This book is a significant improvement over the last book in the series. I almost didn’t buy it because the last one rubbed me the wrong way, but I’m glad I gave this one a shot I found Frank’s story to be far more interesting and compelling than Jason’s which seemed very repetitive and one dimensional. There aren’t so many game mechanics in this installment, but I appreciated the break down of powers and abilities that we are exposed to in this book.
Honestly, I would have given it 5 stars if not for the grammar errors (tense shifting and pluralization) that infect this book like all the others, a key combat scene that pulled me out of the read because the way the violence is described is so far from reality that I was caught thinking “… that’s now how that kind of injury feels….,” and a few other issues. I also didn’t really find the idea of a game company making permadeath suddenly possible as a post-death surprise in one dungeon and only one dungeon very believable. That’s a good way to lose subscribers.
I still think that the narrator sounds too old for this series given the age of the characters, but given how many books have been released It’d be difficult to change it at this point.