The initial half of the book was entirely consumed by the tower arc, which, regrettably, added little to the characters’ development or the progression of the story.
The tower segment could have been condensed into several pivotal events, like the start, the group’s separation, the Fate challenge, and the occurrences upon exiting the tower. However, instead, it was filled with pages of internal ponderings that amounted to mere speculations, contributing to a surplus of unnecessary filler.
The fight scenes, to be frank, were lacking and left much to be desired.
Spoiler, possibly
In a particular fight outside the tower, Zack wielded a cursed sword to unleash a Getsuga Tenshou at the enemy. Yet, inexplicably, the skill paused mid-air, allowing the adversaries to hold a conversation and plan their counterattacks before launching powerful strikes against the Getsuga Tenshou.
Furthermore, while ensnared in an array by his most dangerous foes, Zack released his axe spirit to wreak havoc. However, instead of targeting those who had trapped him, the spirit attacked weaker, insignificant enemies in the background, posing no real threat.
But that’s not all; on a spaceship, amidst the vastness of space, Zack tried to use his Loam Walker skill but realized it was only usable on Earth. Yet, just a few sentences later, he employs the skill effortlessly without any explanation.
It’s important not to use Axeman’s Spirit as an excuse for such inconsistencies; that simply feels like a convenient plot device rather than genuine creative writing. A well-crafted story demands a competent and meticulous editor.
While the first three books were truly captivating, the direction of the fourth and fifth books seemed less defined. Nevertheless, because of the promise shown in the earlier books, I intend to read the sixth installment with hopes that the narrative will regain its focus. The world you’ve constructed holds immense potential for remarkable storytelling, and I’m eager to see it fulfilled.
Its not a comment on the book but the site itself, it keeps crashing and goes back to the beggining which is very frustrating if you havent bookmarked it in a long time. Its not the browser as ive tried multiple browsers, chrome dont work either
I notice this too. Made me bookmark more often.
For me it seems to happen often after jump to bookmark and it ends after the chapter, as it seems to stop “auto continuing” of the chapter. I assume you’re not talking about this tho.
(As this reply is for something a couple of months ago, your problem may have been solved? I didn’t use this site because of very annoying ad breaks like every 20 min. This seems to have changed as I now only get popups which eventually stop the story, but after cancel some “warning about my Android something” (ad for some app) story will often just continue. (And that is ok for when I listen to book until I fall asleep at night, so it doesn’t continue until I wake up.
So I don’t know if you still have this problem. It seems also I have a problem using the app. This may be fixed by uninstall and reinstall it again, but I really don’t remember if it was much better to listen to (I am a free member). However I think I remember a sleep timer, but I remember i needed to restart app to continue.
Anyway, I hope your problem is solved, if not obvious solution is to bookmark like every 5 or 10.chapter.
Regard to the story I am so hooked. I am going to go for completion of the first 5 book (not started this) in one week! I remember starting about middle of Friday, and now it is noon Thursday… (I know, I am a “monster” along with main character )
Regarding the genre and this serie.
I think physical books probably is better every time the whole status screen (especially the titles and how much of the stats are boosted). I played alot of games like this and fortunally the character look alot less on the status screen I usually do!
I kinda find it abit “lazy solution” to keep all peoples skills and Stats secret for everyone, as imo when arranging raids in such games, the other players stats and skills meant alot when giving people groups and assignments in a boss fight (killing “generals” while main tank (or secondary, depend on which is harder, tanking a bunch of very hard semibosses or the main boss. Again skills and attributes determine..).
I was very surprised and it gave me hope to know more about Abras stats, skills and skills. This would be very natural to know aboth Kenzie (? The sister) and Emily, as she wouldn’t hesitate to mention every location of attributes points , skills and dow (?) to Zach every time she sees him. It would also be natural to mention every time he gets buffed by her.
(Btw, very surprised that the “fire” buff used in the golem fight, to either give a buff vs fire, or it would be natural to use a waterbuff against a firemonster. (I guess this is my time in MMORPGs where a shamans main contributions in fights was to give ae buffs and debuff monters resistance so especially mages spells worked better. However this is my problem by comparing “the system” with an insanely amount of classes with a game where you have like 10 classes where often some is race dependents. However some of my favorite race for a maintank was gnomes! Very funny looking! (They had ofcourse less natural healthpoints at start compared to a race like ogres which naturally had more bonus points in stats which increased health point. But as in this book, this evened out in later lvls, but ofcourse with same equipment an ogre would have higher hitpoints, but the percent advantage becomes small, and if remember right a gnome was harder to hit than an ogre lol!
Raving again about game experience again. This is the litrpg I have followed the longest. (Some were just trilogies and I remember I got abit bored with some. (The leveling dungeon was very fun awhile, I think I took a break, when the dungeon started to fly…(A while since I read it. Pretty different than other litrpg, but the dungeon gets experience from parties that die, and he upgrade monsters and their skills (the monster respawns ofcourse)
Ok that was 30 min break. If going to finish the 5th book in a week I kinda only have “time for the way”
I tried to comment on the problem. Seems my post was not needed or I may just been off for some reason.
I did understand what happened to the loam? (I thought it was lone, but I have only listened, and I have misunderstood names before) Before I read it, and it made sense for me atleast. It seems the “spirit wood” can be removed and also it seems other people can dispell (?) it , and they can also create their own environmental skills inside it. So for me it really doesn’t seem like a problem.
I can see it this serie can probably match the “Warhammer” series in length. And I bet it is easy to make new enemies/allies involved in the story, as the multiverse seems to make to dwarf our meaning of an infinite (?) universe. Like an infinite infinite universe ;).
Anyway, I am hooked!