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I Got the Weakest Class, So I Built the Strongest Inn: Monster Stew and Other Bad Ideas
He survived the goblin raid. Now he has to survive the health inspector.
Matthias Bauer, former Stuttgart baker and current [Innkeeper], has successfully defended his establishment and completed his grand opening. But in the frontier town of Oakhaven, the real monsters wear velvet doublets and carry bureaucratic clipboards.
Zum Goldenen Krug is booming. Thanks to Matthias’s uncompromising German efficiency and a domesticated Dungeon Heart functioning as a magical refrigeration system, he is turning lethal monster parts into highly sought-after buff food. From explosive Goblin Pepper Stew to agility-boosting Blue Slime Götterspeise, his optimized menu is keeping adventurers alive and his iron lockbox full.
But a booming business breeds enemies. The corrupt Merchant Guild wants to control his supply chain, sending thugs and health inspectors to shut his sanctuary down. Worse, a bitter rival tavern owner challenges Matthias to a high-stakes, public cook-off in the town square.
Armed with perfectly drafted contracts, flawless sanitation protocols, and his fiercely loyal foxkin head waitress Liska, Matthias is about to teach the frontier a lesson. In a world obsessed with swords and spells, true power comes from a perfectly organized kitchen.
Matthias Bauer, former Stuttgart baker and current [Innkeeper], has successfully defended his establishment and completed his grand opening. But in the frontier town of Oakhaven, the real monsters wear velvet doublets and carry bureaucratic clipboards.
Zum Goldenen Krug is booming. Thanks to Matthias’s uncompromising German efficiency and a domesticated Dungeon Heart functioning as a magical refrigeration system, he is turning lethal monster parts into highly sought-after buff food. From explosive Goblin Pepper Stew to agility-boosting Blue Slime Götterspeise, his optimized menu is keeping adventurers alive and his iron lockbox full.
But a booming business breeds enemies. The corrupt Merchant Guild wants to control his supply chain, sending thugs and health inspectors to shut his sanctuary down. Worse, a bitter rival tavern owner challenges Matthias to a high-stakes, public cook-off in the town square.
Armed with perfectly drafted contracts, flawless sanitation protocols, and his fiercely loyal foxkin head waitress Liska, Matthias is about to teach the frontier a lesson. In a world obsessed with swords and spells, true power comes from a perfectly organized kitchen.
368 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 16, 2026
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July 23, 2026
This is a fun read I did enjoy reading it BUT It is a very messy read It has a tendency to time skip A LOT
The first chapter or so takes place a week after the goblin raid in the last book and then it cuts back to the day after the raid and then jumps forward to few days after the raid
Or another part where it jumps forward on matthias's work through his making his magical stew and then suddenly cuts towards something evil looking at his in and then cuts back before that to a cooking competition and then jumps towards a bunch of monsters surrounding the end and then jumps back towards preparation for the cooking competition
These jumps wouldn't be so bad but none of them are an ending chapter and then skip it's skips are pretty abrupt and a little hard to pinpoint exactly the timeline of what's going on
Another issue is that It will have a scene and then suddenly reverse backwards and rewrite the scene A good example is several times towards the end of the book during the cooking competition
It starts with kaelen The competitor chef insisting that he is making cloud ray and then by the time they get to the judging the cloud ray has turned into wyvern steak and potatoes The judging happens the stew is amazing it has vitality things with the extra ingredients that have been added it heals the local Lord who was one of the judges the wolves howl just before they announced the winner and then it immediately jumps back in time to the beginning of the competition to where the competitor chef is now preparing a pheasant and the judges that were before Lord varek health inspector Thorne and the mayor are now guildmaster Thorne a lady I've never heard of and a local bureaucrat I've also never heard of
And then instead of the wolves howling like they did in the last chapter to announce their presents It is suddenly rewritten that there's hundreds of them in the woods and the alert bell is going off and they attack the town Matthias starts rounding everybody up to run to the inn and he's deflecting people and the competitor chef is hiding under a cabbage cart and isn't coming with and their struggle with to take the stew and make it back to the end and then the The next chapter starts all the way beginning at the wolf attack with a completely different style of scramble to the end with Matthias fighting off wolves and bring the competitor chef along
It describes said chef in the in multiple times and to the defeat of the wolves and then it jumps to the day after the wolf attack where they say the competitor chef instead of coming with them like we were told is now suddenly hiding away in his own kitchen and locking out people and letting them be eaten by wolves
And then proceeds to mid-chapter cut back to the date of the wolf attack but only hours after
The other issue I have is throughout the whole book they are multiple characters that share the same name there's the competing chef kaelen
The rogue kaelen the tank kaelen
Along with elara the peasant girl and elara the ranger and elara the rogue
There's no reason this many characters should share the same name unless they're related and they're not they are all different separate people
There are also some characters that almost came out of nowhere Ron the dwarf features repeatedly throughout the book The only other time we've heard of him was a paragraph in the last book where he offered to repair roof on his return trip which was to be months later since he was on his way to the mountain now he magically lives in the inn and does most of the building and repairs
There's also the slime pip he was never mentioned before now there's no mention of how he came to be at the end He's just magically there to be a vacuum cleaner He's cute but he came out of nowhere
Well this is a fun book to read It is very messy It is not straightforward and it is all over the place I'm mildly convinced that this book is written by AI I haven't read the third one yet and the first one was much better written didn't have the the multiple names or the weird time swaps and if it's not written by AI then I am definitely convinced that the author basically wrote out a bunch of prompts and rewrites of things and rather than separating it and putting it order to shoved it into this book and call it a day
I did enjoy it despite the mess and I'll be reading the third book but I don't think I'll be rereading this one
The first chapter or so takes place a week after the goblin raid in the last book and then it cuts back to the day after the raid and then jumps forward to few days after the raid
Or another part where it jumps forward on matthias's work through his making his magical stew and then suddenly cuts towards something evil looking at his in and then cuts back before that to a cooking competition and then jumps towards a bunch of monsters surrounding the end and then jumps back towards preparation for the cooking competition
These jumps wouldn't be so bad but none of them are an ending chapter and then skip it's skips are pretty abrupt and a little hard to pinpoint exactly the timeline of what's going on
Another issue is that It will have a scene and then suddenly reverse backwards and rewrite the scene A good example is several times towards the end of the book during the cooking competition
It starts with kaelen The competitor chef insisting that he is making cloud ray and then by the time they get to the judging the cloud ray has turned into wyvern steak and potatoes The judging happens the stew is amazing it has vitality things with the extra ingredients that have been added it heals the local Lord who was one of the judges the wolves howl just before they announced the winner and then it immediately jumps back in time to the beginning of the competition to where the competitor chef is now preparing a pheasant and the judges that were before Lord varek health inspector Thorne and the mayor are now guildmaster Thorne a lady I've never heard of and a local bureaucrat I've also never heard of
And then instead of the wolves howling like they did in the last chapter to announce their presents It is suddenly rewritten that there's hundreds of them in the woods and the alert bell is going off and they attack the town Matthias starts rounding everybody up to run to the inn and he's deflecting people and the competitor chef is hiding under a cabbage cart and isn't coming with and their struggle with to take the stew and make it back to the end and then the The next chapter starts all the way beginning at the wolf attack with a completely different style of scramble to the end with Matthias fighting off wolves and bring the competitor chef along
It describes said chef in the in multiple times and to the defeat of the wolves and then it jumps to the day after the wolf attack where they say the competitor chef instead of coming with them like we were told is now suddenly hiding away in his own kitchen and locking out people and letting them be eaten by wolves
And then proceeds to mid-chapter cut back to the date of the wolf attack but only hours after
The other issue I have is throughout the whole book they are multiple characters that share the same name there's the competing chef kaelen
The rogue kaelen the tank kaelen
Along with elara the peasant girl and elara the ranger and elara the rogue
There's no reason this many characters should share the same name unless they're related and they're not they are all different separate people
There are also some characters that almost came out of nowhere Ron the dwarf features repeatedly throughout the book The only other time we've heard of him was a paragraph in the last book where he offered to repair roof on his return trip which was to be months later since he was on his way to the mountain now he magically lives in the inn and does most of the building and repairs
There's also the slime pip he was never mentioned before now there's no mention of how he came to be at the end He's just magically there to be a vacuum cleaner He's cute but he came out of nowhere
Well this is a fun book to read It is very messy It is not straightforward and it is all over the place I'm mildly convinced that this book is written by AI I haven't read the third one yet and the first one was much better written didn't have the the multiple names or the weird time swaps and if it's not written by AI then I am definitely convinced that the author basically wrote out a bunch of prompts and rewrites of things and rather than separating it and putting it order to shoved it into this book and call it a day
I did enjoy it despite the mess and I'll be reading the third book but I don't think I'll be rereading this one
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August 24, 2026
My reviews are my own. If you enjoyed this book, I'm glad you did. If not, I respect your opinion, so please respect mine. This is simply my perspective, so let's keep the discussion courteous. My review is honest and voluntary. As a reader, I read to escape the world and its issues, and my reviews reflect that.
Same issues noted by another reviewer, the books don't follow an organic progression, they jump all over the place, they are repetitive, things that were solved on previous books, come back as an issue. The timeline is a mess, not allowing the reader to really focus in the story. The whole series needed a better editor and I'm so done with the "German" thing. It is ok to be proud of where you come from but don't push feed it to others.
Onward and forward to my next adventure. Happy reading!!!
Same issues noted by another reviewer, the books don't follow an organic progression, they jump all over the place, they are repetitive, things that were solved on previous books, come back as an issue. The timeline is a mess, not allowing the reader to really focus in the story. The whole series needed a better editor and I'm so done with the "German" thing. It is ok to be proud of where you come from but don't push feed it to others.
Onward and forward to my next adventure. Happy reading!!!
September 19, 2026
Story good but many time line errors and factual errors!
The author goes from three days to weeks back to days. Accomplishing fantastical refurbishment of the without instant magic. He uses name two or more times describing different people then switching their roles around. One minute a Adventurer, the next a merchant or bar owner. He introduces new monsters like Pip without explanation of his creation. He comes up with legal jargon without any sign of the preparation. Very disjointed. Would be a outstanding story if it wasn't riddled with these jarring errors. The spelling a grammatical errors are few which is nice. But the constant jumping around the time line is very disappointing. He should go back and do a outline to fix the the timeline errors.
The author goes from three days to weeks back to days. Accomplishing fantastical refurbishment of the without instant magic. He uses name two or more times describing different people then switching their roles around. One minute a Adventurer, the next a merchant or bar owner. He introduces new monsters like Pip without explanation of his creation. He comes up with legal jargon without any sign of the preparation. Very disjointed. Would be a outstanding story if it wasn't riddled with these jarring errors. The spelling a grammatical errors are few which is nice. But the constant jumping around the time line is very disappointing. He should go back and do a outline to fix the the timeline errors.
September 30, 2026
The language isn't what I'm used to from a LitRPG, and there was a paragraph of exposition where the main character says, "remember back in Chapter 12 where I said this?" which is sloppy writing. I don't like accusing people of using AI, because most creatives I know despise it (for good reason), but this is missing a lot of the classic hallmarks that define this genre. We don't get skill sheets, or even a list of his skills until he's using them. I'm not finishing this series, especially considering I found a typo within the first 10% of the book.
September 21, 2026
What??????
Seriously disappointed. First book was good. The MC was awesome with his weaponized logic. This book? A confusing mess. Multiple characters with the same name, a slime mascot that comes out of no where, the storyline turns into a disorganized headache. I had to stop half way through because the author completely lost the plot. Idk if this book was even edited…..AI? It’s really too bad cause it had such a great start.
Seriously disappointed. First book was good. The MC was awesome with his weaponized logic. This book? A confusing mess. Multiple characters with the same name, a slime mascot that comes out of no where, the storyline turns into a disorganized headache. I had to stop half way through because the author completely lost the plot. Idk if this book was even edited…..AI? It’s really too bad cause it had such a great start.
October 10, 2026
Didn't finish, finally had to stop reading before I threw my tablet across the room
The series has an okay premise but it's ruined by ridiculous continuity mistakes. I found myself flipping back and forth between chapters as the whole storyline changed from one page to the next. I don't think the author had a proper outline written but just rambled on without going back and rereading what they had just finished writing. Maybe it's written by a broken AI.
The series has an okay premise but it's ruined by ridiculous continuity mistakes. I found myself flipping back and forth between chapters as the whole storyline changed from one page to the next. I don't think the author had a proper outline written but just rambled on without going back and rereading what they had just finished writing. Maybe it's written by a broken AI.
August 5, 2026
excellent
Liked the premise and the principal character quite a lot. A German “relocated “ to this type of adventure is quite unusual. Stubborn, opinionated, brave and determined only graze the edges of the hero’s character. He’s quite the role model. I’d like to meet him and eat his creations to be honest
Liked the premise and the principal character quite a lot. A German “relocated “ to this type of adventure is quite unusual. Stubborn, opinionated, brave and determined only graze the edges of the hero’s character. He’s quite the role model. I’d like to meet him and eat his creations to be honest
August 12, 2026
weird pacing
First, this is a great story.
And there are some odd chapters that are a little abrupt in their presentation. There are several where the story is rewound and told a different way, but now way of telling than the pure redundancy. Even with those odd transitions, it’s a good read
First, this is a great story.
And there are some odd chapters that are a little abrupt in their presentation. There are several where the story is rewound and told a different way, but now way of telling than the pure redundancy. Even with those odd transitions, it’s a good read
September 29, 2026
Great story, needs one more edit
Story of building a community is engaging. Transitions between chapters need editing. Individual story lines, actions of characters are rewritten. Twice the phrase, "in chapter 11" was used in place of description of action. Love the story. Will definitely keep reading the series. Thank you for sharing your wonderful vision.
Story of building a community is engaging. Transitions between chapters need editing. Individual story lines, actions of characters are rewritten. Twice the phrase, "in chapter 11" was used in place of description of action. Love the story. Will definitely keep reading the series. Thank you for sharing your wonderful vision.
October 7, 2026
Redundancy to a whole new level.
Quaint concept beaten to death by redundancy and rife with errors. Characters in multiple places at once, situations and details change page by page. Story line in endless loop.
Sad.
Quaint concept beaten to death by redundancy and rife with errors. Characters in multiple places at once, situations and details change page by page. Story line in endless loop.
Sad.
October 16, 2026
multiple stories not finished
The first book was better and more put together. This book has multiple scenarios written after another and neither one has filled though. The writing is really good but needs a beta reader. Or an editor.
The first book was better and more put together. This book has multiple scenarios written after another and neither one has filled though. The writing is really good but needs a beta reader. Or an editor.
November 12, 2026
I like the story but...
We don't need 2 versions of the same plot device in the book. This is what an editorial eye would catch. If you want to use AI, fine. But it still requires the author to do a final read through for consistency and continuity.
We don't need 2 versions of the same plot device in the book. This is what an editorial eye would catch. If you want to use AI, fine. But it still requires the author to do a final read through for consistency and continuity.
November 13, 2026
There is a big problem of coherence between the chapters. Honestly, I don’t understand how an author could not see those. A scene is often recall at the beginning of of the next chapter, but with mistakes. I think this is AI work, not revised by the author.
September 18, 2026
Confusing timeline
Story jumps all over guild characters all have same name editing needs to be better other than that story was interesting
Story jumps all over guild characters all have same name editing needs to be better other than that story was interesting
October 3, 2026
Needs to be edited
The book keeps repeating sections of the story, creating several alternative timelines. Shows lack of editing. Book loses momentum because of the confusion
The book keeps repeating sections of the story, creating several alternative timelines. Shows lack of editing. Book loses momentum because of the confusion
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