Hell Mode

absolutely the worst one so far. this is starting to become relatively repeatative in the narrative. 25% of this book is also side stories, which are way out of place at this point. seriously? the whole carnel issue was way back in volume 2. that ship has lonnng sailed, bringing back a defeated "villian" isn't as cool as you want it to be. power levels are BS too BTW. I can handle a couple of status updates per book, to outline the growth, but holy hell this book really pushed that in your face. at some point I just started flipping pages past all the statuses and all the exact same explanations provided. that's another thing in itself, why oh hell WHY are you constantly rewriting the EXACT SAME EXPLAINATION? I'm not a 4 year old, I can retain the first 5 explanations, please stop bombarding me every book with more exposition dumps and explanation of how endurance and attack work. how intelligence works, and how so and so doesn't have enough of this or that stat. Please. Stop.

Didn't finish the story arc, since much of the book is "side stories" that are totally out of context and drag out. You think you have a large portion of the story line left due to the number of pages remaining but it just breaks into short stories that could have been summed up in a few paragraphs in the real book.

great book cannot wait for the next one. the book advanced the story in a way I never imagined it would expanding on the dungeons and redefining the challenge. also getting to read about the golems we have been hearing about since volume 3 was exhilarating.