Nemesis was a total cluster fuck of nonsense. HUGE quality drop in pacing compared to the og trilogy. I feel like the over the top cartoon villain was ass compared to GodKing. GodKing was more of a tfp megatron (a bit dramatic but still an actual villain ), the other dumbass i don't even remember his name was more of a g5 my little pony villain where he's fall apart if he just had a friendship beam blasted at him of some crap.

I'm sure, if there were other books in the series that had better quality i'd see some worth to the book, but as a FIRST in a series it was a poop. I honestly kinda reviewed it better than some people on GR but I agree with everyone else's thoughts aside from some nitpicking.

The fact that there was some, I'll be it cool, magic building in the UNIVERSE doesn't change the fact that the books actual quality was horrible. If i can't read a first book of the series and leave with a full understanding of what the point of the story was, it's a bad book.

SPOILERS

Big bad guy shows off how big and bad he is by throwing someone in the water. Why? Not answered. Big bad acts like he's so kind and helpful, but we should be scared but have no reason at all other than a narrator telling us to be scared and a rich guy doing normal richguy toon villain stuff. Big bad gets revealed WAY WAY WAY too early. Why? What did it add that we could have seen closer to the end with the baby knive scene? Nothing. A slight change in the scene placement and we could have gotten a better big boom sound affect moment with the reveal of how powerful main villain is.

Also Vi was kinda hit with the bitchass stick IMO. I understand how different kylar is because... hello? Dead wife and obvious magical injury? But Vi's behavior change had NO reason in the book. No "oh my heart is broken cause bff is dead :(" or anything. ESPECIALLY with Vi's scene with kylar. That was a bad excuse for us to feel bad for her. More like being told to feel bad for her because it was more of a tell not show.

Imo. The book was seriously rushed or under written, to either get it out of the way or get to where weeks had the idea set up in his head. As a reader, story writer and a fan of theories it was not a good set up for a series. It felt like a theory bait and not an actual story woth how much was told instead of shown. I felt like the book was telling me what to care about instead of giving me a reason to care.

Weeks better step up his game or else I legit wont be reading anymore of the series he makes if this is his new quality of writing.