I gave Book 1 three stars, but Book 2 gets the highest of five stars.
In the 50 or so series I’ve read, not one has had a Book 2 that so much improved on Book 1.
Compelling, humorous, thought provoking, intriguing, and with many characters you really, truly care about. I could not put this book down, and carried my phone around, stayed up all night, and never stopped listening. This book is quite an achievement in the genre.
I’m going to have to move some other LitRPG series down my list of the best to insert War Aeternus, maybe all of them.
You’ll still need to start with Book 1, but don’t be turned off by the almost incoherent direction and awkward narration. It all starts to come together, and Jeff Hayes shows the consistency here in Book 2 that we’ve come to expect from him.