“She gave me a message for you!” I lied.
“Speak!”
“Umm, what was it now…oh yeah!” I smiled wide and lifted my right hand, offering her the middle finger. “She said to tell you your mother was a snowblower!”
The Dungeon falls silent. The trumpets of war sound nearer. The walls of our reality tremble.
Matt and many of his people are alive, and they’ve found a new ally, more or less, but the damage done to the dungeon and its future are beyond measure.
Time and great effort are needed to repair the cracks, to seal the warping and to rebuild, but the world after the fall isn’t somewhere anyone can afford to wait around in. Matt and his people must push on, they must grow, they have to rise up if they are to have any chance of surviving, after all; The Nexus Gates are opening, and those that were hoped to be allies, or even one day friends, are not to be trusted…
Visitors will be coming soon, and who knows if a hand offered in friendship, hides a dagger… or a claw.
I have once again caught up on another series and have to wait for the next book to come out. Add it to the pile! Haha
Age of Forged Steel is the fifth book in the Rise of Mankind series and if anyone saw my review of the first book you’ll probably have a good idea of what I’m going to say about the rest of the series so far, with an exception.
Like I mentioned in my previous review I am a big fan of this series having a darker more “realistic” twist on the world ending, system integrating, leveling and fighting monsters genre that is litRPGs. Showing that it doesn’t always work out nicely and that when the world becomes lawless and broken its not always the good guys that come out of the woodwork is what I have loved about this series.
That feeling has continued through the series and I am still loving that side of it, but there is something that has bothered me a little bit as the series goes on. That thing is that they move from one disaster to another constantly. Now, I’m not complaining that there’s too much action, its the magnitude of the action that can get annoying.
Right when they’ve fought off the problem or enemy thats on the level that if we don’t rally everything and beat this foe our whole way of life and humanity will fall, they immediately discover another ultimate enemy that they have to focus on and fight against with everything they have.
While this does always make the book interesting and fast paced, it just feels a little cheap sometimes when one world ending disaster after another happens. They kind of lose their sting.
Overall, while that part of it can get a little annoying I am still loving the series. Also, of course right when I was starting to have these thoughts while reading the latest book the whole last third of the book I absolutely loved and couldn’t get enough of, and to make matters worse they left it on a big cliffhanger. Haha
Anyways, if you’re looking for a little more grim darkish version of a litRPG I would recommend checking this series out.
Incoherent rambling over.
The Shadow Library 