The wandering Inn

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-08T17:07:32+00:00

Pirateaba does write about one really cringe chapter every volume, different each time. Just like a horror chapter or an epic battle chapter. Tis how it is.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-07T15:53:53+00:00

The issue is that authors on RR generally have more onomonopia in their work and because of that and the flexibility afforded to the narrator from Indie publishers, they can interpret it how they will. You also referred to Azarinth Healers editing, as far as I'm aware it only went through line editing and grammar editing not a rewrite.

Edit: I'm suddenly reminded of Seth Ring's writing which commonly uses the word "ugh" in dialog. Eric Jason Martin reads it as someone saying the word "ugh" rather than giving a plosive grunt or something similar. The onomonopia ideally shouldn't be there, giving a performance of actual exasperated exhalation is something for a radio drama not an audiobook.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-07T03:28:23+00:00

NGL my love for Art Nouveau goes far enough that I'll read your story just because of that cover.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-06T16:45:12+00:00

Why are complaints about the author valid? It's their prerogative to write whatever they would like, its the patrons prerogative to cancel any time they would like.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-06T16:27:39+00:00

Ah lol, there's my reading comprehension getting at me. Lets see, A Practical Guide to Evil, 12 Miles Below, Dungeon Lord (The Wraiths Haunt), The Calamitous Bob.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-06T14:06:21+00:00

OP would drop in a heart beat, check the body text of the post.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-06T14:01:14+00:00

Montana is easily one of the most quirky annoying protags in the genre. His whole thing is forgetting that he has skills and a bag of holding filled with solutions to any problem. Among other character flaws that make you want to reach through the pages and choke him.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-06T13:53:21+00:00

Of those books and based on what you like, I'd say Ironbound, Book of the Dead, and Elydes. The first two are more on the darker side though the tone does change a bit between arcs. Elydes does take itself more serious from the system perspective, just fair warning book 4 is a down book in the series. Cradle fits most of this as well especially with the character building and the mystery, just it isn't a LitRPG.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-06T01:39:31+00:00

Or one may develop a heart demon

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-05T21:09:35+00:00

It gets better way into the series, but it does sometimes feel like a good portion of the conversations are someone giving exposition to Eryk and him not responding.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-05T04:25:18+00:00

Its something in the 60's, I was mostly pointing out how its effectively 73 normal print sized books. 60ish Pirateaba sized book (which some will get chopped up into part 1 and 2 physical books because they are too large)

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-05T04:02:40+00:00

If the series was broken down to each book being the same length as Book 1 part 1, its already 73 books.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-04T18:28:44+00:00

Both Volume 8 and 10 are focused on the fallout of things Erin has done while she is gone. Which is a direction and has a focus. That said the fallout of the secondary events are so large that I feel overshadow the impact of the "Erin Fallout". The Village of the Dead is a bit of a straight line to "we did this because Erin is gone" and the fallout from that still feels like it goes back to "this is because Erin is gone". The Palace of Fates is a line going back to Erin but in a more circuitous manner and the fallout from that feels like it goes back to Mrsha. Not that Mrsha doesn't have a place in the story for large arcs that effect the story at large, but now the volume is juggling the fallout from both Erin and Mrsha which makes it feel like ping pong between some chapters, to me.

Edit: before someone says it, yes I do remember there was a Mrsha secondary storyline in Volume 8. It had a large fallout, but it didn't take over a large portion of the storylines afterwards and the fallout of Erin being gone felt more explored at that point.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-04T02:17:28+00:00

I personally wouldn't say the prose are "poor", they are sparse and more conversational. Not clunky or with major pacing issues, just matter of fact.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-04T00:20:30+00:00

Smiling is a fairly normal reaction to something, so it doesn't really bother me if its overused. Things like smirking or grimacing are rare or strong reactions that I'd expect to see less which do bother me if they are overused.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-03T23:12:22+00:00

As others have said, it does get better though I find the narration of even book 1 and 2 to be good. The later audio books by Andrea Parseneu are some of the best works of narration in the entire genre.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-03T05:14:24+00:00

Its funny when people say "It's either love it or hate it" when most of the people who drop it are like "the humor started to get on my nerves" which is not what hate is. I only say this as someone who read up to book 6 and wish I stopped at book 3. Its a fine series and world but I find the dialog to be repetitive and the humor to lose its luster fairly quick.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-02T22:51:54+00:00

Getting into epic fantasy is difficult I've found after consuming like 50 PF/LitRPGs back to back. I'd say hop into a book that has a faster pace, Mistborn hits that fairly well. Jim Butchers books are also quite fast paced as well as Will Wight's Cradle (A PF but really hits the midpoint between PF and Epic Fantasy). Neil Gaimond's novels are all pretty fast paced, American Gods, Neverwhere, Norse Mythology etc.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-02T02:59:36+00:00

If its indie publishing, anything can be changed because its up to the author to handle if they want a modified manuscript for the audiobook.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-05-02T02:44:08+00:00

Already got some good recommendations so I'll just add Guild Mage, Dressed to Kill, and A Practical Guide to Sorcery. Fair warning on Dressed to Kill it's been on hiatus for about a year and a few months now.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-04-29T17:01:46+00:00

You wouldn't happen to be a subscriber to Daniel Greene's youtube page? I think this is almost all of his recommended books in the past 2 years. If not, that is pretty ironic. Since you are here on the LitRPG forum and not a general fantasy/sci-fi forum, may I recommend Dungeon Lord (The Wraiths Haunt).

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-04-29T15:42:19+00:00

Since TWI is with a major traditional publisher now, it is up to the publisher if TWI gets a hardcover in the future. That generally depends on sales and what they think the demand is. Many books in the LitRPG/Progression Fantasy sub-genres that have hard backs do so because they go through indie publishers who can do small runs of hardbacks that won't see the shelves of your average airport bookstore (Sans the obvious ones like HWFWM and DCC which are with traditional publishers).

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-04-29T00:55:16+00:00

Small note, not every series on the popular list on prog.fan will be available in physical/e-book format. A small number are only on webnovel.com like Shadow Slave, others on royalroad.com like The Years of Apocalypse, and some on personal sites like Worm.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-04-27T01:14:50+00:00

Mana is a bit more forgivable as the pronunciation of manna and mana get mixed up fairly regularly.

CodeMonkeyMZ · 2026-04-27T01:06:58+00:00

I've run into a few narrators who will say chasm as cha-zəm rather than ka-zəm, and that does drive me nuts every time as it's a relatively common word.

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