Should have stopped after the first book.

How this ended up getting listed as Steampunk, Isekai, or amongst the more Adult-themed stories I have no idea.

The entirety of the Steampunk portion is really just magic that animates everything, because, well....magic!

The whole of the characters prior life is so inconsequential to the story that it is entirely forgotten due to...magic!

The main character's personality entirely changes for no apparent reason, growing more idiotic, reckless, thoughtless, and confusing that I had honestly thought he'd developed multiple personalities, all of them horrid people.

The relationships are poorly thought out, often misleading, with characters getting built up only to disappear of change completely, to the point that I just gave up trying to understand or believe any of them after the first chapter of the second book. What little hope I had for this series died shortly after that, as the characters not only cease development, but actually devolve into caricatures of the worst parts of humanity in short order, often negating everything about their characters that had been written every few chapters.

I pretty much never write reviews, but given how bad this trainwreck was getting, I forced myself to finish the whole thing, stupidly believing that something might occur to redeem it... that is time I will never get back which I truly regret.

Only the first book is remotely worth attempting, and do not have any assumptions about the writing, as it will only disappoint you.

The narrator's performance, given the material they had to work with, was well done, and I'll be looking for more of their work.

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