I read book one and wasn’t enthralled, but figured the author might get his legs and improve his writing, story and character development. Instead, something went horribly wrong.
1. Charlie has an unnamed power. Every character that comes near him instantly begins talking like him, has the exact same goals, is in awe of his amazing ability to reinvent hundred thousand year old magic and before long is just a duplicate Charlie. By the end of book 2 every single character sounds the EXACT same. Their mannerisms, their speech and they just lose any semblance of personality. Super old Vampire Space Assassin? Nope. Thats Charlie the Space Assasssin. Yes. Somehow even the Dragon becomes an exact duplicate of Charlie. Don’t get me started on the weak women who just cry about dogs. People are dying left and right and she is concerned SOLELY with a puppy she just got.
2. Charlie adapted to magic so fast that he actually began REINVENTING it. Yes, thats right. He has been learning magic for like 3 years at this point and he invents a new form of magic that the ancient Vampire Mage has never heard of. *Facepalm*
3. Charlie invents the wheel. Thousands of worlds with gravity. Civilizations that had to evolve without the use of magic and NONE of them invented the wheel in this galaxy. Its maddening.
4. Guess how much pirating Charlie does in a book called “Space Pirate Charlie”?? Wanna guess? Its ZERO. None. Oh, and when the actual pirates show up — you guessed it!! They’ve cast off their pirating ways to save the universe. No longer do they have a brutal mindset of save their own skin. Nope!! Now they are freedom fighters! Ya know… cause of Charlie’s crazy reality altering power.
5.The writing itself is so bland… fight scenes are described in 6th grade grammar and in short, choppy sentences.
6, The narrator sounds like he is half asleep. No kidding. I laughed out loud when he mimicked shouting and it was almost a whisper…. wow.
I’m sure lots of people will find it enjoyable. Those people need to branch out and find the nearly limitless books that exist that do a much better job.