As soon as I saw the book release I didn’t doubt on spending my credit on it. Book 1 left me wanting more, book 2 was great, this one.. feels far behind.
Performance by Jeff Hays and the Soundbooth team was amazing as always. The reason I give four starts to Performance is because sometimes you can hear a discrepancy in the audio (or maybe my audio file is damaged?), noticing a change on the narrator’s voice breaking the immersion.
I feel the story stays behind from what the previous books delivered. There are new characters or parts on the story that feel irrelevant. I personally think they don’t have any real purpose and are just there to fill the promise of “you can help me create a character” if you become a patreon of the author. In consequence, the book feels rushed and leaves plot holes in many places.
Saying the main character is OP or lucky feels short. I understand the need of the skill “lucky bastard” to justify it, but what was good about book 1 and 2 was that he was injured, exposed somehow. In here he just deals with enemies ten times stronger and wins because “luck is what he does”.
What I still don’t understand is how a lvl 45 mob (the boss tier 2 excuse doesn’t convince me) can fight and survive against not one fully equipped lvl 300 player, but three.
An ok book with a very good performance, but missing elements the previous books had.