1) The book starts with Cady not giving Jason much needed information which causes all sorts of problems that extend the first few chapters almost endlessly. There were numerous major flaws with this book. Like watching your favorite show and suddenly it stops and forces you to watch an ad for a local politician running for reelection. It wasnt consistent with the worldbuilding in previous books. It is the 4-th wall breaking aspect of this pedantry. The entire genre has covered social issues in the past. Bagwell has always had social messaging in his books. On top of those mistakes was the constant pausing of the narrative to bludgeon the reader with political pedantry. I'm generally one to immerse myself in a book and ignore any inconsistencies that might break the 4th wall or suspension of disbelief. The writing quality and internal consistency was a big step down. This installment was a massive disappointment to the point where I returned the book. The best thing in the LitRPG genre by a good margin. Been reading them since the first book came out. Stay away from political messaging in books meant to be an ESCAPE. I wish the author much luck and some basic common sense in his next series. Julia had close to ZERO and Alex had dozens of fights at the fight club (I think it was something like 50 or 60 fights). Additionally, he has THE most important thing in any fight, experience. Not only was the doubly enhanced Alex far heaver and much stronger, he had the same advantages she had (regarding AO enhancements) and any enhancements his father decided to build in. What Julia did in the fight club was laughable and completely breaks immersion and ruins the book by itself. Please do some research about grappling and submission martial arts before your write. In the game, with magic and superpowers, it's cool and part of the premise, outside of the game it is ridiculous. Finally, I'm a BJJ practitioner for over 3 decades, but you don't need my experience to know that little girls can't beat up or submit big men in real-life (especially experienced fighters, who happen to be much stronger). However, making him into a Saturday Morning cartoon villain was pathetic. He was already the bad guy, everyone knew, the author was not subtle. Finally, making George Lane into a caricature of a villain is so weak and boring, I have almost no energy to criticize it. Additionally, not only do I have zero interest in Arcadia Landrey and her boring storyline, time travel was so poorly implemented in this book, with a hideous plot armor (save point) that made the entire premise useless and also erased two thirds of the book (and made the rest irrelevant). As an author, Travis Bagwell, should know this already. Take a lesson from Disney Marvel, no one wants this tired, politically motivated, cookie-cutter, lead character swap cliché for the empowered female cringe character (please watch the Panderverse from Southpark if you didn't understand this). The introduction of, or more accurately, complete substitution of Jason by boring Girl Boss archetype Arcadia Landrey not only ruined this book, it ended the series for me. I love his necromancer concept and its evolution. I bought into Jason's story's, his friends and his girlfriend were characters I was interested in. I used to love the concept and it was well executed for most of the previous 6 books. I'm sad to say that after 7 books, I'm giving up on this series. Author ruined his series with a boring Girl Boss
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