Illegitimate Hero

Engaging Story with Humor, but Lacking in RPG

Revisado: 10-23-24

I started this audiobook with high hopes, and the opening did not disappoint. It was a breath of fresh air, and I found myself giggling like a fool at the witty dialogue and engaging narrative. The story has a unique charm that immediately drew me in.

However, as the book progressed, the author’s writing style became increasingly verbose. When describing situations, character details, or other elements, the narrative often used four to five descriptive statements, only to circle back and simplify with a phrase such as "basically like this..." It made the experience feel unnecessarily drawn out. As if the only purpose of the characters were to be described. While I appreciate rich, descriptive prose, the constant over-explanation grew exhausting, and at times, I found myself more caught up in waiting for the lengthy descriptions to end rather than in the story itself.

What also frustrated me was that the book was labeled as a LitRPG, but the RPG elements were lacking. Instead of true progression or meaningful game-like mechanics, it mostly made references without incorporating the kind of RPG progression that the genre typically provides. Without that sense of growth, it felt more like a story with gaming nods rather than a full LitRPG experience.

That said, the characters and overall plot are still strong enough to make the book enjoyable, and the humor and creativity were delightful. Overall, this is an engaging story, and while I believe it could benefit from more concise storytelling, you may appreciate the depth and detail the author provides.

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Seems to be a primer rather than a story.

Revisado: 08-07-21

First of all, Travis Baldree could narrate a cook book and I would more than likely listen to the entire thing. Excellent performance as always.

However, the ‘story’ itself was lacking in the fact that absolutely nothing was accomplished. The perspective switches around from every character introduced, there’s also flashbacks, and the real world vs virtual reality. One or two of these elements are fine and would have made for a good listen, but all of them together left it disjointed and incomplete. Concepts were mentioned, detailed, explained, and in some cases even had examples provided. A little frustrating when I got to the end of the book and the majority of what I had listened to was irrelevant within this story. Hence the title, it very much was an informational primer in order to prepare the listener to understand the motivations and concepts for the following books. If the next book is available on Kindle Unlimited and I have nothing else to read I will check it out.

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