I’d like to leave a warning, alongside my five star rating. The beginning and quite a few hours into the book is alot of world building. If you’re familiar with the litrpg genre you’ll know that vrmmos have the easiest premise to swallow. The real world and the game tie back and forth as they continue to world build, and the book starts off from a position where you really don’t respect the main character. all this aside, the character has to earn his respect through the narration, from you the reader.
This takes a little while. If you’ve played mmos or have enjoyed this genre, give this book some time. There is an eventual turning point where the MC does some really cool stuff to establish himself, and it only takes off from there. There’s also good humor throughout and great male and female voice acting.
The story itself is a vrmmo which is shaped by the characters, able to impact the whole world through the ripple system. This is a narrative feature that basically means the world is more immersive, and the player actions have meanings. These are simply the logic loopholes the characters have to jump through to help your immersion, but is also why I think this subset of the litrpg genre has more throughput with average reader. Considering that, that is the reason why at least in my experience, there was a considerable amount of world building before I began to enjoy the book, aside from the humor, and I consider the payoff definitely worth it.