Okay, let me just post what got me banned over on /r/Fantasy. Need two/three comments for this.
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So I just finished reading (Okay, it took awhile!) the first two books of the Second Apocalypse series. It's super well written and the way things are described is just beautiful. I love the darkness, the rape, the violence, the pain.
I also skipped the last part of the second book because of how ungodly BORING it is.
The biggest issue I think is the nigga called Kellus. This dude is just silly. He's better then everybody. Like, Light Yagami? Ain't got nothing on this dude. He never does anything wrong and it just bugs me. Even when he thinks to himself that he should have killed someone, he's somehow 'right' and instead everything goes 'Just as Planned'. It's like, even when the bro says to himself he's done something incorrectly, it's actually the right thing for his plans to work?
Food for thought: What did you think when he was tied to tree one cubit above the ground. When I was reading it it seemed like he was thinking to himself that he somehow fucked up, but if I read it correctly everything happened -exactly- as he planned. Like, everything he thought was gonna happen happened perfectly.
I get that he's supposed to be better then us and everything, but I thought that shit was kinda ridiculous. Even when he's fighting flesh monsters he just kicks there ass with seemingly no effort. I don't get any sense of drama from this guy, just thoughts of "How's he gonna get out of this? Because I know he will."
He's like Light Yagami mixed with Shadow the Hedgehog and Medaka. He has no flaws, is edgy and dark, and everything goes just as keikaku.
So that's one character that made me skip a bunch of pages in boredom. Pretty much after he got out of the tree and pulled out Serwe's heart in front of all those people? That was the point where I just skipped pages.
Then there is Esmit and Serwe. You got one bitch that wants to fuck another chicks man. Who gets totally seduced by a guy even though she just lost a lover in like, what, a few months? It was hard to keep up with how much time passed when Akka was gone to dungeon hell and Esmit was alone to be seduced by Kellus.
Either way I didn't get the impression that it was THAT long. I felt it was pretty realistic the way that she fell for Kellus and his seductions, but at the same time it's like... really? A few months and you already want to have some dudes baby? Even though you just lost the love of your life? And somehow you love Kellus more then you ever did Akka? Whaaaaa? It made her seem so silly. Also, a side note, Kellus reads like a hentai character to me. Like anything he says and does, BAM, panties off. Doesn't matter who the women is, if Kellus wants to bang her he will.