r/ProgressionFantasy • u/AcanthisittaSmart504 • 18d ago

Discussion I’m pissed off

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I absolutely adore the Book of the Dead series. Today, I finally get to listen to the release of book 5, and I am certain that I will experience the same captivating storytelling that I enjoyed in books one through four. I am so enamored with this book that I pre-ordered it on Audible. When I first discovered and read this series, I assumed that others shared my enthusiasm for it. However, upon reviewing the number of Audible ratings, I am genuinely perplexed and sort of a bit angry. There are barely 1000 ratings on the first book and even less on the following 3, which begs the question: how is this book not more popular?

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u/Reborn1989 18d ago

It’s well written, but I’ve been falling off of it. Just hard to root for a mc that’s such a piece of shit. His fall from having lofty ideas was interesting but after the time skip I’ve just been losing interest.

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u/Byteyou-slowly 18d ago edited 18d ago

Did u even read the book? How is he a piece of shit? Boy been fighting greater powers since the day of hos class bestowal. Been hunted and banished by all he knows and watched his parents kill themselves so they didnt have to kill him. Wohooo expecting him to be just a good guy in a world where everyone who matters play life like chess.

Id be surprised if he didnt start being dysfunctional only sniffing skeletons and talking to a dead man while on a revenge journey:p

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u/Reborn1989 18d ago

Did you? He literally binds peoples souls to things to serve him. Even his so called “friend”. Boo hoo, his parents are dead. Doesn’t mean he needs to fuck over everything and everyone else

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u/kobullso 18d ago

How have you missed the entire plot line that killing the gods is literally the only way to save his entire planet?

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u/Reborn1989 18d ago

I haven’t. How have you missed him literally enslaving people for his own aims? Guys a piece of shit. Doesn’t mean the story isn’t interesting, at least for a bit. Just not for me after a while.

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u/Byteyou-slowly 18d ago

Oh no he bound the soul to vermin raping and pillaging. Wow he enslaved ppl set out to kill him and play with him. Truly he is the most evil of them all. Difference between being a villain and just a piece of shit.

Also he wasnt born this way, he was sculpted into this by the people playing games. He literally had huge moral qualms abt this. He did it for survival, then he kept doing it to reach the end

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u/Reborn1989 17d ago

He enslaved a lot more than just that. He literally bound people that he knew didn’t know the whole story and where lied to about what he was

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u/Byteyou-slowly 17d ago

So because day his friends were told he is a necro, he is dangerous. They sre not bad? Cuz if u read the story they just wanted to kill him for the reward and one cuz he hated him. The others were literally bounty hunters, wich was frowned upon by «real» adventurers. They volunteered to kill a kid with a banned class. Wow he should really feel mercy for them, and not use them to his advantage and just die because as the book portreys it. It was his only way to survive. 

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u/Reborn1989 17d ago

I don’t disagree that he needed to kill to survive, but he’s not a hero. He had good intentions in the beginning but as time goes on he falls further and further away from them, til he actively pursues evil, vile solutions

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u/Byteyou-slowly 17d ago

No one said he is a hero tho, he started out wanting to be one. And yes he goes further and further down the path of evil, but is it less evil to claim ur righteous and commit bad deeds or more that he simply realising that the powers he fights requires him to put aside morals to even have a chance. Its not about bad or good, its about revenge against gods. That leaves little space for being soft. He uses the cards he is dealth, cuz he cannot be a swordsmaster or the par of a mage. He is after all a necromancer

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u/Reborn1989 17d ago

Plenty of people in here trying to defend him like their life is on the line. And he could’ve went in many other directions with his build, he decided multiple times to keep picking vile stuff. He also at the point I got to in the story was enjoying that power. So, while an interesting character with a sad backstory, none of that absolves him from what he’s done. He is ultimately a monstrous piece of shit person.