DNF @ 16%
I can’t anymore. This book quite literally put me to sleep—twice–and I cannot fathom torturing myself with it any longer. The 105 pages I managed to read were more than enough to tell me that this is not for me.
This is a LitRPG book, and you might like it if you are really, really, really, really into gaming scenarios, and you need nothing else to sustain you in a story. The narration read to me like, “First I did this, and then I did this, and then this happened [insert ineffective backstory here in the smallest possible amount] and then I did this thing! Isn’t this thing I have just seen so cool, and look how cool I am for figuring it out!” etc.
There was no character work, the absolute barest of worldbuilding, and the pacing of the story was nonexistent. It was asking me to care about this MC without putting any work into it. I negative cared. An that’s a real shame, because the premise here, if executed in a way that worked for me, could have been great. The MC is heading into a magical challenge that could take him years, as he leves up his magic, and he gets rewards from the goddess who created the challenge, and he is supposedly doing this to rescue his brother, who never came back from his own challenge. Was any of that emotionally on the page? Nope.
I really like LitRPG when done well, but this was not it for me.
Not rating.