This book has a fairly standard story concept but pulled it off fairly well, and the voice actor is one of the better ones for the litrpg genre. Having said that, the author really hurt the book by filling it with unpleasant and even downright iritateing side characters. The axe gets better about half way through but frank is stillannoying. House is likewise better further in the story when she gets sort of funny but early on she is pretty dumb. Cline is what really made it hard to push through and get to the better , later, chapters. Cline is basically an ass from moment one despite Ned spending a huge sum of money and generating tons of publicity for the game. It feels like Cline is a dick and for no other reason than the author needed a driving BBEG but didn’t take any time to make him feel real.
I like the book and will listen to the second book but I am hopeing the author makes more of an effort to smooth his characters out. writing is hard and I applaud him for how well the book is overall but frank and Cline actually irritated me the listener.