Looking at the book cover you would think the book was about the lovely blonde woman with the quote large chest end quote. However, it’s really about the chest she’s sitting on. That’s an evil chest, and it’s all about how this creature called a lesser mimic comes into being and begins to level up.
The writing is good and Jeff Hayes did a wonderful job on the narration. However, for me at least, it was just too… well… evil. The protagonist grew and leveled up by killing humans, mostly. It is, by any measure, a different point of view, and I suppose the chest isn’t really evil. Mostly it was just really a stupid chest trying to survive, I suppose. Still, I found it to be evil from the standpoint of what it did, which was mostly sneaking behind people and assassinating them.
The beautiful girl on the chest on the book cover is a succubus, so be aware there are some pretty explicit sex scenes as she plies her trade on unsuspecting adventurers. It’s handled fairly delicately I suppose, but the sex is still close to pornographic and if the truth were told, that is another reason I didn’t really like the book. It is based, loosely, on MMORPGs. (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)
I won’t be getting the next in the series. I’m sure others will enjoy this sort of story much more than I do. I tend to be a bit of a romantic, I suppose, even at my age (70), though I don’t like romances. I do however like my heroes to be human and at least leaning toward the good. Just not my cup of tea. I’m sure there are plenty of people who will find this amusing and clever and enjoy it a lot.