NateDogg's Tier List
I am fifty-something software engineer who loves systems and characters. Shadeslinger is a deep wobler between S and A tier. I LOVE this series but as I read more non-VRMMORPG I wish Kyle would take his extreme skill and start a new series. Scene for scene Shadeslinger is the best by far.
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This is currently my favorite LitRPG Series. Great characters, a great system, and amazing action sequences. This is a series worth reading for sure.
Unlike previous books by Sean Oswald, this one moves and feels totally real. I almost didn’t buy this because I was kind of tired of his stuff, but this series is a reboot for him and totally amazing.
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This series is wonderful. This well-written story moves along at a good clip. Lots of intriguing things to discover in the system of the world the MC is pulled into. Highly recommended. Bonus for the story being clean from bad words or sex. Some extreme violence later in the series but it fits the story.
Most of it is free on Audible.
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Book one starts a little slow, but it gets going near the end. Book 2 is great, book 3 is amazing, etc. This one just rolls on. If you haven’t yet met Eithan Arelius, then you have not read far enough. I laughed, I cried, and I cared. This is an awesome series and a must-read.
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This series is a little out of my usual fantasy litRPG genre as it mixes an outside world that is dystopian sci-fi with a game world that is fantasy. This series is creatively written and follows a young lady who is highly talented but also vulnerable at the same time. She gets wrapped up in things that are way above her head, both in the real world and in the game. Over time, she moves to the center of a very interesting story that more and more joins the game and real world. Highly recommended.
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This is one of my personal favorites. It's a little hard to get going initially, but it has incredible scope and a vibrant world once it does. The MC is the gruff, ‘get off my lawn’ type, but it makes him fun to read. The progression is also very interesting as it follows paths the user can choose. The paths the system gives seem to follow the actions the user takes, so when Randidly does something a little you can expect that in the future, after a path is established in the system, he will do it a lot.
As the series grows, the scope of the world continues to grow and that is fun too with new things to explore and learn about. Some series grow stale after a while, but not this one. I have read the first five books, and book six just dropped. Here we go!
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A bearded axe has shown up in many other LitRPG stories. I wonder why. This is an absolutely classic series, and if you like to laugh, you will love it. Frank the Axe, Ned, and House form a nearly perfect comedy trio as you are pulled into one of the best gamelit series ever.
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Overall I am not a huge fan of time loops but this one seems to progress in a more natural and organic way than others.
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I enjoyed this series until I just got bogged down with the evil god he is connected with. It was interesting for a while but after a time it just started wearing on me morally. Not that there was anything specifically evil that the god made the MC do, just that it got old after a bit. Overall a well written series, I just burned out after 5 books.
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So, this is one you need to keep reading to enjoy. I had stopped at book 3, and I would have given the series 3.5 start at that point in time. But, I had already purchased books 4 and 5, so decided to pick it back up, and boy, am I so glad that I did. Book 4 totally changes the setting and is so much fun it is amazing. I will come back and update this after each book I read. But the bump in book 4 was easily worth 1.5 stars, so 5 stars from me.
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This is a fun series. The MC is pulled into a world where the game system is standard, the place she finds herself and the class she receives are not. The MC becomes a little OP for my likes over time, but her struggles always outpace here power so it is all good. One of my personal faves.
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I was slow to pick this one up but did so on the strength of Audible reviews. I have tried out some card-based LitRPG in the past and have been disappointed. This one is a lot better than the others I have read and has quickly become one of my top series. Such good stuff here.
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This is a solid entry in the “Farmer” LitRPG sub-genre. The MC is a way OP mage who is retiring to a peaceful valley away from the action in the empire, but things never turn out that way. Well written with great characters this is a must-read.
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I really enjoyed this series until I had a moral issue with the use of Tarot cards. I am probably weird that way, but I loved the series. Highly recommended.
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This is a solid series that gets a little repetitive after a while. While the idea of a person running away from having been chosen by the gods is interesting, not much else here is really unique.
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I liked this series, but it gets a little repetitive. The first book is great, even a must-read, but book two is a little dry and not as well written. The relationships between characters are overstated, not sure that is the right word, maybe in your face. I will read the next book when it comes out, so I am giving it a four. Depending on how the next book is, I will update this review.
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Good idea and the first book played out the promise well, but I think the author got stuck and book two was not nearly as good.
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I read through book 3 and just sort of got bored. Some of the themes from early in the book never pan out and in the end it ends up being just a series of events like so many other LitRPG books.
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An early entrant into the genre the Red Mage series is solid but in no way exceptional. Characters are okay, system is okay, nothing is great.
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If you like reading the Manga version of this then you might be okay. But, they basically copied the exact words into the book. Manga is a great storytelling device but it is different than a book. Just describing the panels and including every grunt and moan in the text of the book is no way to move a great work from one medium to another.
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