same issues as his other books

I want to like it but it has the same problem as other Eric vall books a combination of the arrogant and hypocritical protagonist and a rushed relationship with the womrn this is set in a world where men are treated like animals yet Charles treats his only friend AB worse than he's treated by the women, the other problem is that again like all the others it only takes about 30 seconds of audio for Charles to love the girls so much he can't live without them I don't have a problem with the fact it happens its just so rushed that its jarring and means you can't get invested

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Incel much?

Its only a lot of whinig about how the MC is powerless as a man.

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DNF: Just don't bother

Let me start with the best piece, the performance. It pretty competent, though the tone of the voices often mismatches the words and emotions betrayed in the narration.

I never made it past 1H:22M, so the story could get a lot better but I don't have faith or stomach to keep going. The story lacks any sort of magic-babble or techno-babble, which turns the self-titled genius into someone who seems to have no idea what they are doing. The machine that he has apparently made was never really explained, through a random sprinkling on computer components and other tech stuff is used. So maybe there was an attempt but if so it was an utter failure. When Charles makes a breakthrough in the issues he's been trying to solve in the machine there is no real substance in the presented reason, to the listener, as to why this is a breakthrough and how it will affect or alter the previous processes.

I personally found it hard to get the strong whiff of incel-dom out of my senes. I understand that some of it could be due to the way the world has been set up and the way higher class women have been portrayed, but even when it comes to the writing for his experiments(monster girls), though I have only met the first one, something just feels deeply wrong.

She comes out of the machine with complete devotion to Charles and pretty much offering him sex straight out of the gate. His response is to metaphorically tip his Fodera, and go on about how it is improper. Personally I can't stand when the girls throw themselves at a guy for no apparent reason, but at least own it if you're going to do.

In the end, this book was just a mess.

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I want to like it but I can't...

The MC is supposed to be a "super smart scientist"... he really isn't... he forgets key details that are easy to remmember constantly that the reader remmembers for example and if the reader can piece together how things work before the supposed "super smart" MC then it just makes the MC look stupid.

I also don't like how much this book drags out scenes, for example when they make the "monster girls" there is this huge amount of time devoted to peering through the fog and other characters repeatedly asking if the experiment worked... we all know it worked so why focus on it so much? to build suspence? like I said we already know it worked so it just comes off as a tedious waste of time.

performance is good, just wish the book was.

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