After listening to the first one, the premise wasn’t bad. I don’t fault writers for juvenile writing because writing can be difficult. Writing a whole book, definitely difficult! However, this second book was absolutely horrible.
The author seems to not understand logical interaction with his own characters and world. It’s kind of like every character is set at an intellect level that is a fourth of normal. They make obviously stupid choices, and I don’t mean bad choices, I mean literally stupid people choices. It’s like when you watch the movie Blades of Glory, You expect it to be dumb comedy and that’s hilarious. However, a 13-hour listen of that is horrible. The main character is definitely not likable. He had human traits in the first book and then in the second book, he somehow gained the attitude, emotions, and decision making of a 14-year-old going through puberty.
The constant use of isakai is ridiculous. it had the potential to be a plot device, but now the author just uses it as attempt at humor constantly. Whenever it is mentioned, it has no merit to the story or the plot. It’s just a random sentence thrown in to dialogue.
Vex, is somehow the only person (monster) who doesn’t speak English but only at certain times. whenever he’s going to do something that might have merit, he suddenly screaming in “dungeon language” but anywhere else in the book he speaks English.
Lastly, this book is like the battle scene in the dragon Ball z series. it’s over 30 chapters of one battle. The pacing is ridiculously slow and then the villain, again, shows no rationale or intelligence for his decision making. ‘ I’m trying to smash you from inside of you but I’m going to take a couple of hours to step in this labyrinth because you asked me to. I’m sure I can beat your boss since nobody else can and I’m good enough for it. I’ll put all my plans on hold because this is the middle of a war and give you a chance to trap me in a labyrinth.’ That decision really really put me off to this book and series.
Oh, and the conclusion was the stupidest ending ever. After everything that’s happened, there was a secret double agent who wasn’t really a double agent. Then she tricked the dark lord by using her feminine whiles against him. That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.