Andrew Miller

Great audio performance

Reviewed: 08-09-24

Soundbooth audio clearly has the best and most entertaining narrator's out there. Paired with a light hearted, well written adventure makes for a credit well spent.

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Kiddy, but still cute.

Reviewed: 02-08-24

Krout has an annoyingly good talent for world and character creation but an exceedingly annoying need for puns and word salad in his writing.

This is a reasonable continuation of the series with clever plot, well written drama, and exceedingly annoying witticisms throughout the story.

If you enjoy a well built world and believable characters following a food based litrpg paired with a short-time limited listening credit and obnoxious child humor, then this is for you.

The good definitely outweigh the bad here, interested to see how the story scales up!

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Utter Trash: Harem Smut

Reviewed: 10-19-22

Very rarely do I have an issue with how a story is written. This is equivalent to surfing porn for polyamorous fantasies that don't actually exist. It is clearly written by someone who is either sex starved, addicted to sex, or an incel. This becomes apparent from the way characters behave and/or are portrayed.

Women are objects to be collected in this story. Non thinking and depraved for sex and attention so much so that the main character is constantly sexually harassed. But don't worry, men actually can't get raped and will fornicate with any beautiful woman.

The post apocalyptic world is under developed, characters lacking in growth and logic, and lacking logical consistency. It is merely a tool to be used to stroke the fantasy erection the author has created. The plot is constantly hijacked by harem smut and iconic tropes of detriment to fantasy novels.

Audible is a library for books, not badly written porn.

Don't support this unless it's late at night and you want to get your pixy off.

Orators are great though, kudos to them.

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Mixed Bag of LitRPG

Reviewed: 10-14-22

I will speak only critically of the story/author as the orator was great. Matthews clearly has the writing capability to create a great story, but has fundamental issues with pacing, active/passive voice, and character development. I don't think LitRPG should be his focus, as the genre mechanics tend to detract from his story.

The story begins reasonably well with an epic tale style of pacing, slow and descriptive. This continues at a slow and steady pace through the first part of the book where he does not reach his first level for several chapters. then suddenly, it is almost as if Matthews gets bored of his own written system and decides to begin telling the story rather than showing it in a passive voice, rushing through levels, experiences, and important events to help develop the character. this is not the first time I have seen the author get bored of his own system and break it, which is the whole point of a lit RPG. much of the same has happened in Jake's magical market where the pacing begins slow and then move so fast that the reader doesn't believe in the system the author created.

the focus of this story should be about an AI developing as a human being, but I don't get that feeling as I listen to it. it just seems like a random series of events that are emotionless and without either the raw emotion of a person or the strong analytical rigidity of an AI. this breaks down the main character of the story to be not only boring, but directionless.

if he continues this series, I hope that he will avoid undermining his own system and world constraints to suit what he wants the character to do. as of right now the story lacks consistency and directionality to a specific plot or character development.

Matthews has a great writing style and great ideas, but the implementation of a super AI seeking humanity in a desperate world falls flat on its face in this book rather than an evolution or triumph.

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One of the Pinnacles of litRPG

Reviewed: 02-22-22

Few LitRPG novels live up to the quality of this series. Rarely will you find proper dialogue, plot, world building, character growth, and diverging ideas in a LitRPG.

The main character is relatable and flawed with his thick mindset, making ample room for growth as the story escalates into a barbaric nightmare created by The system. The supporting characters bring both brevity and introspection while supporting the plot lines and their existence actually has impact on the story.

Possibly the strongest element of this series is the world building, adventures, and situational plot elements that forces the main character to to adapt in a hastened exploratory manner while getting by the skin of his teeth. The litRPG element is used as a tool rather than a crutch in moving the plot forward and is neatly integrated into the story. you'll always be guessing what will happen next!

It also can be said that this series doesn't force the awful fourth walling, meme addiction, or cringe worthy references that many litRPGs do. I find that style of writing to be toxic sludge to the work, and none of that applies here!

If you're up for a great fantasy incorporating litRPG elements, a star trek exploration vibe, believable characters, and a good old hack and slash time, then this series is for you!

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The mash-up doesn't work.

Reviewed: 02-19-22

There are too many angles, tropes, and inconsistencies to make it enjoyable. The characters are not quite believable and become less interesting as the story progresses. My biggest peeve was the indecision created in the writing. Writing a trope into another trope while attempting to make fun of the very same baseline concepts of tropes does not work here, it just discredits the work.

I can't tell if the author is going for slice of life, realism, a bad horror, wuxia, littpg, harem, or the punisher. Any of these things can work, but there still has to be a believable story with fleshed out characters and a reasonable plot. It's too much concept for too short a novel to pull it off, cultivated salad instead of chaos.

I hate being critical in reviews, especially when the writing is close to being good, but this book ruins itself with clashing plot lines and dialogue. You can't have murder revenge mode protagonist mood swing into a cringe worthy harem slut swing on same page. Let's leave the bad up skirt shots and bloodlusted vulgarities to b rated anime.

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How to break Eternium

Reviewed: 01-25-22

This book honestly was a disaster and should have been reviewed before releasing it. It felt like slogging through a fanboys desk full of bad fiction ideas that the authors drew from.

the constant fourth walling, pop culture references, and cliche dialogue/narration was not only cringe, but detracted from the story and world building carefully put together from the previous works.

If I hadn't read dungeon born, the completionist Chronicles, and the artorian archives I would have not continued this book to the end. this book seeks to invalidate all the long built rules, regulations, and themes developed throughout the series to actually create a great fantasy world with rich ideas by trivializing both the characters and world itself. very disappointing.

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A fun ride

Reviewed: 12-03-21

A great continuation of the defiers storyline which seamlessly transitions from one adventure to the next without exhausting the reader with an over abundance of detail and erroneous material.

The character development is interesting and refreshing, adding to the curiosity of what plot adventure will take place next in the multiverse.

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Too much fourth wall!

Reviewed: 08-07-21

I love the concepts and story arc. Pop culture references were too numerous and distracting.

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