Despite being highly skilled in real life MC must learn the game and choose wisely as he levels up as stats are limited.

We awoke in the morning to discover that the Cooper family’s house at the edge of town had been sacked and the entire family was missing’, croaks Obed, the village elder. If, however, the PCs lay the island’s dead to rest (such as by destroying the haunt), the Barrow King halts combat and thanks them, offering his blessing and the Bard’s Heart in gratitude. He didn’t look up when he heard the door open or the scrape of a stool, but he sensed the man sit in front of him. I don’t have the time to explain everything, and to be honest, I don’t think you’d believe me if I did,” Brynn said. The world’s first Neuro Integrated Massive Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Game has wowed critics and beta players alike.

I didn't know what to think of a litrpg book having never read one before but this book was a real fun good read. The characters are rich and interesting with their own backgrounds and motivations which are explained really well.

The MC repeatedly gets huge advantages and somehow uses them to kill creatures *far* above his level.Banished to a horrific sentient dungeon, Finn must learn the rules of this strange new world and defeat an ancient revenant who survives by consuming souls. Yet, things are not as they seem and to save his sister, he must escape a sentient dungeon by defeating its master the Barrow King. This was an OK LitRPG story that never quite managed to develop into the sort of story I felt like it had the potential to be. The MC is a dangerous guy that has left the life of fighting, but he is pulled into a dangerous game world to help his sister. He finds companions along the way and definitely feels like the beginning of an epic adventure to save a princess.

The book ends on a cliffhanger, which personally frustrates me senselessly since we don't know if we will get an audio version of this book, however there is already a second book out in hard copy, so it's not too bad.I always knew it could end this way,” Dalton said, “but maybe this will help wipe some of my ledger clean. It was hinted that The Realms is a real magical place as well as just a VR world and the NPC characters, which was most of them, had only the one life so that should have added an element of danger and tension to the story but it just never did as despite the game characters being presented as real people with their own personalities, motivations, and backstories I still never quite managed to connect with any of them enough to care about their actual fate. This is Snapper Carr, reporting from outside Sacrosanct Integrative Technologies,” a young man with a winning smile said.