Just Retrieve It, That’s It

2/10 This story is so fast-paced that in three chapters, you just get a barrage of info dumps about the abilities of all the races, like humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, and beastkin. It continues to be just info dumping even after that. By now, I feel like I'm just reading character designs for the races rather than a proper book, and in just five chapters, they've already jumped from the dinosaur era to the medieval era. Another example is a simulation game on 10x speed that only explains key info. That works for games, but not books. Doing this in a book makes it hard to care, as readers get no emotional depth or sense of how characters became who they are, only the final result, with no buildup, context, or attachment forming at all ever.

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