Descent story, too much time in game meus.

I’m not sure why LitRPG writers insist on thinking readers want to read about someone going through their menu choices or that the most compelling full immersion games of the future will all be city builders, but that is unfortunately what I’m getting from this genre. Life Reset book 2 is a heavy example of this. City building actually takes away from reading about a character adventure because they are rooted in the same place by default. It becomes the adventures of an administrator.

The story in itself is more interesting than other LitRPGs I’ve listened to but the excessive city building, menu walking and pondering of best efficiency for development accounts for way too much of the book. It became tedious and I ended up fast forwarding through it.

The narration is well researched and emotionally acted but as an Event Technology Director, I ask the narrator to please use a compressor/limiter. Many of the character voices were much louder than others. If you leave your volume in the mid rage, some voices are painful while others are hard to hear.

Combined, it makes the experience one where you have to tap the fast forward button and ride the volume to keep on track with the story itself. I will stop reading the series here.