Chris

it's pretty good but there are several things I didn't like:
- the cat is annoying. of course that's intentional
- the story is too woke. I don't expect Carl to do PvP and kill other crawlers but saving the elderly from a nursing home that came down into a dungeon, floor to floor, was too cliche for me.
- the fights are too repetitive. while the mobs and bosses have a lot of variety, it's always the cat shooting missiles, Carl punching or throwing explosives that kills them.
- there are lots of descriptions of characters / the environment / the things being built but I often couldn't envision them

overrated in 2023, I was told it gets good after arc 8, I forced myself through it but still didn't like it, so I stopped reading after arc 9.
It's not rational fiction, it's more like My Hero Academia, a bunch of superheroes and villains each with their own unique quirks bopping around but nobody is min/maxing them.

I liked the main plot but the main plot is at most 25% of the book, the rest is sometimes funny/clever, often boring interludes that completely destroy the flow and start feeling like annoying interruptions after a while. Didn't finish reading it, dropped it after half the book.

I liked the rational deductions but there just wasn't much suspense in the book, the story was too uneventful to keep me engaged. This is coming from someone who isn't deep into Superman franchise.

It has many interesting ideas but it's poorly written in a very non-engaging way. Important actions of the protagonist are dealt with in a single passing sentence, you don't get a look inside any characters at all. This book is more like a world building document than an actual story, at least the pacing is good and it's a short read.