Are you sure you didn’t fall for an AI book scam?

I'm not saying it's impossible, but the book was published over a year before ChatGPT's release. Also that's not the impression I got from the writing. When I looked up the author, he had another series he was still writing as well. My guess is he would jump back and forth between the two tales, but would also just publish a book without even bothering to reread it and didn't have an editor. He WAS rapidly pumping them out every few months and I blamed that for the very unpolished nature of the book. If anything, I was more suspicious of the ratings as the book was rated over 4 stars, which is absurd for how bad it was.

Just for kicks I looked up my book review:

"By the third book the writing gets extremely sloppy. I found myself constantly reporting plot content errors. Let me reiterate this point. As a reader, I was pointing out how the author of the work was clearly wrong describing aspects of the world they themselves had created. Names of characters and languages were changed at random simply because the author forgot what he had named the character before. Other side characters were forgotten entirely even if they had been waiting for the main character to get back to them. Numerous times the main character inexplicably forgot his own exploits, claiming he had never done a task he had literally performed several pages prior. It became a struggle to get any sense of the plot with things being so inconsistent."

OMG, I forgot that the author would misspell people's names constantly! Like in one chapter a person would show up, "Hi, I'm Blake Cashmir" and then in a later chapter, "If it isn't Black Cushmire!" Like it really did feel like the author was just banging them out without doing any proofreading or outlining or anything.