Jeff Hays’ performance is unparalleled! <3

The idea of the story is great, but the execution is atrocious. Here are just a few of the huge issues with this book:

1) Nothing satisfying EVER happens! There has not been a SINGLE juicy satisfying moment in the first 2 books so far! That makes the story seem much worse than it is! There are no revenge stories where the MC pays the villain back for all the pain he suffered at the villain’s hands! The MC never does anything ballsy or unconventional! Etc.

2) The MC has no balls whatsoever; no sense of self-esteem or self-worth. The biggest issue with that is that throughout the whole 2 books, he lets the fat, entitled, and genuinely stupid and idiotic cat (Donut) to absolutely dominate him in everything and wipe the floor with him at every turn. Nonstop. Always. The cat keeps abusing the dude in so many different ways (less directly in book 2, but it’s even more frustrating her)! And he does NOTHING about it! Instead of standing up for himself right after being abused or hurt by the cat, he usually does or says something to sound even more submissive to the cat!

I just don’t get it!

How is this satisfying to anyone??

3) There is never real danger! The listener clearly knows that nobody from the trio will die (Carl, Donut, Mongo). It’s just obvious based on how the book is going.

And there are no other secondary characters (other than their manager), and thus there is nobody that the author puts in any real danger, which makes the fights and the books itself pointless and boring! Because you always know that Carl and Donut will win and will survive! There is just NO WAY the book could continue with one of them dead, therefore, it will not happen any time soon!

4) The MC (Carl) only ever does what the Cat says! Just in the first half of this book so far, there have been countless times when Carl fully, with unyielding determination, decides to do thing A, but then the cat says, “we’re doing thing B,” and Carl just says, “Okay nevermind, you’re right.” Every single time!

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

I just can’t….

A small part of me wants to keep listening, hoping that the author got better at writing from this point forward, but for some reason I highly doubt it!