When we jump from those goings ons to Cal fiddling with traps, it feels insubstantial. The world is ending, the sky is falling, people are losing their minds. This book has those same elements, but they feel different. We got to watch him hack reality, creating traps, monsters, and everything in between. One thing I loved about early entries of this series was experiencing Cal explore the rules of his universe. My blind guess: founding Mountaindale Press has taken taken a higher priority, even if wasn’t intentional. These last two books felt both meandering and simultaneously jam packed with history tidbits, which left me unsatisfied. The story itself is great, and exactly what I expected from the series, but the narration change seriously hurts my enjoyment of this series.A few other reviewers have mentioned that this book feels rushed, like Dakota was ready to move on to other pastures. I feel bad going so hard against Daniels, but I just didn't enjoy his version of these characters at all and genuinely wish I'd just read the book myself. If he was at least trying to sound similar to Vikas' voices I could accept it, but he gives characters radically different voices, and sometimes different accents, and as a result it's hard to immerse myself in the series, since I'm constantly confused on who is talking, and constantly comparing his voices to the voices I'm expecting. We're on the 5th book of a series, so such a dramatic change in how characters sound is very jarring and confusing. Speaking of voice comparisons, Daniels' voices sound nothing like the ones performed by Adams. The tone genuinely sounds like a saturday morning cartoon at times, with his voices sometimes being far too exaggerated, especially when compared to the voices done by Vikas Adams. Luke Daniels is a narrator I've enjoyed before, but his voices just don't work for this series. Do you remember the 90's, and saturday morning cartoons, where 4kids would just take anime and plaster random dubs over a show, totally changing the tone and feel of a series just to make a profit? Well, that's what this book is like.
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