Aaron

Overall I liked the series. It's not your normal fantasy and I liked that. It does hit our heroine pretty hard and even dip a bit into torture porn territory at the end, but but mostly the gritty realism made the story more believable.

There was no excitement.  Maybe back then it was new and exciting, but it was mostly dry facts that aren't exceptional now.

Spoiled kids trying to be dark and edgy.

Computer geeks save humanity!

Uninteresting.  It should have been at most half the length.

A burly gun enthusiast writes an adventure novel about a burly hero that totes around big guns and kills even bigger monsters.

Too much fun to be a guilty pleasure.

Melodramatic, tell instead of show, boring.

The story wasn't particularly bad, but it wasn't very intelligently written.  The narration also wasn't horrible, but he read everything like it was a movie trailer.

Not your typical fantasy. There's barely any magic and no grand battles with millions of soldiers. But the foundation of ordinary serves to highlight the extraordinary.

It's not without its flaws, but overall this was one of the most interesting fantasy books I've read.

A burly gun enthusiast writes an adventure novel about a burly hero that totes around big guns and kills even bigger monsters.

Too much fun to be a guilty pleasure.

Boring, not funny, and full of cringy BS, presumably, from the credited sensitivity reader.

Didn't get any better.

Too depressing.

The stories didn't hold my interest and the characters were too one-dimensional.  It may depict real interactions and relationships, but not ones I want to read about.

Back to our first hero, but in a new setting. All new challenges and just as good as the first.

This author has no idea how to write an intelligent woman and is constantly throwing out weak reasons why the character HAS to be evil, so it's ok.

Uninteresting and not very smart.

The first short story in a novel told through a series of short stories. Normally that would be enough to put me off, but it keeps getting good reviews. This was intriguing enough to continue on.