Ryan Rimmel

The book is not bad per se, it just isn’t the same type of book as the rest of the series. This is a slice of life book with fishing, dating, city building and an angsty badger. The previous books were more about survival against the odds, both personally and for the people around him.

If you wish for a nice laid-back book where you follow the daily life of an overpowered combat professional that talks to people, this is the book for you. It just isn’t the book for me. At the 50% point I show more was thinking that they could put in a status sheet at the start and just cut that entire half of the book.

The second half of the book was well written and had some good jokes. I just can't rate a novel highly when half of it didn't need to be there. show less

This book had a good balance between light hearted character and world building combined with a good action arc.

In the start we finally see Jim starting to accept his life in the world. Starting to seriously train and thinking long term. Slowly getting to terms with his previous life no longer being there.

On the action side we finally got to follow on a dungeon dive, something hinted at from earlier books in the series. This has a lot ups and downs, creating motivation for Jim's continued show more climb to power. show less

The Mayor of Noobtown had a fun beginning and there were even some laugh-out-loud moments so I felt encouraged by this book. However, by about the 70%, the story seemed to slow down and I was finding it harder and harder to get back to it. I am not one of those people bothered by stats, but I don't keep track to see if there are any errors so I couldn't say if they were accurate or not. I did find some that some of the weapons came out of nowhere and thought the fighting scenes didn't quite show more match the tone of the rest of the book as well. And I don't object to fighting scenes, they just didn't seem to fit in smoothly with what was happening in the book. I will probably continue to the second book as I know sometimes the first book can be a little rough and I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. show less

Only about halfway through but I am starting to feel like this is work. It started out pretty good but I quickly tired of the constant reference to the mc's stats and "character sheet", which (in my opinion) are a lazy author's way of adding a lot of pages to the book without much in the way of useful or entertaining content.