I have no idea how to express how bad that was. If someone who has never read a fantasy story before reads this first, they will never set foot in this genre again. It's so incredibly sad how a good idea can be ruined like this.
So, don't get mad at me. Anyone who knows me knows that I rarely talk badly about books. I studied literature and have also written a book or two. I know how much work goes into something like that and I know that I am not a writer and would never presume to be.
This story here has good beginnings, lots of good ideas and is not badly written at all, but my goodness, the storytelling is just a huge mess. Events are randomly strung together and forced to make some kind of sense at the end. The magical world that is built here is a series of countless magical abilities. The main character and narrator knows everything, can do everything and still plays dumb. Portals transport him and his buddies from one universe to the next. There is no standstill, you never really get to know anything and don't really know how to imagine this fantasy world, even though you are bombarded with new information in every second sentence.
The writing style, well, I don't know.
I need simply written books from time to time. After a week like the one I've just had, something that doesn't stress me out too much is helpful to wind down. I don't have the right words to describe the style of this book. It has something of an endless shopping list or an instruction manual.
This is an excerpt from a scene in which a great battle is raging ... Just to have something like this in such a scene, where you actually want to know who is fighting with whom and how the fights are going ...