Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I will be honest, I had trouble finishing this story. I had to stop several times after the halfway point because it annoyed me so much. The first third to half of the book feels like a different one from the second half. The prose is smooth and there are few errors. The main character has real problems and it seems like there's going to be some interesting interaction with a Sensei character. Then the Academy portion starts and the inconsistencies build. Students are being protected and restricted for their own good. They'll be guided to use their abilities and learn about the tower. As they grow ... aaaand then two students and their thugs KILL half the class under the supervision of the instructors. Those students get 3 DEMERITS for Slytherin House or whatever because there is never a mention of a demerit again and not a tear is shed over the dead students. Teamwork though, that's the answer: for trying the non-violent path our MC is praised and given +3 points. It's probably a little blue ribbon with +3 on it to hang from his fridge. Yes, we want teamwork and we'll work together to climb the tower and save humanity! Next challenge for this year's students? One on One combat tournament to the death and half the city is screaming for blood! Winners graduate and losers' bodies will be fed to the monsters or just forgotten immediately? Time for the next training montage! Thank goodness the MC has a teacher to guide him though because what would he do without...oh wait, no he just goes off into the tower for weeks at a time. Murderhobo sleeping monsters and then does situps, pushups and running: those are all the training that you need, there probably aren't other abilities or skills that could be useful. The most jarring part of the story is the over use of onomatopoeia words (Smash, Crash, Crack, Slam, Roar, "Rustle, Rustle") as sentences. Instead of describing the characters hearing and reacting to the sound, we just get a WORD in all CAPITALS with exclamation marks. If you're picturing a Batman comic from 1960, then that's spot on to how it presents. If those interjections don't bother you then this is a solid 3 star. From my perspective, there's a reason that I'm reading prose instead of a comic. Paint the picture with words, put me there and let me live in that world for a time with your character: There's a heaving, insane werewolf mere feet away. We feel the heat radiating from his body and the sharp musk so thick that we taste it. He spots us with eyes burning with madness and tendons in his neck and shoulders strain as he bares jagged fangs and a deep shuddering growl oozes through the air between us, skipping our ears and penetrating our bones directly. No maybe "GROWLLLLL!!!" is just as good. Maybe one more "L".