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Super Sales on Super Heroes #3
Super Sales on Super Heroes 3
Felix would like nothing more than to take a vacation. A long one. One where he didn't have to wake up every morning and worry over casualty lists for the day.
Ever since he and the Legion had been forced to flee their headquarters four years previous, nothing had gone quite right. In fact, Felix and the Legion have been locked in a shadow war with enemies unknown. Ones with magic that could carve through their technology easily.
As the rest of the world fell apart, tearing itself to pieces at every turn with the return of the old gods, the Legion has held the chaos back. The price in blood has been climbing slowly, lately.
Felix suspects there's a change on the horizon. One that he hasn't prepared or developed a plan for. Or so his paranoia has been telling him. That there's a change coming now that'll shake up the world. One that will turn it inside out, Legion and Felix along with it.
Felix has decided it's time to push ahead and act. To finish things and protect his people at the same time. To take his Legion and make it safe.
Because that's all that matters in the end to him. His Legion. And it always came first.
Warning and minor spoiler: This novel contains graphic violence, undefined relationships/harem, unconventional opinions/beliefs, and a hero who is as tactful as a dog at a cat show. Listen at your own risk.
Ever since he and the Legion had been forced to flee their headquarters four years previous, nothing had gone quite right. In fact, Felix and the Legion have been locked in a shadow war with enemies unknown. Ones with magic that could carve through their technology easily.
As the rest of the world fell apart, tearing itself to pieces at every turn with the return of the old gods, the Legion has held the chaos back. The price in blood has been climbing slowly, lately.
Felix suspects there's a change on the horizon. One that he hasn't prepared or developed a plan for. Or so his paranoia has been telling him. That there's a change coming now that'll shake up the world. One that will turn it inside out, Legion and Felix along with it.
Felix has decided it's time to push ahead and act. To finish things and protect his people at the same time. To take his Legion and make it safe.
Because that's all that matters in the end to him. His Legion. And it always came first.
Warning and minor spoiler: This novel contains graphic violence, undefined relationships/harem, unconventional opinions/beliefs, and a hero who is as tactful as a dog at a cat show. Listen at your own risk.
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First published October 30, 2018
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November 21, 2018
Missing everything that made the last books good.
Somehow this book is missing everything that made the last two books in the series fun to read, while emphasizing everything I hated about the last two books. It's no longer a litrpg, it's just a harem book with some very light sci-fi and fantasy elements. The majority of the book no longer contains plot or World building, just endless dates with 10 new female characters that are all unbelievably hot. They literally doubled the cast and all of the new characters are just women that want to bang the MC. I really been going back and forth over whether this book gets one or two stars, and while it's true this isn't the worst book I've ever read, the way the series has been ruined certainly merits a one-star.
Somehow this book is missing everything that made the last two books in the series fun to read, while emphasizing everything I hated about the last two books. It's no longer a litrpg, it's just a harem book with some very light sci-fi and fantasy elements. The majority of the book no longer contains plot or World building, just endless dates with 10 new female characters that are all unbelievably hot. They literally doubled the cast and all of the new characters are just women that want to bang the MC. I really been going back and forth over whether this book gets one or two stars, and while it's true this isn't the worst book I've ever read, the way the series has been ruined certainly merits a one-star.
February 8, 2019
Damn it.. I loved this series! an MC with Smarts and cunning, getting by with strategy and planning' until this book happens then he become an idiot (the excuse 12 gods are limiting my power is crap, in the other worlds he can still fully use it but is like he forgot all the shit he can do), the portal deus ex bullshit! I didn't care about the 5+ new girls (dragon girls cool) no give me plot or something nop just a ride on rails..
November 13, 2018
Like the series but this one changed direction
Normally I don't write reviews but I have enjoyed the first two books enough that I felt I should do something here.
I have the points I wanted to hit :
1. The ending was very strong and likely will be the reason I keep with the series. Looking forward to the next book.
2. I must be missing something because there is a huge jump and major gaps from what I remember in book 2 vs this book. Not sure if it is supposed to be captured in the Vince series of books or not but I did a quick look at the authors page and didn't find much so still confused by the new premise that this book started in.
3. I know many folks enjoy the harem aspect of litrpg, I personally find it pointless and enjoyed this series for avoiding it. The first book did the best job, the second was ok, and this one just gave up. Not counting the fact the demographics for these stories are skewed even further from the norm when they are included I just don't see much being added to the story. I know I'm not going to convince authors or readers as I suspect minds are set but I really did prefer the series when it was about skill gain (which this book had almost nothing of) compared to bad teenage dreams.
Normally I don't write reviews but I have enjoyed the first two books enough that I felt I should do something here.
I have the points I wanted to hit :
1. The ending was very strong and likely will be the reason I keep with the series. Looking forward to the next book.
2. I must be missing something because there is a huge jump and major gaps from what I remember in book 2 vs this book. Not sure if it is supposed to be captured in the Vince series of books or not but I did a quick look at the authors page and didn't find much so still confused by the new premise that this book started in.
3. I know many folks enjoy the harem aspect of litrpg, I personally find it pointless and enjoyed this series for avoiding it. The first book did the best job, the second was ok, and this one just gave up. Not counting the fact the demographics for these stories are skewed even further from the norm when they are included I just don't see much being added to the story. I know I'm not going to convince authors or readers as I suspect minds are set but I really did prefer the series when it was about skill gain (which this book had almost nothing of) compared to bad teenage dreams.
May 12, 2020
As I feared this third book in the Super Sales on Super Heroes series was the one where the flaws inherent in the story exacerbated to the point where they damaged my enjoyment of the story. The flaws have not yet become completely unbearable, as they had by the same stage in The Selfless Hero trilogy, but they were rapidly approaching that point by the end of the story so I think this is where I will part ways with the Super Sales on Super Hero series. It is a pity as the first book was a fun superhero tale despite the wish-fulfilment elements within the story and the cringy harem romance.
I'll not say too much about this one as anyone who has reached the third book knows the strengths and flaws of the series and of Arand as a writer in general. I'll just list a few things that hurt this third book:
1. Harem gone out of control: I think harem romance/fantasies are shitty in general but I just about survived the cringe in the first two books of the series. What killed this book was the fact that Felix now has so many women on the go that it is impossible to remember them all. It also meant that a lot of the character we got to know in the first book were pushed aside in this one to make way for hotter, younger, versions of themselves.
2. A new type of story: I liked the first book in this series so much because I loved the superhero world setting. That morphed to a sort of monster girl D&D fantasy setting midway through the second book and this third instalment of the series ended with the setting taking an even shitter twist into a post-apocalypse zombie world. That just sucks! It might have been the worst thing about the whole book. The superhero elements of the tale are completely dead and now what we have is just another generic post-apocalypse LitRPG setting and world.
3. Shared World: This third book saw Arand blend the happenings in this series with those of his Wild Wastes series. That meant we met a lot of new characters and people I was unfamiliar with (as there is no chance I'm reading Arand's erotica series given how his tamer LitRPG stuff deals with "romance") the Wild Wastes world and characters. Tons of characters popped up in this story and it was clear the reader was expected to know who they were. I did not and I felt that hurt the story even if it did not take much effort to figure out who the characters were considering Arand writes the same story over and over again only changing the setting and character names. It was pretty easy to spot the clones of Felix, Lily, Andrea, and the others. To complicate things even further there were cameos from characters from Arand's other series including Runner from the Selfless Hero trilogy and a few others I do not know from his other series. Little was done to explain who these people were to new readers of Arand's books. Shared World stories are fun in theory but begin to hurt a story when it becomes clear a reader needs to read EVERYTHING just to understand the happenings in a single series. It is what killed Marvel's Netflix series for me as once I stalled on the boring Luke Cage season one I never watched anything else!
More than those things I've listed hurt this third book in the series but that is all I can be bothered mentioning. Despite all the negatives I listed this book was not a total bust as some of the elements that made the first book in the series so fun were still present and Arand does have a relatively engaging writing style.
All in all this ended up being a below average read.
Rating: 2.5 stars. I'll round up to 3 stars as I did make it through the story fairly quickly.
Audio Note: Nick Podehl did a good job with the audio but it is still a shame Jeff Hays did not finish the series he started. Narration changes mid-series suck even when the new guy is top notch!
I'll not say too much about this one as anyone who has reached the third book knows the strengths and flaws of the series and of Arand as a writer in general. I'll just list a few things that hurt this third book:
1. Harem gone out of control: I think harem romance/fantasies are shitty in general but I just about survived the cringe in the first two books of the series. What killed this book was the fact that Felix now has so many women on the go that it is impossible to remember them all. It also meant that a lot of the character we got to know in the first book were pushed aside in this one to make way for hotter, younger, versions of themselves.
2. A new type of story: I liked the first book in this series so much because I loved the superhero world setting. That morphed to a sort of monster girl D&D fantasy setting midway through the second book and this third instalment of the series ended with the setting taking an even shitter twist into a post-apocalypse zombie world. That just sucks! It might have been the worst thing about the whole book. The superhero elements of the tale are completely dead and now what we have is just another generic post-apocalypse LitRPG setting and world.
3. Shared World: This third book saw Arand blend the happenings in this series with those of his Wild Wastes series. That meant we met a lot of new characters and people I was unfamiliar with (as there is no chance I'm reading Arand's erotica series given how his tamer LitRPG stuff deals with "romance") the Wild Wastes world and characters. Tons of characters popped up in this story and it was clear the reader was expected to know who they were. I did not and I felt that hurt the story even if it did not take much effort to figure out who the characters were considering Arand writes the same story over and over again only changing the setting and character names. It was pretty easy to spot the clones of Felix, Lily, Andrea, and the others. To complicate things even further there were cameos from characters from Arand's other series including Runner from the Selfless Hero trilogy and a few others I do not know from his other series. Little was done to explain who these people were to new readers of Arand's books. Shared World stories are fun in theory but begin to hurt a story when it becomes clear a reader needs to read EVERYTHING just to understand the happenings in a single series. It is what killed Marvel's Netflix series for me as once I stalled on the boring Luke Cage season one I never watched anything else!
More than those things I've listed hurt this third book in the series but that is all I can be bothered mentioning. Despite all the negatives I listed this book was not a total bust as some of the elements that made the first book in the series so fun were still present and Arand does have a relatively engaging writing style.
All in all this ended up being a below average read.
Rating: 2.5 stars. I'll round up to 3 stars as I did make it through the story fairly quickly.
Audio Note: Nick Podehl did a good job with the audio but it is still a shame Jeff Hays did not finish the series he started. Narration changes mid-series suck even when the new guy is top notch!
February 22, 2019
The harem shit is getting old and I’m starting to think William D Arand is a seriously creepy motherfucker. I love the characters and world that exists in these books but this one seriously ruined it for me as there is almost no character or world development and it mostly reads like some incel sexual fantasy.
April 24, 2019
This was, without a doubt, the single last worst Arand book I've ever read. After Super Sales 2 I put off getting this forever until finally caving in when I had nothing else to read and wanting to know how it would end.
The book is a huge mess. Ultimately, while a lot happens nothing really has an impact. Any struggle is rendered meaningless by the end of the book. Any gains, any accomplishment, all of it is rendered naught. The politics, the fighting in Wal, the conflict with the villains. None of it ends up mattering in any kind of way.
To add insult to injury the villains ALL escape. After three books of build up, there isn't a single cathartic moment of release as a reward. Imagine the last third of Super Sales 2 strung out into a whole book and you have this garbage.
To add insult to injury. The ending actually goes out of its way to ruin any satisfaction even from a "and the conflict continues" one might have had. Because this is the final installment of the Super Sales series. Which ends with two of the most prominent characters being trapped behind a portal, at constant risk of capture, rape and worse. Sure they're "immortal" but that doesn't protect them from any other kind of harm that can be inflicted on them.
This entire series turned to shit when then the author decided to merge all of them together but the ending of this book and the book itself is just insulting. Also how anyone can like Runner Norwood is just simply beyond me.
The guy isn't just incompetent, he's outright antagonistic. He could've stepped in at any point any solved the problem concerning the other Overgod and the Pantheon as well as villains who 100% were in league with them. He established "rules" of folks playing nice, whom the bad guys kept ignoring over and over and over again. But he acted as a stickler for the rules and got everyone fucked because of it. Good job you complete clown, I hope the bad guys win and your entire harem gets gutted.
The book is a huge mess. Ultimately, while a lot happens nothing really has an impact. Any struggle is rendered meaningless by the end of the book. Any gains, any accomplishment, all of it is rendered naught. The politics, the fighting in Wal, the conflict with the villains. None of it ends up mattering in any kind of way.
To add insult to injury the villains ALL escape. After three books of build up, there isn't a single cathartic moment of release as a reward. Imagine the last third of Super Sales 2 strung out into a whole book and you have this garbage.
To add insult to injury. The ending actually goes out of its way to ruin any satisfaction even from a "and the conflict continues" one might have had. Because this is the final installment of the Super Sales series. Which ends with two of the most prominent characters being trapped behind a portal, at constant risk of capture, rape and worse. Sure they're "immortal" but that doesn't protect them from any other kind of harm that can be inflicted on them.
This entire series turned to shit when then the author decided to merge all of them together but the ending of this book and the book itself is just insulting. Also how anyone can like Runner Norwood is just simply beyond me.
The guy isn't just incompetent, he's outright antagonistic. He could've stepped in at any point any solved the problem concerning the other Overgod and the Pantheon as well as villains who 100% were in league with them. He established "rules" of folks playing nice, whom the bad guys kept ignoring over and over and over again. But he acted as a stickler for the rules and got everyone fucked because of it. Good job you complete clown, I hope the bad guys win and your entire harem gets gutted.
January 19, 2021
Regret.
First book was fun, second was a chore, third should not have made it past the editors desk.
Entire series — if an 18 yr old boy with a love for superheroes and comics went to McDonald’s university for managers and decided to start writing scienc-fiction; this would be it.
Fun for one book.
First book was fun, second was a chore, third should not have made it past the editors desk.
Entire series — if an 18 yr old boy with a love for superheroes and comics went to McDonald’s university for managers and decided to start writing scienc-fiction; this would be it.
Fun for one book.
March 14, 2019
Well that really went off the rails.
The characters are as engaging as ever in this third (and final? I don't know, it could be the end of a trilogy, or just a third book in the series) book, but this book holds very little in common with the first book in the series, mechanically, or narrative.
The "Super Hero" aspects of this book are basically non-existent as the powered characters are pushed way into the background in favor of Faith based powers and high fantasy characters like Dryads, Elves, and Dragons. Felix's powers are also pushed way into the back with him becoming just an occasional resurrection tool, he almost never upgrades anyone/anything (when he can use his abilities that is, which he can't 95% of the time).
Narrative the plot is all over the place too, about one third of it is a political drama complete with courtroom scenes, and political resolutions. Another third is purely relationship drama, and not with established characters either, there are so many new characters that old ones barely get any lines. The last third are the actions scenes, mostly taken up by a bank heist and the final giant action scene.
While I still enjoyed the story and Arand's writing, I was really disappointed at the direction everything went. :(
The characters are as engaging as ever in this third (and final? I don't know, it could be the end of a trilogy, or just a third book in the series) book, but this book holds very little in common with the first book in the series, mechanically, or narrative.
The "Super Hero" aspects of this book are basically non-existent as the powered characters are pushed way into the background in favor of Faith based powers and high fantasy characters like Dryads, Elves, and Dragons. Felix's powers are also pushed way into the back with him becoming just an occasional resurrection tool, he almost never upgrades anyone/anything (when he can use his abilities that is, which he can't 95% of the time).
Narrative the plot is all over the place too, about one third of it is a political drama complete with courtroom scenes, and political resolutions. Another third is purely relationship drama, and not with established characters either, there are so many new characters that old ones barely get any lines. The last third are the actions scenes, mostly taken up by a bank heist and the final giant action scene.
While I still enjoyed the story and Arand's writing, I was really disappointed at the direction everything went. :(
February 26, 2019
This series started out with a unique concept, realistically addressed Polygamy as a relationship with characters having valid reasons why it works.
Book 2 did a bit of a split, but book 3? It's an open harem FFS. Sorely disappointed. And it is written like some guy's wet dream of a fantasy - women are not like that. The main character had to change AND the main female leads. You take a character that cannot stand being apart for long and have her (and her copies) around in less than 50% of the book. And I don't mean imposed separation, I mean no longer on the body guard team, drivers, etc that they ALWAYS were.
And unless its a world of 80% women to 20% men, this doesn't really work so well. Not to mention before the main characters core team had some men, in this book, they're all but forgotten (2 lines of dialogue and not mentioned in meetings is forgetting them).
I'm over this book and this series - and this author.
Book 2 did a bit of a split, but book 3? It's an open harem FFS. Sorely disappointed. And it is written like some guy's wet dream of a fantasy - women are not like that. The main character had to change AND the main female leads. You take a character that cannot stand being apart for long and have her (and her copies) around in less than 50% of the book. And I don't mean imposed separation, I mean no longer on the body guard team, drivers, etc that they ALWAYS were.
And unless its a world of 80% women to 20% men, this doesn't really work so well. Not to mention before the main characters core team had some men, in this book, they're all but forgotten (2 lines of dialogue and not mentioned in meetings is forgetting them).
I'm over this book and this series - and this author.
November 17, 2018
I wasn't as hyped for this as the earlier works. This was slowly being corrupted by Wild Wastes into a "harem" novel.
A good bit of the entire tension in the book was dedicated to relationship problems.
Then there is how he ends the Super Sales Books
Compared to the tech I saw in books one and two, the tech in book three was severely lacking. That's why I liked this series, not possible harem, definitely not the autistic pancake loving wolfgirl. It was how he used his points and people to develop things. Maybe Felix got too big to deal with looking over those stuff anymore.
I'm not sure how I feel about Super Sales and Wild Wastes being linked so strongly that it's a plot point. Having a few cameos and behind the scenes tinkering maybe, not just open and out there.
The two series would be indistinguishable from each other (already getting there). Just don't know how I really feel about it.
Also recently they had Felix just being battered around.
All in all this book seems like an introduction / foundation for whatever series he is going to start next. You could say it was an exercise novel with the running Felix was doing....
I hope the next trilogy has more of what I liked from the first two novels.
2.5/5 Stars
A good bit of the entire tension in the book was dedicated to relationship problems.
Then there is how he ends the Super Sales Books
Compared to the tech I saw in books one and two, the tech in book three was severely lacking. That's why I liked this series, not possible harem, definitely not the autistic pancake loving wolfgirl. It was how he used his points and people to develop things. Maybe Felix got too big to deal with looking over those stuff anymore.
I'm not sure how I feel about Super Sales and Wild Wastes being linked so strongly that it's a plot point. Having a few cameos and behind the scenes tinkering maybe, not just open and out there.
The two series would be indistinguishable from each other (already getting there). Just don't know how I really feel about it.
Also recently they had Felix just being battered around.
All in all this book seems like an introduction / foundation for whatever series he is going to start next. You could say it was an exercise novel with the running Felix was doing....
I hope the next trilogy has more of what I liked from the first two novels.
2.5/5 Stars
April 2, 2019
This book shouldn't be read unless you've read the Wild Wastes series (by Randi Darren - pen name of William D Arand). And it would help a lot if you actually like those books (I've only read the first and didn't think too much of it).
Most of the cast of SS has been replace by new characters, a lot of them from the WW series. We do get to see our old favourites, but mostly in passing, which was very disappointing.
I loved the first book because of the cast of characters. To simply dismiss them for entirely new characters made me really dislike this book.
There really wasn't much of a story going on. Or if there was, I've totally missed it. I would have stopped this near the start, but kept going on in the hopes of coming across the original women.
There are a few really fun parts in this book, and that reminded me of the first book. But the story itself wasn't interesting enough for me to care much.
This isn't the last book. I'm not sure if there will be a SS4, or a merging of both the SS and WW series.
Audiobook - Nicholas Podehl is a great narrator. It's unfortunate that he had to come into this series midway, and hence couldn't create his own voices for the characters. He does an amazing job imitating the voices Jeff Hayes had started the series with. However, it is an imitation, and so sadly, doesn't hold up when compared to Jeff Hayes. And it's impossible to do so when being compared to the original narrator.
Most of the cast of SS has been replace by new characters, a lot of them from the WW series. We do get to see our old favourites, but mostly in passing, which was very disappointing.
I loved the first book because of the cast of characters. To simply dismiss them for entirely new characters made me really dislike this book.
There really wasn't much of a story going on. Or if there was, I've totally missed it. I would have stopped this near the start, but kept going on in the hopes of coming across the original women.
There are a few really fun parts in this book, and that reminded me of the first book. But the story itself wasn't interesting enough for me to care much.
This isn't the last book. I'm not sure if there will be a SS4, or a merging of both the SS and WW series.
Audiobook - Nicholas Podehl is a great narrator. It's unfortunate that he had to come into this series midway, and hence couldn't create his own voices for the characters. He does an amazing job imitating the voices Jeff Hayes had started the series with. However, it is an imitation, and so sadly, doesn't hold up when compared to Jeff Hayes. And it's impossible to do so when being compared to the original narrator.
January 30, 2020
Between over two dozen characters that you're supposed to magically keep track of, abrupt and nonsensical transitions from one subject to another, and his myriad of manic moments, all makes for an extremely choppy narrative, and many a time, an incoherent plot.
Felix is your prototypical, workaholic, messianic hero who seems to need two dozen or more regular supporting characters (mostly female) to help his manic tendencies jumble up the plot. Half the time you don't know where he is, who he's actually talking to, or what he's on about. And, of course, all the hottest women in three universes lust after his wholly mediocre flesh, craving his carnal attentions ceaselessly, even though he's working 25 hours a day. So, of course, he naturally has time to tend to all their "needs".
To make it worse, the author keeps continually adding more, and more, and more characters to his story to make it even more convoluted and confusing to follow. Most of whom are lustful females.
By this third installment, this book series of his has devolved into a sloppy-choppy, poorly written harem book that has become entirely predictable, boring, and thereby necessarily tedious.
I also find it very bizarre how obsessed the author is with pancakes. It seems to be something he brings up in nearly all his book series, or so I've heard. I'll likely be returning the whole series, much like I did with the Bobiverse book series.
Felix is your prototypical, workaholic, messianic hero who seems to need two dozen or more regular supporting characters (mostly female) to help his manic tendencies jumble up the plot. Half the time you don't know where he is, who he's actually talking to, or what he's on about. And, of course, all the hottest women in three universes lust after his wholly mediocre flesh, craving his carnal attentions ceaselessly, even though he's working 25 hours a day. So, of course, he naturally has time to tend to all their "needs".
To make it worse, the author keeps continually adding more, and more, and more characters to his story to make it even more convoluted and confusing to follow. Most of whom are lustful females.
By this third installment, this book series of his has devolved into a sloppy-choppy, poorly written harem book that has become entirely predictable, boring, and thereby necessarily tedious.
I also find it very bizarre how obsessed the author is with pancakes. It seems to be something he brings up in nearly all his book series, or so I've heard. I'll likely be returning the whole series, much like I did with the Bobiverse book series.
March 1, 2019
The series has really went downhill. The action used to carry me through the unrealistic, nauseating harem plot, but now it has all the fun of the Star Wars prequels. Bureaucracy is boring. Don't write about it.
May 14, 2020
I rarely write full book reviews but this book is so terrible and offensive I felt I have a responsibility to society to comment on it.
The 1st book in this series was great. The 2nd book was good. This book is so bad that I feel like I should go back and lower my ratings for the first two books with the hope that it will prevent someone from reading this 3rd book.
The 1st book (and to an extent the 2nd book) was closer to true LitRPG with some fantasy and SciFi with plenty of strategy, plot, humor, and character development. The 3rd book is nothing but a soulless harem fantasy. The author failed to continue most of the plot lines started in previous books, abandons many of the staples of LitRPG and game theory, leaves behind many prior characters and adds a slew of new characters; all of which are apparently “hot” women and female creatures that can’t help but live to fulfill Felix’s wishes (with he being flummoxed as to why he is being persecuted by the desires of these females).
This book is like sexual harassment. You keep wondering if this is really happening. Wondering if it’s going to stop anytime soon. Wondering why it’s happening. You keep reading hoping the author has a point to why he went in such a dramatically different direction from prior books, choosing instead to focus on juvenile offensive sexual innuendo and misogyny. Is there a spell or “glitch in the matrix” causing this categorical change in story and characters? Nope! Just crap writing. As a reader, I was left feeling cheated that I was lured in to a series that started so great then took such a pathetic and disgusting turn.
Ironically, this book fails as even a harem fantasy because the author’s understanding of women and sexuality (and even sexual encounters) is so simple and juvenile that you’d think it was written by a 13 year old boy that learned about sex from a 50 year old Playboy magazine. This is a story I see appealing at most to a teenage boy or basement dwelling misogynist.
I vow here and now to never read another book by this author nor any of those written under his pen name.
The 1st book in this series was great. The 2nd book was good. This book is so bad that I feel like I should go back and lower my ratings for the first two books with the hope that it will prevent someone from reading this 3rd book.
The 1st book (and to an extent the 2nd book) was closer to true LitRPG with some fantasy and SciFi with plenty of strategy, plot, humor, and character development. The 3rd book is nothing but a soulless harem fantasy. The author failed to continue most of the plot lines started in previous books, abandons many of the staples of LitRPG and game theory, leaves behind many prior characters and adds a slew of new characters; all of which are apparently “hot” women and female creatures that can’t help but live to fulfill Felix’s wishes (with he being flummoxed as to why he is being persecuted by the desires of these females).
This book is like sexual harassment. You keep wondering if this is really happening. Wondering if it’s going to stop anytime soon. Wondering why it’s happening. You keep reading hoping the author has a point to why he went in such a dramatically different direction from prior books, choosing instead to focus on juvenile offensive sexual innuendo and misogyny. Is there a spell or “glitch in the matrix” causing this categorical change in story and characters? Nope! Just crap writing. As a reader, I was left feeling cheated that I was lured in to a series that started so great then took such a pathetic and disgusting turn.
Ironically, this book fails as even a harem fantasy because the author’s understanding of women and sexuality (and even sexual encounters) is so simple and juvenile that you’d think it was written by a 13 year old boy that learned about sex from a 50 year old Playboy magazine. This is a story I see appealing at most to a teenage boy or basement dwelling misogynist.
I vow here and now to never read another book by this author nor any of those written under his pen name.
November 9, 2018
It was awesome to read the parallel with the Wild Wastes series from the view point of Felix. Now in this book we understand why everything that happened to Felix did happen. Why everyone was out to get him and his crew.
The couple dynamic with the new girl Felicity is cute to see happen. Felix should just give in and take the interested women in a relationship.
The couple dynamic with the new girl Felicity is cute to see happen. Felix should just give in and take the interested women in a relationship.
February 1, 2019
As expected, this book was packed full of silliness and over the top wtf-ery. I'd say it was about equal with the second book in enjoyment levels for me. The first is still the best imo. This book also takes the formula from the first two and plays with it a bit, making Felix's efforts to destroy his enemies in the same way he always has become too predictable and play right into their hands, starting off the zombie apocalypse. I like how the author plays with expectations here, and how he's building on the story, and continually raising the stakes. It shows that he can think a bit outside of the box he's been inside of for the two previous books, and can still bring some originality into the story and the characters. This book is considerably more harem-y than the first two, however, and if that's a turn off to you, you might be a bit annoyed with it. I kind of just rolled with it, because everything else in the book was so fun and entertaining. It's looking like the next book will probably be the last of the series, which feels like the perfect length for this series. Too much of a good thing can get repetitive, and it's usually better to end before that happens. If you enjoyed the first two books, you'll probably enjoy this one as well.
Like I've said before, sometimes you want a beautifully written epic with deep characters and themes, and sometimes you just want something silly and fun.
Like I've said before, sometimes you want a beautifully written epic with deep characters and themes, and sometimes you just want something silly and fun.
December 5, 2022
Wonderfull continuation for the series a little sad to see Legion outplay once more given how paranoid Felix is and how outstanding his people are. Also there is never an explanation of why the pantheon has such a big hard on for Felix to the point of everyone helping to curse him.
October 8, 2024
I loved the first book and the second book was very good in my opinion as well both I could hardly put down. There were things I didn't like but nothing to stop my enjoyment of the books themselves. The biggest draw to me was the character build up. We had a cast a characters that we got to know (to varying degrees) and I greatly enjoyed the interactions between them. The harem build up was slow and built up over time with character interactions and thoughts, not this Oh a hot woman lets bang, or Oh your the main character that does nothing useful lets all fall in love with you instantly, that soooo many (all) harem stories do. Throw in thought out and cool super powers and Bam I'm sold. This book though took a 90 degree turn and started to fall back into the tropes that make other stories so bad. It got to be so I couldn't finish it (but my friend did and he confirmed it continued in that direction). The main problem to me is that it had a new character dump. Just right off the bat a portal opens and here characters out of no where, with new girl that instantly attracted to the MC no build up like it was with the existing girls, this also subtracts from time that could have been spent with the existing harem that still had plenty of story and growth left in it. I like him joining 2 diff series together like he did but the series he joined together was one of his older ones that did follow the whole MC meet hot girl so lets bang trope, I couldn't even get through book one of it. Either way that is why this book is a 1 star while the other 2 are 5/4 stars. I don't even see how the series is even fixable now even if there another book and I am very disappointed this was one of my favorite series.
June 9, 2025
Everything just escalated without any insight or connection to the main character and the failed Narrative Unity for many of the main characters may have lost me as a reader for the next novel.
I was already on the fence during the second book with the suspension of disbelief getting broken too much. Everything was so well put together and organized for the first book that the reader could not help but get wrapped up in the laws and rules of the emerging universe around them.
I was hoping the MC (Felix) would meet up with a brilliant tactician or someone with a genius-level intellect that would help him realize the full potential of his powers which never happened. I had hoped that the Rubik's cube kid would be a hidden genius-level intellect that emerged as his mind was not hindered by the traditional education system and their oppression of creativity and exploration of thought... or that the older scientist Mr white would fill that role in lieu of a more profound character development.
Following that line of thinking when did the character traits for the main cast change? it kind of just happened between books I guess but when did Felix go from an average dude with good leadership and corporate training to a galaxy brain? The author had not been portraying him that way before and it just changed abruptly between two of the books
I love the sassy scientist dwarf. It's sad that her dynamics with the main cast members fell off the wayside. I do understand her work and priorities had changed but this just felt disingenuous.
I was already on the fence during the second book with the suspension of disbelief getting broken too much. Everything was so well put together and organized for the first book that the reader could not help but get wrapped up in the laws and rules of the emerging universe around them.
I was hoping the MC (Felix) would meet up with a brilliant tactician or someone with a genius-level intellect that would help him realize the full potential of his powers which never happened. I had hoped that the Rubik's cube kid would be a hidden genius-level intellect that emerged as his mind was not hindered by the traditional education system and their oppression of creativity and exploration of thought... or that the older scientist Mr white would fill that role in lieu of a more profound character development.
Following that line of thinking when did the character traits for the main cast change? it kind of just happened between books I guess but when did Felix go from an average dude with good leadership and corporate training to a galaxy brain? The author had not been portraying him that way before and it just changed abruptly between two of the books
I love the sassy scientist dwarf. It's sad that her dynamics with the main cast members fell off the wayside. I do understand her work and priorities had changed but this just felt disingenuous.
April 29, 2019
This is a harem sci-fi/superhero/action fantasy. And it's a roller coaster of series. Each book goes wildly off the rails - you don't know what's coming next. Major blindsiding plot twists happen in the series. The only constant is that the male lead is always surrounded by sexy, smart, ultra-capable women and treats them extremely well. He's so good to them that they don't mind sharing him, even by the dozen. Whatever. The sex is entirely off camera. The violence is on camera. Luckily, dead people don't stay dead for long because of the lead's superpower. It's written for men, but I still stayed interested. Book 3 was a little over the top for me because of the brother leading a parallel life with his own harem. Seems harems are in fashion in this series.
February 12, 2019
This one wanders around looking for a direction it never finds
I love catching up with Felix and Legion. This mess of a book is worth it, just to be around these characters as long as you don't need any clear idea of what's going on.
If you do like to follow a linear narrative and have a grasp on who's doing what, this might be a frustrating book for you. As new characters are introduced, old favorites just get pushed to the side and forgotten. Clear goals for Legion are as elusive the thrust of the plot. Everyone is very busy spinning their wheels. ...and then we just Etch-a-sketch apocalypse the whole thing.
I love catching up with Felix and Legion. This mess of a book is worth it, just to be around these characters as long as you don't need any clear idea of what's going on.
If you do like to follow a linear narrative and have a grasp on who's doing what, this might be a frustrating book for you. As new characters are introduced, old favorites just get pushed to the side and forgotten. Clear goals for Legion are as elusive the thrust of the plot. Everyone is very busy spinning their wheels. ...and then we just Etch-a-sketch apocalypse the whole thing.
December 2, 2018
Proofread!
That’s about the only thing keeping me from giving 5 stars to your books! Great storylines, good character development, and you don’t overdo the stats part. Could stand some more sex in my opinion but that’s just me being a horny old bastard. The thing that drives me insane is all the mistakes. Writers Rule: Never proof your own work. Get a couple of friends to pre-read your work. Don’t know if highlighting on my side does any good on your end. I don’t comment on everything I read but I’ll keep reading your works.
That’s about the only thing keeping me from giving 5 stars to your books! Great storylines, good character development, and you don’t overdo the stats part. Could stand some more sex in my opinion but that’s just me being a horny old bastard. The thing that drives me insane is all the mistakes. Writers Rule: Never proof your own work. Get a couple of friends to pre-read your work. Don’t know if highlighting on my side does any good on your end. I don’t comment on everything I read but I’ll keep reading your works.
October 1, 2020
While the other books were a fun romp with their share of problems, the misogyny in this book became ridiculous and uncomfortable. Every girl ever wants to sleep with Felix and join his harem. And it's because of his mind. And they want to have his babies. I'm not exaggerating, it's creepy, and makes the book far less enjoyable. I was also thinking it was the last in the series, no such luck.
October 3, 2020
3 stars, pretty disappoint with this next book in the series. Most of the cleverness does not come through in this book like the first two. I may still read book 4 but this one was defiantly a step backwards. I love the first two books but this one falls way short for me.
June 10, 2020
Sigh. I was honestly hoping for more from the final book in this series. Although it is nice to see the main character get knocked around a lot and journey with him, there is no catharsis! It just ends in a cliffhanger. Characters don't get any closure, arcs are non existent and it takes all the world building and fun lore of the frist two books and just....nothing. it does nothing with it at the end. It was honestly so disappointing. So much wasted potential. But, from what I can tell, this universe is shared with his other books. So there is hope there I guess. 3.5/5
May 6, 2022
Decent
I saw a lot of negative reviews but I’m glad I didn’t allow them to colour my perspective of this book. The 4th installation just recently got released and I found myself needing to catch up with the story. It was pretty interesting, Felix expanded his inner circle and we got a 5year time-skip. I wish he used his upgrade power more often, because that was what actually got my interested in this story I’m the first place.
Overall, a 3.8/5 .
I saw a lot of negative reviews but I’m glad I didn’t allow them to colour my perspective of this book. The 4th installation just recently got released and I found myself needing to catch up with the story. It was pretty interesting, Felix expanded his inner circle and we got a 5year time-skip. I wish he used his upgrade power more often, because that was what actually got my interested in this story I’m the first place.
Overall, a 3.8/5 .
February 4, 2019
3.5 stars. This third book just didn't seem to have the magic the first book did. The second one slipped a little bit, but this is just kind of drug on. It was OK, but not great.
February 8, 2019
Hmm it's almost like the author wants to get rid of his current characters and start with all new ones. So a whole new bunch of "heroes" are now on the scene.
April 10, 2019
I was a little disappointed by this book. Mostly it was because it was a huge departure from the previous book. The biggest disappointment was the sheer lack of Felix's power. I will go more into it later when I drop a spoiler banner, but he had a person join his team around chapter two and never checked her stats until chapter 30. Previously we got a decent mix of him using his pop up screens and summed up upgrades but it felt like every time he used his power it was just to say he had. I expected a fair amount of cheesiness from this story, but it lacked the ingenuity of the previous two.
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I felt like the none human races were poorly used. I liked Felicity but she is at the heart of what is wrong with this book. Most the plot revolves around her trying to bone Felix, and she is just accepted without much difficulty from the main cast despite the fact that she is shacking things up and inserting herself in the higher at possible. Honestly I liked Felicity but she came off as sort of a Mary Sue. I especially disliked the way here and other races stats appeared in Felix's powers, as if to say their was nothing special but Felicity could preform magic without any spells or incantation yet her primary power was listed as N/A. None of the Races from the Faith magic wielding dreads to the shapeshifting Dragons had so much as a hint of anything special listed, like they were all standard humans. It has annoyed me for awhile that we just keep getting more new Supers who are more powerful than Kit started. Kit the arguably strongest telepath in their universe and random side Elf is more valuable. I imagine got a lot of flack from how many times he used the pop up screen in the second book but he went the complete opposite in this one flat out ignoring its potential which was far more annoying. In future books if this series continues I would like to see the pop up Windows used more frequently with less upfront info but more options. For example after 5 years as CEO of legion, why does the point cost to upgrade show up ever time he opens the character sheets. I would like to see the racial powers addressed and possibly see the addition of drop Down Windows. Like Felicity: Race: Dark Elf primary power Racial Inate power drop down to Advance Hearing, Dark vision, wordless & brainless faith magic. Secondary power : Teleportation.
Enough with my power rant. I genuinely hate puppeteering plot lines where the main character is simply falling for someone else's plot. It feels annoying at the time and never really pays off. Part of me was hoping Felicity would turn out to be a double agent working to over throw Yosemite and Legion from the inside via some hidden power. Instead we got some random chick who was behind it all along working with a few Bad guys. Skipper up to this point has been a total waste. If you going to set it at the end of their price treaty at least have her do something. All the characters were acting off from their old selves and I suppose you could blame the 5 year ago, but that gap seems to hold no true bearing.
Over all this book was a little disappointing, but I still look forward to seeing what comes next.
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I felt like the none human races were poorly used. I liked Felicity but she is at the heart of what is wrong with this book. Most the plot revolves around her trying to bone Felix, and she is just accepted without much difficulty from the main cast despite the fact that she is shacking things up and inserting herself in the higher at possible. Honestly I liked Felicity but she came off as sort of a Mary Sue. I especially disliked the way here and other races stats appeared in Felix's powers, as if to say their was nothing special but Felicity could preform magic without any spells or incantation yet her primary power was listed as N/A. None of the Races from the Faith magic wielding dreads to the shapeshifting Dragons had so much as a hint of anything special listed, like they were all standard humans. It has annoyed me for awhile that we just keep getting more new Supers who are more powerful than Kit started. Kit the arguably strongest telepath in their universe and random side Elf is more valuable. I imagine got a lot of flack from how many times he used the pop up screen in the second book but he went the complete opposite in this one flat out ignoring its potential which was far more annoying. In future books if this series continues I would like to see the pop up Windows used more frequently with less upfront info but more options. For example after 5 years as CEO of legion, why does the point cost to upgrade show up ever time he opens the character sheets. I would like to see the racial powers addressed and possibly see the addition of drop Down Windows. Like Felicity: Race: Dark Elf primary power Racial Inate power drop down to Advance Hearing, Dark vision, wordless & brainless faith magic. Secondary power : Teleportation.
Enough with my power rant. I genuinely hate puppeteering plot lines where the main character is simply falling for someone else's plot. It feels annoying at the time and never really pays off. Part of me was hoping Felicity would turn out to be a double agent working to over throw Yosemite and Legion from the inside via some hidden power. Instead we got some random chick who was behind it all along working with a few Bad guys. Skipper up to this point has been a total waste. If you going to set it at the end of their price treaty at least have her do something. All the characters were acting off from their old selves and I suppose you could blame the 5 year ago, but that gap seems to hold no true bearing.
Over all this book was a little disappointing, but I still look forward to seeing what comes next.
January 9, 2019
Weird
Like with the last book, this one goes on a weird bend and does not always feel fleshed out fully
Like with the last book, this one goes on a weird bend and does not always feel fleshed out fully
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