I like the direction the story is heading and the little more about the world that is revealed is mostly interesting. I would say overall this book is decent, but it feels like there is a lot of repetition that stood out as a little lazy and annoying for me; like, if I ever re-listen it will only be the key chapters where the actual action is happening.
Part of that repetition is the skills descriptions, but mostly it’s the overuse of the same few phrases throughout all of the dialogue; it’s enough to undermine any weight or emphasis they are meant to give to the characters’ words. Surely even people in a world of repeated endings have more than 4 or 5 ways of expressing themselves in a conversation.