My name is Max Boss, and I used to be a video game streamer, but now I’m dead.
One stupid deer in the road, and I wake up in the pitch-black darkness of a freaking coffin to discover my afterlife is some kind of crazy, video-game-style fantasy world.
What’s even more nuts is that I’ve been given super stats for seemingly no reason.
Now I have to decide how I’m going to use the powerful glitch that’s been given to me, but all my plans change when a beautiful woman begs for help to save her city and her sister from the evil clutches of a vampire king and his army of thralls. It's an impossible quest, especially for someone low level, but this world is about to find out what an accidentally overpowered nerd like me can do.
Started good and was enjoying the story. Then the Author teamed the MC up with the Stupidest, Total Liability character in the book. You Know The One. The fool who always bumbles, brags, and buffoons the MC into one mess after another. The guy with no worth or good qualities. That the MC is forced, by the Author, to carry on his back like a millstone for No reason except to move the story along. I have found this is a hallmark of a crappy writer and these books always disappoint. That is why a stopped reading this waste of time book and can not recommend it to anyone.
Did not finish. Made it to the 30% mark and then realized the most annoying character I'd seen in a novel in as long as I can remember was going to be a permanent fixture. Could not stomach the thought so had to bounce.
Quite disappointing as it seemed to be written fairly well, and I enjoyed the world that was being built well enough. The side character that shouldn't have been there and the MC's decision to immediately go down the party route after deciding multiple times to not do so just wore me out.
I know it’s a book, it has words in it. Shocker. But it feels like the author is just stretching out his word count by adding unnecessary descriptions and veracity almost like he wrote the main text and that had AI just stretch it by 20%. I made it 30% of the way through the book and nothing’s really happened. It’s just slugging along. The side characters are just tropes and not well done tropes that are fun, even if stock. Well spell checked. Good layout. Solid chapter breaking. Just no zing in the story.
It stared out pretty much like most of the genre. The MC was likable and the setting was good. The writing was also well done. My issue is it was too game like. Stiff NPCs, crafting stations, turning in quests. The characters were literally in a game, not a game like setting. It removes 90% of the MCs self determination.
This wasn’t a bad book per se, but it features one of the most irritating characters I have ever had the displeasure of reading about. I don’t know why Chad needed to be one of the primary party members when he had such a genuinely unpleasant personality. Bleh. It’s a shame because everything else was pretty good, especially the action scenes in the beginning and end.
Put it down, as soon as the Mc became obsessed with the first girl he sees that's not an npc. I was already annoyed at the side character Chad, and the mcs unwillingness to establish boundaries, despite his intentions to go at it alone.
That was fun. It was nice to see an abducted gamer just get on with the game. None of the usual my life is over vascilation. Stayed interesting all the way throughout. The epilogue was looking really great until the last page.