Get pulled out of the boring life of the 20th century and plunge into a fantasy world.
Find out there are many powerful monsters and evil witches intent on killing everyone.
Use the new magical powers of earth and metal to craft awesome armor, swords, and guns.
Kill bad guys, be a hero and have a harem of hot women.

This is a good book. It’s well written and entertaining. The plot isn’t very inspired; it’s an isekai (a normal person transported to a different world) to the letter. The magic system is a lot like ‎”Avatar: The Last Airbender‎”, with mages manipulating elements and people with special abilities related to their element (the MC of the book can manipulate earth as his basic element, but also metal; much in the vein of Toph from Avatar).
The plot thickens with the introduction of guns in a sword and sorcery setting, a concept witch I find very appealing, but I didn’t quite like the way it was handled. The MC develops the guns way too fast and easy. The impact of guns in such a context should be huge, and the way the MC just goes and give away the schematics of the guns and the formula of gunpowder are plain reckless. I suppose now any blacksmith with the schematics and formula can experiment and create his own guns… that should be interesting to read. Also, the way the others reacts is really implausible.
The characters are the basic from any fantasy/harem: the almighty-multiple-orgasm-inducing Gary Sue, the sexy badass mixed race with a chip on her shoulder and the sexy warrior princess. It’s more of the same.

This book is well written, and although it could use some additional editing, the word usage and content errors are not too distracting. It is a harem book with one guy and multiple women. I give this a 4 star rating because the basic story theme is identical to his Dragon Emperor series, i.e., you have a secretive and behind-the-scene bad guy driving a series of subordinates, one or more of which get caught in each book. So if you’ve read the Dragon Emperor series, you may be a little disappointed; I was. Still, it is a good read and I will buy the next in the series.

• Metal Mage

• By: Eric Vall