Apocalypse Redux by Jakob H. Greif

I would've had made the same review. It does feel, too often that I'm reading a script of "Brooklyn nine-nine", then all of a sudden I'm hit with "House of cards" style dialogue. At least the author/editor and translator wasn't Chinese - it's one of the only upsides of the novel(if you know what I mean). The other upside is the system, it one of the least use ones, yet also the best (i don't know why most novel don't use it).

I agree that the characters are like that.. to a certain extent.

There's certainly some influence from modern Hollywood but it's not as bad as most comparable novels on here. It's nothing too strange from reality, either. In workplace settings where full professionalism isn't currently required and peers have good relationships, it's pretty normal to get quippy with each other.

Even in social professional settings it's not unusual to show off your wit when permissible. It's only when you're stuck with stuffy, no-fun-allowed bosses, colleagues and office policies that any attempt at humor or cleverness is gone. But that shit is just oppressive and inevitably unhealthy for mental health. It is, however, accurate to have a random smattering of them across the workplace.

On a similar vein, the 'switch' to seriousness and descriptive is also a common phenomenon in professional settings. In a healthy professional environment there is a time and place for both the serious and non-serious. Especially with true professionals who have a passion for their job. There's both a need to be efficient to save time and attention span, and a need to be accurate and sufficiently verbose to reduce the chance of creating misunderstandings. And sometimes it's a necessity for the explainer themself, to maintain their train of thought when covering a complex topic.

Anyway it's a balancing act that most people fail at, and novelists aren't immune to it either.... but in my opinion this author is actually one of the better ones.

Keep in mind that the main character and his colleagues are university staff (with the additional task of teaching the public), so it's their job to explore the 'science' of the system more in-depth than a specialized combatant... which the vast majority of action fiction MC are.

If you're unfamiliar with the social environments in higher education and the career paths stemming from it (pun unintended), this novel might seem a bit much.

But rather than that making it a bad novel, that simply means you're not the intended audience.

And that's fine. No novel is perfect for all audiences, and ironically the most popular stuff tends to neglect the vicarities of those most suited for higher learning careers. After all, the most common points of relation among the populace are rather... below average in intellectual requirements.

That's why modern media tends to feel rather... dumb more often then not.

Rank C

That luck is the reason he is a protagonist

The Build he is going for is basically some kind of sustain assassin.
Best build for his situation, (spawn-> 1shot - > repeat)

The dark god is a hamster 🐹

What is this behaviour??

That last part made me read the whole synopses in the stereotypical heavy German accent.

I do not agree with how the MC does thing if i am in that situation i would do everything to get absolute overwhelming power first, when you get to the level of power when destroying and ending worlds is a simple wave of your hands you will be able to solve every Problems easily. Yet here the MC is acting all smart strategizing planning all that nonsense whatnot just to solve the future. It is not entirely wrong for the MC to do all of this Planning but the MC seems to have forgotten that everything can easily be solved with ABSOLUTE POWER. It's like the MC believes that the power of a SINGLE human cannot change solve the future problems . but that's wrong if a SINGLE being reaches the power to destroy world the Problems the MC is facing can easily be solved