and pounds sand in their @$$! I loved it! Excellent shift of perspective for such an average literary genre. While I like LitRPG, there is so much of it that is just crap, working the same dead end, tired and worn out gaming memes with little to no originality. But Villains Rule breaks out of that and reconstitutes the entire set of tropes and flips them over for quite the satisfying tale. The greatest compliment I can give to an author is to purchase the next book in the series, and I absolutely will follow this Shadow Master character. Bravo!