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The Wandering Inn: Book One, Part One of Series – An Epic LitRPG Adventure of Survival and Dragons
Enter the the massive epic fantasy world created by pirateaba that has become a LitRPG sensation, now for the first time in a physical edition!
“No killing Goblins.”
So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.
It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.
In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn. She’s an [Innkeeper].
Thus starts the first volume of The Wandering Inn, an epic fantasy series filled with heart and fear, magic, dragons, and monsters, adventurers and chess players…and humans pulled from the real world into a wondrous and deadly land where the game is to survive and these new pieces could decide who’s the winner.
“No killing Goblins.”
So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.
It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.
In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn. She’s an [Innkeeper].
Thus starts the first volume of The Wandering Inn, an epic fantasy series filled with heart and fear, magic, dragons, and monsters, adventurers and chess players…and humans pulled from the real world into a wondrous and deadly land where the game is to survive and these new pieces could decide who’s the winner.
- GenresFantasy
770 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 7, 2026
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April 28, 2026
This could have been 200 pages shorter. 😅 I'm not gonna lie, the first 150 pages were so hard to get through. This book was sluggishly slow and it feels like the plot was going nowhere in the beginning. 🙃 But slowly, as slow as a snail, it moved.
Erin reminds me of Emily in Paris and that lowkey pissed me off. 🫠 "When in Rome, do as Romans do." But she insisted on sticking to what is normal for HER and never listened when people told her what was normal here. She would be a horrible tourist. She would go to Japan and force servers to accept her tips and complain there wasn't enough trash cans around. 😒 When you're in a new place, YOU need to adapt to THEM, not the other way around.
However, the world was quite interesting and the otherworldly characters were fun. 💗 Chess was a curious choice to bring in but I'm not mad at it. I think I generally had an issue with the pacing. 🥲 It was nearly 800 pages but it was a bit repetitive - Erin spares the goblins and gets attacked and almost dies. She treats them to food and gets attacked and almost dies. 🤦♀️ It was also very draggy, focusing a lot on the mundane tasks and trivial descriptions.
I picked this book up out of curiosity, but I don't think I'll read any more of this series. 🙏 But this was still kinda fun at some points.
Erin reminds me of Emily in Paris and that lowkey pissed me off. 🫠 "When in Rome, do as Romans do." But she insisted on sticking to what is normal for HER and never listened when people told her what was normal here. She would be a horrible tourist. She would go to Japan and force servers to accept her tips and complain there wasn't enough trash cans around. 😒 When you're in a new place, YOU need to adapt to THEM, not the other way around.
However, the world was quite interesting and the otherworldly characters were fun. 💗 Chess was a curious choice to bring in but I'm not mad at it. I think I generally had an issue with the pacing. 🥲 It was nearly 800 pages but it was a bit repetitive - Erin spares the goblins and gets attacked and almost dies. She treats them to food and gets attacked and almost dies. 🤦♀️ It was also very draggy, focusing a lot on the mundane tasks and trivial descriptions.
I picked this book up out of curiosity, but I don't think I'll read any more of this series. 🙏 But this was still kinda fun at some points.
Did Not Finish
May 5, 2026Errrr...LitRPG just isnt for me. And I can imagine this book gets better, but it isn't my cup of tea
May 7, 2026
ehhh
This book was slightly interesting but not enough. It moved at a snails pace, and everything bad seems to happen to the main character. The book also switches perspectives from character to character with no warning or headings, so I would think I was reading about one character when it was in fact another. It also randomly introduces a character 50 percent within the book doesn’t explain the persons purpose and just continues with the main character afterwards. I just don’t understand this book at all. The main character isn’t even enjoyable. There’s nothing wandering about the inn and she does very little in keeping at all. Mostly wandering around facing various issues. It was a chore to get through.
This book was slightly interesting but not enough. It moved at a snails pace, and everything bad seems to happen to the main character. The book also switches perspectives from character to character with no warning or headings, so I would think I was reading about one character when it was in fact another. It also randomly introduces a character 50 percent within the book doesn’t explain the persons purpose and just continues with the main character afterwards. I just don’t understand this book at all. The main character isn’t even enjoyable. There’s nothing wandering about the inn and she does very little in keeping at all. Mostly wandering around facing various issues. It was a chore to get through.
May 15, 2026
Bait and switch
This book series is a apparently 22 books long and the first four are available on Kindle unlimited. They're decent quality LITRPG And I felt that they were generally worth reading and I was looking forward to the fifth book. But now I see it only is available for purchase for 10 bucks. It's not worth 10 bucks. So I would recommend that you save the frustration and don't even start. I don't know if they're going to change that or they're going to just charge $10 for every book going forward. But not worth the candle.
This book series is a apparently 22 books long and the first four are available on Kindle unlimited. They're decent quality LITRPG And I felt that they were generally worth reading and I was looking forward to the fifth book. But now I see it only is available for purchase for 10 bucks. It's not worth 10 bucks. So I would recommend that you save the frustration and don't even start. I don't know if they're going to change that or they're going to just charge $10 for every book going forward. But not worth the candle.
April 26, 2026
Okay Read
It was a well written book. The main character just didn't click with me. I didn't find her actions acceptable for someone that finds themselves transported to a different world.
It was a well written book. The main character just didn't click with me. I didn't find her actions acceptable for someone that finds themselves transported to a different world.
May 3, 2026
A slow start but quickly gains steam
A friend of mine whose recommendations i trust suggested this book. The first chapter or two were slow but it quickly picked up steam and woven a really intriguing story. Im headed to book 2 now.
A friend of mine whose recommendations i trust suggested this book. The first chapter or two were slow but it quickly picked up steam and woven a really intriguing story. Im headed to book 2 now.
April 16, 2026
A 3.5 star read. Overall good but a little wordy in places. I will definitely read more!
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