Stijn

This would have been an amazing read if it was 400 pages long. The pacing is just a mess. Lots of bloat, characters endlessly repeating themselves, completely pointless conversations,....

Maybe it's because I started this right after Cradle, but this one felt like a slog to get through and I found myself beginning to skim entire chapters looking for the point where anything actually started happening. (It's the last 100 pages fyi)

pros:
+ Completed series
+ decent writing,
+ an actual plot
+ fun main cast with lots of banter
cons:
- The stats make no sense and skills might as well not exist.
- Lots of fight scenes that massively overstay their welcome.
- First arc of book 1 almost made me drop the series. I'd recommend just skimming through it until
the 55% mark.

Great series if you don't mind skimming/skipping big parts

It's an enjoyable read with great progression and world building, but it's held back by lots of bloat, very flat/emotionless writing and an MC with no personality.

Okay series, but too simple/unambitious.

System apocalypse, humanity has to fight instanced dungeons while living in solo instanced hubs.

Pros:
+ completed
+ okay writing

Cons:
- Making everything instanced and separated feels like a cop-out for the author not to have to write meaningful worldbuilding or character interactions.
- progression loses all meaning about halfway through.
- Final “grand reveal” fell flat.

Average read, couldn't help but compare it with Farseer trilogy. Feels like Weeks tried to go for the same “the world isn't a fairy tail” vibe, but didn't have the writing skill to accomplish this without making the story feel forced.
And that's not even talking about the completely childish and just awkward to read romance part of the books.