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Stat Slap #1

Stat Slap 1: A Murderhobo LitRPG

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Isabelle’s life was garbage. Then, she got yeeted into the LitRPG world of Beaubinte—a stat-ridden fantasy hellpit where caves whisper loot me, the logs scream errors, and poison arrows count as handshakes.

She was supposed to be a side character. Probably. Now her sneak stat won’t stop climbing, her fireballs keep committing war crimes, and the system is either sentient or just high on its own code.

The prophecy’s glitched. The Citadel’s on fire. The gods are watching like it’s reality TV.

Isabelle? Underdressed. Overleveled. Emotionally unavailable. Looting everything that isn’t nailed down. This world can die mad about it.

Like buggy skill trees, crackhead chosen ones, and divine oversight with a body count? Welcome to Beaubinte. Hope you brought potions.

Praise for the Author and Stat Slap

“It's a gem, unique in its genre, and deserves your attention.” – Reader
“…the MC is a total, unrepentant murderhobo and I'm okay with that.” – Reader
“…if you like fast-paced, funny LitRPGs and you're a big D&D fan, you'll love this story.” – Reader

391 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 17, 2025

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265 reviews6 followers
June 18, 2025
Unsure

(Edited due to fixes by author)

This is not "murderhobo" by any definition I've ever read. She kills a few folks, but it's always in an emergent, or forced set of circumstances. Murderhobo is "meatsacks make numbers go brrrrr" not "I am just reacting to things that are done to me in a fairly logical way".

The title of the book: Stat Slap. It's misleading. The only stat slapping that happens is the repetition of full lists of stats and inventories over and over again. Do we really need to see three full lists of the MC's inventory contents separated by a sentence or two of actual content?

Note to self: Unsure if will contiinue
2,633 reviews71 followers
August 27, 2025
Forty percent and the story hasn't even started. And what i have read is very boring. I'm fine with this. I'm not going to bother trying to finish
258 reviews
October 10, 2025
Interesting Story, But Needs a Cleaner Stat Format

The story itself is engaging, solid premise, good pacing, and a world that really pulls you in. However, the constant repetition of stats and inventory details made it a bit of a slog at times. I appreciate the depth of the system, but it starts to interrupt the flow of the narrative.

A tidier format would help a lot, maybe just highlight the changes in the text and include the full status screen every few chapters instead of after every little update. The plot and characters are strong enough to stand on their own, and a cleaner approach would make the reading experience much smoother.

Still, definitely worth checking out for LitRPG fans who enjoy detailed systems and creative world mechanics.
2 reviews
September 27, 2025
An okay read

If you’re desperate for something to read, this is acceptable. It never really hooked me and had way too much bloat from displaying the full character sheet and inventory over and over. The main character acts like she has never seen a video game; asking the most obvious questions. Then gets upset when some who is training her in sword and shield because he is “teaching her obvious things” when he is really giving her a good foundation that is not obvious to anyone who has never used a sword and shield. There is no history of her having any training presented prior to this.
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11 reviews
January 28, 2026
Average imho

I liked tje story over all it seemed very short but that might be because out of all the litrpg ive read this is absolutly over atuffed with showing whats in the inventory etc and stat pages etc tp an very excessive degree ive read a heap of lit rpg and many with heaps of info in tables etc but done with just as many as this one but actually useful and informative this one just seems like excessive word fill we dont need the same info so often and i get it , pushing thay she didnt do a tutorial or such and thay why but even ounce it gets a breviated still to much in my personal opinion sorry
11 reviews1 follower
August 21, 2025
Stat Slap? more like pad

This author is going to kill the litrpg genre. It is extremely annoying for me to be reading this book on my phone when out of every 5 pages of it 3 of them are just repeating stat/inventory pages with ONE or 2 numbers changed. Amazon calls it stat padding and this book easily is the worst offender. At least the actual story is not as incoherent as a lot of the books that are uploaded from shady plagiarists on the internet
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Author 6 books2 followers
December 26, 2025
A fun ride with something new!

A nice change from the EH I've been focused on recently, although the repeatedly hardening nipples of the MC in the beginning was obnoxious, I'm glad that the author decided to calm down.

The story was engaging and actually kind of amusing. Obviously, I knew that the MC would make it through, but I still felt that unease that she might not. A fun entry into a new series.

4.25 out of 5 severed thumbs-up
Author 1 book20 followers
November 28, 2025
After being fatally run down by a cyclist Isabelle finds herself in a RPG style world with awful stats. Making things worse, a figure calling himself 'Overlord' has been capturing NPCs who are meant to train characters like her. So she's on her own.

Good read! Its not at all deep but the heroine is likable, and it reminded me of the sort of chaotic D&D sessions I used to play.

3.5 stars
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7 reviews
February 17, 2026
Stat Slap indeed

So stat Slap is pretty accurate, this book unabashedly slaps you in the face with the sheer amount of status notifications. The status checks are slightly odd but it does have a D&D theme going. If you want a mildly funny book with a roller coaster ride that slaps you in the face with stats then this is for you.
69 reviews1 follower
August 1, 2025
A funny book

I liked it a lot. Irreverent, funny and somehow still adult; truly a great litrpg book. In a genre filled with a thousand lookalikes, here is something unique.

Give it a shot.
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37 reviews18 followers
September 2, 2025
Dear lord a third of this is badly formatted tables

If you like seeing table slop filler of "What in the inventory" every five pages...which irritates me as the story concept is good but this is "Game' than "Lit" for me.
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14 reviews
August 30, 2025
MC isn’t smart enough OR murder happy enough. Kill more people!
The constant repetition of inventory was awful. Thankfully continuous scroll exists.
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Author 1 book5 followers
November 29, 2025
It is what it says on the tin. Entertaining for a weeknight. Typos and character inconsistencies are distracting.
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December 25, 2025
Interesting concept

An Isekai with DND mechanics wasn't on my list, but I'm definitely sticking with this series, see where it goes from here.
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9 reviews1 follower
April 11, 2026
Forgot how much I love chaos and death. Love this book can't wait to read the next one
27 reviews
March 23, 2026
Common pitfalls but enjoyable

Overall interesting premise and story execution. Somewhat “normal” approach to an RPG with all knowing system mechanics.
Most points taken away by the attempts at inventory immersion. While managing inventory is normal in a game, reading repeated lists of the same items is very boring and tedious. Glazing over it should be required. While that was annoying, I will continue and try out book 2.
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24 reviews4 followers
November 17, 2025
This Book is NOT as it claims, a murderhobo story. "Murderhobos" loot and kill needlessly simply for the joy or increased power it brings them. As someone who has gamed for over 30 years in both Pen and paper and videogame formats, I am pretty confident in my assesment. THIS book is instead 20% Tyranical Villian diatribes, about being all-powerful, yet underappreciated, 20% MC comedy of errors and 60% OVERUSE of system / interface explinations and repetition.
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