The Combat Codes

If the dude bros Wrote a book.

DNF at 56%.

This doesn't have enough women for me. Meaning any!
Yes you heard me right, there is no women. And what two that show up are a housemaid mother type figure and a healer that sounds so much like a robot its insulting.

I really want to give the author the benefit of the doubt. This is a book about fighting. It's male centered. Yes women can fight but not really against men. The world the author has set up is full of fighting slaves, a fighting hiarchary and corrupted people in power. Yet no women. I feel that the author has simply forgotten, in the society he's created, to think what role women would play. And it shows. To me, it feels like a shallow world.

The two main characters have the potential to be really interesting but it fails to deliver. The plot of the book moves rather fast too fast for any real character deveoplment or connection. Yes its a book about fighting, but it lacked the quiet moments between that makes me care for the characters.

It is clear that the author knows how to fight, but he's forgotten that the story is fiction and not a lesson. The fight scenes lack any emotion or anything interesting. To put it plain, they were boring.

Aside from the lack of women, I was bored throughout this book. And it had such a good premise.