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As a prior note i'm note at the forefront of the novel as it currently is but are at the halfway point but a few things that have start to annoy me as the book is going on. The first thing is that i feel the need to point out i like the book despite what downsides that have stood out to me, and the only reason i've decided to write a review now is get the downsides out while i still find it relevent. The first downside is the inconsistency in the book the book goes from having the shop start out each dungeon being at if i remeber correctly 245 yaun in a dungeon with the price dropping to then 40 which just seems like a massive jump in price and from what i know of chinese currency 10 yaun is somewhere around £1 meaning it goes from £25 to £2.50 or their by equilevent and while this is a book and in this version of earth the exchange rate may or may not be the same it needs to be said that from how the book shows the dungeons their meant to be along the lines of an escape room in a modern sense, on which £25 per dungeon while expensive is still an expected price. But with a drop to £2.50 equilvent is makes this not only rather cheap and a bit out of place even with with others methods that the book implemented to make the price make more sense it still even till this day seems out of place to me. The second problem i have with the book is the blatent ingornace and what amounts to disgrimanation towards other countries in the book, in the modern chapters it makes the the price in yuan the same as in every other currency which considering the context it shows is soley targeted at europe and ammerica with the example being it making a german group pay €5 for a dungeon that in cost 5 yuan to which the reasoning given that the german group would only being paying €0.63 despite the higher costs in germany, ignoring the fact that the amount the chinese are paying has the same purchasing power. For anyone who can't get the problem this policy would meant that someone paying in iraian rial which has the lowest purchasing power of any currency would be paying an amount which most currency's do not even support. I don't know why the author put this in the book it seems extremly out of place and stupid to have in the book.

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The story as very interesting as you get a single perspective of an entire criss-cross universe of different fantasy elements and movies, the problem is that a) because I can only assume the author wants to have as much fun with the story as possible no fantasy element is developed to far and instead many minor dives into that element leaving you to want for more of that story line and element only for the author to leave it for a while. b) The police brutality as people put it are ignoring a few things, one being that he's in the major crimes division, meaning that the people he is dealing with aren't the nicest and as such if put into a situation where he is asked why he uses lethal force he in most cases could argue in court that he had reason to do so, and as such while in real life I can imagine that someone from whatever the police have of an ethics committee to try and get he to stop choosing the lethal option, they would most likely end up with a situation of a long court case when they would be arguing over excessive self-defence, not police brutality. It is still important to note this is a book and it is not only implied that he has other cases that are not written about, the book would be a completely different tone if it was the main character constantly having to explain his actions. In conclusion it's a good book and the people who are complaining about excessive self defence are most likely to be unable to bring up anything about the book other than the main character kills people and that its bad to kill people without having any reasoning behind that then as that.

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