I’m really struggling with this one, I got it recommended by a friend who heard that I really liked the noobtown series. there are several problems with the characters, there is a point where a character does a 180 when introducing a new character out of nowhere, the main antagonist is extremely exaggerated, the people who are around him that claim to be his friends really have no reason to be his friend because he was an asshat beforehand, and there really hasn’t been anything that changed about him. at some point during the book somebody gets accused of rape and the moderators ban him, and the main antagonist asks if there was evidence of this happening and he’s immediately brushed off by someone who is supposed to be a fair and just person.
the concept is really cool, and it doesn’t hold your hands, but I feel like the characters are a little bit slow on the uptake on what’s going on. I figured out the plot of the book by the the prologue, and according to my friend all of my predictions have basically come true with in the second book. the characters on the other hands don’t see any of this coming, don’t understand what’s going on, and our overall blind to everything that’s happening.
there’s also some really f***** up stuff that goes on with Eastern Europeans and some misconceptions about them, stating that they were somehow easily corruptible, very much in favor of strong man policy, when must of the Eastern European countries like Poland were not only attacked by the Nazis but also from the Soviet Union. granted this is about 50 years after the current day, it’s still pretty ridiculous that the atrocities of the Holodomor and the Holocaust would be instantly forgotten by these people. I can understand a a few people who didn’t know any better were doing this, but this was basically the entire Council of what is supposed to be a town made up of Eastern Europeans, and book even outright says that they were more leaning towards strongman Authority.
if you’re looking for a book that is like this one but not horrible, I would recommend the noobtown series. it doesn’t have a enormous world that they travel across through, but it is definitely a cute little isekai series that the writer of which has just hit his stride with the third book.