Witchdoctor

Another amazing entry

Reviewed: 04-07-24

Ongoing love for this series. It manages to avoid the obnoxious tropes of coming of age nonsense, isn't overly sexualized, and doesn't delight in endless drama. Instead, we get a cathartic epic that grows and expands in a fascinating and great ongoing series. 10 out of 10!

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Series Remains Amazing

Reviewed: 11-24-23

This series somehow remains amazing with ample character development, tolerable drama, clever twists, memorable fights and scenes, and random wackiness with a growing universe that has me scratching my head as to how Dinniman hasn't written a bad book in this long running series yet. Terrific series devoid of overused tropes!

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Series Remains Amazing

Reviewed: 11-24-23

This series somehow remains amazing with ample character development, tolerable drama, clever twists, memorable fights and scenes, and random wackiness with a growing universe that has me scratching my head as to how Dinniman hasn't written a bad book in this long running series yet. Terrific series devoid of overused tropes!

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Step Backwards… Dumb Character Arcs

Reviewed: 08-16-23

Book 1 was great but this one kind of collapsed into what seems to be unrealistic “girl power” trope where the female characters are infallible and all powerful and the “men is dumb” to a degree that is insulting as there are no real traits suggesting half of them have any real talent for anything but complaining. Persephone is also objectively a terrible leader but the author uses her barely escaping her repeated bad decisions as proof she can save her people (really?) which is just crazy and mirrors a major problem with humans and the social psych aspects of politics (“they are great because they can save us from a problem they created and they are stupid and blindly ambitious!). The best characters were also pretty much shoved to the background in the second half of the book and plot armor garbage came screaming out at the end to prop up the biggest idiots of the story in a tear-filled series of hypocrisies that would make any cadre of teenage girls cheer in ignorant triumph. Pathetic writing after such a promising start of a story.

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Return to Form

Reviewed: 06-22-23

I was highly concerned Rimmel had gone the route of so many other authors with lengthy sagas (e.g. Robert Jordan) and just spiraled off into nonsense and inconsistent character development after the plunge in quality and character consistency that was Nautical Noobs. Not the case here, story did swing more into a triple buddy novel, which I liked as it let most of the book swing away from Jim being near invincible to enjoying “the big dog” and Professor Badging-ton taking the lead for chunks. His having access to all his skills at the end doesn’t make a lot of sense but overall but was still highly entertaining and advanced the story without forcing unwanted romantic interests, drama, or bad intrigue pushing character flaws (which is mainly what I want and want to avoid in escapist reading), which was something Nautical Noobs didn’t really do as Julia remains a terrible character and Jim placating her when he is pretty apathetic to the nonsense of near everyone else continues to be a character misstep in terms of psychological consistency. But she wasn’t in this book much so another plus! Enjoyable book and saga. Continuing to look forward to the next installment of it as it progresses forward. Thank you Mr. Rimmel for reigning it back in!

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Amazing series

Reviewed: 07-19-22

This series remains amazing with a colorful cast, highly intriguing story with numerous twists and turns, a liberal sprinkling of humor, and a neo-dystopian setting with a fun combination of high fantasy, insanity, and space age. Easily one of my top 3 series with 5 star ratings from all the books so far. No preaching, coming of age, or overly dramatized nonsense here. Strap in and enjoy the ride with a diva cat summoner and a psychotic bomber running around in his undies with a cape!

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Amazing series

Reviewed: 07-19-22

This series remains amazing with a colorful cast, highly intriguing story with numerous twists and turns, a liberal sprinkling of humor, and a neo-dystopian setting with a fun combination of high fantasy, insanity, and space age. Easily one of my top 3 series with 5 star ratings from all the books so far. No preaching, coming of age, or overly dramatized nonsense here. Strap in and enjoy the ride with a diva cat summoner and a psychotic bomber running around in his undies with a cape!

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Step Down in Story Quality

Reviewed: 01-10-22

As a lover of the original Threadbare trilogy, I can’t say this was a great addition to the overall story. Cecelia became a dumb damsel in distress, Threadbare is annoyingly co-dependent, minimal attention was paid to the lit-rpg aspects in favor of the childish drama and a host of artificially bad decisions that ramps up the drama but is highly inconsistent with how the characters acted in the original trilogy. The Mediocre little medium characters also have come over to drag down the narrative and will likely take up story time from the interesting host of characters in the original Threadbare world. Finally, shifting from a cadre of skin walking demons to a dumb bunny pirate rife with dumb puns… bleh. Hoping Seiple wipes his mind of whatever is going on and gets back to the basics of his previously well-written lit-rpgs (start by killing off the dumb bunnies and little medium characters and move away from the not so-subtle sociopolitical nods that most of us seek to escape in our fiction-based literature).

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The Legend of Jim Begins

Reviewed: 11-11-19

Amazingly well written book. Ideal combination of steady story progression, humor, creativity, and just enough drama to keep it interesting without being annoying. Glad to have found another great author in the Fantasy-Humor category!

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Great Series

Reviewed: 03-17-19

As someone jaded on most the current swords and sorcery fantasy, I am overjoyed there is a series like this that presents novel takes on typical troupes and characters by having a strong and consistent protagonist that isn’t really good or bad. Great world building, subtle inclusions of drama and light humor. Extremely well written and narrative.

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