The main character doesn't fit the story.

This review has minor spoilers, you were warned.



I really like some of the ideas this book used but it seems as if the author wanted to mix too many things together. The MC gets a non combat class, a treasure hunter that by all means would be perfect if this book was about solving puzzles or even just a LITrpg ripoff of Indiana Jones series and not a primal earth, combat focused story it is. Don't get me wrong I like the idea of a game that's in such setting but it would have been so much more interesting if the main character actually suited the setting. This could have been a tribe-war kind of a story, survival story or even city building one but in the end it became what it is now. By that I don't mean it is a bad book as it can be really interesting, but it can also be a slog to go through especially when you have the MC, Hudson trying to do things so out of character (like fighting) and then complaining that he isn't good at them and I as the listener was just sitting there and going "Wow, who would have expected that a treasure hunter isn't exactly a combat master".

Besides that I liked the Arcon (if that's how you write it) theme, putting gods in a story can often backfire but from what I've seen up till now it's good. As long as it doesn't go the Gods sending their avatars everywhere/Holy War and crazy church/cult route it's going to be fine.

The narrator did a very good job, he wasn't monotone and the voices he made were different enough, one minor thing is that sometimes he made the MC sound really whinny and that really grinned on my nerves.

One last thing, in my opinion everything that happened after the fight with Tim was bad, the reactions of the tribe, the decision Hudson made, it kinda feels like most of the story was for nothing.



To conclude this review, this book was Ok, not more, not less. If you have a number of books you want to listen to I would advice to check what are opinions on all of them, cause this one here wouldn't be my first pick. It also wouldn't be the last cause there are definitely worse books out there. This one would be somewhere in the middle and sooner or late you can give it a try. One thing that can really help out here is book 2 if it comes out but the author needs to figure out what kind of story he wants and then make the character fit in a bit more.