P-Date: 2024
Genre: LitRPG
Review: This was a heck of a lot of fun. There is really good character development and movement throughout. Of course where Mr. Hunter excels is the world building. He has developed a world with a myriad of possibilites.
The only downer is the cover art. Lame-o. Where da frick are his Jorts?
I want the next, NOW!
Rating: 4.6/5
Publishing Date: 2023
Genre: LitPrg
Review: These novels grow in the myopic development of Joe, without the character assets that made him such an interesting dude. Gone are the days of quests with buddies and the interactions therein. Now, we just hang out by ourselves, slowly advance in levels and work on becoming a city. That’s ok for a novel or two, yet any more than that and it becomes repetitive and boring.
We are going to a new world in the next installment but I wonder if this is going to be a remix of the of the same shjt in a different setting.
Rating: 2.5/5
Publishing Date: 2023
Genre: LitRPG
Review: Another awesome installment by DK. The only downer from the other novels is that Joe is even more myopic and borderline NPD than usual. I like when he is questing with friends and actively supporting them. It is almost like the author just dropped developing other pivotal characters.
Still looking forward to the next.
by Dakota Krout
Publishing Date: 2023
Genre: Fantasy/litrpg
Rating: 4.7/5
Review: What can I say that I have not already said? This is a great series. Highly entertaining.
Publication Date: 2023
Genre: LitRPG
Rating: 4.0/5
Review: Once again, Dakota entertains and keeps you reading deep into the night. Number 8 is a continuance of a broadly swathed story line spanning a couple of planes. If this were longer, I would give it a solid 4.8.
Genre: LitRPG
Rating: 3.3/5
Review: This took awhile to get off the pot. Must of been too much cheese. Speaking of grinding one out, we are along for the ride during heavy advancement theory with little action to quell the beast. The story line picks up at about the 75% level, then ends abruptly. Not sure if I am going to continue with this series unless there is some length to make up for the lack of movement. Even though I felt a bit ripped off, l had a fun time during fleeting moments.
Usually this author delivers in spades but this one is lacking in depth and length.
Genre: LitRPG
Rating: 1.3/5
Review: I have never been disappointed in any novel that Dakota Krout was involved in…until now. This last installment started out well paced and cogent. Then it takes the usual turns of a stuttering story line and begins hopping around like a spastic rabbit. Artorian is a great character and carries the series yet turns to shjt with statements like “cheeky”, “adorable” and “smirking” being pounded into your sub conscious while he goes about his self-centered business as the embodiment of love? I had a hard time liking Artorian as he evolved with virtuous intent while everyone worshiped his self-deprecating personality. The snuggling version of little Artorian in the lap of the Ice Lady was truly barfable with a writers self-indulgency for smugness. Pur shjt imho.
The ending sucks because there is no closure. A writers gimic to hold the door open for another series that will provide no entertainment value if based on the same dismal character that failed a readership.
Publishing Date: 2021
Genre: LitRPG
Rating: 3.2/5
Review: This installment moved at a good pace yet was bereft of story line progression. I think there should be some logic to the story line that walks in step with character development. We just have to accept that we know Artorian and all his quirks but not at the expense of supporting characterization, world building and story line development.
Sadly, what began as a cogent quest through Eternium ends up jumping from here to there without reason. The game player stat development was long winded at times, and I really don’t care. Just sum it up and move on rather than belabor the intricacies of leveling up. There are pop culture references that do not fit with the world building and now suffer through repetitious iterations of “cheeky” along with “adorable” and “smirk”.
I really like the cover art and will continue to the end as I am a finisher.
Genre: LitRPG
Rating: 2.3/5
Review: This installment kind of gets back to the roots of a nice cogent story line found in the first two novels of this series. And then it goes wonky here and there, so much that you are bereft of direction. Crazy tangents without explanation get so tiring. When you are engaged then suddenly whisked away to a story line that is uninteresting, that is a major fail.
The diminishment phase of Artorian is really not interesting and allows for more jumps in the story line than a flea on a hot plate. The strange and weird, when presented to various characters, is accepted with a sense of non-Cha lance, but introduce demons and everyone goes batshjt crazy.
I said I would quit this series if I read “smirk” one more time. Well here I am after getting bashed in the face with it. I am only sticking around for the finale’ for Sunny as I have grown to appreciate his characterization. The other characters could of had some depth but were abandoned long ago.
Genre: LitRPG
Rating: 2.7/5
Review: Ah, the “Demon with a heart of gold” shtick never gets old. Flipping roles to round out true evil are the Celestial Heralds that represent insanity. I know its just a book but in these times it is a patterned reflection of reality that consistently knocks on the door of life. I wonder how one of the authors separates Christian life with writing about “Good Demons” and “Evil Angels”.
This was, like the others in the series, entertaining. Pwner is awesome as is Gothic. The novel was short and the story line, fairly patterned with an abrupt ending that may leave the door open for further expansion into this universe. Overall a lot of fun but you don’t get your moneys worth in terms of page count.
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