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>>21985803

I lost energy while writing this, so I guess this one will be shorter.

I've finished Dragon's Justice 3 and I feel tired. Not of the series or the author, but of harem/erotica in general. I've read a lot of it lately. Within the the last three months I've read ~24 harem/erotica books. Quite a lot, I believe. Some were meh, some good, some made me think erotica is better than porn. I think that's enough for now, time to go back to solid fantasy, starting with Sufficiently Advanced Magic.

As for the Dragon's Justice 3 itself...I think Bruce Sentar fell short while writing this series. The first book was truly suprising as despite being harem/erotica there was only one girl and one sex scene in the entire book. Weird and it could be sad to be false advertising, but proved the author can write something decent (for the genre) without filling sex and women everywhere. Interesting women that weren't there just to fuck the protagonist, lot of teasing, a main character that actually has some character...Impressive (again, for the genre).

But starting with book 2 things'd begun to unravel. The story remained servicable, but everything started going around the MC. All girls were there to become the MC's mates, and ironically Bruce Sentar's biggest flaw as harem/erotica writer started to show: he's bad at writing sex. Not as in he uses some ridiculous language and terms, but there's nothing interesting to read about. Anyone that read at least a bit of the genre knows that there's more to a sex scene than just "and then he started clapping her from behind with force." Uninspired, mundane and short. He really sucks at writing titilating sex scenes (Not all of them were shit, but most, with addition to being weirdly placed).

I'm not sure whether I should continue to book 4. I know what will be there and it's not what I really seek. If I want a story with dragons, there are better ones out there. If I want harem/erotica, there are better writers as well. Story itself is barely decent. I read through these three books more due to momentum than their quality.

5/10


Now I'm taking a break from reading harem stuff, maybe a month or two. Let myself cool off and think which of the books were really good. Then after I return to harems I'll try some other series, check reverse-harems, lesbian erotica...and then make a book chart at the end. I gotta be thorough if I'm doing it.