/lit/ - Literature

Watts' Freeze-Frame Revolution was out ages ago if you guys haven't read it. Poor Chimp holy fuck.

>>9025562
I read about three quarters of this book and I can safely say that I am not impressed by the following aspects of the book:

>Gaborn 'Mary Sue' Orden
He's the only one with the 'endowments' to rival defeat the evil Wolf Lord. On top of this, he is the chosen one of the wise and ancient wizard to defend humanity or whatever.

>Raj 'Big Bad' Ahten
He is the somewhat two dimensional evil Wolf Lord and really wants to take over the world with destruction. Also he keeps stealing 'endowments' off other people by enslaving them.

>Endowments
Magic in Farland's world is an RPG game in several different stats (Like Intelligence, Stamina, Metabolism, 'Glamour' - this is beauty and some lesser stats like hearing/eyesight).

Whoever has more in a stat is likely to beat the other one. The only way to get a stat from someone else is to use a magical ritual to steal it and that giver loses that stat (so a person who gives away intelligence will become dumb as a fuck) permanently unless the person who received it is killed. Endowments can only be given once so as you can see it is in a person who received the endowment's best interests to make sure that the givers don't randomly get murdered.

Which is of course where Ahten's full retard logic comes in and he doesn't really seem to give a fuck if the people who give him endowments die of simple shit like disease. Also he's supposed to have godly levels of manipulation and intelligence but the full extent of his abilities is basically described to us - not once does he or any of the other Rune Lords demonstrate anything except a lack of common sense.

>Every other character
Is cannon fodder since there is nothing that they can do except either give themselves to the powerful Rune Lords or kill themselves. Sometimes they can't kill themselves. Oh except for Iome but because she has lost her """beauty""" her life is over because now Gaborn won't love her any more.

>>8918856
I bite my thumb at thee

>>8474589
Certain immutable laws of the extant universe are best left unquestioned.