too much city building

as much as i like the city building there was too much the main characters got barely any progress

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Great, if flawed, continuation. On to book 6

Loved getting back into this series. The background politics felt a little muddled, and over done to be honest, and even confusing and unclear as to who was on who's side at times, but subtracting that the rest was all good and fun.

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Good but ro much politics

I enjoyed it but there's to much going on in the background and the mc's power ups didn't really seem to get used although I will say if they ever animate this it will be amazing.

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Excellent

I usually wait until I've finished a series before writing my reviews.
Books 1-5 in this series are excellent. Great character building and the narrator really brings everyone to life.
Books 6+, I'll never know.
The narrator changes and its hard to tell when a character is speaking or if it's the story being narrated.
Everything is the same. I couldn't finish book 6a (the shortest book in the series).

If you can accept not finishing a series and leaving on a high note, Books 1-5 are great.
If you want to listen to the entire series, listen to samples from Books 6 onwards to see if you fall asleep or not.
The story is still excellent but the narration completely kills it.

I can recommend the book, but I cant recommend the series as a whole.

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plz give me nr 6 right now

amazing book as allways, really looking forward to the next chapter, want to see them fight a bit more like in the 4th book and the first

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One of the best lit rpg i have listened to

One of my favourite series the ten realms had a good ballance of fighting to crafting. It has a well thought out world building, keeping the tension and stakes high despite the main characters power increase. Cant wait for the next book.

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Amazing

Amazing now I have to wait for the rest to come to audible this is my favourite series the detail is amazing

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Dropping quality

I gave 5 stars to books 1 to 3, but have to stay with 3 stars on this one.

20 hours in and so far it's side stories.
There's little to no arc of the story so far. A lot of side characters take center stage but even those are not very developed or well known to the listner. I would rather have a more focused story around 4 or 5 characters than constantly jump around getting only a quick glimpse of some event or another.
This tendency was present on the previous book but it's worst in this one.

An interlude here and there is fine, for context, but a compendium of interludes is quite borring.

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Lost it's way a bit this one.

First let me say as a series I love this one, but this book itself was a bit of a let down. Author seems to have forgotten that what people loved about it was that it was Eric and Rugrat exploring the Ten Realms and trying to reach the top. While you expect them to meet other people and them to become part of the story they shold not become a major distraction to the main characters and they utterly do in this one. Honestly, I felt like I was watching my favourite TV show but filled with twice as many adverts as normal that I didn't care about.

Also, the way it was written in a shotgun, scattershot method of writing where the characters swapped multiple times in in a chapter meant where they were doing something dull made it feel like it was just filler. I don't mind switching to one of the dungeon group if it has relevance to the story but otherwise most of the characters he switched to in this book are shallow, doing something often tedious.

It's a shame really, as there are good points to this book, hence it is a 3 star for me, but I truly hope he lessens the number of characters in book six and seven. He is trying to tell the story from too many characters point of view, which for me just isn't working. Based on reviews I'm not the only one that thinks so.

I shall hope with the two going up to the next realm or two in the next books that it will focus more on the two characters that made this series, and not the placeholder second tier characters. And please don't let this somewhat negative review take away from the series, or even this book. I was just disappointed I guess more than anything.

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A massive let down. Filler book

If the first book was anything like book 5, I would not have bothered with this series. The whole of book 5 felt like a massive filler with unimportant stories and characters. I found myself skipping chapter upon chapter, like wtf. I want a refund. hopefully book 6 is better.

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