Arsenal: A Divine Dungeon Series: Artorian's Archives, Book 4

Arsenal is a fun read, but something feels wrong with the story.This entry sees Artorian entering the timeline of the Divine dungeon series. Its initially interesting, but it does take a large part of the main character’s authority over the tale. He becomes just a small background actor in a larger tale. At the same time, we see the MC hoping between various settings, almost like a play. It’s not as interesting as the rest of the books, where you watch him naturally grow and interact with the world.Another big problem I have is the ending. Without spoilers: there isn’t an ending. The book is preparing for the next entry (which I’m definitely reading) and just kinda... peters out. Its jarring.One positive: there’s less real world references in this novel, though there are still a few. Especially references to other Dakota Krout novels. They are unpleasant, but at least there’s less of them this time around.If you’ve read the series up to this point: grab this entry. It has problems, but still worth your time. And I’m banking that the next entry will be unique.

This one was the worst of all the awesome Krout books for one reason. Exposition! Ouch!!!Exposition makes for dull heavy confusing nonsensical reading. I'm willing to give a nod to made up magic theory, when it makes even a little bit of sense. This book, unfortunately spent a good 60% of its content on exposition that made nearly no sense at all. Please! Please! Please! Edit out the stupid nonsensical garbage, every explanation ended with, "oh well, i guess thats just how it is." Please skip the stupid and jump right to the, "that's just how it is." For Pete's sake its already a make believe world, we get it! I know for a fact that the authors couldn't explain everything twice with out reference notes, and even then they'd be confused after trying to compare them. Please dont waste another 200 pages on confusing exposition. It has nothing to do with the story. Nothing. I love make believe and magic and make believe magic. This caused my heart to hurt on your behalf. Learn from it. Exposition is BAD writing! Especially when it doesn't make sense. Here's hoping i wont have similar feelings at the end of Acme. Fingers crossed. Which ever one of you wrote the most exposition in these should forfeit your royalties to some charity that supports literacy as restitution. Very painful. Please do better. Cut, edit, leave the nonsensical expo on the proverbial cutting room floor. Thx

these books have a great story line, but act more as a world building and answer questions people had about the main story arc. great stand alone, even better now that it gets to the main story arc after a series of time skips (months then 7 years then one year, then off to main story line)always nice to see here is how everything works... now he is the MC not following that plan becoming stronger, then having to double back and follow plan anyway

First of all I enjoy the storyline of this book.Love the main character and his Besty. in fact you could give Dawn her own series. The main character and her interaction are quite touching and quite lovely. my only complaint is too much exposition, explaining how mana works, explaining how other things work delving into the MC‘s analytical processes, we bit too much. don’t get me wrong I love how he analyze this way out of certain situations but some of the Book gets bogged down with too much Manusia. Still a worthy read going on to read the next one in the series

Enjoyed most of the story. The rehash of the necromancer battle was a bit meh. Really looking forward to the creation of the world. Gotta force myself to ignore Deus Ex Mary Sue. Seems a staple of the genre. The immediate splitting of every group unanimously was a bit quick but many do seem to hate each other. Would have liked some of them to opt for paradise. Maybe we will have a continent where people like the dwarves and Artorians crew choose to get along.

I enjoyed this story, it was set in the divine dungeon universe. The story is interesting, and action packed but still well balanced. (I have Kindle Unlimited) 100% read this series so worth it if you find the system they have going interesting, BUT I would 100% recommend reading divine dungeon first, and also reading completionist chronicles aswell, combined its a plethora of amazing writing and great world systems. also bk 5 here I come

The end of our original trilogy, but with the classic Artorian twists that are impossible to predict. We finally get to Lovetorian and his wonderfully crazy antics. Why fixate on the crash-landing of the moon, when there are so many more things to work on? The end of the world isn't nearly as important as...Love.

I really liked the series up until this point, but this booked just seemed like a waste. Every other page is a long winded philosophical or theoretical discussion. The MC spends the whole book talking and taking random detours. Nothing happens in the first 40%.

This is not a good book, clearly. The authors jump around without a clear plan and I think expect us to have read the Divine Dungeon series. I have only read up to book 3, because the ending was in my opinion definite and didn't need any further books.The story is nearly incoherent and only mindless fans would give this 5 stars.This has no right to be as highly rated as it is.

A good read that brought together the 3 worlds of Artorian, Cal & Joe.... Interested to see where the next Artorian story will take us.