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I am starting to hope that Noobtown as a series is getting close to finishing. While I have enjoyed it so far, it’s beginning to become a parody of itself in some respects. Book eight is filled with so many meta-refences and self-references, a theme which has been building and become more obvious with the last few books in the series, that it’s getting a little tiresome.
In this one, for instance, an entire chapter is devoted to seemingly annoying the narrator due to (as stated in the audio) a comment made by the narrator in a public forum, so the author makes them do every accent he can think of, alternating lines of dialogue to new characters just to keep that going.
The jokes, even though they’ve often been puerile are getting more sexualised in nature so what were winks and nudges become direct slaps in the face. I can’t help but feel it’s lost its way, like it’s trying too hard to force the funny where it used to be more natural.
The plot that actually revolved around the Dark Lord that’s been an ongoing thing since book one finally came to a head in this one. I had hoped after the events of the last book, and the title and events unfolding in this one it’d be the final in the series, but Rimmel left us on a cliffhanger which felt like a cop out. The massive battle between the Noobs and the Dark Lord was well done, and honestly had the series stopped at this point I don’t think it’d be disappointing.
Narration by Johnathan McClain was excellent, as usual, even when forced to jump through the ridiculous hoops set by the author.
Will I continue? Yes, probably… but it’s getting harder to be excited about the series. With the cliffhanger leading into the next one, it has the feeling of extending the series for the sake of it. Whatever it does, I just hope it doesn’t continue to devolve further into a self-referencing parody.
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