King of Duels by Pirateaba
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I love, love, love this series. It FEELS endless, emotional, funny, serious, heartbreaking, and generally a fantastic romp that I wish could continue forever and ever.

I might be a fan.

I may have stayed up all night to read it, too.

Here's the cool bit: While there are great scenes that had me sitting on the edge of my seat--um, like six of them--making me actually quiver in fear for the characters, it's actually the times where it's everyday life, with funny shit going on, that I cherish the most. There's simply a little bit of everything that I love in fiction in these books. Vast armies, quirky characters, love, care, and even a bit of sex, dealing with massive temptations, great evils, pride, public relations, and of course, LitRPG goodies of leveling and classes, but even more importantly: a timelessness of storytelling, of damn finely-drawn characters both familiar and subverted expertly, and the reality, at least to me, of my LIVING there.

I breathe and live here. It's just that good. And I will be happy to have 40 more of these books, please.


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