Still the goat, and it’s not even close

I thought the earth arc was fine, what did become too much for me was MCs tiredless emo behaviour.. I'm all for actions having mental consequences, but I don't want to continiously read through several books.. Otherwise I do enjoy He who fights with monsters.. Defiance of the fall is interesting as it's the product of the author deliberately going into it wanting to make money the chinese way, the first couple of books are really interesting I think, after that it just becomes another cultivation story with bloat and nonsensical philosophy/cultivation descriptions.. It's the opposite of what I look for in western web novels, I like my stories as passion projects that become a business, not the other way around.

I have been reading Defiance of the Fall as well and am fairly deep into the series. I have what I think are similar complaints. In DotF you start to lose a sense of direction or destination. Simply get stronger, kill new things, and discover new things. I think some of these authors would do well to have a definite end to the series. Defiance of the fall for example had a clear end in the middle of book 7 (I think it was this book) as most of the story arcs had been resolved. Since then it has simply been drifting about with Zack as he gets stronger.

I feel pretty much the same. I stopped reading He who fights with monsters after book 7. The MC just got to preachy about his morals. I do agree that the earth arc was a downward turn for this series. I read book 1 of DotF and just couldn’t get into it due to the MC having the personality of cardboard. For me the Primal Hunter series is very similar and is more my taste than DotF. Cradle had me hooked from the beginning and is a great series. The goat though is Dungeon Crawler Carl. Hands down the best.

He who fights with monsters also lost me in the earth arc. Jason just got insufferable at a certain point, and, as I love world building, having things set on just modern earth for so long totally lost me. Dungeon crawler carl kinda lost me eventually in the same way. Carl’s moral superiority combined with constant quick-fire joke writing just kinda plateaus. To me, the wandering inn still reigns supreme. Pirateaba is a genius.

I also finished jakes magical market vol 3 last week, im going to check out iron prince sounds interesting

I know he liked Primal Hunter a lot. The elimination of 24 books to focus on 6 was a bit of an unfair comparison. Just a teaser to get more people to watch our videos :-)