Very different tone then the books I normally read. The werewolf fight was very brutal, and frankly the injuries the MC takes and keeps fighting are brutal enough to be a little silly. On the other hand that means that the author did an excellent job choreographing and describing the fight making it easy to follow and understand.
The MC does seem a little OP with a ridiculous amount of skills and training for an "Accountant" but it feels like that's mostly so the monsters can ramp aggressively in terms of threat. Oh well this is a fun action romp, it's not really that important, and it serves the plot to have a hyper competent MC, as it's easy to power creep monsters to keep the stakes up.
In stark contrast to Heinlein, the characters here are wacky and ooze personality. No forgetting who's who here.
A lot of this is due to the lighter nature and tone of the book. In any case it got me invested, and I was a little annoyed waiting for this discussion topic to be posted as I am eager to read more. This one might not have as much to say as my usual fare, but it certainly accomplished its goal of setting up the world, the protagonist, the antagonist, and hooking me into reading more.
I like it a lot, I was happy to revisit it. I don’t like it quite as much as some of the future books in the series but it does a great job in laying the groundwork for this world and characters. The person who sold this book to me called it “Harry Potter for gun nuts” and as much as I hate everything about that analogy it’s not inaccurate. I would have called it a less gay version of White Wolf’s World of Darkness, but I guess that’s a bit of a mouthful.
I will echo the point that the main character seems a little OP without being too Mary-Sueish. He’s obviously a sort of avatar for Correia but I don’t think it gets too distracting and Owen Pitt is a likable protagonist.
Oh! I just read this book a few weeks ago!
...Unfortunately, it was a few weeks ago. Honestly can't remember what happens chapter by chapter since I finish books in 1-2 sittings most often.
But I'll pop in a few more chapters in, watching discussion, just don't want to accidentally spoil anything.
Same boat, listened to it on audio books a few months back. I enjoyed the whole series quite a bit but can't easily distinguish chapters from memory.
Very different tone then the books I normally read. The werewolf fight was very brutal, and frankly the injuries the MC takes and keeps fighting are brutal enough to be a little silly. On the other hand that means that the author did an excellent job choreographing and describing the fight making it easy to follow and understand.
The MC does seem a little OP with a ridiculous amount of skills and training for an "Accountant" but it feels like that's mostly so the monsters can ramp aggressively in terms of threat. Oh well this is a fun action romp, it's not really that important, and it serves the plot to have a hyper competent MC, as it's easy to power creep monsters to keep the stakes up.
In stark contrast to Heinlein, the characters here are wacky and ooze personality. No forgetting who's who here.
A lot of this is due to the lighter nature and tone of the book. In any case it got me invested, and I was a little annoyed waiting for this discussion topic to be posted as I am eager to read more. This one might not have as much to say as my usual fare, but it certainly accomplished its goal of setting up the world, the protagonist, the antagonist, and hooking me into reading more.
I like it a lot, I was happy to revisit it. I don’t like it quite as much as some of the future books in the series but it does a great job in laying the groundwork for this world and characters. The person who sold this book to me called it “Harry Potter for gun nuts” and as much as I hate everything about that analogy it’s not inaccurate. I would have called it a less gay version of White Wolf’s World of Darkness, but I guess that’s a bit of a mouthful.
I will echo the point that the main character seems a little OP without being too Mary-Sueish. He’s obviously a sort of avatar for Correia but I don’t think it gets too distracting and Owen Pitt is a likable protagonist.
Dude's initials are literally O.P. Wonder if that was an intentional joke or not?
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