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He Who Fights with Monsters. (LitRpg) Anyone else read/listened to this? (mander.xyz)
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I've been on this LitRPG kick lately. I've listened to dungeon crawler carl, and now I'm on "He Who fights with Monsters" book 4. Where Jason, has been transported back to his original world earth.

Am I the only one who didn't really see that coming?! at the end of the third book, i realized that something would happen. Coming back to earth actually surprised me.

Also does or did, anyone feel like it shifted the tone or pace of the book?

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

I read it for a while a few years ago, I don't remember how far I got it. I do remember realizing that it was just a "number go up for both the hero and the monster" - nothing was really changing/new anymore even though there were more words. A good read for a while, but it gets tedious after a while and so I stopped. There are too many other books our there that are much better. A large part of better is the authors just wrote "the end" when they ran out of original ideas.