I’ll keep it short. I dropped this series after book 3, here’s why:
– Protag makes Batman look like a mass murderer. One of my biggest peeves is artificial conflict, and a lot of the conflict in this story arises because Ed refuses to kill. Anyone. Despite how cartoonish some of his enemies are.
– The litRPG elements are an afterthought. They’re barely there and in three books, I’m not feeling any sense of progression in the character’s power, despite the author telling me there is.
– Objectivity, the system in this book that stops people gaming the system is a horrible concept. Don’t write a litRPG and immediately constrain the gamer fantasy of everyone reading.
– Finally, I got over the light vs dark thing real fast.