Big departure

So this story picks up where the last one ended but it’s doesn’t take very long for everything we have read and seen developed to be set aside because of the time travel element. That jarred me a lot. I miss the characters from book five, I really wanted to see what happens with the moon people and I liked the multiverse events of book five. This book has a little bit of the multiverse in the first quarter of the story right after Eric goes back in time but after that it settles on this one world that I imagined as some kind of feudal Japan but that’s probably just me. I dislike how Eric’s character has gotten angrier and angrier while making the same basic mistakes and hypocritical actions. For example he hates people spying on him but he spies on everyone else. He hates being a leader but when someone doesn’t call him but the honorific title of the position (that he is trying to reject and or avoid) then he gets very angry. There is not as much humor in this story and his alter ego god self is absent for the majority of the book. Eric can be super smart and very over powered but he fails to take basic precautions to keep his things from being stolen. Most of the time he is the one driving the conflicts to escalate rather than take actions to repair relationships or apologize. I wish he was the adventuring guy from the first, third and fifth book. Seems like the even books are always more moody and depressing and full of complaints. I also don’t understand how the orb of evil can be so powerful and indestructible. It seems like the orb was an excuse for the time jump between book two and three and a reason to jerk Eric out of being a king or adventuring on Rethvan. If the demon king entity was created then it can be destroyed. Why is it that only evil things dwell in Eric’s subconscious represented by the basement in his mental study? It’s like only his bad actions count and none of his good actions count. Anyway, what it boils down to is that as a character, Eric is becoming someone I don’t want to listen to or follow along with. He kind of reminds me of the person who thinks of themself as depressing so they act depressed and drive everyone away. Yet somehow there is always a woman that to quote firebrand “she likes you boss” which to be honest who the heck would want to be around someone who is always this angry and throws tantrums? Seriously, I lost count of the number of times Eric throws a tantrum in this book. One of my favorite moments was when his alter ego reestablishes contact with him and tells him to knock the dramatic dreaming off. Can we have adventure next time? Less Eric being a jerk and killing people for no reason? Though I do hope he raises the little girl that he has at the end. I hope the back of energy that went into her made her immortal or something. I also noted that even though Eric spent a lot of the book complaining about his time paradox and how he hates having no choice because he is fated to be his own vampire grandfather that he had a comment that he could see a way out of it. But not going to tell us that because it’s probably the plot of the next book. But at the same time even though he can see a way out he’s going to continue whining and moping about it. Maybe the next book will be more fun and less depressing. I just didn’t enjoy this book as much as previous entries.