Hollow by Travis Bagwell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I may be becoming a bit mad, myself, but this book really grew on me. Like a tumor.

I mean, the first half felt more like a really tragic, sad fantasy story where we could expect this poor kid to get SOME kind of hand, but that ship has sailed by the time he jumps into the portal. Death dungeon with his bromance-partner the trash goblin and demon rat babies.

Oh, yeah. It quickly lost any semblance to a normal, healthy LitRPG at that point. When all his relationships are seen through blackmail and paranoia and co-dependency and the dark, dark, dark side of relationship therapy as expressed as going through full murder-hobo, literally swimming in a handcrafted pool of blood and viscera, you can say that "healthy" is a thing of the distant past.

It's also funny. It took a hot minute to get into the book, mind you, but by the end, I'm totally in the mood for more of this absolute gorepunk masquerading as a LitRPG.


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