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shelbyfayy 's review for:
The Wandering Inn
by Pirateaba
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While isekai has always been my jam, I’ll admit the idea of LitRPG and TWELVE HUNDRED PAGES was a bit daunting to me. And when the book first started, I freely admit I wasn’t enraptured. Erin was obnoxiously stupid, the stakes felt so strangely low as she merely struggled to open an inn, and the inner monologues were a tiny bit juvenile and wordy. Then something clicked a bit further in and I was hooked.
I can’t tell you what it was. The characters remained as they were, though Erin does do a lot of growing internally. The world-building does explode in growth but we’re given only crumbs of that lore here. The monologues become dialogues, some funny and entertaining, some frustrating and nonsensical. Ryoka as a character was just the most frustrating, stubborn jerk of a person who was determined to never learn from her own mistakes. All of that together should be a hodge-podge of chaos and while it was it still somehow worked. I was so entertained by this story that the pages just flew by.
I will definitely be checking out further books in this series, and highly recommend to anyone even slightly considering entering the isekai/litRPG genre.
I can’t tell you what it was. The characters remained as they were, though Erin does do a lot of growing internally. The world-building does explode in growth but we’re given only crumbs of that lore here. The monologues become dialogues, some funny and entertaining, some frustrating and nonsensical. Ryoka as a character was just the most frustrating, stubborn jerk of a person who was determined to never learn from her own mistakes. All of that together should be a hodge-podge of chaos and while it was it still somehow worked. I was so entertained by this story that the pages just flew by.
I will definitely be checking out further books in this series, and highly recommend to anyone even slightly considering entering the isekai/litRPG genre.