I've heard of people doing this but I've tried it like 3 or 4 times and each time the noise just keeps me awake or I fall asleep without comprehending anything and am woken up to a particularly loud moment. Yall got any tips about any of these issues?

Wandering Inn fans: I just started book 1 about 25% through and currently really hate the main character. People seem to love this series, so I’m guessing I’m looking for motivation to keep going. I’m assuming (hoping) character development and growth makes her less annoying.

Originally, I'm looking for some stories where the MC is a butler, but then realized that those might be too specific so instead, in a general sense I want stories where the MC is like a knight or a butler to someone like a princess, a king or to greater extent an empire.

Preferably with romance subplot, political intrigue, and war.

well so in my case I'm still pretty new to litrpg and when I read primal hunter book 1-2 and I loved it I instantly bought all 12 audible books and finished them completely (love it greatly)

but when I started defiance of the fall and I liked the first and second book I also bought the rest but I'm feeling a quite bored at sections of book 6(and I know it pretty common opinion in this subreddit that it got worse the longer you are)

so the problem that I have like 9 books which I paid for but not sure if I want to.

I might take a break after book 6 and listen to something else.

so I did want to hear if any of you had the same problem or you buy the following book after you finished the one beforehand and not what have been released so far.

looking for series where the mc doesn't get by because he's just the most magical boy in the world and oh so stronk. bonus points for cleverness, teamwork and not being an antisocial edgelord (read: the author can write dialogue, so doesn't need an excuse to avoid it like the plague).

Things I've enjoyed recently: Department of Otherworld Magic Common Clay A Soldier's Life Common Clay Portal to Nova Roma Sky Pride Dreamer's Throne

Big series I'm not a huge fan of: Primal Hunter Defiance of the Fall (generally not into cultivation stuff if the character spends a significant amount of time sitting around rotating their cheese cores)

I was at Barnes & noble with fam, I wanted one of my nephews to get interested in books as he says is boring and bla bla, so while I was looking for books I told him that the first book of DCC is good and funny with a talking cat.

He said no and in the end he was like I want a book and chose the one I recommended him, I bought it for him and now I think I screwed it up because he is 11 years old and I remembered that this book has gore, swearing, I don’t remember if Samantha shows in the first one but talks about sex and so.

So I don’t know what to say to my sister because she cares for what their kids reads which is understandable.

Did some of you let your kids read this one? Or what should I tell my nephew and my sister? 🥲

UPDATE: I told my sister and she didn’t get mad but won’t let her kid to read it which is normal but my nephew got mad at her and I felt sad because I wanted him to enjoy reading but with a age appropriate book. Anyways now is her decision to let him read it in a few years or return it.

I’m no longer recommending books to people until I’ve finished the series. Heretical Fisher. Loved books 1 and 2. 3 was a bit slow. It feels like book four is nothing but info dumps, monologues, and ‘watch Fisher be clever but everything is convoluted and hard to follow.’

Anyone else feel like that or am I the only one?

I’m prepping a Royal Road launch and trying to dial in the blurb. Would appreciate feedback from people who read a lot in the genre.

Here is the current version:

"George’s children are in danger.

He wakes in a featureless white room with no memory—and a countdown to a trial he may not survive. 

He’s been dropped into a deadly game world where magic, machines, and interdimensional monsters collide.

He can only level up by clicking a button… a lot…  and has to earn gold to buy back his own memories to learn who he is, what happened to his kids, and how he got here..

Outmatched, underleveled, and on a clock, George has only a few advantages.

A strange, telekinetic ability lets him find, shape, and weaponize whatever he can get his hands on—scrap metal, broken tools, the environment itself.

A cheat code ability that lets him slow the world at critical moments—long enough to see patterns, make impossible decisions, and turn certain death into a narrow escape.

And in his head, a talkative, sharp-tongued AI companion—a “brain spider” named Nod—offers advice, banter, and just enough of an edge to keep him alive.

If he wants to reach his children, George won’t just have to survive , he’ll have to become something far more dangerous than anyone expects.

WHAT TO EXPECT

—Underdog MC who slowly grows into his powers after he is isekai-ed into a game world
—Humorous sidekick brain spider who steals the show with his snarky humor. Together, they make a charming Carl-&-Donut-style leading duo.
—Mysterious early cheat code ability that lets the MC slow time and have breakthrough ideas
—Godlike, evil AI running the game world
—Postapocalyptic survival chapters as we get the backstory of what happened to earth
—Idle/clicker progression system that evolves into strategic automation
—Starts off as a slow burn that becomes exponentially faster as the book moves toward the climax.
—Telekinetic crafting powers the MC has to use in creative ways to MacGyver his way out of problems
mystery, survival, AI companion, mind games, game mechanics.
—Mixture of fantasy and sci-fi.
—Constellation of bizarre, endearing, grotesque, lovable, hateable side characters.
—Found family and superhero sidekicks
—Much banter."

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For me the path of ascension is my favorite and the overall best imo is the wondering inn!

I'm looking to get into fantasy Lit RPG, but what would really attract me is a party based group rather than a single protagonist and minor sidekicks. The more trope-ish the better, wizards and paladins and elves etc.

I'll keep it simple

Liked: DCC, How To Survive The End of the World, HWFWM (once it stopped sounding like Tumblr fan fic)

Didn't like: Sentenced to Troll (felt... shallow?)

Sitting on : This Quest Is Broken!

Where should I go next?

I'm reading the first book and getting major Skyrim vibes off it. the way things level, the differences in architecture from town to town, and where I just got to, Dwarven ruins underneath a city. or am I just reading too much into it?

I’ve finished Cradle, DCC, Primal Hunter and a few others. I don’t think I’ve enjoyed any comically disastrous idea more than Ibtep’s special request for Zac at the Zethya pill house. So unexpected. I’ve not finished the book, but I REALLY look forward to how this turns out.

Audible is doing a large sale so looking to stock up on a backlog. Wife and I recently finished hwfwm and we both enjoyed that (and the narrator) quite a bit. She is currently relistening to the dresden files (not litrpg, but one we both enjoyed) and im listening to path of ascension. I dont like the narrator much, but the story seems fine, if not great.

Some books I've been considering are DCC, primal hunter, azarinth healer, 1% lifestyle, wandering inn​.

Any recommendations, either on my current list or one's to add, that might be similar to books I've read or should read? Thanks for your time.

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Power has a price. Elias is about to pay it with his soul.

In the tiered city of Oakhaven, your worth is decided at age ten. Elias Vaelor was branded an Iron-cap: a supposedly useless Archivist class permanently locked at Level 10, destined to die forgotten in the grueling upper floors of the Guild's dungeon.
But when his younger sister contracts a terminal magical plague, Elias discovers a hidden glitch in the System's code: The Altar of Exchange. The Altar offers unlimited power, rule-breaking magic, and a way to shatter his unbreakable level cap. It doesn't want gold, though. It wants what hurts to lose. It prices its gifts in memories, senses, and human emotions.
To afford the Level 40 Elixir that will save his sister, Elias must descend into a brutal, monster-infested subterranean world. Armed with magic he shouldn't possess, Elias will have to forge a party of outcasts and carve a bloody path through the dark.
But as the dungeon bosses grow deadlier and the Altar's prices grow steeper, Elias is forced to ask himself a terrifying question: if he trades away the best parts of his humanity to survive, will the man who reaches the bottom still have the capacity to love the sister he came to save?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWNJHL5D