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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9342586" data-attributes="member: 7035894">Yeah, I don't see myself going past book 1. When I say that it's like a novelization of Diablo, I mean that there are literally many pages just focused on inventory management, not to mention endless achievement notifications, health bars, and so on. And the protagonist is singularly uninterested in the wider implications of discovering that Earth is just one node of an intergalactic civilization, or shows any emotional response to 99.9% of humanity being wiped out in the first few pages while the few survivors are forced into a televised death match.So there are basically zero emotional stakes or interesting ideas. But it's well enough written for what it is: the novel equivalent of a decent B movie. The humour, which comes mostly from the various achievement notifications, is around 9th grade level.</blockquote>