My guy, it’s like you’re living in my library! Your reviews are spot on-from He Who Fights with Monsters to Dungeon Crawler Carl to The Lies of Locke Lamora! You absolutely nail the essence of each book, and it’s such a joy to read your thoughts. You’re doing an amazing job-please keep it up! I just have to recommend a few more titles that I think you’d enjoy: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt, The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, Defiance of the Fall by J.F. Brink, Beware of Chicken by CasualFarmer, and Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson. Also, I cannot wait for the fourth Locke Lamora book-fingers crossed it lands soon! Red Seas Under Red Skies was the first time I genuinely enjoyed anything pirate-related-it completely blew me away. Keep doing what you’re doing this is gold!

Enjoyed your review. I've read the trilogy and agree with your A- overall rating. The last book had been written after the death of his daughter and I appreciate how he came back to finish the story for us. While not perfect, this is a series i will look forward to re-reading. A new subscriber.

I agreed with most of those but Empire of the Vampire I really loved and am sad you did not enjoy!

He who fights with monsters is by far my favorite series.

This was the worst kind of series to read, in that it starts out with a bang... Then is just a perpetual let down. These books are C tier at best.

Next can you do The Primal Hunter? I think you'll like it

THE PRINCESS DOUGHNUT PICTURE! LOL

I just finished book 1 on Audible and instantly bought 5 more tokens to get the rest. It is amazing :) So funny and well done.

I DNF'd all of these but Empire of the Vampire...very nice

Youre trying to be contrarian...but ypure just a moron ....

Hi! I think you should try Empire of the Wolf trilogy by Richard Swan :D

Honestly, if the shortest book in the Dark Tower series didn't appeal to you, then you probably won't love the rest. I love the series and you might probably like it if you come back to it one day.

Are you Death of the Authoring Neil Gaiman's books? I'm not the one to judge others who still buy books from the likes of JK or Neil. I'm just curious how this smaller side of booktube is handling what happened.

This series is kind of my thing. I also wasnt liking the book until Jason purged his impurities and his friends didnt warn him that was going to happen which is exactly what my friends would do

Hey man thanks for the review i will have to try audiobook! From what i heard in this video i think you would like The Beginning After The End, give it a try its one of my favourites and its narrator is Travis Baldree.

Do you feel like you’re a fan of very straightforward writing? So, to the point without overly complex prose? Just wondering, based on your love for Sanderson and some of the things you said here.

Hello. This trilogy of books looks fascinating. I hope that one day it will be translated into Brazilian Portuguese.

You are spot on. I didn’t finish four of the six you mentioned for basically the same reasons. I won’t even bother with those other ones you mentioned.

Welcome to the fan base! HWFWM is incredible. If you haven't read Cradle I highly recommend it. It has a lot of similarities but its different enough to be just as unique. For me its not as good but almost.

Cool channel,subbed.😊

You gotta point out a 4.1 rating is not the greatest rating? what has goodreads done to peoples minds. I never took ratings seriously, I looked at certain ratings on popular books that I've read, then look at my all time favourites, and I can see why it's easy to be toxic in this regard, so I just stay off it entirely. A book can be great and simply not be for you, but I get a feeling that a lot of people DNF books that don't like how it challenges them, or they're simply not interested (which is fine) but then slam it with a low rating before moving on.

This is kinda funny but I have read all the first books in your TOP 3 and stopped before reading the second! Jade City was a superbly written book but maybe not for me as it was very character driven with little plot. I really liked the Lies of Locke Lamora, but I can't stand reading anything ship related. And the Eye of the World simply didn't pull me enough when I read it 20+ years ago. :D

I agree about American Gods. Neil Gaiman is good, not great, and his books are way over-hyped. I was particularly disappointed in the ending. This past summer I read the acclaimed Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's good, maybe not up to the hype. The characters and what they do are odd but interesting. (Will people of the future really see multiple personalities as a desirable advantage? Doubts...) I moved on to the sequel Echopraxia despite hearing negatives about it. Got about 2/3 the way through and DNF. The main character does little to advance the plot and is just led along like a puppy. Although he has a college degree and a respectable job everyone around him sees him as an ignorant fool. It got annoying and I gave up.

Reread the first three as a mental cleanse after finishing. Second Apocalypse. Ironically BC predates wh40k. By modern standards it is pretty tame. Yes Shadows Linger is the best of the three. It is likely more highly rated by authors and older readers. More recent readers have difficulty with the prose. Apparently he wrote while qorking on an assembly line hence the short sentences and paragraphs. Erickson wrote the prologue to a recent reissue. Reaper's Gale is dedicated to Cook for obvious reasons and Cook has apparently said Erickson writes Cook better than he does. Dread Empire is also very good.

Quitters never win and winners never quit!!!

I want to start writing. Mostly for myself as a hobby. Maybe I’d share a story with a friend or family member if I thought it was good but otherwise it’s just a creative outlet for me 👍

Don’t worry I can’t say Dungeon crawler Carl either lol. That was a great video. I like the idea of having two similar stories face off against each other like that. I have not yet read hwfwm but it definitely just moved up on my tbr 👍

Even though I liked Ready Player One it definitely wasn't very well written... I hope this one is better. I absolutely adore Skyrim and the entire Elder Scrolls series :)

empire of the vampire is pure edgelord material. It is not good. I reread it recently and my rating went from 4 stars to 2. The story interests me enough that'll keep going, but man is it hard to get past the teenage angst of this grown-ass man of a main character. Also, the over reliance of the F-word was beyond annoying. I understand some people enjoy swearing, if you're going to include a ton, at least make sure you're using a wide variety.

I DnF Words of Radiance around page 850. It felt like Brandons writing was nothing special and needed editing? Am I possible wrong? I did really like Way of Kings and I immediately picked up Words of Radiance

Empire of the Vampire is extremely good, but yeah, youve gotta have a stomach for visceral vampiric experiences. Second half of the book gets so addictive though, shame you didnt make it. I love the series because its very much a commentary on religious transition & deconversion. It resonates a lot with people that grew up in Christianity but end up having fundamental ideal shifts and it really explores some deep topics like the interdependence of good and evil.

Excellent and fun analysis. I have read and enjoyed both series, and I agreed with most of your points. Just to add something new, I'll give my vote on Plot, which you decided was a tie. While you made a good case, I'm going to give it to DCC in that it compacts down a large amount of plot in 6 books, while HWFWM might have taken 9 to achieve the same depth.⬅ Suggestion: in all three videos of yours I have watched, you display some really well done illustrations for a number of the characters as you discuss them. If you yourself are the artist, by all means say so. If you have downloaded them from sites like DeviantArt, I suggest adding links, at least going forward, to the artists whose excellent work you share. Most people won't "more" the video notes section to see the links, but some people, like me, do.

This is one of my tops series as well. I saw a KZbin video recently, sort of a podcast with Matt and Jeff Hayes talking about what's going on right now relating to DCC. The next book is written but Matt plans on making a few final touches to it. Jeff is anxious to record it, but he doesn't want to start anything until Matt says he is done making changes.⬅ The character depth of DCC is my favorite part. The worlds design is also fantastic. (Each dungeon level is effectively a new world.) And it is just plain fun!⬅ Besides HWFWM and DCC, my other three favorite litRPGs are _Defiance of the Fall,_ _Primal Hunter,_ and _Eight._ DotF is probably the most like HWFWM in structure. The MC isn't isekaid, but Earth itself is drastically altered. I guess that last bit gives it significant DCC vibes too, but it has a more serious tone. _Primal Hunter_ has the MC being mainly a loner, but an extremely powerful one. And _Eight_ is sort of a comfy isekai adventure. A retired adult male on modern day Earth dies in a car accident, and ends up in a new and dangerous world as an eight year boy alone in the woods.⬅ There are a ton of great litRPG stores. Many of them first begin as web novels, often receiving new chapters each week. The free-reading site Royal Road has a number of these, including most of the above. Someone preferring to only read completed books can subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, which has a very large number of books included in the subscription plan, including these same books. (As a book gets published by Kindle Unlimited, the author needs to remove it from Royal Road. But that's okay, while you can catch up with books 1-3 on Kindle Unlimited, you can then immediately continue with book 4 as the author adds new chapters.⬅ Oh! One more exceptional litRPG series is _Solo Leveling,_ (aka _Only I Level Up_ ). It is a Korean series, well translated into English. Most people became aware of it due to the manhwa adaptation (Korean online color manga), and the first season was also adapted into an excellent anime available right now on Crunchyroll. I saw the anime first, then couldn't wait and read the full series of novels. The entire story is complete in that format.

Thank you for covering this series. I've read most of the series and enjoyed it a lot. One minor correction -- while HWFWM is both litRPG and an isekai, they are not the same thing. Isekai is a Japanese word meaning "other world". Stories that use the concept involve a character from one world ending up in another. Classic examples from English literature are _Alice in Wonderland_ and _A Connectocut Yankee in King Arthur's Court._ Note that neither is litRPG. That classification is pretty much as you described, a story built around role playing game mechanics. Neither needs to include the other.

I can't believe you didn't mention Clive 's wife in HWFWM's characters 🤦😂

Are you going to share your short stories?

The audiobooks are fantastic, kudos to Jeff Hays.

Hi. This is Mr Ade from Old Boys, New Toys. I'm subbing off my main (and smaller Channel ) too as it makes sense to follow and comment off this one. Great video. I suffer with this loads too as I'm always trying to read to battle my dyslexia but it's so hard to keep on with so many books as the stories are getting very repetitive

Great video. The only book on this list I have read is the gunslinger. I did finish it, did I love it. Nope. Did I hate it. Nope. I found it very mediocre, but I did enjoy it mostly. But. Not enough to carry on with the series. I am going to check out the historian. That one sounds interesting to me. I enjoy your channel.

Read/listened to it all and it’s soooooo good!

Loved the concept and would like to see more of these please

Agreed.

Wait, Rufus's family runs a school? I got through the whole series and never caught that. Somehow this realization makes me thirsty though.

😂😂 ah no, mah boi, he aint against authority, hes against the suppression authority brings, think im free but my company doesn't want freedom

I am currently caught up with the current but im glad I've found you because you remind me of the minor factors I've forgotten

Should've guessed you were a teacher lol. Thanks for the rec!

Absolutely love this series!

I am a huge fan of half price books. Well I have a love hate relationship with them. I love them for buying books. I am not a fan of selling books to them. I really enjoy your videos? Are you on Goodreads or Fable?

I'm almost finished listening to Andy Serkis's narration of The Silmarillion. This book is not an easy read, but reading each section and then following up with Andy's narration makes all the difference. Just blown away by his audio performance. This video inspires me to listen to his LoTR recordings, too (even though I've read the books multiple times)!

Great video. Two Towers was my favorite book of the three LTOR books. But my least favorite of the movies. I am going to start world without end after I finish a book I am currently reading. Pillars of the Earth is hands down one of the best books I have ever read.