He Who Fights with Monsters
Ratings30
Average rating3.8
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Ratings30
Average rating3.8
Jason wakes up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters.
It’s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil.
He’ll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and that’s just on the first day. He’s going to need courage, he’s going to need wit, and he’s going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, he’s going to need pants.
After cementing itself as one of the best-rated serial novels on Royal Road with an astonishing 13 million views, He Who Fights with Monsters is now available on Kindle.
About the series: Experience an isekai culture clash as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic. Rich characters and world-building offer humor, political intrigue and slice-of-life elements alongside lots of monster fighting and adventure.
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10 primary booksHe Who Fights with Monsters is a 10-book series with 10 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Shirtaloon and Travis Deverell.
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This book starts off annoying, gets better, and then crashes and burns.
The annoying: Jason is a very chatty person and starts off his adventure alone and ends up talking to himself. A lot. He's also completely nude. There's a lot of middle school humor and bodily fluids - blood, vomit, puss - in the first chunk of the book. I almost quit reading.
Better: Still obnoxiously chatty but with lots of characters to bounce off of. So many characters I had trouble keeping track of them all. The audiobook reader helps differentiate some. The world mechanics are interesting but leveling is very slow.
Crash & Burn: One of the prominent female characters gets fridged. No one else of note dies, just the female character so the guys can build character and bro-mourn. I'd been ready to pick up the second book until this moment. Instead it's another series for the isekain't pile.
Started out wonderfully! And then wouldn't end.
The first third of this book is extremely interesting and very well told, with surprises around every turn. Then the author starts repeating the same battles in different settings. It's gets really repetitive really fast, not great for a book of this length. A lot of people seem to really love this book though, so what do I know?
Rarely have i disliked a MC so much. I don't even know why i finished this book and then kept going. The story is interesting but good lord the mc truly tries to drive away readers.
At this point i believe all that keeps me going is pure spite.
