Unbelievably beautiful & brilliantly clever

My new favourite series. These three books have given me so much joy and have even ignited a passion that I have never felt before. Thank you Dennis, Dakota & Travis. You're truly a blessing to me and my life.

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Sleep inducing. I literally tuned out.

After a torturous 3 hour setup (no exaggeration - 3 hours!) featuring a needlessly complicated plot that ultimately means nothing (and could have been done in 15 minutes) I was excited to finally get to the litrpg only to become immediately mired in a further 3 hours of the MC discussing the world's magic system and arguing about philosophy. For the love of all that is holy, just get the story started!

The villain is a caricature straight from 'evil bad guys 101.' Her entire character arc can be described as 'I like knives and cutting people because I'm evil.'

Then there's the infodumps. Like, lots of them. All in the guise of people thinking about their plans for the future, or giving lectures on cultivation. At one stage the book even has one character complain to another that what they're telling them is boring. If you know this, don't then continue explaining it for another five minutes!

On the positive side, conversations felt natural, philosophy discussions felt intelligent and the magic system was well thought out. If you're really, really into the Divine Dungeon series, like, to the point where you just want to know anything and everything about the world, you may enjoy this more than I did.

But... that wasn't enough for me. I gave this book 7 hours of my life. I'm sorry, I just can't give it any more - this is going in my 'did not finish' pile.

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Well...Travis tried.

So here we have a good narrator giving you some character voices you can differentiate between easily. More so, Travis easily portrays Sonny as an amusing and fun individual. So kudos Travis, nice try.

But...I'm only listening to this because it's 3 for the price of 1. It doesn't matter if I miss details while I listen to it at work and my attention wanders.
I'm not familiar with the Divine Dungeon series of books, and that may be what's leaving me wanting. But if its anything like this then I won't be checking it out.
For me this book has a lot of talk but doesn't say anything. It has plenty of filler but no flavor. Looks great but has no substance.

I'm a fan of Krout's 'Completionist Chronicles', and would much rather he spend his time on that series than this or anything new. That series is Gold. This series is a Bronze / aluminum alloy and it has its place somewhere...away from me.

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