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Cringey With Strong Start and Weak Finish

Review from The Heroic Villain →

Pretty standard for this sort of writing—introduce interesting characters and plot, then turn it into a masturbatory description of what the author would do if he had arbitrary power. You begin with high hopes because the protagonist seemed intelligent and had reasonable options to work with. Once he simply had to get mad enough or..

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Great Story, Poor Format

Review from Super Sales on Super Heroes →

Delightful story, but it doesn’t translate well to audiobook. For one, there are waaaay too many characters introduced way too fast. At a certain point it’s hard to tell them apart, and you find yourself hearing a name and asking “who?” In addition, there are character sheets described in the audiobook. In book format, these..

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Ridiculous premise and progression too fast

Review from The Last Physicist →

The book is ridiculous, featuring a foul mouthed “physicist” with a conveniently omniscient and omnipotent AI sidekick who is embedded fully into his brain. Character leveling up is too fast and too unlikely; at only level 2, just a few days after being reincarnated on a strange new world, he successfully kills a giant psionic..

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