Prism Academy Omnibus, Books 1-5

By: David Burke

Narrated by: Jonathan Waters, Maeve York

Length: 74 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

Humanity stands at the brink of extinction.

Earth has been bombarded by forces beyond our understanding.

In the aftermath, monsters roam the Earth while humanity is forced into a few small safe zones, but not all is lost.

When the shadows fell, so too did hope. Progentitor rays birthed a new breed of humans, known as supers. Now those few are all that stands between mankind and death upon the claws and fangs of monsters.

©2022 David Burke (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Brags about 30 books in 3 years. Well it shows

The series starts off intriguing and strong. However, after the second book, it really feels like it tanks. The author mentions their own burnout for making 30 books in 3 years. Well, to that, I say, I wish you didn't. I wish these were better and I waited longer.

Wasted sex scenes, side quests, and drummed-up drama or sexual innuendos galore made up 60% of the final 3 books. However the most EGREGIOUS decision is the antagonist(s) and how it all plays out.

*Spoilers Ahead* in the form of questions.
- What, in a culture of super heroes with light energy, only the MC can tell when people have been corrupted? All the thousands of other psychic superheroes can't tell, including the guards of the president of the government? Someone can just GO UP TO HIM AND MIND CONTROL HIM? F*ing Lame.

- Politicians drop(big) hints that they are in league with the bad guys, and the MC just thinks "I might have to keep my eye on him"? Lame.

- Political problems(and thus the ending struggle to a degree) are forcasted since book three and the MC does basically ZERO to address them? NONE of his other 9 women and AI assistants and leadership he works with can see the writing on the wall so obvious to me, even with only MC knowledge? Lame.

- The MC can't use the "these bad guys have been genociding our race for 200 years, only attacked us stronger during/after they offered the truce, and thus, the truce is an OBVIOUS lie." Argument? People in power get convinced in droves? Super lame.

- No use of Ai to become a spy network for MC? Ai just becomes a powerful fleshlight to MC, and that's the extent of its powers? Lame.

TLDR: You come for the "adult" scenes, which saturate this series, and you stay for them. Story? Compelling Narrative? A World that behaves like real people outside of the MC's small sphere? You won't find that here.

liked it

I read the individual books before, but buying them all in 1 bundle for 1 credit is nice. this is 74 hours of entertainment, will keep you enjoying listening to it for a long time. I recommend giving this book a try

Loving this road so far.

at the time of this review: I'm currently 50% through book 4. I'm loving this had a thought about what might happen and the author flipped that on me i won't say what I had predicted but wow what a way to avoid it. I absolutely love the pop culture references the MC is as much of a 80s 90s movies nut as I am if that's a reflection of the the author good to know I have a common ground with him. also the book 2 reference of you can sure try makes me wonder if Aiden possibly came across some sessions of Critical Role on The Livstream he kept referring to. Oh and the pokemon reference in book 4 I LOLed so loud the wife looked at me funny... so yeah I so love this series. if I see a War God For Hire Omnibus hit the market. I'm grabbing it up as soon as I have either the cash or credit for it.

one of the best

power, politics and world ending plots.
this series has it all with that Burke magic.
highly recommended

One of my favorite series ❣️

I love Supers LitRPG and HaremLit series and this is one of my top 5.
This is awesome to have the entire series in one book.
Burke is also one of my faves.
I can't wait to see how he brings his worlds together in his different series.
I'm giving this book 9 out of 5 stars.

Terrible

Book went from decent to crap before third book. His books usually are fairly good

not for me.

I don't like how the author writes like he's walking on eggshells or groveling to the reader like he's afraid of being canceled or something, there is so much reassurance/explaining things it takes up at least 20% of the word count and some of it is recurring. then some of the crap being said feels like it belongs in a cult or is cult like to me. there could have been an entertaining story but there is too much pitiful taking the place of what could have been more content.