Metamorphosis

3,5 stars, I suppose. At this point I still don't exactly know how I feel about this series. What do I mean about this?

Lugor, Shiva and Sandal are sent out into the world for some time to actually practice their Adventurer skills in real life, in their case they have to travel to a new island with the group trying to start a colony there. Meanwhile Lugor's village, including his mom are still kidnapped and nobody knows about them.
Which is part of my issue. I understand that the plot has to progress, but the way everyone is being all sorts of happy and contented with making horseshoes and grinding for exp all blissfully, meanwhile Lugor's mom is kidnapped by a crazy necromancer is just weird. Nothing bad happening feels like it has a true weight when 5 minutes later we just go back to fun times with taming giant birds. Someone loses an arm and not even 2 minutes later people (including the one who just lost the arm) are all “lol, loot”. Now I am not trying to say I want every book to be super serious, this just takes a lot of steam out of the big, emotional scenes.

The three main characters are still nice. Some of their interactions are a bit... lol sassy pop culture speak, which I personally don't like (it can and will date the book so so much), but otherwise they are fine. None of them are portrayed as way above the others and not really needing them, the trio is all needed for everything they do. Of course Lugor is unique in certain ways and is the strongest considering them.... it's not like he can do it alone.
The minor characters are still not very fleshed out and we also just went from one place to another, leaving behind the ones who received some attention in book 1. I really hope we will see some of them be allowed some development, other than just “Hmmm, Lugor, I think you are cool after all”.

Things have developed in this as far as the world building goes. I'm not sure how long this series is going to be and how far we are going, but I am sure there is more than a trilogy's worth of things to tell, partly because the books are short and also because there are so many things to discuss and questions to answer in it. I'm definitely going on with it for now, even with its flaws, because overall it's kind of fun and an easy read to get in between heavier and longer ones. Worth of a try for sure.