Review: Great fun
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2012
Like the other books in the series, this one makes little effort to challenge the reader, but that's not its purpose.This is sort of the literary version of a combat-based adventure game.  You're kept nominally involved with the main character by various simple devices, just enough to identify yourself with him.  Then, when you're feeling that by turning the page you're in some way driving his actions, he goes on a ridiculously over-powered series of curb-stomp battles against basically everyone that's been so much as mildly rude to him in passing, then goes home to his billion-dollar mansion to hang with the superpowered ninja servants (whom, of course, he can also beat up in accordance with the law of conservation of ninjitsu) and sleep with his superintelligent supermodel girlfriend who is absolutely 100% dedicated to him in every way.Basically, think Kvothe from the Kingkiller books, but without the layers of irony and self-analysis or the implication of the unreliable narrator.  He's just a level 30 character kicking around in a level 3 world, and it's surprisingly entertaining.