'At the beginning of the pov I wanted to see more of the previous one, but by the end I wanted to see more of the new one' is how pretty much every pov in this series has gone for me.
@@StarryxNight5 King of Destruction was always the worst storyline for me, but in volume six the "K" chapters start being less about KoD and opens up more to the rest of Chandrar via diplomacy/fighting, and Chandrar is such a wonderfully interesting continent. Wish KoD wasn't the first introduction to it.
I'm SO ADDICTED, and I'm PLOWING through this on audiobook! I can't get enough. I'm listening like 18 hours/day! 😂😂😂 I'm very happy to read that it's going to continue to be AMAZING!
Thanks for the review! I picked up the first book after watching this review and loved it. I'm glad to see the Wandering Inn getting some love on booktube.
The author has started to take scheduled breaks for health. Although they did end up writing an entire novel instead of resting during their early attempts at taking breaks.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Yeah, current schedule is 3 weeks of 2 chapter releases per week, then a week off. There are extra long breaks when a volume ends, and sometimes pirataba does take vacations. But in general--almost a perfect record with chapter releases, at least since V5 I'd say.
I've heard of tis book from your top underrated fantasy series, so I decided to read the 1st book, as a lot of the popular books I tried just didn't interest me enough for me to finish them. I'm glad I did, it has become one of my favorite fantasy series. Thanks for recommending this book.
The adventure that is catching up to the Web serial is the best reading experience I've ever had. It is such immense story with so many wonderful characters that I cried handful of times through the journey. Erin is still my favorite character because she goes through so much. First few books are just tip of the ice bergs tip and there are so much to explore to this world. I watch your review and feel envy that you haven't taken the same journey but pity that you won't ever catch up to my favorite story of all time.
1. One of the nice things about the massive chapter/book size is that it allows the story to shift from one theme to another without giving the reader tonal whiplash. 2. Something about the girl's monster class that might not be in the ebook version is that it's written in red. Red classes or skills are bad news, and can sometimes be gained against your will. 3. The Esthelm arc was relatively short, but it will always be one of my favorites. 4. A lot of LitRPG authors make the mistake of thinking that "leveling up =character development". Pirateaba knows to do it the other way around, and gives level ups *because* of character development.
The red thing is really cool, I wish the ebooks could have that sort of thing. And yeah, the leveling up because of character development is my favorite thing about the leveling up.
You are literally the only review I can find on these books and I love your reviews w no spoilers😊 I'd also like reviews w spoilers for after I get done reading .. gotta subscribe
Phew, glad to hear you like seeing all the other viewpoints--as the series starts to grow out of its early stages of awkward/cringey writing, the reasons people drop it become less and less about "the prose is bad" and more like "the writing has gotten better, but where the hell is Erin???" (which is also the reason a friend of mine dropped it at the point where you're at) The series does have ups and downs, and I won't lie--on the few arcs I found unenjoyable, they were always ones where Erin wasn't around. But I think in the long run, it's great that the author does this, because as their writing skill grows, so does their audaciousness in daring to try new things, and I've found that it's paid off way more often than it hasn't.
Yeah I could see how the lack of Eric would upset some readers who get really attached to her. But man...those new POVs are SO good that it makes me forget about her so fast.
I thought when I caught up I'd go away and read some other stuff while it built up a bit.... I've been subbed to their patreon for like a year or 2 now. I can't help myself, I think every month I tell myself I'm not gonna resub, but knowing there's a chapter out there crushes my willpower lol. The lit rpg aspects are really well done, I find most of those stories have giant stat sheets that are pages long and it gets old really quick. Makes some levels up and certain class names you encounter hit better. Hasn't plateaued for me yet, tho some arcs/povs are better than others. I look forward to the next one!
Yeah, most other LitRPGs obsess over large sheets of stats that get into STR/DEX/etc and skill trees, and so forth, and that... just doesn't do it for me. TWI isn't the first to try, but I think it's the most successful one I've read at moving the "level up IRL" concept beyond simply tickling the "number goes up = dopamine" part of the reader's brain.
@Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews oh yeah. And as a patron of Pirate for many years, and as someone who stays updated with every chapter release, let me say, that stays true even into the latest volume.
great review of the nature and feeling of The Wandering Inn. for me, it's the best story ever, its huge, its ongoing, its free on the website but many enjoy the books or audibles.
As someone who has read the books, would you also consider doing a spolier-included discussion once you are caught up. I just finished getting caught up and and hunting down discussion to see what other people thought!
This series is truly addicting! Currently, I'm on book 6, The General of Izril, and I have to admit, I keep waiting for the series to go downhill so I can go on to something else. (Halfway through this title, and I AIN'T going anywhere!) I can't give John Gwynn a fair shot if I'm wondering if Toren is a good or bad skelatin! Or if Rags will ever become a goblin lord. It wouldn't be Fair to Joe Abbacrombie to start The Age of Madness while still wondering how a blind Emperor and a half troll paladin can make it work. Or if Ryoka will ever become a courier! How do I start Robin Hobbs Magic Ship trilogy If I can't stop wondering how magical Erin's Innkeeping can become? It usually only takes a couple of chapters for the author of this type of genre to tell you how the protagonist came to the fantasy world/dimension their book takes place in... Well, i'm six books in and I STILL don't know how Erin got to this place!! So until Pirateaba provides these answers and more, or the writing begins to slide... The Poppy War and Malazan books are going to have to wait! So excuse me while I get back to Liscor, Ant people, dog people, lizard people and DRAGONS! (I bet George R R Martin never wrote about Ant People did he?)
I'm really not looking to add the longest fantasy series of all time to my TBR, but if you keep putting out reviews like this I wont be able to help it haha 😂
@@demonsanta6922 Nooooo!!!! haha 😂You guys are making me want to read it sooo bad! Dang it! I'm adding it to my TBR haha but it's so long! Alright I'm checking it out! I just finished Time of Dread after Matt called me out in a video and I absolutely loved it so I trust him now ha😂
Book 8 at least the audio book. Comes out at the end of this month. Book 9 for audio will start to be recorded in January. Andrea who does the audio books will do three Wondering inn books a year. That's her max. My husband also will not read it on the website so he's waiting for each book release. The bad thing is it'll probably be five or six years before the books and audio books are caught up to maybe the end of volume eight. There's no way I'd be able to wait for this story that long.
Honestly it makes me even more interested because it would really bother me to have to catch up after being in such a huge hole. Allowing me to catch up to the ebooks will ease my brain a little bit.
Thanks for the recommendation! I have read the e-books 1-3 and really enjoying the ride so far. The series is very immersive and engaging. The strongest part of the series are the characters. At this point in reading this series, I am more interested in the side characters than the two main characters.
I've heard of The Wandering Inn just in passing before and wasn't interested due to it being a web serial, but this review may have changed my mind. Thanks! Also, if you haven't read any litrpg but like some aspects of it, read Dungeon Crawler Carl ASAP! There are 5 self-published books out so far (of a planned 9-10ish) but they're amazing. One of my favorite recent discoveries and I think would be right up your alley
Have you read Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends? They are true D&D novels with amazingly well written characters. When I was a kid, long before I read Robin Hobb, I was amazed at how great all the characters were. Particularly the twin brothers Caramon and (fan favorite) Raistlin. I can't get into D&D trope-style books as an adult, but I want to reread Dragonlance just for the character work. And your review of The Wandering Inn intrigues me enough to consider a D&D style adventure once again.
They are like old friends. The fantastic Larry Elmore covers are what initially got my attention. The story is standard D&D fantasy, but even as a kid, I noticed how well written all the characters were. They all really stood out to me. I haven't read them in decades, but they made a lasting impression, and I look forward to reading them again someday.
@@benja6902 The Goblin Slayer series is pretty good if you're looking for a standard D&D style adventure series. The author doesn't even try to hide the fact that it's their homebrew campaign setting. They're also aimed at a slightly higher age range. Fun Fact: The Wandering Inn also has a character called Goblin Slayer as a direct reference.
I think it should be mentioned that few of the POV characters are teens. Most (Erin, Ryoka, Laken, Geneva) are early 20s. Some Earthers are teens, but our MCs are young adults. And not 'young adults', actual adults. Tom might be 19, and the twins are 16 or 17.
David Estes has a main POV who is blind. 😉 (His two main epic fantasy series are some of my All Time Favorite - and I've *never heard* you mention him!)
HAHAHA you actually think you can "Catch up" by reading the kindle ver. ^^ By the time they have released one "book" Pirate has written 3 more... PS: So I love the series and as a Patreon Reader on the lastes chapter if I would say my one REAL spoiler free gripe with the Story (I have a few, most based on logistic and numbers) is ironically time. Now this does not affect the story in any real way, you can even completely ignore it. But in the beginning 1 day is 1 chapter most of the time, except when something bigger happens than more chapters go into a day. This kinda keeps being true for most of the series. And there are practically no time jumps in this. It happend once or twice on a Volumes ending or beginning but extremely rare. This is all perfectly fine on its own but with the amount of Worldchanging events, Character development (Many Characters go full arcs)and just stuff that happens in this Story has not enough time...The amount of story should have required at least 3-5 times the amount of time its supposed to have taken to feel believable, at least to me. But again you would have probably never noticed this if I did not just tell you that.
Lol when I say catch up I mean catch up to the ebooks that are out! I'll definitely never catch the web version. And no I can't unsee the time thing you mentioned! I didn't ever realize it before but you are totally right.
one correction in your video -> for the last 6 months+ pirateaba has started taking monthly 1 week long breaks. But yes, initially pirateaba went a very long time (multiple years) with no breaks. And on his birthdays, he would do an chapter a day for a week back in the day. He is trying really hard now to only write 10k a stream (2-3 streams, followed by edits = 1 new chapter), but we will see how long that lasts lol, he has tried to wrote less many times before and failed.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews The author wishes their gender and identity to remain anonymous. Everyone in the community uses the pronoun they think it is. Most say she, I say he.
@Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews Matt, I have spent the last 2 or 3 months buried in the Wandering Inn. Now I'm completely caught up (the web serial), and I'm dreading the future of waiting for weekly releases. It's by far the best thing I've ever read, and the story only continues to get better and better with time. You're in for a hell of a ride! Great review!
The more I watch your videos, the more I think : If that guy is a maths teacher, I'm sure students have become fascinated with maths lol. So Matt, are you a math teacher?
Matt, you’re my fav book critic, yet I don’t get your enthusiasm about that series. I read about half of the first book. Almost nothing major happened, characters rather dull and one dimensional, not very likable, writing style really super simplistic… I don’t know. Yes I get it, there is leveling and “exploring a new world” but apart from that really not much more.
I won't claim that it is for everyone - because it's really not. But it's such a wonderful change of pace and from what I normally read, and scratches so many "progression fantasy" itches that I have. And the series characters get more sophisticated as the series goes along, as well as the writing style.
So it's generally agreed in the community that the first book was fairly slow compared to the rest of the series, but the author has actually been re-editting it over the past few months to try and bring it up to the writing quality of the later books
They are not teens, some of eathers are, but they are minority, most of the characters from our world are young adults, Erin is 20, Ryoka 21, Laken the Emperor is 24, Geneva the Last Light is 25. Some of the characters are teenagers like Artwood twins who are 16. But most of the other characters from the Earth are young adults. There is a useful wiki with thousands of articles that helps to not get overwhelmed and lost =) As for the LitRPG elements TWI probably the best implementation of that concept i ever read. Because LitRPG is a cheap and lazy way to make characters progress, most of the time it feel unnatural and stupid. In TWI there is no Health points, no Mana points, no Experience points, no interface elements and million other things that make stories feel cheap. And no leveling only through conflict, you can become high level in literally anything. Most LitRPG focus only on combal and maybe crafting. And in volume 8 you would find out why system exist and who created it. So it is not there just because.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews don't check it the wiki!! It's has a warning that everything up to volume 9 is fair game. It might be better to go to the edit page and ask question up to your volume
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'At the beginning of the pov I wanted to see more of the previous one, but by the end I wanted to see more of the new one' is how pretty much every pov in this series has gone for me.
lol - yeah I have to imagine that happens to a lot of people. They are written so well!
Except the K chapters. Those never really clicked for me. Everything else though? Yeah
@@StarryxNight5 King of Destruction was always the worst storyline for me, but in volume six the "K" chapters start being less about KoD and opens up more to the rest of Chandrar via diplomacy/fighting, and Chandrar is such a wonderfully interesting continent. Wish KoD wasn't the first introduction to it.
You summed it up perfectly dunky! Except to say every new pov is as interesting as the one before it!
As a subbed patron to pirateaba, and a fully caught up reader I have to say y’all are in for a hell of a ride.
That's awesome, I can't wait!
I'm SO ADDICTED, and I'm PLOWING through this on audiobook! I can't get enough. I'm listening like 18 hours/day! 😂😂😂 I'm very happy to read that it's going to continue to be AMAZING!
Thanks for the review! I picked up the first book after watching this review and loved it. I'm glad to see the Wandering Inn getting some love on booktube.
Glad you loved it - it's such an amazing series!
The author has started to take scheduled breaks for health. Although they did end up writing an entire novel instead of resting during their early attempts at taking breaks.
That's the most pirateaba thing I've ever read.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Yeah, current schedule is 3 weeks of 2 chapter releases per week, then a week off. There are extra long breaks when a volume ends, and sometimes pirataba does take vacations.
But in general--almost a perfect record with chapter releases, at least since V5 I'd say.
I've heard of tis book from your top underrated fantasy series, so I decided to read the 1st book, as a lot of the popular books I tried just didn't interest me enough for me to finish them. I'm glad I did, it has become one of my favorite fantasy series. Thanks for recommending this book.
That's wonderful! How far into it are you?
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews I'm halfway thru book 2. I'm invested.
The adventure that is catching up to the Web serial is the best reading experience I've ever had. It is such immense story with so many wonderful characters that I cried handful of times through the journey. Erin is still my favorite character because she goes through so much. First few books are just tip of the ice bergs tip and there are so much to explore to this world. I watch your review and feel envy that you haven't taken the same journey but pity that you won't ever catch up to my favorite story of all time.
Yeah it's just too much on an investment for me to solely dedicate myself towards catching up. I'll just read the ebooks as they come out.
It gets deeper than you might think. It’s unbelievably good!!
1. One of the nice things about the massive chapter/book size is that it allows the story to shift from one theme to another without giving the reader tonal whiplash.
2. Something about the girl's monster class that might not be in the ebook version is that it's written in red. Red classes or skills are bad news, and can sometimes be gained against your will.
3. The Esthelm arc was relatively short, but it will always be one of my favorites.
4. A lot of LitRPG authors make the mistake of thinking that "leveling up =character development". Pirateaba knows to do it the other way around, and gives level ups *because* of character development.
The red thing is really cool, I wish the ebooks could have that sort of thing. And yeah, the leveling up because of character development is my favorite thing about the leveling up.
You are literally the only review I can find on these books and I love your reviews w no spoilers😊 I'd also like reviews w spoilers for after I get done reading .. gotta subscribe
Phew, glad to hear you like seeing all the other viewpoints--as the series starts to grow out of its early stages of awkward/cringey writing, the reasons people drop it become less and less about "the prose is bad" and more like "the writing has gotten better, but where the hell is Erin???" (which is also the reason a friend of mine dropped it at the point where you're at)
The series does have ups and downs, and I won't lie--on the few arcs I found unenjoyable, they were always ones where Erin wasn't around. But I think in the long run, it's great that the author does this, because as their writing skill grows, so does their audaciousness in daring to try new things, and I've found that it's paid off way more often than it hasn't.
Yeah I could see how the lack of Eric would upset some readers who get really attached to her. But man...those new POVs are SO good that it makes me forget about her so fast.
I thought when I caught up I'd go away and read some other stuff while it built up a bit.... I've been subbed to their patreon for like a year or 2 now. I can't help myself, I think every month I tell myself I'm not gonna resub, but knowing there's a chapter out there crushes my willpower lol.
The lit rpg aspects are really well done, I find most of those stories have giant stat sheets that are pages long and it gets old really quick. Makes some levels up and certain class names you encounter hit better.
Hasn't plateaued for me yet, tho some arcs/povs are better than others.
I look forward to the next one!
Yeah, most other LitRPGs obsess over large sheets of stats that get into STR/DEX/etc and skill trees, and so forth, and that... just doesn't do it for me. TWI isn't the first to try, but I think it's the most successful one I've read at moving the "level up IRL" concept beyond simply tickling the "number goes up = dopamine" part of the reader's brain.
Yeah well said! I think the litrpg aspects are perfectly balanced here between being interesting yet accessible.
This series is literally my #1 Recommendation to every person I meet. It's my favorite series of all time.
It's so, so , so good and only gets better as it goes on!
@Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews oh yeah. And as a patron of Pirate for many years, and as someone who stays updated with every chapter release, let me say, that stays true even into the latest volume.
great review of the nature and feeling of The Wandering Inn. for me, it's the best story ever, its huge, its ongoing, its free on the website but many enjoy the books or audibles.
Yeah I'm liking it more and more as this series goes along. I can't wait to see what it has in store!
As someone who has read the books, would you also consider doing a spolier-included discussion once you are caught up. I just finished getting caught up and and hunting down discussion to see what other people thought!
For the past two books I've read I do a spoiler filled section of the review in the 2nd half of the review :)
This series is truly addicting! Currently, I'm on book 6, The General of Izril, and I have to admit, I keep waiting for the series to go downhill so I can go on to something else. (Halfway through this title, and I AIN'T going anywhere!)
I can't give John Gwynn a fair shot if I'm wondering if Toren is a good or bad skelatin! Or if Rags will ever become a goblin lord.
It wouldn't be Fair to Joe Abbacrombie to start The Age of Madness while still wondering how a blind Emperor and a half troll paladin can make it work. Or if Ryoka will ever become a courier!
How do I start Robin Hobbs Magic Ship trilogy If I can't stop wondering how magical Erin's Innkeeping can become?
It usually only takes a couple of chapters for the author of this type of genre to tell you how the protagonist came to the fantasy world/dimension their book takes place in... Well, i'm six books in and I STILL don't know how Erin got to this place!! So until Pirateaba provides these answers and more, or the writing begins to slide... The Poppy War and Malazan books are going to have to wait!
So excuse me while I get back to Liscor, Ant people, dog people, lizard people and DRAGONS! (I bet George R R Martin never wrote about Ant People did he?)
I am caught up with web reolease and we still don't have concrete answers of the process, only general ideas
I'm really not looking to add the longest fantasy series of all time to my TBR, but if you keep putting out reviews like this I wont be able to help it haha 😂
LOL I'M SORRY! I keep doing this to you Dino.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Haha good! I wouldn't expect anything else lol
It will become the only book you will want to read. JoIn Us InSide ThE iNn FoR eVeR!
@@demonsanta6922 Nooooo!!!! haha 😂You guys are making me want to read it sooo bad! Dang it! I'm adding it to my TBR haha but it's so long! Alright I'm checking it out! I just finished Time of Dread after Matt called me out in a video and I absolutely loved it so I trust him now ha😂
😂😂😂 right?!?
Book 8 at least the audio book. Comes out at the end of this month. Book 9 for audio will start to be recorded in January. Andrea who does the audio books will do three Wondering inn books a year. That's her max.
My husband also will not read it on the website so he's waiting for each book release. The bad thing is it'll probably be five or six years before the books and audio books are caught up to maybe the end of volume eight. There's no way I'd be able to wait for this story that long.
Honestly it makes me even more interested because it would really bother me to have to catch up after being in such a huge hole. Allowing me to catch up to the ebooks will ease my brain a little bit.
Thanks for the recommendation! I have read the e-books 1-3 and really enjoying the ride so far. The series is very immersive and engaging. The strongest part of the series are the characters. At this point in reading this series, I am more interested in the side characters than the two main characters.
Why do I like this! Why is it becoming my favorite series. Seriously 5 out of 5
So glad to see this series is getting more exposure!
Do you plan to read other web serials?
I read Mother of Learning recently, but currently have no plans to start any others in the near future.
I've heard of The Wandering Inn just in passing before and wasn't interested due to it being a web serial, but this review may have changed my mind. Thanks!
Also, if you haven't read any litrpg but like some aspects of it, read Dungeon Crawler Carl ASAP! There are 5 self-published books out so far (of a planned 9-10ish) but they're amazing. One of my favorite recent discoveries and I think would be right up your alley
Yes I'm planning on reading that series early in 2023! I can't wait!
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews I think you'll really like it. Can't wait to watch the reviews, keep being awesome!
@@benlivingston8446 no...YOU keep being awesome!
Have you read Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends? They are true D&D novels with amazingly well written characters. When I was a kid, long before I read Robin Hobb, I was amazed at how great all the characters were. Particularly the twin brothers Caramon and (fan favorite) Raistlin. I can't get into D&D trope-style books as an adult, but I want to reread Dragonlance just for the character work. And your review of The Wandering Inn intrigues me enough to consider a D&D style adventure once again.
No, never have. Do they still hold up today?
They are like old friends. The fantastic Larry Elmore covers are what initially got my attention. The story is standard D&D fantasy, but even as a kid, I noticed how well written all the characters were. They all really stood out to me. I haven't read them in decades, but they made a lasting impression, and I look forward to reading them again someday.
@@benja6902 The Goblin Slayer series is pretty good if you're looking for a standard D&D style adventure series. The author doesn't even try to hide the fact that it's their homebrew campaign setting. They're also aimed at a slightly higher age range.
Fun Fact: The Wandering Inn also has a character called Goblin Slayer as a direct reference.
Ok I am sold, I will start this series before the end of the year.
Yeahhhhhhh - another one converted!
I think it should be mentioned that few of the POV characters are teens. Most (Erin, Ryoka, Laken, Geneva) are early 20s. Some Earthers are teens, but our MCs are young adults. And not 'young adults', actual adults. Tom might be 19, and the twins are 16 or 17.
Good point, and one I didn't catch while reading. Thank you!
Hype to read this one day
If you don't start soon it will be even harder to catch up!
David Estes has a main POV who is blind. 😉 (His two main epic fantasy series are some of my All Time Favorite - and I've *never heard* you mention him!)
3 Books are released a year to match the pace of the audio books. I think its a good reading pace.
Yeah that's a good reading pace.
HAHAHA you actually think you can "Catch up" by reading the kindle ver. ^^ By the time they have released one "book" Pirate has written 3 more...
PS: So I love the series and as a Patreon Reader on the lastes chapter if I would say my one REAL spoiler free gripe with the Story (I have a few, most based on logistic and numbers)
is ironically time. Now this does not affect the story in any real way, you can even completely ignore it.
But in the beginning 1 day is 1 chapter most of the time, except when something bigger happens than more chapters go into a day. This kinda keeps being true for most of the series.
And there are practically no time jumps in this. It happend once or twice on a Volumes ending or beginning but extremely rare. This is all perfectly fine on its own but with the amount of Worldchanging events, Character development (Many Characters go full arcs)and just stuff that happens in this Story has not enough time...The amount of story should have required at least 3-5 times the amount of time its supposed to have taken to feel believable, at least to me.
But again you would have probably never noticed this if I did not just tell you that.
Lol when I say catch up I mean catch up to the ebooks that are out! I'll definitely never catch the web version.
And no I can't unsee the time thing you mentioned! I didn't ever realize it before but you are totally right.
I just downloaded the first book, you are starting to cost me a lot but then I will admit it pays in return.
You're welcome!
And I'm sorry!
one correction in your video -> for the last 6 months+ pirateaba has started taking monthly 1 week long breaks. But yes, initially pirateaba went a very long time (multiple years) with no breaks. And on his birthdays, he would do an chapter a day for a week back in the day. He is trying really hard now to only write 10k a stream (2-3 streams, followed by edits = 1 new chapter), but we will see how long that lasts lol, he has tried to wrote less many times before and failed.
Thanks for the info! Is it confirmed that pirateaba is "he"?
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews The author wishes their gender and identity to remain anonymous. Everyone in the community uses the pronoun they think it is. Most say she, I say he.
@@MichaelPiraino gotcha, thanks!
Does anyone know who she is?
No, it is not publicly known. Also the gender is not known.
Florist is not a zombie.
I only subscribed to see you catch up and start reading online and become completely unhinged.
I'm reading the next book in the series in January!
*addictive
Starts to drop off next few volumes. Way more characters. Becomes very grim.
That's actually super my thing. I can't wait!
@Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews
Matt,
I have spent the last 2 or 3 months buried in the Wandering Inn. Now I'm completely caught up (the web serial), and I'm dreading the future of waiting for weekly releases. It's by far the best thing I've ever read, and the story only continues to get better and better with time. You're in for a hell of a ride! Great review!
@@coltonmiller1314 wonderful to hear, thanks for letting me know!
The more I watch your videos, the more I think : If that guy is a maths teacher, I'm sure students have become fascinated with maths lol. So Matt, are you a math teacher?
Nope! I'm a Chief of Staff for a politician lol
Pirate is using chatgpt to write these books :)
LOL
Matt, you’re my fav book critic, yet I don’t get your enthusiasm about that series. I read about half of the first book.
Almost nothing major happened, characters rather dull and one dimensional, not very likable, writing style really super simplistic… I don’t know. Yes I get it, there is leveling and “exploring a new world” but apart from that really not much more.
I won't claim that it is for everyone - because it's really not. But it's such a wonderful change of pace and from what I normally read, and scratches so many "progression fantasy" itches that I have. And the series characters get more sophisticated as the series goes along, as well as the writing style.
So it's generally agreed in the community that the first book was fairly slow compared to the rest of the series, but the author has actually been re-editting it over the past few months to try and bring it up to the writing quality of the later books
They are not teens, some of eathers are, but they are minority, most of the characters from our world are young adults, Erin is 20, Ryoka 21, Laken the Emperor is 24, Geneva the Last Light is 25. Some of the characters are teenagers like Artwood twins who are 16. But most of the other characters from the Earth are young adults. There is a useful wiki with thousands of articles that helps to not get overwhelmed and lost =)
As for the LitRPG elements TWI probably the best implementation of that concept i ever read. Because LitRPG is a cheap and lazy way to make characters progress, most of the time it feel unnatural and stupid. In TWI there is no Health points, no Mana points, no Experience points, no interface elements and million other things that make stories feel cheap. And no leveling only through conflict, you can become high level in literally anything. Most LitRPG focus only on combal and maybe crafting. And in volume 8 you would find out why system exist and who created it. So it is not there just because.
Thanks! I worry about checking out the wiki because I've been spoiled so many times reading wikis for various books.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews Use the discord for info instead. The wiki is always dangerous.
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews The wiki will definitely spoil stuff lol stay away from it
@@MattsFantasyBookReviews don't check it the wiki!! It's has a warning that everything up to volume 9 is fair game. It might be better to go to the edit page and ask question up to your volume