The mimic, venturing the world left without home finds and engages in a crafts hobby, all the while providing for itself and taking on the risky odd jobs. Trying to integrate into the society that perceives it alien, so as not to draw attention and wrath from the established prejudicial society’s law and order. In search of belonging.
After the latest banishment of the familiars to the beyond and before the meeting with the Bob, the story had lost most of it’s sexualized and other comedic relief taking on a grave air of consequential importance. Reminding that the demon familiars’ are broken lenses. The first book’s epilogue set the scene for the Everybody Loves Large Chests series plot and the geopolitical consequences of exploding dungeon core’s cataclysm, introducing the experienced, old spymaster, whose selfishness is a great foil for young mimic’s naive selfishness.
The conversation with the Bob felt forced, not just on the nose but in the face and then some, like, stuffing a fiendish rectangle brick into the pyromaniac star shaped opening. First book’s epilogue is a great example how to build exposition in a natural, unobtrusive way. If the author desired to have gods as actors in ELLC having a priest or god’s hero receive an oracle or a divination in the in-between chapter, how the author had already done previously (i.e. in book 1, the succubi’s leisure time after Morningwood’s rank up and before awakening), could fit better in the flow of ELLC.
Conclusion: 3/5. Listened on Audible, Narrated by: Jeff Hays. Story picks up right after book 1, great continuity. Relatable motivations: selfishness; instant gratification; bad appleness; widespread human xenophobia. Last chapter flops, with forced over the top actor of chaos, when, oh, let me think, ALL the main characters are actors of chaos.