Minute Mage 3

Minute Mage #3

by Reg Rome

Book 3 of a new LitRPG Adventure filled with time magic, three-dimensional characters, a crunchy LitRPG System, tactical combat, and power progression where level-ups are hard-earned and bring with them meaningful change in characters’ abilities.

Genres: Fantasy, Time Travel

928 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 10, 2024

Reviews

[Ford Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this story. But book 3 is a slog fest. So slow.

I really enjoy this series, but with major reservations as it has its issues. The main character, the dialogue for the most part, and the world building is quite good. The explanation of the game mechanics is ridiculously long, ponderous, overdone, and leads to nothing more than information dump and filler. 50% of this book is explaining the main characters leveling choices, win 66% of those choices will never be taken and have no bearing on the story. It kills the pacing to where it's painful to read. You force yourself, sometimes by skipping ahead simply because it's so boring and unrelatable to what his choices would be. His ultimate choices are interesting, but 20 to 30 pages on each and every decision is painful.
Throughout the main characters adventures the author also feels the need, whether walking down the road or in the middle of a battle, to break into an expose on everything that's happening in the reasons for it or possible reasons for it. The pacing is so horrible.

[Allen D · Rating 4 out of 5]

good story, good voice acting. not internally consistant. Sometimes he's "allowed" to take items back in time with him, and other times he's not. It is never explained. Like why he could not take the floating rings back, but could take back the invisibility rings. there are several instances of this. Another issue, is that the characters rarely loot. I mean the dragon destroyed a whole entire outpose. thousands dead, lots of loot, they took no time going through it. took nothing, no food water, nada. wierd. or when they killed the dragon. It specifically stated the dragon was sitting on a literal horde of coins, armor, swords ect. but they never went back to get it... and they really needed the money. I just do not understand these things. his time power is far reaching, but he does not think outside of the box. anyway. overall good story

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unfortunately my more accurate rating would be 2.5 stars. I had liked the first 2 books enough to continue, but this book was just all over the place. There was too much information on what Asmo was trying to accomplish in the Kingdom in which I had no interest. Then much of the chapters on the MC were boringly lengthy analysis of which spell/talent/upgrade that he should take. I will not be reading book 4 if it is ever published.

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the previous books, but I really did not like this. The constant pov changes are extremely annoying.

Why would you ever switch to a completely unrelated pov mid fight? It just kills the mood completely.

[Devan · Rating 3 out of 5]

***DNF***

Stopped reading halfway through. MC got dumb in so many ways. Doing things to give up his identity, not utilizing his time loop, weird progression choices? Sadly, didn’t enjoy this like the previous books. A dumb MC is a deal breaker for me.

[Johnie C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good read

I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who likes LitRPG and progression types of books with lots of action.

[Kingsley Elisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hopefully one day this series will continue..

[Vader · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.8
Did not enjoy as much as prior titles in the series.

5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish