In the wake of an unexpected homecoming, Jason questions if there is still a place for him in the world he left behind.
Forced to confront what he has become in his time away, he feels more alien than ever. But his old world is hiding secrets that he never knew.
As he starts to unravel what has been hidden from him his entire life, he discovers that not only might he fit in better than ever, but he may be exactly what the world needs.
My Opinion: 868 pages, $6.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
While I’ve read all the others in the series as ebooks, I got busy and picked this one up as an audiobook. I don’t know if it was just the stellar narrator or not but the audiobook version of the story was great. I’d rated the other stories in the series as really good, but the voice acting and especially the voice for Taika, just added such an enjoyable level of entertainment, it kicked it up to a great experience.
At the end of the last book the final state of the main character (MC) was a bit ambiguous and at the start of this one the MC finds himself having died and returned back to earth with some new potential powers, should he choose to accept them. Most of the story is him dealing with his return to earth, still with his abilities, levels, and skills and the change that means for him in a mostly mundane world. There’s his family to reconnect with, him figuring out what he wants to do and if he even wants to try to return to the magic world he was in or just stay on earth as kind of superman. Then he starts to discover that earth may not be as boring and mundane as he once thought and that becomes the mid-end story. There are other story threads that come up but I don’t want to spoil things.
There are some reviews that note that the story is dialogue heavy and action light compared to the other entries in the series. This is true, but again this may be because I listened to the audiobook version, but the dialogue was super funny and I didn’t mind that there was so much of it. I did miss the action adventure, but the world building and the relationship development with the MC and his family, including a resolution to that bit with his girlfriend marrying his brother, came to a fairly good resolution and made up for less action.
Overall, for me it was a great story and I might just end up only listening to the story from here on in.
Score: 8 out of 10