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I was genuinely sad to reach the last of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books (so far). It's my first series in the litRPG genre that I could see having mainstream appeal. Seriously, Netflix, get this guy a contract. It's the RPG Apocalypse considered as a series of themed reality TV shows. Despite the borderline satirical tone, there's more emotional and political realism to both the characters and the interstellar menagerie glimpsed in the background than in any of the other litRPG series I've read.
I moved on to some mediocre (but still adequate! OMNOMNOM) litRPG by Ryan DeBruyn, starting with his latest Starred Tower. It's the first book of a new series, and while I wasn't super impressed with it, I went ahead and checked out his earlier Ether Collapse series. Unfortunately, it seems he had to grow a lot as a writer to reach the level of mediocrity displayed in Starred Tower. The awkward sentence constructions he achieves in pursuit of the passive voice are impressive in a way (irony noted). Nevertheless, I persist in the series, because there may be a nuclear dragon. I may have a problem.
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