This was a good book. I base my reviews on three factors, does the book keep me awake, would I buy more books in the series, and would I recommend the book to others.
As for the first criteria, does it keep me awake, I am writing this review at 3am after I finished listening to it instead of sleeping, so yes, the book kept me awake.
As for the second, would I buy more books in the series, the answer is yes. If the next book was out, I would already be downloading it.
As for the final criteria, would I recommend it, the answer is it depends. If you are a LitRPG fan then yes, unless you want comedy, then no. There is a considerable amount of stats and combat, so it that is you thing, buy this book. The MC has character growth, both internal and stat-wise, so it would appeal to those who enjoy that.
The narration was spot on, especially with the multi-cast. There were no sound effects that affected the sound quality when speeding up the book (I listened at 2x speed). My only complaint, and it is very minor, was that the narrator reading the stats talked slower than the rest (I would listen to a book, where he is the primary narrator, at 2.5x speed, at least).
All in all, it was a good book and I’m happy to have listened to it.
Source: I have listened to almost 100 audiobooks this year, most of them LitRPGs.
Disclaimer: I received a free review copy of this audiobook