Super Sales on Super Heroes, Book 3

So I've loved this series but this is the weakest so far, and I think it has a lot of problems.One of the oddest choices is that we start with a five year time skip. Yet, things are pretty much still at the status quo we left of at book 2. Legion has not expanded much, still being focused in pretty much one country. Legion doesn't have any fancy new toys or new people. Felix's personal relationships are still at the same place. Despite indicating they were going to be moving things over to Legion World at the end of book 2, apparently their settlement is barely developed at the start of Book 3, and not suitably developed enough if they wanted to move everyone over. With the portals, I have no idea why they would not put all the dormitories, research facilities, ect on legion world where they would be safe, other than a brief explanation of "it would be like running away again."There is also the problem that the author ties this book into some of his other series. One of the tie ins you will find out about early on, but the other comes later. If you haven't read these series you are missing out, but you can still read this. The early tie in comes off as "eh, why is he doing this," but the later one I thought was very cool.The problem is how the characters from these other series are used. Felix gets a new personal assistant, new body guards, new ect. He spends most of the book surrounded by an entirely new cast of women with the exception of Miu. The old supporting cast is shuffled off to the sideline, and for the most part are content with this, or even encourage it. The biggest problem about all of this is that it's not necessary.The characters don't serve an important role. The problem that the "magic of the dryads" solve is hastily introduced just before the dryads are introduced to fix it. Felicity, who the book seems to center around is characterized very little in this book. All you know from reading just Super Sales on Super Heroes is that she is extremely competent, utterly in love with Felix, everybody likes her, and her family was "poor" when she was young. That's about the extent of her characterization. She is basically an author written Mary Sue in this book. Everything that Felicity does in this book could easily have been taken care of by one of the preexisting women.If you followed the Tenchi Muyo OVAs and where upset when they made new ones only to focus on new girls, that was what this was like.Some of the new characters are good. The dragon girls are interesting additions, and I would have liked to see them more. Unfortunately they don't come in closer to the end. I thought we were going to see Felix being stuck with them for a longer period, developing a secondary harem, but what seems like it will be a fairly involved plot thread gets resolved fairly quickly in a literal Deus Ex Machina.Finally, as to the title of the review.There is not much in the way of super heroes in this book. A few powered make brief appearances, but the focus is instead on generic "magic" with ambiguous limits and abilities and "faith." Other than bringing people back to life, I can only think of one character that Felix upgrades all book, and that is just with a generic "sign on package." Never mind, I also remember that he gives Felicity a power as well. But we don't see much of him debating over what stats to upgrade or if he should give someone powers.We only see his "point total" page twice, both when he does not have access to his full set of powers. He spends most of the book unable to use his powers, and when he can we don't see him using it. Perhaps the author decided Felix is too powerful, and could not come up with a good way to deal with it, but it really felt like it belonged to a different series than the last two.I'm going to read the next one. The first two books, and the author's other series have won enough good will from me for that at least.ONE FINAL NOTE:I've only listened to the first two in audiobook format, this was the first one I read, so its possible the others were like this as well. There are a lot of sentence fragments, that when heard out-loud read almost like stream of counciousness, and I am sure sound fine. Reading it though was jarring. Much of the dialog was also formatted oddly. If a character was speaking a paragraph worth of text, the final sentence would often be set aside as a separate line of dialog. As such if you are not paying careful attention to if the closing quotations are there, it visually looks as if someone else is talking. This was only a minor inconvenience, but it was annoying.

I honestly just reread this series back-to-back in three or four days. And I gotta say. I love it. I picked it up on Audible and Kindle.

I want to state upfront that I really enjoy Arand's books. Otherlife, Wild Wastes and Super Sales have all been very entertaining reads. The problem is that they are - or at least, they began as - different genres.Wild Wastes and Super Sales began are harem fantasy/superhero stories. That's fine. Combining them as Arand has done via the interdimensional portals is also mostly fine - Felix and Vance are sufficiently different as to make them distinct, but there are too many female characters with similar names to avoid a problem.Otherlife, however, is a LitRPG story. Runner Norwood is one of a limited number of players in a video game designed to occupy the minds of people in stasis for interstellar travel. *This is also fine*. Most of the characters in Otherlife don't exist except as NPCs, and one of the running themes of the story is that Runner (and the reader) ends up thinking of them as people, so much so that Runner kills actual players to keep NPCs safe.It's a great story concept, and Arand does it well.Combining Otherlife with Super Sales/Wild Wastes, however, completely alters the latter two stories. Vince and Felix, as presented, are the only ones who could actually be players - *all of the other major characters in both stories must necessarily be NPCs*. This completely changes the narrative stakes - at least, it does for the audience, who until the most recent Wild Wastes book would have assumed that Lillian Lux and Berenga were supposed to be actual people in the context of the story they were in.The stakes haven't changed for Felix and Vince, because neither of them knows who Runner really is - and as possible NPCs themselves, they can still die permanently. But *we* know who Runner is. And as a result of Runner's introduction, both Super Sales and Wild Wastes have made abrupt genre changes from fantasy to LitRPG.It's a bit like reading Lord of the Rings - except in the final chapter Tolkien revealed that the entire story was actually a novelization of a D&D campaign he and his friends played as teenagers (yes, I know that would be anachronistic). The story is still entertaining, but...

Enjoyable read. I'm on to the next book of course. I saw book 5 on Amazon. I need to be there.

The scale of everything is getting bigger, but somehow it just works. Even though Felix is now dealing with enemies that consist of national leaders and/or gods, it doesn’t make things seem out of proportion unlike the first book.The romance is blending more into the storyline as Felix slowly moves away from not wanting a harem to accepting that it will happen. And finally Vince is getting his time to shine.Overall a good read even if it took a while to finish. The small page count may look like an easy read, but for some reason it just takes a long time to finish books in this series.

The third in the series and if you're read up on William's other books it will be easier to grasp what is going on. But even if you aren't its still a fun book to veg out with.

I stumbled on to this series by accident as I’d not read any litRPG’s before. I must admit that I am a little uncomfortable with harem-style stories, but it quickly won me over and has become something of a guilty pleasure of mine. The concept of the original book was brilliant and I raced through it. I loved the base-building, power-gifting aspect, it was both hilarious and genius.I think the problem with the later books (for me) is that, it’s kind of like playing a game that has already been won.Felix has already done all of the cool stuff in the previous books. As such, a good 40% of the start of this book felt a little tired. It picked up with Vince joining the cast, and the point when Felix gets trapped in his world had me really hoping that it would all start again, but this time with Felix knowing how to use his powers properly.It suffers from having too many characters. I realise he has an empire now, but I think this again would be why a “fresh slate” approach would be good. (Also, perhaps having a few more male characters about really wouldn’t hurt, just for suspension of disbelief.)My main problem was that I missed the Felix pulling up people’s stats and giving them powers side of the story. This is what drew me in in the first place, and it was hardly in this book at all!I will definitely get the next book once it is released. I just hope it has a bit more of the zest and creativity the original book had, rather than a focus on the relationships of the many characters.

I saw a lot of negative reviews but I’m glad I didn’t allow them to colour my perspective of this book. The 4th installation just recently got released and I found myself needing to catch up with the story. It was pretty interesting, Felix expanded his inner circle and we got a 5year time-skip. I wish he used his upgrade power more often, because that was what actually got my interested in this story I’m the first place.Overall, a 3.8/5 .

I'm loving the characters and story more each book and cannot wait to see what happens next. There are some mistakes here and there but they are just bumps in the road of a good story. Cheers!

I enjoyed the previous two greatly though honestly the ending is annoying and I definitely wish to read more and find out whether Felix succeeds in the end.

With the usual quality of writing and characters that make you care about them, this book finally opens up to the much larger events going on and sets up an epic story arc for the future. Same high quality. Same engaging writing. New direction and new enemies.