Bryce

Just finished my first reread of the series and it was just as awesome as the first. I don't have the words for how much I love those universe. The demon characters were some of my favorites and the lucrim system was incredibly interesting. I really enjoyed the accurate feel around the high performance athletes and the tradeoffs and the predatory trainers as well.
I feel like there is so much to explore here and I truly hope that one day those books are written, maybe in more of a typical fantasy setting so we can do more exploring, and not feel so constricted by the narrow definition of “progression fantasy”. I'm sure in another few years I'll be back rereading this outstanding trilogy.

I loved this series. It started off a bit rough and doesn't explain the “magic' system well and none of that bothers me because I look for a story I can fall into and a character that I can empathize with.

I truly wish that had I been forced into the same situations and circumstances that I would have made the choices that he did. The characters are poor, like actual poverty poor. It's convincingly written in a way that it's both front and center and just a fact of life not dwelled on, but it really adds a certain amount of heart and “need” to the feelings in the book.

The magic system isn't clearly defined and you get to learn it in drips and spurts through out the book. This was great for me, possibly because I had just come off of a book where the story formula was 10 pounds encyclopedic explanation of the magical system followed by 3 ounces of story on repeat until I stopped reading. I feel like I always had the bare minimum I needed to progress the story.

I really liked the universe and the diverse characters we meet along the way. This got me hooked on the author and I'm really glad that it did.

I have been truly sucked into this series. Does a great job of balancing how much you're told, how much you can guess and how much you want to know.