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Onto book 11 of Defiance of the fall, some pacing issues throughout the series but so far worth the read. Biggest complaint is main character never fails, dude just continues to fall upward. I get why and that is literally his luck but starting to not feel like their is any danger.
 
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Hatorade said:
Onto book 11 of Defiance of the fall, some pacing issues throughout the series but so far worth the read. Biggest complaint is main character never fails, dude just continues to fall upward. I get why and that is literally his luck but starting to not feel like their is any danger.
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A common theme in LitRPG is that the "old monsters" who are at the top have watched generation after generation of prodigies be birthed, rise to moderate power and then either die or stall out and become irrelevant. Something that DotF kind of touches on is Zac going through this, but I think it could be more pronounced. We know that Zac isn't going to die or have his growth halted before he concludes various plotlines, but we don't know who is going to make it through any given arc. There are so many secondary/tertiary characters, letting several die or plateau (and then die like Sap Trang) would be fine and would increase the stakes.

This is a problem I have in a lot of long-running fiction though. After a certain point, likable characters around the lead character are immortal.
 
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Ugh, just finished Primal Hunter 14, not knowing 15 wasn't out yet. What a buzz kill. I thought i had 2 books in the series to go through.
 
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Guurn said:
I'm not the Hero - 4 books in and I'm finding it enjoyable enough with 2 caveats. It's like reading a main storyline for a RPG. I know, that's what these types of books are supposed to be, it really is just the main storyline though with almost no side quests and no secondary points of view, kinda irritating. My other complaint requires spoilers, don't read if you don't want to either get irritated or get spoiled. I'd love an answer to the issue though.

The main character gains an ability that allows him to change a persons class. It's one of the main administrative functions, he tries it out on a friend early on. He surprises the guy by changing him from a baker (or whatever) to a healer. It obviously doesn't allow the person to refuse the change, this is made abundantly clear when he repeatedly asks the person if he really wants it. The guy is happy to see the class change has been done afterwards. Ok, this is the issue. I know he is only the administrator for humans, but why doesn't he just change the class of evil powerful humans to level 1 baker. After buying the ability, using it is was cheap, like 1 AP point. I know, he wants to preserve points, but obviously a cheap ability being used like that would save tons of lives and huge amounts of time. Anyhow, rant off I suppose. I'm looking forward to the next book
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I started reading these recently after seeing your post. Honestly they are pretty fair. I feel like I'm way more into them than the quality justifies. Like 2/3 of the way through book 3 at the moment. Book 3 has been an interesting and needed change and exploration of the world.
 
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