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ranked #242,692 most helpful out of 571,544,897 reviews
★★☆☆☆
This book is bad.
I understand that these are men’s pulp fiction, and in general I read and enjoy them that way, but this one is beyond that, really far behind any of the author’s other books. It’s impossible to hold any suspension of disbelief because the situations presented are nonsensical by all means, even for the loose rules and inner workings of the built world. In the first chapters the MC’s summons a dragon who kills six thugs in cold blood (pun intended) and he doesn’t think twice about it, his only excuse is that he thought they were going to kill him. Nice view on justice: kill first, shrug off legal proceeding and don’t think about it never again. Then he is ‘recruited’ (doesn’t have a choice really, he says so himself) by an Academy/Black-ops facility where he will get training in the use of his power and, in exchange, he will be given missions to kill or capture monsters. The very next day, without any training or education in how this 'new world' works, they send him on a couple of very dangerous missions with a team of people he barely knows, whom he never worked with (they don’t even trained together, they trained at the same time once) and none of them has any field experience. Also, the people running this facility, that apparently have unlimited resources and futuristic technology, have less information on the mission’s target that the MC, because he listens to podcasts and reads books. This is so annoying. The characters are one dimensional and were brainwashed somehow into abandoning their freedom and risks their lives for housing and food. The harem is forced and weird, the MC flirts openly with two women in front of each other and they are ok with it because the MC is OP. Does magic change automatically years of social constructed human interactions? If it is so, I’m ok with it, but please put a line in the book saying it, because otherwise it's unbelievable and cringeworthy. I believe the author has amassed a nice cult following and apparently he can release a half-cooked mediocre book and have 100+ reviews praising him and asking for more. I believe that each book deserves a well thought out criticism, regardless of the opinion we have of the author, and in this case the book is bad.
September 2020 · Kindle Store · verified purchase
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Dragon Conjurer (Dragon Conjurer (Completed Series) Book 1)
4.5★ · 1,468 ratings, as of 2023
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