Ancient aliens help me, I've picked up a litRPG, and it is bubblegum genre crack. I'm nearly done with book 2 of the Shadow Sun Survival series, and averaging something like a day and a half per book. I suspect I'm looking at the higher end of this sub-genre, as the quality is much higher than I was expecting from "video game books." I can't say how much appeal this genre would have for people who don't have a soft spot for DnD, Fallout, Skyrim, Final Fantasy and the like, but for me the premise of "what if life were literally a video game with levels and stats?" turns out to be much less absurd than expected.
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