right at the start of the story we are dumped into the middle of the action in a confusing scene. Micah is in way over his head and is going to need to go 10 years back in time because of course he does, that's what this whole series is about. Premise of the book gets explained, yada yada. I don't know. I really didn't feel the story of those one and really wasn't drawn into it as much. To make it worse, the story doesn't wrap, but it's not exactly a cliffhanger.

Also, these massive character profiles are nice on paper, but they're terrible on audio. In a book this short, one near the beginning and one near the end would be fine.

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