Loyalties

A Cozy Fantasy LitRPG Series (Cozy Isekai Craftsman, Book 2)

By: Blaise Corvin, C. Cheesecake

Narrated by: Garrett Michael Brown

Book two of a cozy fantasy LitRPG series that proves that even in the quietest lives, the most dramatic things happen. A recipe gone awry because you lack one important ingredient and you need to make this cake for someone you love for their birthday, which happens to be the next day. Low-stakes? Nah.

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fun read

Honestly the growth Ana development of the story plot and characters. I also approved of the tenacity of the intrepid hero.

Niamh is pronounced Neave, not Neeahm

I'm becoming more convinced by the chapter that Blaise Corvin has nothing to do with this series other than lending his name to it. I can also find no information on C.Cheesecake. I would only be very lightly surprised to find out that this was written by AI and then proofed. There are multiple parts where other characters are reacting to things that are clearly only narrative thoughts and not spoken aloud. like one scene where a farmer gets upset because Joe asks "what's it for" then thinks to himself '...some sort of demarcation' the story then goes on a tangent about the farmer not knowing words, as if the farmer didn't understand demarcation, a word only thought and never said.

The narrator is good for the most part, though many characters sound exactly alike and some pacing is weird. sometimes there will be little to no pause going from what is exposition to "character said" then a pause and then what the character said. this makes it seem like the exposition or scene description is what the character said. one thing I hoped desperately would change between books is the pronunciation of Niamh, Niamh is a traditional Irish name that is pronounced Neave, this would be like having a character named Siobhan and not pronouncing it Shivaughn, or for a more classic English example, someone named Stephen and pronouncing it Step-Hen.

Still good

I like the pacing and world building of this series. It takes unexpected turns. I'm looking forward to the next one.

good time

had a good time, Joe is a big ol softy. looking forward to the next one

wtf

lost all respect for the main character when he got bullied by flower not only that like his pacifist ways of starting to annoy me like he doesn't stand up for himself at all through the entire freaking book just rolls over