Pet Peeve #5: Forgetting Your Skills
Do you remember the Lord of the Rings movies? Little Frodo has been told to take this evil ring across the continent, and drop it in the fires of Mordor to destroy it. He goes on a grand adventure, lasting…
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So what IS Progression Fantasy or LitRPG? Some books everyone seems to like (and I do to): Other books that are my favorites. Things in the Fantasy book genre that I like: Things in the Fantasy book genre that I…
Things I Like #3: A Little Bit of Romance
Not everyone will agree. In the various LitRPG groups, some people don’t want the MC to have ANY close romantic personal relationships at all. Just monsters and fighting, thank you very much. Not me, though. Having an MC that finds…
Pet Peeve #4: Broken Economics
Sometimes, in book 1 of a series, the author will take time to explain how the economics of a world works in great detail. 1 Iron coin is 10 Bronze coins, 10 Bronze coins is 1 Silver coin, etc. And…
The Path of Ascension: Books 1-4
4 stars. Pretty good progression fantasy with the right elements. I listened to the first five books of the series called Path of Ascension – 1, 2, 3, 3.5 and 4. The series contains a unique type of magic system…
Pet Peeve #3: Kids Smarter Than Adults
One thing that bothers me when I read it is when a group of kids or young adults are investigating some strange event that is deeply important to the future of all life on the planet. They discover something, and…
Pet Peeve #2: Doing The Impossible
Fantasy books take place in a fantasy world, and so there has to be some suspension of disbelief to enjoy the genre. But when an MC performs a task or survives a fight in an impossible way, that breaks the…
Things I Like #2: Becoming Overpowered
I guess the complement of starting from zero, is achieving the top prize. Sometimes the MC starts overpowered (OP), and sometimes they have to work hard to get there, and sometimes they are given OP as a gift. However they…
Things I Like #1: Starting From Less Than Zero
As I think about all of the LitRPG / Progression books that I’ve read, I have to consider some of the things that I like to see in a book or series. One of the first things that catches my…
Pet Peeve #1: Helpless Female Slaves
I’m currently reading a great series (Defiance of the Fall) that unfortunately uses one of my least favorite tropes in Fantasy often: the helpless female slave. To be sure, not all of them are “slaves”, technically. Just women and girls…