Do yourself a favour.

This book is an alright 'isekai' novel. Does some decent world building and sets up a sprawling story that is ready to take place over several books. The telling of the story leaves a lot to be desired, but if you stick with it, it's pretty good.

However. You should avoid this series. Just avoid it. The premise is alright and the first book, while flawed, leaves you with high expectations. Expectations that are completely dashed by the third hour of book two. There are only so many times the tree can say "I have so much to think about" and do absolutely nothing about what he is thinking about before you honestly cannot take it any more. In book two, the author leans into a trees "forgetful nature" with zero premise for it. Then, adds an explanation on why the tree takes so long to make decisions by referencing Tolkien's works. This is all to allow nonsensical plot holes into hooks that make no sense and allow them to stick. Honestly, book two was a chore and made me regret ever wasting the credit. It only got worse as the book went on. Chapters and chapters about poop with nothing being done. Chapters and chapters about wanting to do stuff mentioned in book one, still nothing done. Chapters and chapters about how everything is becoming an RTS game like <insert game name here>. And I won't get started on the random flip-flops in character developments revolving around anger and revenge.

The bottom line is, the series is a wide as a river, yet shallow as a puddle. It has no direction and rambles. There is no interesting story to be found here.

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A very well done book

While LitRPG's are still a young genre, we are thankfully starting to see the quality of authors rising with some very skilled writers taking to the field.

The book is very well written, inventive, clever and toys around with the overpowered protagonists tropes in a way that isn't cheesy but actually makes sense.

The author has a nuanced and realistic view on human social interactions with all the complexities and grey areas that comes with it.

A breath of fresh air, truly. I highly recommend it.

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Ok

Interesting premise , but not the most exciting delivery , not sure if I will be buying part two

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I want to be a tree

With his unique perception of time, the story was good and original. Being a tree that can survive fire from a demon king seems a bit much but I guess what doesn't kill you makes you stronger works for a tree.

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found it dry and hard to get into.

I am up to date with tree of aeon on scribblehub so thought i would show my support by picking up this audiobook. I enjoyed the premise, world and the characters but found the narration dry and hard to listen to.
It didn't get better as it went along so had to give up. I'll stick to reading it myself as it updates.

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Enjoyed it.

loved it, please make one of virus taking control of the host, leaning their ability and evolving in a fantasy world.

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Loved it!

Really enjoyed the book. Will be waiting for the 2nd book. Ending felt a bit unfinished, but still recommend it!

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Great but…

Again I’m gonna say this book is great it’s pretty unique and has a lot more common sense than most iseaki stories but ngl the tree is a bit of a prick 😂

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Throughly enjoyable

Different style to the books I usually read, really enjoyable, nice growth and world building

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Poorly written and paste

First off, I’ve never read a published book with such bad prose from sentence to sentence. Words are repeated too often and nothing is described in detail. The classic writing advice is show, don’t tell when it comes to writing. This book does nothing but tell you what’s happening , leading to a very frustrating experience. I can’t count the amount of times I groaned at some bad word choice that took me out of the moment.
The nicest thing I can say about this book is that it does deliver on its concept. The main character is a tree, and he does level up in an RPG system, but that’s it. Nothing especially interesting is done with either concept.

The pacing is all over the place. It has a really slow buildup till you get to the main meat of what the story is about with events early on, seeming incredibly disconnected to later events. And it has absolutely no ending. Just kinda peters out. I know it’s the first book in the series, I wasn’t expecting a conclusion to everything, but this book has literally no conclusion.

Also, I really don’t like the main character, the tree all that much, which is a problem because you spend almost the entire story in his POV. He just seems like a very self-centred person. Constantly butting heads with the refugees and blackmailing them to get what he wants. Experimenting on prisoners and one memorable event where he shoots down an airship and forces the innocent people on it to fight to the death just because they come from a kingdom he has a grudge against. By the end of the book, I didn’t want to root for him to get stronger anymore because he’s just gonna use his power for his own selfish interests.

The levelling system too feels way too convenient whenever the tree has a problem. The levelling system will just give him an ability to solve it. He very rarely has to be creative or problem solve, because he’ll just get new attacks and abilities with little thinking on his part.
This book is almost passable. I at least was intrigued enough to actually finish it, but by the end I just wanted it to be over. Won’t be picking up the next in the series, and if I were you I’d save your credits for something else.

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