The narrators are good at what they do. I didn’t always like the voices they chose or the way the mimics voice would vary wildly across a single sentence (mostly because he would stay screaming out of nowhere fairly often), but it was very well done all the same.
I like the concept and the story isn’t bad. The problem is it is told in an overly simplistic, juvenile way. The main character and the mimic have a lot of stupid, childish arguments and play pranks which have predictable disastrous consequences. The rest of the party he collects around him all seem to have traumatic backstories that they deal with a bit of brooding and reading, or with a lot of talking about their feelings. The rest assure them that they’re there to support them and everything will be alright and then they continue on. The bad guys are all murderers, slavers, rapists, and the like so you don’t have to feel bad when the good guys torture them for information (which they really give up after a snack or two) and brutally kill them. And, of course, everyone the bad guys have torment for years will immediately begin to live happily ever after once the bad guys have been slain.
It’s just so weird and off-putting to have petty juvenile antics and graphic violence alternate with touchy-feely, power-of-friendship moments. I’ve listened to three books so far, because the adventuring parts were interesting enough to outweigh it’s issues, but I don’t think I can keep ignoring all the problems I have with the overall tone anymore.