Truly terrible wasted opportunity

Chris Fox is not a great author by any stretch of the imagination. Do not be fooled by the positive reviews. The main part of the series is mediocre at best. We have a beautiful universal setting that is constantly weighed down by an immature author who cannot make simple plot points meet his overarching plot which in caused him to force plot through terrible out of character decisions all for the sake of "THE PLOT DEMANDS IT!" This gets INFINITELY worse in the legacy series where the MC who im fairly certain is a self insert of Fox hands power over constantly to people who repeatedly screw him over for no reason other than "the author wrote it this way". Do not waste your time on this. The series is written only to sell the RPG.

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Always a reading pleasure

Patiently awaiting, the next awesome chapter! Nothing else needs to be said!
Every new chapter is, “the real deal!”

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Highly enjoyable

I loved reading the series, and hearing them as an audiobook really brought the story and characters to life.
Listening to the story reminded me of how much I'd forgotten.
Nebiat was an excellent villain with tremendous depth and (some) noble motives willing to do anything to reach her goals. I haven't enjoyed a villain this much since Handsome Jack in Borderland 2.
Want to add I had only read the first eight (Godswar) and Legacy being on as well was a huge bonus. I've got the Legacy books just haven't gotten around to reading them yet.
Also, loved Ryan Burke's performance in the Deathless books and he's done an excellent job here as well.

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Pulpy Action

Took a flyer on this one - returning it, but with respect. Review based primarily on book 1.

To me this seems a series for persons who want books with simple pulpy action, that kind of fun. We have dragons flying through space taking over people's minds, necromancers doing similar things across the galaxy, and our heroic characters fighting them with technomancy and spells, while dealing with mutual dislikes, suspicions, and so on and so on.

Characters have a couple of different traits, but the author seems to prefer leading us to the next event after the next event rather than having persons engage in navel gazing and all. E.g. A persons wakes up from having their mind wiped, and they certainly wonder what's going on... but development appears to go all of ~ that far.

The prose is decent, the story fanciful, the style pulpy action. It's fine for what it is.

don't know if it gets better.

ever read a book where the characters feel like puppets on a string and make decisions based on what is most dramatic for that moment? Or a book that has fight scenes with multiple combatants where everyone is frozen except the one character that is performing actions for like 30 seconds? If so, then this book is for you.