Because plot

Our intrepid MC gets dumber than the first book. He is in a forest, yet never thinks to gather information using his own skills as a SCOUT. He just goes along with people that openly discuss killing him. Walks into traps intentionally just assuming he will be fine. Fails to understand that other people may be higher level or more powerful. Assumes stealth is all powerful. Openly tells people he is a noob and moron, despite having a bounty on his head. The only reason he knows anything is because his enemies tell him once they realize he is retarded.
This means the only reason the MC survives is because of plot armor. It is not even subtle.

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Not sure if I will continue...

The MC is rash and too childish. The pacing feels off especially with the dialog. I'm not sure if that is on the writer or the narrator. The narrator has a way of making the MC feel way too excitable for my taste. Also, the combination of naiveté and hypocrisy that the MC regularly displays is really annoying. The measurement system used makes no sense as well...

Not a bad story, maybe reading will provide a better experience than listening?

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Meh...too much plot armor

I am gonna be nice a give this four stars, but it's really only barely a 3.5 for me. Kinda had to shut off the logic center of my brain halfway through, MC worked the hell out of his plot armor on this one.

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Bad Writing, Bad Story

Writing quality has dropped dramatically from the previous book, and the story more so. Any excitement I felt starting the seemingly fresh adventure quickly devolved to boredom.

I truly, truly tried to finish, but it was physically painful to continue.

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Unrealistic mechanics and situations

Game mechanics are uninteresting, unrealistic, not applied evenly. Mc is overpowered for seemingly no reason. Can instant kill people who should have over twice the stats and 100 times longer to have trained skills. For some reason every enemy is a fighter or mage which apparently instantly dies to any level rogue even though the Powers, who’s lived forever and were players themselves, sent specific kill squads for him. Why is everyone incompetent against some kid who has no memories outside of the less than week he’s been in the game?

What’s the point of player rank outside of being level mod 10? Why is every point in stats also called rank but skill levels are also a rank per 10 levels? Why is the level cap there but no one uses it? All these mages with apperently no perception, dexterity, or constitution think his skills (which are at 20-35% of cap) are high when if they put everything into magic or faith they have a cap in the thousands of levels to cap. Don’t they have skill levels in the 200s? They got to have been around to years.

Why do all the players have no abilities? People who apparently have all 3 classes and plenty of time to acquire abilities and are even part of a huge faction have no abilities when mc has like 20. Why does the big bad mage have rank basic fire bolt and a basic mage shield? He’s suppose to be level 100. No one has aoe? Or detect life. Or levitate? Or anyway to beat a rogue? They were literally sent to kill a rogue….

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Predictable as hell.

Had a lot of the classic litrpg elements and wasnt to bad for 3/5s the current story. Neat powers, intresting(ish) poeple, questionible origins. Andrew tell did a good job narrating what was given and made the story have something of a life.

The other 2/5 was some fedora wearing, sword pose in the bio, way of the blade cringe. Pacing was rushed as hell, both books take place in less then two weeks, wich means that the power rush was absolute BS deus-ex and powerlevels are bullshit. All this could be overlooked, the psychic wolves, the very clear luck of the protag, the this is how the system works except when it doesn't, all that can be ignored... But GODDAMN IT, the author needs to go outside grab a tapemessure and learn what how far the things he's talking about are, the distances are so poorly done its mind boggling, who uses the imperial yard to measure the height of someone. When people ask me my height i don't respond with "two yards two inches..."

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Finished in two days!

If I spend two days listening to an audiobook when ever I can and binge until done. You know it’s good.

can be fun but also annoying

The author tries way way too hard to be clever. Unfortunately this makes the story quite convoluted while also making the MC look stupid. It also makes it so it feels like the story never moves forward. in between the convolution and annoyances the story is fun enough.

Awesome

Can’t wait to finish the series, these first two books should been or were at one point one book. It’s dope still, for sure will listen to the other two when they come out.

First Book a Lot Better

Not as interesting as the first book. There weren't many parts that set this story a part from other similar stories.