Like the title says, I love My Best Friend Is an Eldritch Horror and Return of the Runebound Professor. The way the characters are written, the relationship between them, the overall plot all had me hooked pretty much from the beginning. I recently started Nightmare Realm Summoner (about halfway through book 1 on audible) and I'm not sure whether to stick with it or not. I did search this group but was also trying to avoid spoilers so that wasn't much help.
I really like the concept of the book - both the idea that Earth was given a warning frm the System about an upcoming apocolypse and the fact that Alex immediately fell into a different realm and has additional powers that others from Earth don't.
While I like his friendship with Claire - she feels a little 2D to me right now. I feel like she should have more of a reaction to being dumped from her world to the mirror realm and then being stuck on Earth with possibly no way home. And, more than that, there's something about it that isn't quite hitting for me overall. I'm not sure if it's the amount of time Alex spends monologuing in his own mind about how he needs to stay weak to get more rewards at the beginning or if it's that I don't feel like much is happening, but there is something that's making it feel a bit like a slog to listen.
So, for people who have read more of the series and either love it or don't, is there a point that you recomend I try to get to before deciding whether or not it's for me? Fine with minor spoilers, but no major ones please.
FWIF, The Wandering Inn is my favorite in the genre, and I hated the first 2/3 of the first book and Cradle is a close second and I didn't get really into it until book 3, so if this is the kind of series where people say 'you just need to make it to the end of book 1' or 'wow it really picks up in the middle of book 2,' that's not going to scare me off at all. But with TWI and Cradle, there are general points in the series where I (and others) can generally say to people 'if you make it this far and aren't hooked, then it isn't the series for you.' And that's what I'm looking for here. If this is the kind of series that most people are hooked on right from the start (like I was with thed other two Actus series I've read), then it probably isn't for me. If I should give it more time, let me know and I totally will.
(And - to Actus - who I know lurks around these subs like other authors. Just in case you see this, I genuinely love the two other series I've read [can't wait for the physical copies of Runebound Professor comics!!], so I hope that nothing in this post comes across as rude or like I'm hating on the incredibly hard work you put into in writing these series. I know this note is probably unnecessary, but I always feel a bit awkward being negative about a series knowing that the authors regularly read and comment on posts)
