*Cue nervous flutters although this is my twelfth book*
This one is a MMORPG style Gamelit/LitRPG. It features a gun class called cannoneer. A snarky goblin shadowmancer makes an appearance. He thinks he's a poet, too. Much of the genre's fare is there: grinding, boss fights, Giant Ugly Mofoes, strategy. Just a whole lot of fun. The protagonist doesn't play a human, because... "who plays games to be the same?"
It is in Kindle Unlimited.
Welcome to Void Legion.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NTQGD3P/
Blurb:
Misfortune comes in fours for sixteen-year-old Andre Taylor. Each one worse than the next. He had to quit school, quit gaming, and his father died. Life sucked. It couldn’t get worse. Until a car accident left his pregnant mother in a coma.
To pay for her care, Dre must excel at Ataxia Online 2: Void Legion, a Simulated Reality Multiplayer Online Game. Now, he's thrust into the fantasy world of Mikander, where powerful factions want him dead, Player Killers hunt him, a lethal plague sweeps across the land, and nightmare creatures from a voidstorm stand in his path.
Can Dre survive against overwhelming odds and unearth the secrets of the Void Legion? Can he become adept at his chosen class, the cannoneer? Can he convince a girl who wants to duel him to the death to fight on his side? He must. Or a fate worse than death awaits.