Worth The listen and the purchase

I often roll my eyes hard at authors that auto-fill the MC's personality profile with "Alpha" bullshit. This Genre has an issue with its obsession with overly assertive MCs who would more often than not get killed in most of the scenarios they try and boss themselves out of. This MC was luckily not one of those.

This Novel was a nice breath of fresh air as the MC had major struggles with his self esteem, excess negative emotions and was often being manipulated metaphorically and literally throughout the book against his best interests. Throughout the novel what was happening to him began to unravel and he actively discovered the parts of him that were holding him back from truly moving forward. The extra point in "Mind" after he came to his epiphany near the end was a nice detail. I find myself curious at who he will become, rather than what his future abilities will be.

My biggest gripe with the book was the beginning. the first chapter is entirely too long. got the entire life story and motivations of this side character we dont see again. Its not a bad way to give exposition tho, creative. But then we got a ton of exposition a few chapters later when they were doing the training montage and it felt like...havent we already been through this before?

Good stuff overall, been awhile since I've finished an audiobook :)

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