Justin

Well written but disappointing.

Revisado: 02-08-25

This story treads the all too common path of cheap power at a low cost. I wont spoil anything here but the feats in this book would barely be within reason for some of the greatest heroes put to paper. This is a very common issue with Isekai but it hits hard with this story because it seemed so grounded at the beginning. I don’t want to hit the author with a bad review because he is talented, but I wont be going any further on this series.

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Erin has a real rough start in the performance.

Revisado: 06-07-24

As the series continues from here Erin’s performance improves massively, but this book is rough, not going to lie.

Muscle through it though, immediate improvements follow, and she eventually nails it.

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Erin has improved massively since her start on this series.

Revisado: 06-07-24

Overall this is another great book in the series, you already know if you like it.

I just had to mention that if Erin’s first performance turned you off the series, she has improved massively. It’s night and day.

The only issues I still see are likely director related, like giving random British officers Russian accents and vice versa, but even there her performance is so much better than it used to be.

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No real conflict, millennial writing

Revisado: 05-11-24

There really is no conflict or resistance to the MC. She overpowers everything immediately and with 0 effort, (written off with a kind of permanent hyperbolic time chamber). She transcends the entire power scale of the setting in her crib and never faces a single challenge. The rest of the story is just pop culture references interspersed with occasional pointless power demonstrations with no stakes.

Interesting concept executed poorly. Very little effort is diverted to world building and many of the lazy aspects are literally addressed by the MC in weird self aware tangents about lazy writing.

One of the most important portions of an Isekai story is what does the MC bring with them? This is horribly done, as literally every single thing in the modern world is dragged into the fantasy setting by her ability to recreate anything shes ever seen or done physically that she then can inject into other peoples minds with magic. The result is she has thoroughly 21st century conversations with the cast with none of the “stranger in a strange land” aspects that make Isekai interesting.

Performance is OK, not great. Actress has a few verbal ticks that come up a lot in conversations that make many of the deliveries awkward. Hard to judge otherwise because the writing is so awkward a lot of the faults could be on writing and directing.

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Is there a word for snarky atheists in a fantasy setting?

Revisado: 07-01-23

It’s impossible not to imagine the author smugly chuckling to himself as his character wins another battle of wits one handed. It’s so pervasive in the narrative it makes it impossible to not think about the author himself living vicariously through his creating like a smug god incarnating into a snarky messiah. Performance was great though.

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Deets, wrecked, owned, moped out, scritch, flood, etc…

Revisado: 02-09-23

The story is good though a bit naive, but for the love of god, the use of modern internet dialogue is jarring from an elderly man today, hearing them in a fantasy setting takes you right out of the story and into whatever forum the other frequents.

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Suffers from modern 40k identity politics weirdness.

Revisado: 05-07-22

Behind every great violent space crusader is a legion of inexplicably virtuous and talented women and space marines of color.

Just the increasingly common 40k trend of having any competent human being be a woman of peerless virtue, from the noble orphan who taught Sigismund how to be brave, to the hyper competent commander who’s so stone cold she doesn’t even flinch at the personal command of Dorn despite even space marines reacting in awe.

Other stuff like the author not knowing about space marines having eidetic memory, and the author doesn’t really offer any insight into a reason why Sigismund is the best, he just is because of his “Truth” which somehow even the world eaters ramble about.

As usual with these books, performance is 10/10 writing is wildly varying.

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A great story.

Revisado: 03-05-22

It handles the setting with as much care and attention to detail as we all expect from Andy Weir but with the awkward addition of a few explicit modern political tropes laid on a bit too thick. Overall pretty great but if you’re not into that kind of hamfisted political messaging one 30s skip is usually enough to avoid it.

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“I don’t use contractions.”

Revisado: 05-12-21

Lots of little things make this sound strange but one of the most common is that sometimes no one uses contractions in casual conversation. This doesn’t sound that bad until one of the characters specifically is noted for not using contractions.

Otherwise the relentless pop culture references can be extremely distracting. 200 years in the future and 80s pop culture references are 40% of the total dialogue.

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Deus Vult

Revisado: 03-05-21

An interesting look into faith and it’s many forms in a compelling setting and narrative.

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