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The Battle Play to Live A LitRPG Series Book 5 edition by D Rus Humor Entertainment eBooks

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The Battle Play to Live A LitRPG Series Book 5 edition by D Rus Humor Entertainment eBooks

Unfortunately #5 does not continue the greatness of the first 4 books. It's confusing, jumping from one subplot to the next with no clear transitions. You could blame it on the translator, but I think the problem goes deeper than that. In any case, it does not matter unless you know Russian. In addition, there are some significant plot flaws. I checked the reviews on #6 and it looks like it's as bad or worse than #5. So I guess that's it for me; I am quitting the series right before the big battle. I feel like I wasted my time on #5, so I am certainly not going to make that mistake again. Do yourself a favor and just read the first 4 books. Maybe he will revise 5 and 6 some day. I sincerely hope so. Some good editing could bring #5 up to 4 stars, but it would take really major editing to bring it up to par with the first 4 books.


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The Battle Play to Live A LitRPG Series Book 5 edition by D Rus Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews

This book was a complete let down compared to the first four books. There were plenty of battles, but they were dull and boring. There was no sense of suspense and barely any dialogue throughout the book. The action was pretty much being told as to what was happening rather than experiencing it. You were told the setup, what happened, and then the results. The main characters from the first four books make pretty much no appearance and are replaced by his military staff who have no personality and no life to them. I read about 75% of the book and just stopped since I lost interest. Unlike the first four books which I breezed through, this one dragged and I had to force myself to get that far. If this was the second book, I would have dropped the series. With that being said, I don't think I'm continuing. So disappointing. Would have been one star, if that, but the first four books were excellent. What happened?
I've enjoyed the series, so far and I'm looking forward to the next book, but I found this latest installment far less enjoyable than the previous.

The book is aimed at a young adult audience, so simplifications are expected but the main character seems to be unraveling as the pages turn. The main character's sudden, pronounced opinions on the proper role of women and his depictions of marriage where the women weren't submissive; these were jarring and ugly in comparison with the earlier books. His opinion on the effect of women on young men and society borders on the misogynistic. He increasingly scorns gamers as the product of an overly feminized society and layers it on. So... rampant alcoholism and spousal abuse are more attractive Russian traits?

More difficult to grasp is the character's shifting opinions on the state. The corruption and banal sadism so vividly described in the previous books, of the Russian oligarchs, crime bosses, petty officials, state officials, secret and military police was what drove many scenes in the early books and is not easily forgotten. Yet now we have fond references to Stalin, "Uncle Joe," a man who murdered an estimated 20 million of his own people and whose pogroms in the Urals turned Russia from the bread-basket of Europe into an economic basket case. The main character is increasingly romanticizing the Soviet era, the Russian military, its President, its aggressive foreign policy, its army made of tanks. It's like the author took the pages of his earlier works and mixed in press-releases from Putin on the need to rescue ethnic Russians in the Ukraine and videos of Putin wrestling bears.

The significant level of cognitive dissonance (the state is brutal and corrupt | the state is giving me a medal) makes the characters far less interesting and the book less enjoyable. It isn't complexity and nuance. It's moral chaos. I'd recommend it as a good LitRPG novel but if the next novel spends as much time singing the old soviet-era national anthem, it will be a disappointment.
The evolution in the series goes from character focus to nationality and anti-American anti-western European b.s. Much of the book has really boring real world scenes, and fights that as a reader, you don't care too. Much about. What works is the relationship between the Fallen and the main character. What works is when there is an arc, but sadly, not much character arc. I just read the reviews on book six and I see the similarities with this book 5. Books 1-3 good. After that, the writer loses his American audience, but more significantly, doesn't give the reader a reason to like or care about the characters.
Unfortunately #5 does not continue the greatness of the first 4 books. It's confusing, jumping from one subplot to the next with no clear transitions. You could blame it on the translator, but I think the problem goes deeper than that. In any case, it does not matter unless you know Russian. In addition, there are some significant plot flaws. I checked the reviews on #6 and it looks like it's as bad or worse than #5. So I guess that's it for me; I am quitting the series right before the big battle. I feel like I wasted my time on #5, so I am certainly not going to make that mistake again. Do yourself a favor and just read the first 4 books. Maybe he will revise 5 and 6 some day. I sincerely hope so. Some good editing could bring #5 up to 4 stars, but it would take really major editing to bring it up to par with the first 4 books.