The Primal Hunter 7 by Zogarth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Too fun. Varied fun, too. From school to helping a friend to completing a special system event that was rather surprising and original to going back to school, I never stopped having a great time.

And it's true, by the way. Nobody's a better teacher than yourself. :)

Here's to being an autodidact!

Muahahahahaha

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CHAOTIK by T. Crissey
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I'll be clear here: I really did love a few things about this. Great transpositions of descriptions, especially for the weird stuff. It sat just right where it needed to be, being creative and funny at the same time. I also loved the chaos... in places. In dialogue especially.

But for everything else, I felt un-grounded, lost in "who is this and why do I care" space.

If I could name one precise thing I wish this had, it would be that grounding. That full feeling you get when you've immersed yourself in characters before they get thrown into the shit.

And there's plenty of shit here. Nasty stuff. That could have been truly glorious if we were getting deep in revenge or survival mode for real with characters that I loved.

But I didn't love them. Indeed, at least just for me, this novelette felt more like a snippet of extremely social weirdos enmeshed in an admittedly awesome cyberpunk/magic setting. I just wanted more... much more... grounding.

I may be a bit more critical than usual, but I feel INVESTED in this kind of setting. I want more. Alas.

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The Primal Hunter 6 by Zogarth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Totally addictive. Still.

The aftermath was very amusing--what, with visiting family (assassins) and an auction and starting termite genocide with a world-ending cursed weapon that makes people hungry.

It's fun.

And if that wasn't amusing enough, it's just about SCHOOL TIME. You know, in a hell dimension. :)

Great LitRPG.

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The Primal Hunter 5 by Zogarth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Super fun. Not only are we getting a GREAT alternative to the standard tournament trope with a treasure hunt, but we get a couple of the most epic battles in the series (so far).

Classic. Really fun. I couldn't set the book down. LitRPG at its finest.

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The Primal Hunter 4 by Zogarth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Still a standard big-scale LitRPG that's very much a solo-leveling bunch of goodness, but here's where it really excels: it's also grounded. It has some cool moral conflicts. But most importantly, it's great on the animal friendship angle. :)

Leveling up is always so damn fun.

In this case, it's truly solid and quite beautiful. I always thought First Defier and Randidly was pretty great, but this definitely has its own unique spin.


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The Primal Hunter 3 by Zogarth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Things are really shaping up in a fun way. Purpose. Friends. An endless parade of super strong monsters he really, really shouldn't be trying to take on. And snark with his god-friend. Heretic, indeed. Muahahahahaha

This particular volume has some pretty great pacing and developments. And animal friends are pretty damn great to make it super easy for us readers to sympathize even more with the MC. It's a no-brainer. One might say it's instinctual.

I do like how the settlement is handled, the way it is growing. Never outstaying its welcome in the text, while being meaningful.

I'm looking forward to see how far this'll go.

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The Primal Hunter 2 by Zogarth
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Quite enjoyable. Loner who becomes insanely powerful is a very, very common theme in these kinds of books, of course, and this one excels at it. But more importantly, I find it fascinating to see real friendships arising, too. Not just with a god or two, but with regular folk who just happen to stumble in upon your forest sanctuary or annoying, head-pecking birds. :)

Who says you have to be a loner as a primal hunter?

Oh, and the mulled vodka is to die for.



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