I picked up the first War of Broken Mirrors novel without noticing it was written by the same author as Arcane Ascension. I wish I had since it would’ve saved me some time. Only a quarter of the way in I ended up having to drop it when it became clear the male protagonist was essentially a carbon copy of Keras, that series’ most ill-fitting character.
At the beginning of the fourth Primer for the Apocalypse novel I found myself wondering why exactly I’d wanted to keep reading the series. A feeling which gradually started to fade until swiftly strengthening at the sudden appearance of yet another ‘trapped alone in a dungeon’ segment. Fortunately that wasn’t dragged out for too long… but it never should have happened to begin with. I’m not thrilled with how it ends at the start of some arbitrary war either, and even though the author claims in the afterword the next book will be the last I don’t see how that can be possible unless either the war or the Realm Dungeon’s final levels are heavily truncated.