Ugggggg. Just no. We had heard he was a soy politic kiss “A”, but the first 3 books were so good I was tasked to see if it was worth the club reading it. I can tell you now that I suffered through half of it before I had to turn it back in so you don’t have to.
His political, social, and environmental snipes are almost always trite and pathetic and take you out of the story. There were a couple that held a nugget of wisdom but the rest were ham fisted in and detracted from the vibe.
Bucket Boy to be the mercenary driver is apparently supposed to be funny but it just comes across as stupid. Thousands of mercs that can drive and they pick one that can’t??? Pathetic dumb weak writing.
Like so many other minor authors. Matt has made the amateur mistake of making everyone so powerful that he doesn’t have the skill, logic, or intelligence to keep up with his own story.
A race of characters that will be free if they win wouldn’t give a dam about any other racers and it would be a bloodbath at the start of every race. Pretending that they would even try and race befoe they laid waste to everyone around them in a cobbled together, nonsensical plot, is a plot hole. Though it fits with the rest of the moth ridden plot holes in the story. At least try and come up with some rule or reason for the characters to act in a way that they would never actually act like in a logical story.
Holly Cthulhu. This plot is the stupidest thing since the last Diz SW movie. Why would any of the other drivers not kill everyone? Why is there a pig that all of a sudden for no apparent reason has a god in love with it and protecting it? Contrite conveniences and plot armor to overcome every problem and repeat. Cthulhu I hate that I was the one in the book club who had to suffer through this dross. At least none of the rest will have to.
Donut still acting like a beeachball is supposed to be funny but her not having matured or progressed to not be a horrible, petty person is old. Yea Yea she’s a cat and cat’s are beachballs but that’s an animal, she was given intelligence and she’s had several books to develop and yet never does. Have to say we have all loathed her character for several books, and she’s not getting any better. Wish she would die in the story so Carl could team up with a good character.
Should be an explanation why the AI is torturing Cascadia? Lots of possible reasons, but none given beyond that she wouldn’t say her catchphrase. Should develope and explain what’s happening with the AI. He tortures her but why? Is it acting like that to others? It went from all powerful to what?
This nonsensical plot is like a bunch of 10 year olds and drunk rugby players got together to write the script to FnF 27. Just add way to many story lines, abilities, spells, equipment, and ignore them all unless you need some plot armor for some trite convenience to win the scene in the very last 3 seconds over and over and over again.
Driving down a ski ramp and firing missiles and dangling zombies out the sides and telling one to get on the roof while the other one throws grenades while listening to Rob Zombie??? Uggggg this story gets stupider and stupider.
Pasta tube armor road??? It was obvious from the end of the last book when the tens of thousands of spells were given to them that there would be an excuse for anything, no matter how stupid, to happen. It’s really too bad because these books started out good, but Matt showed his true Deuce self as his lack of skill has became apparent in that he just uses potty humor to try and cover up that he can’t keep together any type of good logical plot with the literally tens of thousands of powers the party now has.
The whole thing with the gods playing with everyone like toys is frustrating. Yet another thing that makes the story cheap. Enemies that can’t ever be overcome so really Carl and everyone should just be dead but the gods just ignore them and their plot armor.
Eli crushing Acuma’s balls? Really? All of a sudden Acuma is a complete moron. Has to dumb down a character that was supposed to be one of the most intelligent beings in the dungeon for a ball crushing joke??
Acuma being stupid then spilling everything in a pathetic dump. Horrible writing. Real 5th grade stuff. Not to mention that all they had to do to avoid all the problems is simply not attack anyone on the other floor and ally with them. Fn everyone on this stupid story does the dumbest possible thing to move the plot along.
Not killing the obvious bad guy and just talking till he curses their driver?
Ranting about yet another stupid Seattle Soyflake political fallacy? Cthulhu this story sucks.
This has got to be good enough. I can’t finish it. There is no way this story can be put back together. He is just counting on fans to support him and pretend the interesting characters are in some way creating a good story like the first books. Hoping that by some miracle it will all get fixed. We’re done wasting money on this series.