After an entertaining first part that I only started reading as a tentative try-out, I hastened on to part 2, Fizzlesprocket. And I loved it every bit as much! Our MC is a young gameworld character in the monster category ‘mimic’ – which I’m personally not familiar with – and the author is building the character very consistently ‘monsterly’, no holds barred. Same goes for its demon familiars.
The result is creatively original and, more importantly, very entertaining. It takes skill to make a reader like and root for ‘villain’ characters, and the author has succeeded as far as I am concerned.
However if you’re not able or willing to go along with the main premise of this story and the story universe, you may find it harsh, crude and nonsensically violent. This is not the author’s fault however, but the reader’s: he chose simply the wrong book to read, as it was not meant for him.
I feel I am part of the target audience however, which I loosely define as “everybody who greatly enjoys this story”, so I highly recommend it to all others in this particular reader group.
The narration of the audiobook version is sublime and very well-suited to the story. The narrator uses different voices and adds some sound effects as well, which greatly add to the story.