I’ve suffered trough the 1st and 2nd book, the 3rd one made me drop the whole story. The only thing that the book had going for it was the cover art and the world building, kind of. It was more fun when i knew less about it. Honestly, This is one of the few times, if not the first time i was losing interest about the world as i was learning about it. The list of cheap tropes is immense. I have countless specific, story related complaints, but I don’t want to go into them because no1 reads overly wordy reviews.
In short. The pathetic attempts at drama and suspense fall flat because of how broken everything is, describing your characters as “beautiful” or “good” or “smart” won’t do. You need to show that. And we haven’t been shown anything of the sort. The “smart” guy made a pact with a divine entity without knowing anything about the world or the rules in it. Which is just a cheap way to remove agency from your characters and railroad them to wherever you want them to go. And then you go ahead and invent a world breaking “luck orb” to justify all the Deus ex machina BS you need to pull to have your MCs survive the trip. It’s sad rly.