There are so many errors or conflicting sentences that cannot be accepted even after multiple readings. If that weren't enough, this book could stand to be edited. huh? What combat sensible medic wants to take on the role of Tank? Doesn't make sense. I also can't fathom a combat medic who wants to be a bare-knuckle brawler. You want me to believe that two former service members have sufficient leadership experience to go from leading squad sized elements to leading company sized elements with absolutely no snafus? I'm sorry, I've done the combat dance and I just can't. The plot is so weak that it was a struggle to get to the end of the book. Well, let me shatter that assumption right now.

So maybe you'd think that, having problems in dialog and setting may be made up by plot. Contrast this to Aleron King's first couple LitRPG novels and it just feels like this book isn't trying. Second, the setting is illustrated in such a subpar way that often I couldn't picture where I should be standing as I took on the perspective of the characters.

Characters exist simply to postulate what another character may have been thinking, which is typical in a fantasy, but it's done in such a generic way that it doesn't sound like the natural conversation or thought a third party would have had of a situation they were witnessing. So why? Well first, the dialog (if you wanna call it that) is so unbearably unrealistic that it distracts from the reading. It just doesn't stand up to avid reading. This book would have gotten at most a 1 star if I had read it in 8th grade. I am baffled by this having such a high rating.

The Two Week Curse by Michael Chatfield