compromised Mc

The world is great, the story interesting. most of the characters are perfect. full disclosure I'm writing this after a point of the book that disappointed me greatly as it feels the mc did something not in character. ignoring his conviction for love and caring for someone. and bonding with someone evil.

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his bonding Queenie just felt gross. I hate when authors give options for a harem and drop great characters for worse ones. it's why I stopped reading Bruce's books it might be my nail in the coffin for this series. A real shame. the only thing that could fix this his her dying. She is a cardi b level character the kinda force that starts with r. she hadn't done it to the mc, but I hate her.
I may change this review if I ever come back to the book after what I feel is a breaking of the mc as I don't feel it's in character to do what he did.
the near end of the book helps a bit but doesn't change my complaints

Also the VA for the females that are Spanish sound Canadian instead. makes it goofy over sexy.

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Interested to see how the rest of the books unfold

The MC is too American with his phrases, and that coming from a Texan. I cringed every time I heard “Stars and stripes”.
I like the range of the female narrator but her Queeny’s Latin voice sounds way more Asian.
I have a ton of hope for the writers though! And will definitely be keeping up with their work.

I had to stop the book halfway….

I normally give top rating to most Audible books….except those with weak main characters. I HATE weak main characters. It’s almost as though the author is a woman with a male pseudonym having the MC act as a man in her vision. But the MC is overly emotional and whiny instead of strong and logical. Additionally, the MC makes stupid mistakes ( like falling into obvious traps) and he prances around with a fake holier than though persona that got stale in book one. I’m not certain I’ll stick around for book 3 because while the MC is strong stat wise he is overall weak mentally.

Disappointed

There’s a part in this book I just became disgusted. The main character became completely contrary to everything he stood for and made decisions that were just appalling. I stepped away for near a week to get over it and return to the book but I couldn’t. Had to drop the series. Unfortunate it too because I was really enjoying it…

touche sir touche

I was quite concerned with the warning in the opening of the book and Aiden is an idiot in some ways but you can't just put the book down it just pulls you into the story amazing series amazing characters and a truly amazing outlook on Powers.

Just simply amazing

An interesting continuation

I really enjoyed this book and am looking forward to the sequel. My only real issue is with some of the voices used for characters. Everyone lives in the remnants of North America with limited to no interaction with the rest of the world, but anytime a character is described as having distributive features like being of Hispanic descent, or Indian descent they have to have that accent. Of course I can't leave out my personal favorite, the girl with strawberry blonde hair which means she has an Irish accent.

MC is a self righteous tool.

It's a shame but the MC ruins this story. His morals only apply to himself and not the rest of humanity. He talks about personal freedoms then waterboards a guard. That's just one example. I won't be finishing this book

the stats get too much involved in a storyline

too many times the story broke with stats. even repetitive stats. I enjoyed the political side of the story, anytime the story started to develop somehow stats would get in the way and slow the story up. That's even slowed down a sex scene.

Great Story Thus Far

This story keeps getting better as is continues. David Burke has really done a great job writing this story. The story has progressed, improved and deepened the whole time. I have really been enjoying this story and the direction its been progressing. I cant wait for the next book to be released.

The narration by Jonathan Waters and Maeve York has been awesome. This duo was definitely the right choice for this series.

Great story

This is only my 3rd Litrpg novel . After the first, I didn’t think I would continue with this genre. But, with some urging from a friend, I have Prism Academy book 1 a try. I’m hooked. I love this story line and the characters are so likeable. Can’t wait for book 3 to come out on audio. In the meantime, I’ll be listening to another of this authors books.