I got this book (even though the first book was awkward and underwhelming) for lack of anything better to listen to.
The author is fairly imaginative with his dungeon scenarios, but by making his game world a generic rogue-like, he’s ultimately still writing a repetitive, unengaging story. The characters enter the tower and fight things, exit the tower and then talk about what they just did in the tower (or what they’re *intend* to do when they go back in), then everything repeats. This happens over and over again, all the way through the book. If this is what you’re looking for, I recommend you just GO PLAY AN ACTUAL ROGUE-LIKE! I guarantee that you can close your eyes scroll through a list of this type of game on Steam, put your finger to your laptop screen, and whatever game you purchase by this method will be better thought out and more fulfilling than this book. Also, let it be noted that I generally hate rogue-likes, and have found (with a few exceptions) that games in virtually any other genre are more lovingly and properly made, and more enjoyable. Rogue-like = randomly-generated, copy-paste experiences.
Second, if Prax Venter is married or in a relationship, I don’t know how. It doesn’t show in his writing. Jack (or the narrator) refers to Lex as “my love” or “the love of his life” nearly every single time the action or dialogue has anything to do with her. Sometimes Venter switches to calling her things like “the beautiful blonde bastion” (just to mix things up, you understand). The reader is constantly (and I do mean *constantly*) *told* when characters are in a relationship, in the most awkward, unbelievable ways.
If you want a LitRPG audiobook series that’s actually good, so far I’ve only found two examples:
The Completionist Chronicles series by Dakota Krout (mostly really good, though the author wears his politics on his sleeve, and seems to have a weird man-crush on Elon Musk that comes up on rare occasions), and The Stonehaven League books by Carrie Summers (passably good, though characters in those books seem to have no problem continuing to use technology capable of directly attacking their brains).
If you haven’t checked out those series yet, I promise you that they are objectively better than this one.