I really like the way he writes when he cares. His use of character, abilities, and monsters as well as the system is good. Ok, that being said...you don't need the first 450 pages in every book to be the main character going around saying hi to everyone or recovering from the last books fights. You don't need to reexplain every characters abilities every time they appear on the pages. After 5, 6 or 8 books in no one is picking it up as their first book in the series. This is made worse by him completely ignoring the actual progression of the main character. I think we need an update more than once every book and a half. Yes, he talks about abilities, but I'm talking about the character screen. Normally I'd be just fine with it but the progression is very granular in this series. The bad guys don't need to be stereotypes, monsters are fine at least occasionally. He literally doesn't even cover monster fights because they are so inconsequential. The main character used to be interesting, now he relies on his soul power...really? It's boring, like really boring. The amount of Deus Ex becomes so extreme the secondary characters joke about it. That's bad...and lazy. I'm sure it's part of the plot but we aren't in the loop so it is just, dare I say it again, boring. Anyhow, I'm not subjecting my self to more of this boredom...I'm out.
