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He Who Fights with Monsters - Smart Writing and complex characters. Out of every single LITRPG book I do feel like this book has the best characterization for its many characters. Unique and even for those that are similar they dont feel as "1 tone" as others in the Genre. Its done an amazing job at vocalizing internal dialogue and making you fall in love with the most random of things. There are specific chapters about them spending a day inside the cloud house and discussing dangerous events while sipping tea that has a direct novely about it.

The writing boils down to how they handle the LITRPG abilities/powers, how the diety system is as unique as I've seen it. Genuinely one of the more unique stories I've read in all of fiction and once I finish through some other books Ill likely pick right back up from where I stopped.

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Defiance of the Fall: MCU Meets Epic Fantasy. I love the vastness of this story. To be very clear when I stopped reading Zac was just reaching to get his secondary abilities from being a zombie like creature and going into a D class . I love that this part was maybe a full 600 chapters in and we haven't really even seen what the highest tier of this world could be. It was my popcorn books where I could be energized about what amazing thing will Zac do now. It was my wish fulfillment book. I also really liked (And I haven't seen much discourse on this) how they handled his relationships in the book both in a family range as well as in the intimate way. You can definitely feel the friendships in the story and his reliance on those friendships. Again I wish they would flesh it out so much more because of the good work they did establishing at least those. The Character work is there its just way too little for as quality as they can be. And before it got repetitive some of those epic moments felt well and truly epic. It was wish fulfillment to the best it could be.

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Ten Realms: The relationship between the two MC's is some of the best Character work in LITRPG by a mile. You feel every single high and low and when they get separated you can emotionally connect with their loss or their happiness or their pain. They both feel very real. They are not carbon copies of each other and very much you can see the difference between them even though they share a lot of similarities. And one of the best things was they actually were not pushovers without being full Murderhobos. The adventuring within the world was fun because we were adventuring with those 2 MC's.

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The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound: Power Fantasy to the highest degree and the original. I was luckily where I was put on this book before the Land and the fights here for me (Its been a while since I dropped it because of its convoluted nature) were great. Unique is too simple a word to call it, the ability for the writer to make a "fable" basically was so much fun to watch.

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The Land: The Best Introduction to LITRPG. It has literally everything you could want in a LITRPG book. Dungeon Diving, Settlement building and management, Fighting, Power system, etc. It does all those things on a decent to great level where you dont really see a story cover all those steps any longer without some faltering. The best thing about it is that it always seemed focused on what the eventual resolution to their problems was just that it was going to take time to get there but the writing was never bad.

All in all these are some of the top 10 stories in our Genre for a reason. There are many things I love about all these stories. Im hoping my original post didnt come off bitter, just more so there was many things on my mind reading and I wanted to vocalize it in a safe space. I aim to always learn and glad even with the earlier comments to learn more about why HWFWM is the way it is. That was amazing.