/lit/ - Literature

>>21786011
>>21786128
Listening to Sufficiently Advanced Magic as Audiobook sounds like pain. The story is a decent attempt at mixing several tropes (but mostly just copying Mother of learning with addition of better written characters), but most of combat scenes suck. Like, every time there's a section of 'adventure', such as doing test trials in the first book I just skimmed. Some part of the series are just straight up boring. Which is a shame, as the series overall is quite good.

There are some problems - mostly trying to enforce MoL's progression and story blueprint onto a story without time-looping, which was executed so-so...But the author definitely understands what made Mother of Learning work and the 'progression' aspect of the story is very good, especially in context of all the tinkering the main character does (who is just more characterized Zorian but without all the family angst, I'd say a better protagonist overall).

I read all the four books and I rate it as solid 6.5/10 so far, with compelling story, interesting character drama and above all else solid progression. I'm actually hyped for the fifth book, but due to some actions of the author I'm ambivalent about the future of the series.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Alas, the author has two major flaws - first is that he made an entire shared world for his stories, but haphazardly stitched different places and stories. What you see in Sufficiently Advanced Magic is a MoL-like continent, what you see in other series from the same world reads more like cultivation. This wouldn't be an important mention if the author could resist trying to make a larger story out of all the series he writes, he downright forces the extended story down your throat.

It hits its worst point in the book 3, I believe, where the author straight up tells you many things are going to be confusing for you unless you read other series. Yes, characters and events from those series come into play. Yes, the author is something of a piece of shit for doing that. I read Arcane Ascension series because it has what I like, I don't want to read SIX fucking books about something else just to get what's going on. I don't want any extended shit. Fuck that noise. Thankfully, it can be overlooked, but still leaves a sour taste.

Another flaw is the author's commitment to American social issues. It's cringe and tasteless, resulting and in off-putting scenes and conversations that don't actually discuss the topics but preach the authors views at you. I don't even disagree with msot of his views, but self-indulgent preaching to a choir disgusts me. But what else should I expect from a person that's a moderator for /r/progressionfantasy, the worst subreddit to discuss anything webnovel that also infamously refused to change LGBT flag from its banner after the pride month ended. Weird place with weird people, and quite toxic. Just go to /r/litrpg instead if you need.

>>21786011
>>21786128
Listening to Sufficiently Advanced Magic as Audiobook sounds like pain. The story is a decent attempt at mixing several tropes (but mostly just copying Mother of learning with addition of better written characters), but most of combat scenes suck. Like, every time there's a section of 'adventure', such as doing test trials in the first book I just skimmed. Some part of the series are just straight up boring. Which is a shame, as the series overall is quite good.

There are some problems - mostly trying to enforce MoL's progression and story blueprint onto a story without time-looping, which was executed so-so...But the author definitely understands what made Mother of Learning work and the 'progression' aspect of the story is very good, especially in context of all the tinkering the main character does (who is just more characterized Zorian but without all the family angst, I'd say a better protagonist overall).

I read all the four books and I rate it as solid 6.5/10 so far, with compelling story, interesting character drama and above all else solid progression. I'm actually hyped for the fifth book, but due to some actions of the author I'm ambivalent about the future of the series.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Alas, the author has two major flaws - first is that he made an entire shared world for his stories, but haphazardly stitched different places and stories. What you see in Sufficiently Advanced Magic is a MoL-like continent, what you see in other series from the same world reads more like cultivation. This wouldn't be an important mention if the author could resist trying to make a larger story out of all the series he writes, he downright forces the extended story down your throat.

It hits its worst point in the book 3, I believe, where the author straight up tells you many things are going to be confusing for you unless you read other series. Yes, characters and events from those series come into play. Yes, the author is something of a piece of shit for doing that. I read Arcane Ascension series because it has what I like, I don't want to read SIX fucking books about something else just to get what's going on. I don't want any extended shit. Fuck that noise. Thankfully, it can be overlooked, but still leaves a sour taste.

Another flaw is the author's commitment to American social issues. It's cringe and tasteless, resulting and in off-putting scenes and conversations that don't actually discuss the topics but preach the authors views at you. I don't even disagree with msot of his views, but self-indulgent preaching to a choir disgusts me. But what else should I expect from a person that's a moderator for /r/progressionfantasy, the worst subreddit to discuss anything webnovel that also infamously refused to change LGBT flag from its banner after the pride month ended. Weird place with weird people, and quite toxic. Just go to /r/litrpg instead if you need.