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alexriina's review
3.0
Book 1 of Primal Hunter tells the story of Jake, an accountant at a generic business who is out for lunch with his colleagues when the Earth is suddenly added to an multi-universe game that has spanned hundreds of billions of years. Jake picks an archer class among the limited options, but quickly discovers that his intuition and battle prowess are far ahead of his colleagues and that in order to survive, he must leave them to fend for themselves while he gets stronger and learns more about "the system."
Overall I felt the book was pretty weak and didn't add much when compared to other "system" books. Jake is a fairly flat character for most of the book: he's a loner who awkwardly avoids as many conversations as he can and has outbursts when he can't. He enjoys a good challenge and is extremely focused on grinding but that's about it. He has little motivation throughout except to get stronger and find his family but he's trapped in a tutorial and can't really do anything about finding his family at least in this book.
I'll try not to go into a line-by-line edit, but the narration is off. It reads like a speech-to-text output that was never cleaned up at, for example "standing up, he started punching the air. Or shadowboxing, if one wanted to get fancy with the wording" and "Funnily enough, he didn't really feel like leaving anymore."
The narration also sometimes shares internal thoughts of several characters in a scene. Most of the book is about Jake on his own and most of the dialogue doesn't do this, but sometimes it does so it feels unintentional.
The universe is interesting though and at least in book 1, the main character dodges some of the worst tropes of the "system" sub-genre.
Overall I felt the book was pretty weak and didn't add much when compared to other "system" books. Jake is a fairly flat character for most of the book: he's a loner who awkwardly avoids as many conversations as he can and has outbursts when he can't. He enjoys a good challenge and is extremely focused on grinding but that's about it. He has little motivation throughout except to get stronger and find his family but he's trapped in a tutorial and can't really do anything about finding his family at least in this book.
I'll try not to go into a line-by-line edit, but the narration is off. It reads like a speech-to-text output that was never cleaned up at, for example "standing up, he started punching the air. Or shadowboxing, if one wanted to get fancy with the wording" and "Funnily enough, he didn't really feel like leaving anymore."
The narration also sometimes shares internal thoughts of several characters in a scene. Most of the book is about Jake on his own and most of the dialogue doesn't do this, but sometimes it does so it feels unintentional.
The universe is interesting though and at least in book 1, the main character dodges some of the worst tropes of the "system" sub-genre.
gryphin's review
3.0
I enjoyed this book so much, I ended up reading the rest and RoyalRoad as I couldn't wait for other books to be released.
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