All Jobs and Classes! I Just Wanted One Skill, Not Them All!:

All Jobs and Classes! I Just Wanted One Skill, Not Them All! #1

by Comedian0 L

Ludger was supposed to be just another forgotten soul, reborn into a quiet life under the care of his young mother, Elaine. With nothing but a mysterious system in his vision and the faint promise of growth, he resigned himself to learning the humble trade of cooking. Knives, fire, seasoning—his skills grew sharper than his years, but it wasn’t the power-fantasy adventure he once dreamed of. That is, until one reckless night in the tavern, when a hooded mage and a simple spell shattered the illusion of normalcy forever.

Marked by the system as a prodigy, Ludger finds himself juggling more than just knives and plates. Every Job, every Class, every Master holds a new path forward, and he refuses to let his second life waste away like his first. From kitchen tricks to forbidden magic, his journey forces him to carve out his place in a world that rewards ambition—but punishes those who rise too quickly. Allies, enemies, and masters appear in unexpected places, and Ludger soon learns that every choice he makes reshapes not only his future, but the balance of power around him.

What begins as the daily grind of a precocious child slowly transforms into the legend of a boy who refuses to follow anyone’s script but his own. With wit, stubborn pride, and the determination to never be helpless again, Ludger steps onto the path of true ascendance—one coin, one skill, and one risky gamble at a time.

Genres: Fantasy, Magic

804 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 29, 2025

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

it doesn’t make any sense

Why does the mum turn into a jealous unstable psycho when the father comes into the picture. Before that she was a likeable character who understandably was worried about being talented at magic too young. Only the plot contrivance of the mage giving his influence to protect him from being kidnapped into a noble services. But don’t worry, he still does end up serving a noble. And there are sooo many more plot contrivances. Why does he spar with Viola when he literally had a monologue of not wanting to get sucked into noble shenanigans. Multiple times even. Why does he accept the man as his father when he turns up and basically ruined his and his mum’s life by pulling them into his bad life decisions. Wowww, he turned down the deal to spar with Viola and in exchange for an education and training resources etc. Sooo independent, until he basically does all that stuff for free anyway when his father boasts about his abilities when it’s already been stated multiple times that it’s dangerous for anyone to know what he can do at that age. Yeah, undercutting the priests healing business defiantly shouldn’t have any repercussions. Is he not upset when Viola turns up with a new sword technique that he purposefully didn’t teach his son just so Viola can have a chance to beat the mc, since on even ground there’s no way she would have a chance, and even then she still loses.
The tournament is just a joke. Why are they sending a 10 and 8 year old to an under 15’s tournament. There’s no way they should win when everyone else is a noble and has similar or even better training than Viola. She should never of had a chance to win in the original singles format or the tournament anyway. If it’s a tournament held every 5 years (cba to go back and check) then I guess it maybe makes sense to send her if she wouldn’t be able to take part as 15 but there’s no way she should be able to get a good result at 10, which means there should be no point in even being there. If you can hire people to take place in the tourney then what’s even the point of a 10 year old participating. In the original format of the tournament she would have just been sitting around while the adventurers did everything for her.
Mc is bleeding sarcasm all the time and it makes him very unlikeable. I think he cares for his mum but it’s hard to tell when he’s only really worried about her not having a mental breakdown and thinks that buying her a tavern is the cure to her not missing him when her 8 year old son goes off to fight monsters and such. How is that something an 8 year would even be able to do? I have no idea. He says he wants to have a low profile and does everything to do the opposite of that. It’s actually so frustrating to read his ‘smirking’ as he plots his super secret plans when he I bet is my is dragged to do what he just said he didn’t want to do like 5 chapters ago. He allows himself to get thrown into every spotlight available and it’s always through stupid plot contrivances. Oh yes the tournament structure has been changed to duos instead of singles. How convenient. Guess the mc will just ‘have to’ get involved and everyone can be amazed at his ability while completely blowing his cover and putting the nobles attention on him, which is literally the opposite of what he wanted to do.
I kept reading because I wanted it to get better and I’m pretty sure the mum being a psycho is supposed to be funny despite it not really coming off that way. It really just makes her sound like a whiny bitch even if you call her meaning auras a jojo’s reference.
Those are mostly my gripes with the book that just kept getting in my way of enjoying it but it’s still an alright book. Father is unlikeable. Mum
Becomes unlikeable after the father is introduced. Viola is a coin flip between brat and just a 10 year old being cute. Sage is a probably the best character. The system of gaining powers through being taught things is pretty cool and really carries the book through its worst parts. It was what helped me get through the book.

[Heidi Karriker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Potential but not for me.

The story had potential but too many issues for me to enjoy.
I love litrpg books.. I'm a sucker for isekai, and leveling up but this one rubbed me wrong and I had to DNF it more than 25% of the way in. I have too many on my TBR to keep reading something I'm not enjoying.

My main problems (and not in order) are
1. Pretty sure this was written by or at least in part by AI
2. The magic system is inconsistent. The XP and logic are off like it wasn't fully fleshed out
3. Over usage of the term "Smirked"
4. I dont like the MC
5. They try to make the dad the bad guy constantly but other than being childish, not thinking things thru and sleeping around early in his life (possibility being a womanizer before) the hate is unreasonably high. If he was that bad his party would have disbanded long before. He didn't know he had a kid(s) and decided to try and take responsibility. He warned her that he had been with a lot of women and that its possible he could have other kids he didn't know about. She still accepted him. So when a kid shows up from BEFORE the dad ever met MC's mom he's the devil again and irredeemable? Even though he never new about her and sounded like he was driven away from her mom rather than running away. The MC always belittles the dad and any wisdom he tries to impart. Like it's not normal for a dad to try and teach morals?!? If you hate the guy set him free. He seems the type to send child support.

Idk if this sounds up you ally go for it.

[Neil Petersen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I want to like this book... but "smirk"

From 5 stars to 3 stars because the word "smirk," in its various forms, is used 408 times. In a 804 page book, that is more than every other page... he doesn't smile or grin... he smirks. Constantly. I don't think it's on purpose, but the main character reads like a smug little $hit. Because he is constantly smirking. I couldn't take it anymore. No matter how good the rest of the story, I don't like the image of this smug little POS constantly in my head.

[kwhgen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started off OK

Lets start by saying DNF. I got about 20% and couldn't take the MC any more. The story began as a standard reincarnation plot. Unfortunately, the MC is a sarcastic, self absorbed, narcissist.

[Fat Frog · Rating 1 out of 5]

He smirked to himself. He smirked. He smirked at his father. He smirked at his mother. He smirked. smirked smirked smirked.

Drinking game: Take a shot every time the author uses the word "smirk". You'll be dead in no time.

I ran a search for the word "smirk" it found 408 matches in the book! It hurts my brain how many times this word is used. Every time I see it I start thinking how idiotic this writing is.

Awful writing. The endless smirking that everyone does drives me crazy, but it isn't the only issue.

The main character is not likable. He's just a douchebag who cares about no one but himself.

The douchebag MC keeps shitting on his father for no reason. The MC's father didn't know his mother was pregnant when he left the town. He constantly gets called a deadbeat by the MC, but it makes no sense. He was never a deadbeat, and he immediately started supporting the family once he knew his son existed.

The MC has access to multiple adventurers, friends of his dad, who he could use to teach him a gigantic multitude of skills. He learns the skills after seeing them only once. WHY WOULD HE NOT GET EVERYONE TO SHOW HIM ALL THEIR SKILLS? He gains stats from leveling these skills. To take advantage of his stupidly powerful ability, he would level everything that is easy to level. He's so into money and power, yet he just doesn't take advantage of this?

Too annoyed to continue

DNF 21%

[Camren Tinker · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reads like it was written by AI

I’m a fan of AI, truly. It is quite helpful. But I only made it 5% into the book before I had to put it down. Things don’t connect well. The perspective shifts from first person to third. The descriptive details are.. off.

It also reads like an AI is doing the writing while the author tries to put all the pieces together. It looks like a puzzle where all the pieces are just a bit wrong. It’s fine at first, but it gets worse the more you look at it.

If you’re going to use AI in your writing, use it as an editor or bounce ideas off of it. Do the writing yourself. Otherwise the voice we hear while reading, arguably one of the best parts of reading an author’s writings, will just be GPT.

[That Guy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ai slop or an author with zero life experience

From page 1 the story makes obvious logic mistakes that 99% of human beings would notice.
City Buses don't use seatbelts, swaddled babies can't wave their arms around, toddlers are not physically capable of busing tables or carrying on conversations like an adult.... The whole story is filled with nonsense like this. On top of that the humor is abysmal and references pop culture from decades ago. It's obvious this was written by AI or someone with little to no life experience who never leaves the house.

[Kawana Wallace · Rating 1 out of 5]

AI slop

Reads like AI slop. Repeating phrases, lack of depth, forgetting details and characters. Very little story and next to no fantasy. The MC smirks multiple times in each scene and that's the only emotion he shows. I can't stand the amount of gaslighting, emotional and physical abuse, and general lack of character growth in this story.

[Christopher Gary · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book has to be written by ai. it has so many inconsistencies and horrible character development. this book is absolute trash. there is no way this book is rated 4.4 stars. obviously this has been manipulated.

[Andrew G · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some good ideas. but very poorly executed.

I am hesitant to criticize this book too hard. I can tell it’s the author’s first book. A lot of authors, whose series I have come to love or enjoy, started with relatively or even outright weak first novels. And I like a lot of the ideas and framework of this story. But… it fails in almost every other way as a story. Numerous writing traps, terrible pacing, bizarre and inconsistent world building and magic system, poorly explored characters, a directionless plot, mostly training-related and repetitive combat, and no real payoffs. But worst of all, it’s persistently and unforgivably BORING.

As to what I like about this book. Even though the magic system quirk of this series, that being the MC seems to be the only one with a system and so can gain xp and classes and whatnot, and the reincarnation arc are wholly derived from well known manga and manhwa series, I still find those choices good foundations for a progression series. Virtually everything is derivative in this genre after all. I also don’t mind the idea of world building and unfolding of the magic system more organically, along with the character, with less exposition.

But the execution of all of this is honestly about as bad as I’ve ever seen in the dozens of series I have read or sampled. It is obvious the author could not afford professional editing. And this is clear because he has only made the first one into an audiobook, despite having five or six ebooks published, reflecting those financial constraints.

The book’s pacing is criminally boring. The things the author spends detail on make no sense. For example after each fight in the tournament, we are given detailed reactions of every major or minor character in attendance and various audience factions. We invest all this time in this tournament, in the long-winded and repetitive narratives of describing each fight, despite most being the same tactics and outcomes, and then we don’t even get to see who wins. Because the author rug pulls at the end. Before the tournament, it’s established noble girls aren’t usually trained in magic, but they face noble girls in the tournament. In the tournament the MC laments his sister always boasts, never strategizes and always charges in despite literally in the previous fight doing exactly those things! How is does the author not notice this?

This is just one escapade in this story, and I barely touched on its numerous faults, there are a few episodes, but a majority of the story is about training and family drama. The tournament episode illustrates the lack of comprehension of the author as to why we read these series, what distinguishes bad from good and good from great. He both makes what should be fun boring and weird and then also robs us of any payoffs for the time we’ve invested in reading his story.

Another example is the confounding family dynamics. He’s raised by a single mother until the age of four. But she has no other family in town? Not a single friend? Did she have to move when she got pregnant out of shame? Never explained. Eventually his Dad randomly shows up (didn’t know he’d made a baby). This turns into the bizarre reconciling with MC’s mother that seems like she’s just deciding to allow him to be involved in the MC’s life but turns out they’re romantically reconciling? That didn’t follow from the story on the page at all. This is sloppiness. In the author’s mind this was what was happening but he forgot to write it that way so it comes across as out of the blue and confusing to those without his image of what’s happening in our heads.

The world building is bizarre and inconsistent. We very gradually learn MC’s new world is one of nobles and city-states with relative autonomy and some empire at the center, though I have no idea how it’s governed, that’s never explained. Nor is there ever any indication of who rules the city MC hails from. I could cite numerous other issues like this but I’ll spare you. There’s usually no environmental descriptions, but then randomly there will be? As if the author remembers now and then to describe the surroundings, but he does so in the most banal of ways. Lots of “sunlight” and “sweat” and whatnot. Another brief example is it’s established how important it is for MC to keep his abilities secret lest he be scooped up or eliminated by powerful people. But then he regularly disregards this despite the author spending so much time reminding us of the dangers. It’s like what’s the point? It’s just manufactured stakes that have no bite because the author never writes consequences for them.

There’s no explanation for the economy of the city or the empire, of who is hiring adventurers and where the money comes from. Just so many glaring holes. I could go on forever like he does and yet somehow never mention so many basic things about his fictional world.

The characters aren’t totally flat, that’s a plus, but none are likable other than the mother who is constantly demonized by the MC and author for daring to care about her son. The MC seems wholly disinterested in anything about the world or the people in it other than his magical growth and doing whatever he must to facilitate that. Well maybe he also enjoys judging other people, I should give him credit (?) for that. He’s also the smartest and wisest and most mature kid to ever live, and we are reminded of this constantly. I find the MC to be over-idealized to the point of being sociopathic. He’s never wrong. He never once makes a single mistake of any consequence. He’s incredibly driven but there’s no explanation for this character trait as it doesn’t reflect his previous life. And that’s another confusing issue as supposedly he wants his new life to be something different than the corporate grind of his earth life, yet he was 22 when he died. How long did he work in corporate? A few months?

I also don’t understand his apathy towards his parents. He never seems to appreciate his parents whatsoever, it’s more like he tolerates them and handles them. But then we meet his half sister who also has potential? So he’s not unique? But she’s got issues he judges her for. He doesn’t show the slightest bit of empathy for her situation, she’s just drama to him. He even refers to his mother by her first name in his thoughts, but sometimes not. Same with his father.

So I find the MC to be difficult to relate to. His indifference is bizarre because the author writes the other characters and their situations which should inspire a bit of empathy to be able to understand their flaws, but the MC never makes the connection. So I cannot for the life of me comprehend what the author is doing here. Is this set up for future character development? Something tells me it’s not, but can’t be sure.

Also why is he so young in this book? It makes no sense for a seven year old to be going into dungeons, sorry “labyrinths”, much less fighting in tournaments with kids twice his age or literally killing people. What’s the point of this age for the author in this story? Sure, I guess he could make it work in context, but why? It’s just weird. It’s weird that his sister’s assassin maid is 12 years old. Why? Child labor is a thing? There’s no schools for kids. No education is even attempted on the MC. He’s never taught to read yet he knows how? Everyone can read but there’s no schools? MC also has no friends who are children. Zero. No friends at all actually.

As I stated, I don’t mind the slow unveiling of the magic system as the MC discovers it, but it’s done in such a repetitive and poorly-paced manner. I still don’t understand exactly how his all the classes thing works. Does he have to switch between them? It’s stated he does but he never does so in combat a single time. Does he keep the stat boosts from other classes? Never said. Just sloppy. And that’s the way combat is in this series. Mostly training, mostly unsatisfying as MC is always hiding his skills. And it’s also weird because he’s a second grader.

As for payoffs, I think the criminally boring pace makes whatever happens need to be exceptionally spectacular to salvage and of course it never comes close if not out right not happening at all, like with the tournament. So I’d say payoffs are big miss.

I have to mention before I wrap up the numerous writing traps. I’ve covered some of them: the over-idealized MC, the lack of bite for contrived stakes, the plot armor protecting even the side characters, the contradictions from one chapter to the next, and so on. Another glaring trap is the author’s repeated word use and phrases such as “smirk/smirking” (408 times), “burn/burning” (204 times), “ache/aching” (149 times). If you had to play the drinking game, it would be fatal.

But the worst is the meandering perspective styles. For the first third of this book, the perspective is third person but only focused on the main character. When we first get another perspective, it’s jarring but not out of the realm of possibility. Then later we move into third person omniscient, where we get thoughts from different characters IN THE SAME SCENE, switching back and forth within the same page with no traditional breaks. I don’t have a problem with any perspective style, but I do have a problem switching between them. This is an egregious oversight.

As long as this review is, I still feel like I barely scratched the surface with the issues. I tried to summarize them the best I can without professional editing, by giving an overview and a few examples, but I’m sure I’ve missed a lot. So why give this two stars? Because I think there is potential here. I believe wholeheartedly the author probably needs professional help to get there, and am skeptical he will without it, but I’m interested enough in the premise to at least give the second book a shot. So… I will, and I’ll let you know how that goes.

Never mind, I read the reviews, dropping this series.

[F. C. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poorly written, with an unpleasant protagonist

The protagonist of this book (whose title doesn’t fit the plot particularly well) is a remarkably self-centered jerk. His primary interest is in achieving power. The only other character with whom he has any kind of positive relationship is his mother— the author has written the boy’s father as completely irresponsible, and the other adult characters are cardboard-thin.

The author has a thug for the verb “to smirk”, perhaps not realizing its negative connotations. The protagonist is constantly smirking, and everyone else smirks as well. The effect is that the story’s protagonist comes off as irritating, smug, and conceited— and he’s supposed to be the hero.

There are too many nonsensical statements, perhaps due to the author trying to sound poetic or something. When he writes, “Steel backs stiffen,” I wondered just what was stiffer than steel. When he wrote, “The clearing snapped alive the moment Viola steadied her stance,” I wondered how a clearing could snap. When Lord Torvares looked at the group, “and Cor adjusted his spectacles as if facts alone could deflect scrutiny,” I wondered what unnamed facts he was talking about. And so on, and on.

The book, up until page 368, is written in the third person. It then switches into the first person for no apparent reason, switching back again four pages later.

I got through slightly more than half the book before giving up. It just wasn’t worth the effort, I’m sorry to say.

Not recommended.

[Evan · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book itself is tolerable, though the main character's swlf deprication is infuriating at times, but the constant switching between third and first person makes it unreadable. Whoever edited this needs to be fired.

[Joel Renzano · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is gonna be a rant so I’ll just leave a quick summary up here. There was so much potential here and the only reason this isn’t a one star is because I’m honestly hoping the author does better in the next book. I get what they were trying to do and the vision was there but it’s like they lost the plot and kept trying to remember it. I mean I see the writer tried to write a powerful mc who laughs in the face of danger and challenges making jokes through out it. Instead they wrote themselves into a corner almost every chapter with how powerful they made the mc and made changes on the fly. I mean this was just…it was a disappointment. I mean right off the start the Mc figures out he has a system and he goes “[i hope I get a skill, I just want one I don’t need them all]”. I mean seriously! I get you like the name of your novel and wanna integrate it in the story but jeez that was just so cringe. And it doesn’t stop there. The entire book is just filled with cringe moments where the Mc comes off as a self entitled jack ass who’s obsessed with himself and acts as though the entire world is a novel written for his convenience [smirk] ugh. I’d like to see someone do a work count and see how many times smirk/smirking was used. It’s like someone described to the author what Jason asano is like and the author put that info into an ai program to spit out the Mc’s personality. And it’s not just that. The entire story is filed with moments where it’s seems like it was ai written if not ai paraphrased. The inconsistency in the magic system and how xp works is ridiculous. He learns knife handling from his mother as a baby just from being in the same room as her while not even paying attention and yet through the rest of the book he needs someone to genuinely teach him something in order to learn the skill or pick up the job?. It’s like the author started writing the story and realized the Mc was becoming to op and had nothing to challenge him so they made something up halfway. This only gets worse as through out the story the Mc is made out to be training skills in secret, “honing a knife in the dark that no one will see” and in the same friggin chapter he’s showing that same knife off in a spar, not a fight a spar with his sister. His sister who he’s beaten over and over again while giving the impression he was barely trying and now all over sudden because she learned one new skill it means the Mc needs to reveal his hidden cards. If skills were that immortant then the Mc shouldn’t be able to win against the people he has then, since they had more and better skills for combat than he did. Once again it’s like the author wrote himself into a corner with how ridiculously powerful they tried to make the Mc seem and decide to pull a challenge out of thin air by writing in the half-sister, a character close in age who somehow has the same advantages as someone in their second life with a system that allows them to learn skills with a look (at least in the beginning of the book) and practices three times as hard as them. Then there’s the mother, I get the jojo references but it’s like copy and paste with the sentences everytime she’s made out to be in a bad mood [insert menacing image or spectral warrior with a pan and apron here]. Then there’s the father. The Mc treats him like an imbecile ignoring all his teachings and wisdom he tries to pass down. I mean sure I get it. The Mc is a reincarnated male who’s older than his father so he feels like he had nothing to learn from him. But the father doesn’t know that and yet the Mc seems to hold it against him. If u don’t want hear about lessons on being a man then ask questions about the world I mean you could learn about geography and all the different powers mana and political wise. Instead they keep making him out to be a villain just because he made mistakes when he was younger and when you realize his barely 20 then it’s just ridiculous how they make him seem like a bad person who abandoned his child and girl when he didn’t even know about it in the first place. And that goes for both cases. The man repented and is trying to do right by both his kids even tho he obviously favors one heavily he’s still there and trying for both of them and yet at every turn they make him out to be an imbecile for his teenage mistakes. Then there’s the fact that the Mc seems to be inconsistent in his feelings for his father. He’s stronger than his parents and yet he goes along with their every whim and let them treat him like a child when he doesn’t need to. I understand filets and obeying your parents and so it makes sense with how he acts towards his mother but with how much he seems to despise his father and holds no respect for him whatsoever it makes no sense why he acts like he has no other choice. Again it’s like the author didn’t know how write a relationship dynamic between a complicated family and so he used real world examples and went with it which makes no sense in a work where other factors like strength and magic exist. I don’t know if the author used AI to make changes or if they used AI to write it then made changes but either this was written by someone who didn’t care about the quality of their work or by someone who hit their head and got retrograde amnesia every chapter and couldn’t remember what they were writing.

[J Duehring · Rating 1 out of 5]

What??

Read about thirty pages, absolute waste of my time. Having been an avid reader of fantasy, sci-fi, and historical fiction for more than sixty years I wonder why this was published. So sad.

[Heather Pedersen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Stopped reading in the middle

I found I could no longer deal with the discrepancies, inconsistencies, illogical story arcs and lack of any expressions besides smirking.

[Steven Tapp · Rating 1 out of 5]

AI

This reads like it was written by an AI in one of the adventure ai games. Things aren’t consistent etc

[Ryan Hamilton · Rating 3 out of 5]

The word of the day is SMIRK...

I have 3 criticisms of this book. I definitely have more but these 3 are the biggest.

#1 is EVERYONE smirks, that's all they do in this book. No one beams, No one grins, They sure as hell don't smile, they SMIRK... The word is used 408 times! Pretty sure that's about once a page.

#2 Ludger (and no I'm not criticizing the name but I totally could) should be a little older. A child that's a toddler to 8yo would draw SOOOOOO MUCH attention acting and talking like this. While talking about not wanting to draw attention to himself this 7yo goes to fight on the front lines? The book cover shows someone who's at least a teenager. I get that people are a lot younger in this book but when Ludger is 7 his mom is 20 and is talking to him about worrying he'll knock up some girl like his dad? And we are not talking years from now... Thank God sex is not a focus in this book. Also when he was 5 his dad was around 21... It's just weird.

I really do like LITRPGs but, and this is a criticism of the genre as a whole there's a lot of children being put into NON CHILD appropriate situations. If it was ages 10+ adventuring would be fine. (Look at the harry potter series) Who didn't dream of going on an epic adventure at that age. But come on Toddlers do not lead Parties of preteen adventurers across continents on epic adventures and kill assassins in the dead of night.

#3 There is a little too much hate on the dad. He had no idea he had a kid and when he found out he owned up to it and took care of business. He says since he didn't know about the 1 there might be others, then we find out about another from before he even knew Ludger's mom and he's treated like a cheater? Even though it seems like they aren't even together after he comes back into her life. I got the impression he had his own room and his own bed when his party alludes to it at the dungeon. Is he immature? Yes. Is he irresponsible? In some ways yes. But seriously how many 20yo's in that situation wouldn't have been. Then when he finds out he has children he goes out of his way to be there for them. To teach them the ONLY skill he knows. and he is treated like garbage for it. How many free spirited womanizing 20 somethings can you name, who if they found out they had a family they never knew about. Would go into massive debt to buy a house with land and have them move in with him then stick around even though they treat him poorly.

All that being said this is not the worst thing I've read that may have been written by AI. Lets hope #2 has less smirking.

Update in book 2 someone actually grins...

[Alisha Rowe · Rating 3 out of 5]

This review was originally posted at https://tinyurl.com/yjdfkx8e.











After dying, Ludger is reborn into a quiet, rural life—with a system no one else seems to have. He retains all memories from his past life and begins leveling up at an unusually young age. Determined to build a stable future for himself and his mother without drawing dangerous attention, Ludger focuses on controlled growth, careful planning, and skill acquisition. What could possibly go wrong?
I strongly suspect this book is at least AI-assisted, if not fully AI-written. There really should be clearer disclaimers for AI-generated books. While it could be poor writing, the inconsistencies push me toward the AI explanation. The title itself is misleading—it implies Ludger doesn’t want to collect every class, yet throughout this nearly 800-page book, he repeatedly seeks out new masters specifically to gain more skills and abilities.

Taken in broad strokes, the story is decent. A man dies in his twenties and is reincarnated into a world filled with labyrinths (their term for dungeons), fantastical creatures, and no modern conveniences. He keeps his memories and gains a passive leveling system that activates whenever he’s taught by someone skilled. Determined to make this life better than his last, Ludger devotes himself to leveling every skill he can find. The premise works—but the execution makes it a difficult read.

The biggest issue is consistency. Errors repeatedly pulled me out of the story—most notably Viola’s grandfather being incorrectly referred to as Ludger’s grandfather multiple times, despite them not being related at all. These kinds of mistakes add up and seriously hurt immersion.

⚠️ Spoiler Warning:

The book ends on a clear cliffhanger, with Ludger (now 7) and his half-sister Viola (12) walking into a battlefield camp, where they’re confronted by her grandfather and their father. I don’t personally feel this ruins the story, but I’m flagging it just in case.

If this book were rewritten—by a human—I’d be more than willing to continue the series. As it stands, I don’t plan to read further.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

All Jobs and classes is a (somewhat) interesting story, although there's a mountain of inconsistencies in the story, I know many readers really don't care about those kinds of things, and if you're one of those, then you're likely to thoroughly enjoy this story. On the other hand, if consistency is your bread and butter, this story is going to make you want to pull your hair out many times. On the other hand though, it's a fairly decent story, I can't argue with that, and so I will read the next one in the series, just to see where the story goes. If it continues to be engrossing, I will likely read the rest of the series, but if not, then the second book is probably where I'll stop reading this one. For what it's worth, the title is a big fat lie, there's absolutely no indication anywhere in the story that the main character only wanted one of anything, so no clue why there's this extended length title that tries to establish the plot and fails right out of the gate, so ignore the title, it isn't the least bit descriptive of the actual story, which is the very first thing that made me think the story wasn't going to be very good. Fortunately, I do think the story was a decent one, even if it's named wrong, has enough inconsistencies you could build an entire story out of them by themselves, and characters that tend to change their minds based on which way the wind is blowing, but still, even with all of that, the story still turns out to be a decent one, which is why I'll read the next one before making the read/noread decision on the rest of the series.

[Cmoore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best evarrr! Definitely a perfect read!

Ohhhh! Wow! Best book evarrr!!! I loved this book right from the get go! From the moment he saved everyone on the bus and his prize for being the hero of the moment was being Reborn into a world that had a system, as baby Ludger with all his memories, to a mother who was both cook and mentor. Ludger hoped that he would be able to do flashy magic, but no such luck. His first skill was knife handling but as a three year old how would he ever get his hands on a knife? So he had to be sneaky to level up... and that's exactly what he did. Then one night in the tavern his mom and he worked in, he met a mage who showed him a magic skill and he not only understood the skill he could copy it instantly. That night he realized that all he has to do was to see a skill once and wow history 😳 I think he's 5 now!?!
So yeah, get the book to see what happens when he's 8!!! Ohhhh and you better believe, I'm gonna delve into the next action-packed litRPG adventure since it's available!

Here's a couple three quotes:

“Six months in, and nothing,” Ludger thought, glaring at his empty status window. “No new class, no new job, no miracle skill like ‘Fireball for Infants’ or ‘Baby Martial Arts.’

"Seriously? Out of all possible starting skills, fireballs, mana bolts, shadow steps, the universe gives me knife safety training? What am I supposed to do, julienne my enemies?"

“You broke my sword!” Ludger held up the splintered end, expression flat. “Correction. I stopped you from splitting my skull. The sword just didn’t survive the negotiation.”

[Mark · Rating 1 out of 5]

Barely March and we have a front runner for Worst of the Year!

Awful writing - I think very likely much it was AI generated. Multiple words used as if the author doesn't know what they mean. Repetition - sentences and event just repeated a page later. Bizarre inconsistencies - Ex1: a carriage is driving down a road and the horses are walking on dirt while the wheels are rolling over cobblestones, Ex2: the surface of an arena changes from paragraph to paragraph into stone/dirt/sand, Ex3: a person in a conversation just seconds later is in a completely different location. The use of phrases like "at first" and "for the first time" that almost always describe things that have happened multiple times before. I could go on and on. And on.

And I will. The seven year old protagonist Lifts An Opponent In The Air By Their Own Spear and the audience goes "wow, look at that defense". Then in a later match someone going "wow, how could we know this child is super strong." A long looong set up about how healing powers are super rare and the protagonist has to hide them, followed by finding out they aren't rare, also followed by the protagonist Setting Up A Business using healing powers. In fact countless times of the protagonist saying how important it is to hide his power and then ... never hiding them. Bizarre character traits, like one guy who always laughs. "A dozen school children died of botulism. Harold laughed." sort of thing. And just having a 4-8 year old protagonist in the first place!

I was actually thinking about turning this review into a "what do you think: AI or human?" quiz, but I just hate this book so much it isn't worth the effort.

[Tom Petersen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A whole lot of smirking going

Seriously, everyone is smirking 24/7. It gets annoying quickly. But not as annoying as...just about everything else in the book.
Every character is hollow and has no real personality. Except for being kind of unpleasant and annoying, but not enough to be interesting.
Up to 50% the book was nothing but a training montage. The closest thing to action is a dungeon encounter with some goblins that could be summed up with one sentence. "And they won easily."
I can't say what happens after 50%, because that's where I gave up. And I can't believe I stuck with it that long. I kept waiting for something to happen, really anything as long as it was interesting.
Now the least believable thing in the whole book is that little Luddy at 6 would be a challenge to a veteran adventurer who is supposed to be excellent at fighting. Short arms and legs, low body mass. I've done some competitive fighting and know for certain that if you are fighting someone a third of your weight with shorter limbs, and you have years more experience, you would just plow them over. He does not have super human ability so just let the experienced fighter beat him easily when she uses her true ability.
I give this book a legitimate 2 star rating, but unless it's truly awful or offensive I give an extra star to counter the amazon algorithm. I can't recommend. Tom out

[MyDoRyS · Rating 1 out of 5]

My reviews are my own. If you liked this book or not, I respect your opinion.  This is merely my opinion, so let's keep it courteous. My review is honest and voluntary.

It was fun and interesting until the whole politics nobles family crap. I do not get why the MC's mom even stayed with the moron, useless man. I would have put my son as a priority and sent them to hell. Also, the bastard kid was a total ass. I don't understand why they even allowed her to come close to him. Even if she lost her mother, there is no excuse for her to be a total witch. I lost interest at this point. I hate nobles and anything related to their bitchiness. I thought this book was going to be about adventure, and all I have gotten is BS and more BS caused by the adults in his life. Then he ends up taking care of their problems. I would have escaped or asked my mom to do the same. The dad is also a total useless bastard doormat. Again, I have no idea why they would want someone like him around. Then, when the competition starts, it is just a back-and-forth to see who has the biggest penis, so immature. Dropping the series.

Summary:
Psycho Mother
Slutty Doormat Good-for-Nothing Father
Politics Noble BS

On to my next adventure, Happy Readings!!!

[Ethan Benton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Both Interesting and Slightly Disappointing

I’m a sucker for Isekai especially if the character has a tragic/ heroic ending/beginning to their new life. Now I’m also all about continuity. I have a question about the characters, what color are their eyes (brown, green, silver, red…) do they change? Same thing with hair, brown or red or somewhere in between? Also just because you randomly suddenly exist in someone’s life and are a half sibling it doesn’t mean you call their grandparents your grandparents, and they don’t call your mom mom on reflex. The whole assassin thing seemed like poor writing like it was added in for a class, plot wise it’s ok just seemed sloppy and jostled. Is one person truly trying to cover up that she’s more than a maid or not. Also the whole scaling with punching and kicking and leveling wasn’t discussed in detail, the mc should probably have been way more op, and his personal level is still very low. Also these jobs and classes, classes are covered, jobs not at all, why? Another thing let’s get a class and skill that are just to run, now everyone else can also run and keep up with you for no reason. Also also Mc is hiding his strength, but is he really? I still kinda liked it, but really started to taper off after the tournament.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good promise that seemed to drag further along...

Story had a good start and it alluded to multiple classes, multiple skills, interesting magic and a system for growing. However it quickly lost the LITRPG and seemed to focus more on the constant training grind rather than the earning of new skills and new classes. We were promised MC who had multiple classes yet he seemed to stick with only one style of fighting, he unlocks multiple magics both elemental and non elemental and he sticks with only one spell when he has multiple. It's the same for his fighting style, he sticks with one style, fists, rather than using any manner of weapons. Also the smirking, once in a while is fine but for every page for 800+ pages it seriously was too much. Overall a dire need for an editor and some actual fantasy to go with a what amounts to a weak power up training montague that goes into the details rather than spares the reader.

On the fence of book 2, read if you enjoy constant training and little magic otherwise you may just skip 2/3rds of the book if you are looking for a story.

[Richard P · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good but has lots of problems

This was a good book but it has lots of problems. The first and something that continues through the whole book is that time goes by very slowly. Many chapters only cover 1/2 all the way up to 1 whole day, sometimes not even that much. I am not sure if the author is going for an Enders Game vibe where it is the children that save the world but it does not have the same vibe.

The mother of the male MC is 100% mentally ill. At the start she was a normal mom but after maybe 5 chapters the author has her acting in ways that show massive amounts of mental illness. Only at the very end of the book does the author allow her sanity again and have her show normal amounts of emotion.

The way the book ended did not encourage me to want to move on to the next book. The author kept having the children MCs make bad decisions and hope that adults will play along with those decisions. The last 30 pages were such a slog to read. I almost gave up but pressed on hoping it would end in a way that would entice me to want a second book. But no it ended on a flat note that did not pull any emotion out of me.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Long and mostly uneventful

The beginning starts out fantastic. Quick paced and energetic, than suddenly the story becomes long and drawn out. Contrary to what the book describes, this is a story of a precocious kid who is the only one it seems with a system that allows him to instantly learn a skill if shown by a "master." Ludger picks up different skills that round his abilities out but most of the book is long, and tedious might be the only word I can come up with.

The main character is literally surrounded by families with extreme personalities. An over protective and arguably overbearing mother, A flighty father who takes almost nothing seriously, and a noble half sister who is hot headed and takes after the father in that she never thinks about her actions before she acts.

Most of the book I kept hoping the father would just die, he has the type of personality that drives me nuts.

And most of the book is watching Ludger train.

Good luck and have fun!!

[Michael Marciano · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's readable but the stories just bad

I really wanted to like this story and the setup is not inherently bad but the storytelling just isn't good. There's constant inconsistencies and things that don't make sense. Eventually there's a tournament and you're watching the protagonist fight in the tournament and this kid has a bag full of tricks and basically he just stands there and let someone wail on him with his sword while blocking with arm guards. He doesn't throw a punch he doesn't try to kick he does nothing.. it's just so out of character for the character that it just makes you shake your head and you're like what's going on. This is not the first time that happens in the story it's pretty consistent where these these situations where the author just rims the situation down your throat because they want it and they don't actually finesse it into the story in any way.

[Bert Babb · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was really an excellent book. well written and engaging from beginning to end.

The MC dies and gets isekaied into the body of a newborn baby, but with his adult memories intact. Its difficult because as a babe he can barely move in random ways. As he grows, he unlocks a system that allows him to see a technique and learn it. Its broken, though the person he learns from must have mastery of the technique. This advantage is significant. Bu age 3 he unlocks magic and soon afterwards finds mentors to guide him on his path to be not a hero, but a thoughtful man who thinks deeply before taking action.

The story is quite thoughtful as the MC must hide his prowess while attracting those who can help him grow into different classes. By the time he is 8 he’s a known prodigy in his town, but trouble finds him in the form of his deadbeat adventurer father and then his noble half-sister. The world will never be the same.

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

He was a looser in 1st life, and he is extremely self-absorbed in 2nd. He really doesn't interact with anyone except those he can use. He popped in just after birth and by age 8 he hadn't cared or have ever had love for his Mom, just worried about how her actions would effect his life. If you think about how Nobles are mostly thought of, times that arrogance and looking down on others by 3 and you have the MC. Later on in the story and the MC meets his half sister, his thoughts about her are not good and everything he complains about her, he does just as much if not more. The more I read the book the more I hated the MC. Most of the other characters I could deal with, most I liked a lot. Not all of them would I want to be around, but you could see why they act like they do and see how they are true to their profession.