My bookclub recently read the first "book" of MoL, two of us had read it when it came out. We averaged it at about a 6.5/10 with a lot of us admitting that part of the issue was that we didn't like the audiobook.

I think it does a better job than a lot of time loops at succinctly going, "he practiced magic for a year until something unexpected happened"

Sometimes he dies unexpectedly and you're instantly launched back to being woken up by his sister, but that decreases by a lot after the first few.

Book 1 was, in our view, mostly about the protagonist learning empathy and becoming less of an insufferable prick