I’m new to the series. I listened to the book 1 sample after seeing it referenced in another book’s review comments late Feb. 2022. I’ve listened to the first 4 books 3 times each since then. MD is simply brilliant. He’s not an author, he’s a master juggler. In lieu of balls or swords, it’s emotions he’s manipulating. When he sets that hard knot of sorrow in the back of your throat on fire and let’s it fall into your stomach, he’ll expell it out of you with fiery breath of laughter that cuts off with awestruck realization of a new plot twist that metamorphs into studious contemplation of seemingly innocuous comments or exchanges trying see the deeper meaning to reveal if there’s any foreshadowing of things to come. And when you’re not expecting it, he hits you over the head with a hammer.
I’m not going to claim these are the best books ever. I’m not going to say that Matt is the best in the business, or Jeff for that matter. They both are my new favorites, however, and I eagerly await to see an announcement for DCC6 cold reads so I can agonize for two months while audible twittles it’s thumbs getting us the remaining 80 percent of the story. Matt has been very quick on turn around for each new book. He understands what Luke Chimlenko and Aleron Kong have forgotten about the LitRPG genre. It’s new, and if you want to stay relevant, you have to keep the books coming hot and fast. The fact that he’s working at an amazing speed without sacrificing quality is damn near inhuman. I pray he keeps up his amazing work and doesn’t pull a “Land: Monsters” on us any time, ever. To be frank, I don’t think he will. The structure of the story don’t really allow for anything but a fast pace and loads of action. I don’t think we’ll have a whole book of inventory details and a 17 page ode to diarrhea.
Cheers Matt and Jeff you Britney Spears’d the hell out of this one.
PEAKING AT NUMBER 9 IN THE YEAR 2000, IT’S, “OOPS.. I DID IT AGAIN! “