This book has a really good start, with a main character with character, a unique view on the dungeon-fairy/dungeon relationship, and a new and interesting dungeon system, staged in the Australian outback with all the hazards that come with that. I was looking forward to how the split-soul dungeon thing would play out, as well as the relationships with the other Planes.
However, at about the halfway point the main character goes through some of the oddest character development I’ve ever seen, turned into a cold, manipulative, and power-hungry demigod, and proceeded to bully his way through human society while the story completely abandons all the interesting and complex facets it has, going instead for a power system that escalates way too quickly and a cast of side characters that are either shallow character with needless and honestly weird amounts of sexual qualities or sideline characters who sole purpose in the story is to show how dominant the main character is over the average human.
The story left behind all of the base-building, base-management, and evolution stuff that in started off with and seemingly wandered, plotless, and simply as a catharsis for the author the vent their hatred of humanity. It got to the point where I was unable to finish the last third of the book due to their being so little enjoyable other than a cold-hearted powertrip, and no plot line in sight. It left me really disappointed, because I greatly enjoyed the character and the world building the author had done in the first third of the book. The book ends up feeling hollow and meaningless, with nothing truly interesting happening, as no connection to the MC has been established, no plot is occurring, non of the unique themes are being explored (the two halves of the main character leading different and basically completely separate stories), and the MC is honestly rather soulless and deranged the five hour mark.
It might bet better in the last bit, but in my option it just isn’t worth it.