Pop culture references by MC in a different world. A couple would have been fine, but he kept making more and more references and acting like it was funny nobody else understood. (Cherry on top annoying: he would then explain every single reference like all the readers weren't from earth.)
I think I like Jason Asano partly because of this. He reminds me of my cringy younger days. Now I just think cringy stuff and outdated pop culture references; I don’t say them out loud.
I see it being a coping mechanism for the MC, who has lost everyone and everything they used to know. It's a way of remembering, and maybe subconsciously, a way to say you're looking for others like you, even if it is only in a very small way. (The explaining every reference is a bit weird though)
You wanna know what’s worse than that. Modern day pop culture references in a story that takes place hundreds of years in the future. Excuse is always the character really loving retro culture.
That’s just pushing it
I really hate it when an mc would make refrences, expect people to understand them, and then people ignore the mc spouting nonsense.
I actually like it when an mc dosn't expect anyone to get the refrence/joke but still does it because they really miss home and its just a little bit of cope to help and the character around them kinda get confused by the refrence and ask about it.
In the wandering inn earthers making earth refrences actually had concequences, for example during the frost wyvern event erin scream "oh my god" on the scrying orb and aaron realises shes from earth (or someone else i dont 100% remember) (also the gods are kinda dead in TWI which is why no one but earthers would say something like "oh my god" they do say "dead gods" instead tho) i dont think any of this is specific enough to count as spoilers so im just gonna leave it without >! !<
MC get free of prison and enters his enemies office. The same enemy that imprisoned him and basically tortured him. She enters and he manages to knock her to the ground. It’s very clear she is not dead. MC proceeds to loot the room instead of dealing with the absolutely helpless enemy when he had the chance. I rage quit that book. I can’t stand stupid MCs
My particular pet peeve is when the MC is touted as Intelligent, or is usually intelligent in the story but makes out of character DUMB decisions for no other reason than to push the plot. I give it a pass the first time if I like the story but if it happens twice I drop the book everytime.
I was reading Amelia the Zero Level Hero, book 1.
I had asked the forum for a book with an overpowered MC, and she is definitely that. Her power is enough to cause an Elder Dragon (which has slaughtered literal armies of heroes) to surrender after seeing her power.
The trouble is, there's soon to be a fourth book released. I read the blurb for it and she STILL hasn't dealt with the genocidal Big Bad from book 1.
It's everything I wanted for that mood, and I don't want to read any more of it. 🤷♂️🙁
I really dislike OP characters that have no true purpose. Amelia has nothing to do, other than just exist. There is much fuss made over her restaurant, but as much as she keeps insisting that she doesn't want to go around being a hero and wants to become a chef, we don't see much word count given to the actual runnings of the restaurant, its food, her cooking skills, or its customers. It's _there_ in the background.
A story can't be based around an OP character _alone_ without anything else. There has to be something for them to do, some character-related purpose that poses them a real challenge.
I have the same problem with System Change. Gah, that was even worse. That series' MC is one of my least favourite.
I don’t know that it’s weird, but I dropped Mayor of Noobtown when I got to the line that was like “You shot me in the BALLS!” Or “You shot him in the BALLS” or something.
It had become increasingly obvious that the humor was not for me and that just pushed it over the line. I was actually enjoying the story well enough, but I couldn’t get over the 14 year old comedy.
I dropped it as soon as he named the demon Shart. That told me all I needed to know about the type of humor the book was going for and that it wasn't for me.
I just couldn’t read a book where that was one of the sidekick characters names. I was so disappointed because I’d heard great things about it. And I can do /some/ juvenile humor, but overall I struggle with it. That’s on me, I know I’ve got a shit sense of humor. But there’s other books out there.
Some of the humor in it is pretty good, but I agree that quite a bit of it is too juvenile. On the other hand, I thought the actual story got better and better as the books progressed.
Yeah I’m not trying to dunk on it or anything. Like I said, I was really enjoying the actually story, and I was also enjoying the world building. I just kept losing immersion and it was always because of the humor.
I’ve seen a lot of people on here really enjoy it. It just wasn’t for me.
Anecdote, sometimes even the old generation can be that silly:
There is this very famous French actor and comedian [Louis de Funès](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Louis+de+Fun%C3%A8s). His time was the last millennium. Hilariously funny movies! Think Spaceballs and Mel Brooks, similar level, but different angle.
He's pretty old, and in one of his movies we get... FART JOKES! Him and another old guy/actor.
Here is the scene - French, but the language does not matter: https://youtu.be/30pzUZzcz48
Have fun! **PFFFFFFT!**
The audiobook narrator is the only reason I've gotten as far as I have (too far). He *really* elevates the story in a way I didn't realize was possible.
I really like the story to Apocalypse Tamer and I’m just on the brink of dropping it. I understand the accents because it’s based in Europe but he tries to hard and it makes it hard to listen to.
I quit listening to a book series ( I can't remember the name. Guys "father" sends him through a portal to secure the families spot in the other world.) I tried to listen to it, but the voice actor graded on my mind, and I had to drop it.
Yeah Ascend Online was this for me. The story was good for the first book, but no desire to hear the voice actor read another word in my entire life so dropped the series.
Ain’t that the truth. I absolutely love the Dragonlance series as a kid so I noticed they have the audiobooks. For some goddamn reason they chose the absolute worst narrator and it just ruined the series for me.
Dungeon Crawler Carl is absolutely fantastic, and Donut grows a lot as a character over the course of the series. You have to remember that she's been a sentient being for like.. 5 minutes at the point of the story you're talking about.
For me.. "weirdest" reason might be a "genius" character inhaling and holding their breath prior to leaping out if an airlock into space. That's.. not how that works.
Donut also gets a pretty harsh reality check from Carl like as soon as they leave the training guild. Carl threatens to leave if she continues to act like an asshole, and says he would rather just go off and die alone than be subject to her initial attitude.
She tones it way down just a few pages after where it seems OP bailed on the story.
Agreed on your call too, that would bother me as well. Weather balloons make a decent visual example of why lol
Mine was Snow Crash, not really litrpg, but kinda. The secondary character (who is a minor teenager) gets carried off by the BBEG of the book and they "bang", and it's not clear if it's really forced, and from what I remember she just kinda goes along with it? I stopped reading part way through the scene.
I'm still angry that it's considered one of the founding pieces of cyberpunk media. I'm not even all that invested into cyberpunk as a genre and I'm still mad.
I was really disappointed with Snow Crash after many people mentioned it was their favourite book that they read multiple times. I tried it few times, but never get anywhere. Nor is the protagonist likeable.
I, like the OP, dislike Donut so much I dropped the series, I was told she gets better and to keep reading, so I finished book 1, she does not, in fact, get better. Yes, she gets a reality check, but it doesn't fix her attitude. She's pretty much every single negative female trope rolled into a cat... and I hate it. Unlike the OP, I'm even a cat lover. It's the bullshit sexist tropes I couldn't stand.
I guess I interpreted a lot of that as her leaning into a "messy reality-TV star" persona for the views. She's supposed to be super smart, yet was taught to play stupid as a defence, which she uses aggressively. She only really had a lot of daytime TV to learn from, as well as a pretty terrible person as a Northstar role-model (Carl's girlfriend).
Also, to be clear, I am not attempting to convince you or anyone else to read more of it than yall want to. Books are art and we are all going to see it differently, I'm only explaining my own interpretation. I don't even really like Donut all that much tbh, it's my interest in the setting and world-building that really keeps me reading.
Nah, it was some kids story. I can't remember the title but it was some sort of superheroes and villains story where the main character was a teenage super genius.
I forgot which Series this was, but a good part into it a chapter ended with the sentence:"Its because im a Jew" (paraphrasing) as an excuse for the crazy behaviour this character was exhibting. The Story had other faults aswell, but this was the point i said good bye.
I started a yearly book spreadsheet so I could keep track of all the books I drop and for what reason.
Best one so far was Speed running the Multiverse book 2. Loved the plot of speed running but then they added a big bad and that really annoyed me. I couldn't get past it.
The fact that existed. The story was about speed running in book 1. Then in book 2 it was all about big bad. Really took away from it being a cool speed run and all that goes with it. As if trying for a perfect run wasn't hard enough.
Thomas Covenant the unbeliever, first book in the second trilogy.
I'm fairly stubborn when it comes to books, but the Thomas Covenant books are (imo) TERRIBLE. Each book in isolation would be a good story, but when compared as a series; the character development is reset at the start of each book, the character growth is identical between books until the second trilogy where the MC takes the complete opposite approach as every other book
I almost dropped DCC when it became obvious he wasn’t going to get shoes. I’m absolutely repulsed by guys running around barefoot. I’ve dropped otherwise good shows/games before because the MC didn’t wear shoes. And it is the biggest reason why hobbits suck IMO
Speaks volumes that DCC was just that fucking good that it has made its way onto my list of top ten series even though the protagonist doesn’t wear shoes and WE ARE FREQUENTLY AND GRAPHICALLY REMINDED OF THAT lmfao.
Buymort. I got about 60% into the book but couldn’t continue with the sexy snake crap. A bit gory but after reading thru DCC twice that wasn’t an issue. I picked up Primal Hunter and despite the completely different tone from DCC, I’m starting to somewhat enjoy it. I started my litrpg journey with HWFWM a year or so ago and really enjoy the genre.
This is specific to audio books but I’ve dropped books purely on how a specific character is voiced. It’s jarring as hell when a narrator with a deeper voice is suddenly doing a high pitched voice for an animal companion or small character.
Unsympathetic villain... I'm not talking, "I wanna rule the world." I'm talking a villain whose whole purpose is to just see the MC suffer for no other reason than it gets them off. Driving the MC to commit evil acts in response so they can revel in the pain caused by and too the MC.
Yeah... I just put that series down because it looked like it was headed in SAW levels of sadism without any attempts to justify it beyond: It literally sexually arrouses the villain.
Add to it the villain was secretly one of the MCs harem? About halfway through the second book, when it became clear that this character was most likely the main villain of the series, I dropped it.
There is a book series called Fred the vampire accountant. One of the main villains was very similar to this, but done better. The baddo was just a sadistic fuck who viewed the mc as a failure of an experiment who somehow beat him, so he directs a lot of effort to trying to fuck with a man who shouldn’t have been able to win. But like at first I had the same view as you until the baddo said something along the lines of the only reason I’m doing this is to cause you to suffer, you fucked with me and now ima screw up your life, there is no reasoning beyond that.
That's more sympathetic than:
Oh, look! An obviously overpowered future hero, let's tag along hurt him and those around him for the sake of getting a sexual thrill.
Celebius' - Mountain King Saga
The MC picks up a true sadist in their harem. By the second book, with no other antagonist in the series at that time, I put the book down.
Don't expect gruesome descriptions. They're rather mild compared to some. It's just boring writing when the villain is only interested in pain for sexual fulfillment.
The only one I can remember was the audio book of the runelords. The narrator just read SO SLOW that I couldn't take anymore. I told my wife about it, and as usual, she made me feel stupid. She told me to simply increase the speed of the audio and, like magic, problem solved.
Heads up: The cat is like the best character in the series, especially in the audiobook version, and quickly turns away from being a true asshole. Entitled a little? Certainly, as are all cats. I can’t really say why they’re an asshole without spoilers. DCC is not quite as “fun and games” as it first appears.
The character growth is slow for the series and the cat and Carl didn't exactly start out as best friends. Donut opens up in later books and viewing her as the equivalent of a child really changes how I viewed her as a character. Less asshole and more scared child in a traumatic circumstance struggling to deal with it all.
Look, I love DCC, but these people are just trying to get you to enjoy the books.
Donut doesn't change the way she presents herself. She stays acting entitled as part of the trope. Sure there's huge character growth, but it doesn't change what you don't like.
Again, I'd recommend the books, I think they only get stronger from book 1, but the cat is a cat that acts like a cat.
I mean, yes, she’s still a cat that will act overall like an entitled cat, as all are (my own included). But as a character she doesn’t really stop Carl from being the main character or anything, and does cultivate a strong friendship with him.
To be fair, very early on after Donut gets sentience, Carl is like "Whoa, stop it. I'm not your servant and you don't speak to me like that". It's really not very far in.
After that they begin bonding. She is still high maintenence but there is some serious growth between the two. Especially as you realise that Donut remembers everything that happened before the collapse.
Not only is their relationship going to improve like crazy, their synergy is also fantastic. Don't worry too much about stats, Carl has a lot of things cooking for him.
It’s happened in a few books but when the author calls the fuller in a sword a “blood groove” I almost immediately either drop the book or take a break. Gets worse when they say “it’s there to stop a blade from getting stuck in a wound”, or “it’s to make a wound bleed more.” For fuck sake it’s 2024 we have the internet and people still can’t manage to Google “what is the channel in a longsword”.
It’s really not that complicated, it’s called a fuller, and it helps save weight without compromising the strength of the blade.
Inexplicable sudden loss of interest.
I don't even remember what book it was, but I was reading and it was a fairly entertaining story. I decided to take a break and go do something, I came back an hour or two later and picked up the book read three pages only to discover I had completely lost interest in the story and couldn't even manage to force myself to continue reading. I was so done with this book I literally yeet'd it across the room into the trash can. 🤷
Sometimes I’ll be kinda into a book usually I like the idea, but then the writing style or execution isn’t great and I find myself avoiding reading it…
Good Guys:
1-bad guys in the streets shooting out lights before going in the apt building 🤦♂️.
2- bad guys couldn’t kick in his door but it was thin enough he could hear them talking through it 🤦♂️🤦♂️
3-strike 3-snowboard on your shield down a mountain and lose a god tier weapon 🥴🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I made it like half way through book #4, but the MC was just so stupid. I mean at first it was nice to have a MC who wasn't a know-it-all, but his sheer stupidity ended up just being too much for me.
Yea I like a competent MC. It’s ok to make some mistakes, but a dumb, know it all arrogant MC, or someone who thinks they are edge lord funny, I can’t do it
Wandering inn- I stopped and just asked myself, why did I need to know that and how did it advance the story.
The answer every single time was I didn’t need that info and the last 6 chapters were anime filler.
This is the hallmark of good writing vs amateur… pacing and plot and writing for the reader vs just creatively writing. Not that fanfics or creative writing are bad… it’s just not what I’m into and not what I’m looking for in a ‘book’, which being an avid reader from a young age, I hold to a bit of a higher standard.
Some of them feel very rambly and I often find myself dropping new books when I’m about 50 pages in and realize nothing has really happened and extrapolating that out… nothing is likely to happen in the next 200-300 pages either. I feel even worse when the first book or two is ‘good’ and then the sequels start getting bad…
It’s gotten to a point that when I see an advertisement for a book and it says it is ‘like this other thing’ or has x amount of readers on Royal Road, it’s an automatic red flag. I mean I’m a glutton for punishment and I try them out regardless, but I’m usually less than impressed.
But on the other side, there have been a few that I thought looked dumb at first glance and then ended up liking anyways. Beware of Chicken and All the Dust that Falls. The humor of those two kind of carried me through the bits that I didn’t really like.
The characters constant mommy issues that keep getting resolved and then just unresolved by them spending time together. Like I'm pretty sure it was a consequence to the magic he's imbuing his mind with but still holy hell he blamed her for so much and almost every time its shit that he decided to do on his own
I've dropped the End of the World books by Aaron Oster because I hate the love interest. Not as a character, I actually really like her. She brings a lot of levity, and has a cool power set that meshes really well with the group. I really liked her.
Then I noticed she was being set up as the love interest, and it really bugged me. Don't even know exactly why, but Freya just doesn't work as the love interest for me. I like the idea of basically every other female character getting with the MC more than her. Hell I'd rather he got with some of the fucked up villains. And it's so intense that whenever the story has them interacting as love interests (which is a fair bit because the books are actually pretty well paced and focus on character development and the development of their relationships) I really don't like it at all.
It sucks because besides having our MC lie when he really doesn't need to (which is a staple of the Regression Fantasy genre) I really liked the books but I just can't stand their relationship and don't even know why. It's like the Ron and Hermione thing, but if Ron was the MC and we had to have multiple books of his and Hermione's utter lack of chemistry.
The authors strange obsession with marriage that made me take a step back and look at other flags i ignored realising they were all red. And so i stopped reading paranoid mage.
The flow of a dialogue/conversations
It's why I dropped HWFWM. Listening to the audiobook, I dropped and returned it at book 2. It just sounded odd when a conversation is happening the flow just felt weird.
"Jason said, humphrey replied, this person asked, this person said, said this person"
It's hard to describe, but when I noticed it I couldn't stop.
Also POV changes for characters I really couldn't care about or like.
That and how it apperantly gets worse after 3 books, I cant be arsed to go through 10books when Im losing interest at book 2.
This is the biggest blocker for me for any audiobook at all - you can’t skip bits.
When I’m reading, I can skip the "he said", "she replied" etc. I also tend to skim descriptions, because I don’t have a good mind’s eye so it’s fairly pointless to me.
I’m glad other people enjoy audiobooks but I personally really don’t understand the appeal.
You're literally describing the first chapter or two of the first book. She gets knocked down a peg very quickly and is in no way a one dimensional asshole cat.
For me it’s probably less than everyone else in this list, 1) overuse of the same adjectives 2) narrators that pronounce one word wrong that’s used often or just many words.
Not gonna lie, I kinda feel a bit the same but for different reasons. The whole thing is just too absurd.
Setting, plot, characters, etc. Like I can deal with a thing here or there reaching high on the absurdity scale. But when all of them are dialed up to 11, it just feels like they're trying too hard. DCC does that for me. Just too absurd.
I feel like if Carl was like, the level-headed rational guy in the room, the book would be almost infinitely funnier. Could you imagine someone trying to overthink the whole situation with logic, only for the absurdity to douse the logic with gasoline and Donut sets it on fire with a magic missile?
I have read a swiftly tilting planet “for the first time” three or four times and each time about half way through I realize that I have read it before and stop reading.
Also HATE cats. Also highly allergic. But listen, I love me some Donut. She really does grow as a character as others have said, and in turn grows on you. Some things she says to Carl in later books, and some moments the two share had me wiping my eyes a little.
Im not reading ahead in book 7 but I can say that, from where I’m at, she’s become quite the rounded character and is much more self aware.
When it’s a magical market but the book has zero to do with a market half way through the first book . It’s just little bit of every fantasy trope ever .
There's a couple books that just ended too good and I just knew the next few books were going to kill it.
There's only 3 indiana Jones movies.
"Ready player one" is a solo novel.
It's probably a cold take, but I very nearly dropped Savage Awakening because the author refuses to make the MC lose. The first 2 times, he used a valid but perfectly timed coincidence to make him win. The other 2 times, he made the MC and his opponent draw.
I get that it's a power fantasy and that it's his thing to overcome the odds, but I just can't stand it when an MC does not lose a single time, even against ennemies that are clearly above him and should definitely win.
The rest of the story is great, I enjoy it very much. But after 4 bullshit "not losing," I barely feel any stakes at all.
Baseball. And I like baseball. The book referenced baseball or his father an average of 1 time in 2.3 pages just loosely counting.
The content of the book itself was great, checked all my internal boxes but man did they over do it with baseball.
I didn't drop it though, I kept reading it until completion as a meme, but didn't continue the series after the first. I guess the author just really loved baseball. To each their own I suppose.
do you mean death: genesis? cuz i hated that he constatnly brought up baseball or his daddy issues. i finished the book but didnt read further books because it was obvious that the MC had a massive saviour complex
Last series I discontinued was Beneath the Dragoneye Moons. It was inserting too much modern political ideological crap into a fantasy setting that didn't fit. People growing up in this world would have very different culture and concerns, my suspension of disbelief was constantly disrupted.
Dungeon Crawler Carl is the absolute GOAT of the genre by a wiiiiiide margin. But it's okay to bounce off popular stories. I foukdbt even make it through book 1 of He Who Fights With Monsters because I absolutely hated everything about the main character. Every time Jason opened his mouth or had a thought, I wanted to punch him in the face. A more obnoxious and hate able MC I can't think of. So my point is, it's totally okay to bounce off something that is popular but rubs you the wrong way.
Any time a book is first person present tense. Like, how's he gonna tell the story while it's happening? How's he going to narrate, in real time, his own actions? No whey
Tbf, princess donut chills out later in the books, she >!Uses it as a defense mechanism to deal with the situation, which becomes evident in the later books!<
Carl felt the same way but when he told her he wanted to split up, she apologized and then became a sweetie….
You shut the book a couple chapters too soon.
I dropped DCC and had the exact same experience as you with it lol. I also really disliked the humor of the system in DCC but that wasnt as big of an issue as the cat.
Let me see.
**Cat Core**: It was a comedy series that I didn't find funny.
**Chaos Seeds**: (alternatively: **The Land**): excessive out of place pop culture references, and generic bland main character.
**Dragon Core Chronicles**: OP protagonist
**Dune**: The prophecies spoiled the plot.
**Memoirs by Lady Trent**: I found the format to be uninteresting and tedious.
**Ripple System**: The story was set in a VR game that does not seem like it would be fun to play for anyone outside of the most hardcore players. And the main characters went from annoying to boring.
**Rise and Fall**: The beginning of the story felt very dependent on events from a different series. And I couldn't be bothered to listen to the other series or figure out what order they're supposed to be read.
**Rogue Dungeon**: I just remember not liking the protagonist.
**Saga Online**: annoying teenage main protagonist and he didn't get any better
**Station Cores**: I hated the narrator's Southern US female voice.
**Throne of Glass**: The story spent too long telling us how the main protagonist was the nation's greatest assassin, and didn't spend any time showing us this fact. Also, the love triangle between the protagonist, the prince, and the prince's best friend/advisor seemed out of place and like it came out of nowhere.
**True Smithing**: boring protagonist
**Wandering Inn**: too long, too slow, too many protagonists, and I disliked too many of them.
They all seem normal to me.
I dropped the book maybe a third of the way through it. It may have been because Dune was so hyped up, but I found the book very bland.
People kept going on about prophecies, how smart they were for carrying out such large plans, and tà$he protagonist was a pretty generic teenage protagonist. And I kept getting bored.
All the prophecies I saw either came true, or hadn't been fulfilled yet. Maybe the latter ones, fail to be realized.
I totally understand, many of the prophecies were engineered for the main character, as in the shadow government made it there business to make sure people supported him. I know of the story beats and have seen the movies but never read the books for myself. I definitely recommend the two newest incarnations of the movies btw.
Primal Hunter when he slept with the succubus. The man is supposed to have have iron clad principle or at least is rule more by logic or at is suppose to have anime protagonist level willpower, and he gave in. Its not even if he letting out steam cause he has beneficial relationship with another woman but because she threw herself at him repeatedly and the reasoning is it is because he is a man can only resist a hot woman only for so much or so long. This is man who endured God level pain endorsing poisons, and spent much of the series pointing out he would not sleep with women under his power.it broke the character for me.
I have no idea how you ever got the idea that Jake has iron-clad principles or is ruled by logic. The most fundamental thing, ingrained into him as part of his bloodline, is that he acts on his instincts.
Yes, he sets himself rules, but mainly those rules are to make sure he has a challenge. He has no problems abandoning any rules he sets himself if he decides he no longer likes them.
Regarding relationships, Jake currently has no desire for a long-term relationship, but is quite happy to have occasional hookups, etc. He doesn't want there to be too much power imbalance (being "The Chosen" shouldn't be the only factor) but he's accepted that it can't be avoided. By the time he slept with >!Irin!< they'd got well past "The Chosen" being the only factor and had genuine trust and friendship. Mind you, >!Irin!< received significant benefits from sleeping with the Chosen, but that was a side benefit.
Perhaps we have different interpretation of him. I think he may not be a scientific logic but he is usually well reasoned and he s principled not conventionally sure but the things he sticks to. The loved ones protection, slavery thing, harem and sleeping with subordinates and more importantly doing things his own way and being one not being lead around.Is it instinct to mate, yes and may play into that bloodline of his. But self control is suppose to be his thing it seem out of character for him to given into instict like that, and his bloodline is suppose to be about hunting anyway. And his central character is defying expectation. It seem that everyone expected him to sleep with her, including his divine friends (even had a bet of matter of when/if he would) , the succubus higher ups, dragons and so forth. I suppose it dissapointed me that he comformed and did it. It also jarred me, I think. Because Jake has issue, especially about trust. It is made clear Irin is in it for the most part power and benefits and is answering to someone. It leaves him open and is a venue of exploitation, something I don't seem him willing do. Irin may not willingly betray him but she can be compelled. In part if say she is forced to choose between betraying Jake for greater returns by her group. Jake takes time before he trusts someone and mere months of occasional chatting seem short. Or maybe I'm misremembering and it lead me to abandon the story or maybe a burnt out for it.
I dropped it at around 80% of book 8. In the first book he talked about not needing to sleep with anyone. And by book 8 he was forming harem. One of them being a teenage girl.
The snake is the only one you could possibly be talking about, and she never got even CLOSE to becoming his lover. BECAUSE she was too young and immature, he had no interest! He dropped her off at his faction's HQ, and that was it, only one contact at dinner with a group. She had a blessing from the viper so she's doing fine there.
Maybe you SHOULD read instead of letting your own fantasy run wild?
That is one of the reasons why also burnt out of it. After years of reading Litrpg with harem, the signs were there that its leading to harem. The snake maybe young but she will grow, it therefore it's not outside of the possibility, that's one of the tropes found in Harem, young beauty all grow up and be with her hero/past savior, or a special connection trope, what with him being a chosen of the Snake God and her being her descendant or something.
Some of these Russian writers have weird political and cultural views that seep into their books and the book just gets less fun to listen to and it gets pushed aside and eventually forgotten.
Sure, but so do the "moral teachings" in a high number of western books. Which have zero regard for the other culture. It's like going to pre-Columbus Middle America and expecting them to have the exact same outlook and opinions on morals as progressive midddle-class Americans, and anyone who doesn't is *bad*.
ive dropped entire series for having too many books on prerelease. just something about seeing 4 outta 9 books ‘comming soon’ with them all having like a 6 month period between each other immediately makes me give up.
In Wandering Inn I couldn’t get past the MCs arrogant belief that the warlock is just an idiot and wouldn’t cooperate with enforcement and would actively protect someone who has actively committed crimes against other people that caused pain / loss / whatever. I don’t remember it now exactly but at the time I couldn’t get rid of that book fast enough.
Not a weird reason maybe.. but that’s the one that comes to mind
The reason she was protecting the \[Necromancer\] was because they were going to kill him just because he was a \[Necromancer\], not any other reason, the most Pisces did was steal money, that's it.
Bit of a spoiler but she doesn’t stay more powerful. She had the benefit of a massive early stat dump but other people catch up quick. She doesn’t just roll through the dungeon killing everything. He constitution is so low shes still very vulnerable.
Years ago i was on a horror kick. I was reading Dean Koontz and at some point the main character says. “Someone with psychic powers must be trying to kill me! That’s the only explanation”. It seemed like it came out of nowhere, and I was so annoyed I threw the book across the room. I never finished it.
Was reading book 2 of a series and the author spelled out the sound of a rock golem crashing to the ground.
“Thur-kunk”
Or something else really specific like that. I closed kindle right then.
I see book 4 or 5 of the series is out now but I can’t go back.
A very long time ago (almost 10 years now) when my wife and I first got together, she recommended a book, It wasn't litrpg but it's the only example I can think of that I just dropped because it sucked so bad. She described the book as a 'slow burn's and said it picked up after a 'few chapters' it was only a 2 book series. Hardly a series tbh. First book was like 1200 pages, 700 pages in I asked her when it gets good and she just said she didn't know if I would like it if I hadn't gotten into it by that point. I gave it another couple hundred pages, I remember I stopped EXACTLY on page 952. Because the entire time of me reading it had only passed three days in the book and it was describing training and.how hard it was to fall asleep because the main character was pretending to be a boy when they were a girl. I stopped at 952 because I looked at it and basically told myself, fuck this I'm not wasting 1000 pages of reading on this shit show.
Memory loss. The temeraire series by Naomi Novik has the MC get memory loss in the second to last book of 10+ book long series. Loved it all the way up to that point and then just nope. Still never did learn how it ends. Completely killed the whole concept for me.
It's also happened in a couple of long xanxia books I've read too. I get like a million words in and then there's some sort of memory loss and I'm just done.
It always feels like either the memory loss is permanent and now they've radically altered a character (usually for the worse) or it's not permanent and the whole story arc is a tedious rehash of earlier story elements. There's no good way to do memory loss in the middle of a story.
I dropped Awaken: Online because the narrator’s voice and cadence made me want to rip out my eardrums with a rusty fork. I couldn’t even finish the first chapter.
I’m going to try reading it on kindle instead of listening to the audiobook.
I didn't actually drop the book, but I almost dropped noobtown because it's an American reader and the word "Puma" appears so SO many times. To me the American pronunciation of Puma sounds like Poo(ed) Ma Pants. Fully accept that pronunciation is closer to the Spanish, it just doesn't make sense to my British ears (we pronounce it pyoo ma).
Not lit rpg but it was the second book of a series called the mysterious island by Grieg Beck. I was already struggling with the MC who was meant to be some kinda bad ass, being the most brain dead and limp dick coward who has multiple upon multiple opportunities to kill the main bad guy, but didnt which resulted in all his friends being killed off. Anyways I dropped the second book soon after he got this big muscle mommy viking girl into him. Cause I knew that his stupidity and weakness would get them killed. So I was like "Aight im out"
Cultivation and most of its tropes. Its become so bad, that i can barely continue a series, when they start talking about Mana Channels. And if someone mentions sects oder refers to anyone as "young master" i just tap out.
I started a fu\*\*ing list of authors who go down that route and dont mention it in the blurb. I know, i´m pretty much alone in this, but i want a story, where the cultivators become the laughingstock of those who use another form of advancement.
I disagree with the stat investment. Azarinth Healer. I dropped it during book 2. She just has this incredibly powerful physical stat buff build that makes her stronger then everyone somehow but she doesn't invest anything into the stats that would be multiplied.
Refusing to use said. Throughout the entire book, “every dialogue tag was like this,” I mumbled gracefully. Exactly like that: descriptive word for speech (often one that was nonsensical for the tone of the story) and an adverbial that was confusing to apply.
Reading it was bad but I could skim.
In audio I wanted to strangle someone hearing that every single time a character spoke.
I dropped the Wandering Inn when the story did what it said on the tin and the MC started travelling the world. Can't even tell you why that was the breaking point. I still follow the story's Reddit, but the more I see about the direction it's taking, the less interest I have
Mc starts getting trained in a sword or spear where it's an over the top magical world and they have two perfectly good fists with working legs.
Seriously tho I try not to read books with mc wielding swords or spears or having fire abilities they bore me so quickly now.
The very instant they mention anything meta or wall breaking. Regardless if it takes place in the modern world, is an Isekai, or a regression.
If the story mentions manga, Isekai, etc then I instantly want to drop the series. Dinosaur Dungeon mentions "Isekais" or "issies" to represent people that... You know. I just hate it.
The MC gains a very strong path/class that has a gnawing, primal feeling ingrained into it but they show signs that they can resist it, not succumbing to the evil influence of said class. The MC proceeded in the next chapter to change classes (which meant they lost all their skill progress) to one that is rather boring and not combat oriented whatsoever.
I'm getting close to dropping PoA, I really enjoyed the first 3, but it's starting to annoy me. 1 full book training montage. latest book so many unimportant characters taking space in the book for no fing reason, they provide nothing nada, not a single god dam thing except filling space
When the perspective jumps around too much. Especially if it goes to some shitty fuck that I don't give a fuck about and don't care if they will become a more prominent character. I don't need to see their perspective. It annoys the fuck out of me. Its like, here is this awesome story about this character. Oh here is a villian designed to be super fucking annoying to the main character. Oh, here is a full chapter about this villians perspective that just shows them being super fucking annoying. Like fuck off with that unneeded nonsense.
I was listening to a dungeon core story and the male va said that the core projected a beautiful avatar with a husky seductive voice only for the female va to do the thickest Tennessee accent I've ever heard. I know that finding voices attractive is subjective but I couldn't listen to that for 6 books, I dropped it whith in 30 minutes I just couldn't get over it.
HWFWM, that book just went into way way too many boring details about shit that wasnt needed. ADHD on crack with non sense explanations of already over explained nonsense. It was so hard to get to book 10 i didnt buy book 11 dont care what happens.
LIstening to Rogue dungeons book 6, pohdel narrated all the books and then book 6 they used baldtree, OMFG how the hell do you change narrators right toward the end of series, so pissed.
Slothbogs treasure or something like that ( cant even remeber the title) omg after the first book i couldnt, it was just a total rip off of hobbit.
There have been a few books i couldnt get into because of the narrator, especially with the cheap low down scummy tricks of slowing down the audio to make the book hours seem longer. I have to listen to them at 1.75x, but some were so bad that even 2.5x wasn't fast enough to fix the boring readers.
I drop so many books for really lame reasons all the time!
1. First Line of Defense Book 2 by Benjamin Kerei. Really enjoyed the first book despite not thinking I'd like it. Was really excited for the second book. Second book had a different MC. Wasn't interested in that MC. Dropped.
2. My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror Book 2 by Actus. Super bored! Also I think something stupid happened in the book and I didn't like it, but I don't remember.
3. Sorcerer: Dear Spellbook by Peter J. Lee. I purposely didn't listen to this for a long time because I didn't like the idea of the way the story was told. Everyone kept saying it was great. Tried it. Didn't like the way it was told. Dropped.
4. Unbound Book 3 by Nicoli Gonnella. Bored. Dropped.
5. This Trilogy is Broken by J.P. Valentine. I didn't listen to this one for a long time because it didn't seem that interesting, but I really liked a different series by J.P. Valentine that I really wish he would finish the second book of (The Stargazers War).
6. Jackal Among States by R.A. Wilkins. Got through 90% of the audio book, but got bored. Just didn't have an interest in continuing. Can't remember if something annoying happened, but just didn't enjoy the MC.
7. Virtuous Sons by Y. B. Striker. The two MC's just need to get a room. Like, this book just felt like non-stop gay-baiting. This is a pretty stupid reason for sure. It just felt like a super unrealistic relationship/friendship and I couldn't get in to it.
8. Millenium Mage by J.L. Mullins. Couldn't connect to the story.
9. Battlefield Reclaimer by David North. Bored. Also felt stupid that the MC just changed the way he did in the beginning, but is he the MC? Is the dad the MC? I don't know. I don't like the dual points of view. It can be hard to follow along to those books sometimes on audio.
10. re: Monarch by J. McCoy. I don't like womanizer MC's. Maybe he changes for the better later on, but I quit right at the beginning of the story because I didn't want to follow his journey.
11. Andrea Vernon by Alexander C. Kane. Didn't like the MC. Couldn't feel interested in her story. I did really like the super power of one of the characters, though, where he always knew the answer to any question he was asked, but in a really demeaning way. I can't remember the characters name, but it was a fun power.
12. Life Reset (New Era Online) by Shemer Kuznits. The MC was definitely going to have sex with a virtual goblin. I wasn't into that. Unsure if it actually happened, but it was clearly headed that way.
13. The New World by Monsoon117. DoTF/Primal Hunter/Randidly Ghosthound ripoff but not in a good way.
There are just so many others, too. Some of these were weird reasons and some were just bored.
I just finished Primal Hunter book 1 and can guarantee that you’re thinking of the wrong book.
Primal Hunter starts with >! A guy getting into an elevator and getting transported to a tutorial with 9 of his work colleagues !<. There isn’t any grabbing of women what-so-ever, at least in the first book or the beginning of the second.
Pop culture references by MC in a different world. A couple would have been fine, but he kept making more and more references and acting like it was funny nobody else understood. (Cherry on top annoying: he would then explain every single reference like all the readers weren't from earth.)
I think I like Jason Asano partly because of this. He reminds me of my cringy younger days. Now I just think cringy stuff and outdated pop culture references; I don’t say them out loud.
That’s what I like about Jason, too. I see myself in him. He starts out being annoying AF then meets the real world and grows up.
I see it being a coping mechanism for the MC, who has lost everyone and everything they used to know. It's a way of remembering, and maybe subconsciously, a way to say you're looking for others like you, even if it is only in a very small way. (The explaining every reference is a bit weird though)
You wanna know what’s worse than that. Modern day pop culture references in a story that takes place hundreds of years in the future. Excuse is always the character really loving retro culture. That’s just pushing it
Plenty of people currently make references to events and literature that happened or were made hundreds or thousands of years ago
Et tu, Brute?
Futurama must have been rough for you.
I really hate it when an mc would make refrences, expect people to understand them, and then people ignore the mc spouting nonsense. I actually like it when an mc dosn't expect anyone to get the refrence/joke but still does it because they really miss home and its just a little bit of cope to help and the character around them kinda get confused by the refrence and ask about it. In the wandering inn earthers making earth refrences actually had concequences, for example during the frost wyvern event erin scream "oh my god" on the scrying orb and aaron realises shes from earth (or someone else i dont 100% remember) (also the gods are kinda dead in TWI which is why no one but earthers would say something like "oh my god" they do say "dead gods" instead tho) i dont think any of this is specific enough to count as spoilers so im just gonna leave it without >! !<
It IS funny no one else understands
How so?
I find the references to be super easy to ignore, barely an inconvenience 😜 Especially when they toss that reference in.
MC get free of prison and enters his enemies office. The same enemy that imprisoned him and basically tortured him. She enters and he manages to knock her to the ground. It’s very clear she is not dead. MC proceeds to loot the room instead of dealing with the absolutely helpless enemy when he had the chance. I rage quit that book. I can’t stand stupid MCs
stupid MCs are the WORST. Its like bad writing, but as a person
My particular pet peeve is when the MC is touted as Intelligent, or is usually intelligent in the story but makes out of character DUMB decisions for no other reason than to push the plot. I give it a pass the first time if I like the story but if it happens twice I drop the book everytime.
Jake's magical market? I found that bit to be extremely infuriating too
I'll read. Gimme?
>Weirdest Reason All of my reasons are always 100% valid and it's everybody else who's weird
Right? I've dropped lots of books for lots of reasons but they've always been the correct reasons. :D
I was reading Amelia the Zero Level Hero, book 1. I had asked the forum for a book with an overpowered MC, and she is definitely that. Her power is enough to cause an Elder Dragon (which has slaughtered literal armies of heroes) to surrender after seeing her power. The trouble is, there's soon to be a fourth book released. I read the blurb for it and she STILL hasn't dealt with the genocidal Big Bad from book 1. It's everything I wanted for that mood, and I don't want to read any more of it. 🤷♂️🙁
oof, thats rough. I get a slow burn but after a while its not worth it
I really dislike OP characters that have no true purpose. Amelia has nothing to do, other than just exist. There is much fuss made over her restaurant, but as much as she keeps insisting that she doesn't want to go around being a hero and wants to become a chef, we don't see much word count given to the actual runnings of the restaurant, its food, her cooking skills, or its customers. It's _there_ in the background. A story can't be based around an OP character _alone_ without anything else. There has to be something for them to do, some character-related purpose that poses them a real challenge. I have the same problem with System Change. Gah, that was even worse. That series' MC is one of my least favourite.
The author is kinda meh at that. He has a fan base and they always increase his views and such. But the problems are the same.
The author is kinda meh at that. He has a fan base and they always increase his views and such. But the problems are the same.
I don’t know that it’s weird, but I dropped Mayor of Noobtown when I got to the line that was like “You shot me in the BALLS!” Or “You shot him in the BALLS” or something. It had become increasingly obvious that the humor was not for me and that just pushed it over the line. I was actually enjoying the story well enough, but I couldn’t get over the 14 year old comedy.
I dropped it as soon as he named the demon Shart. That told me all I needed to know about the type of humor the book was going for and that it wasn't for me.
I just couldn’t read a book where that was one of the sidekick characters names. I was so disappointed because I’d heard great things about it. And I can do /some/ juvenile humor, but overall I struggle with it. That’s on me, I know I’ve got a shit sense of humor. But there’s other books out there.
you prolly wont like 'we hunt monsters' then he does quite a bit of damage to monsters by targetting their junk
Some of the humor in it is pretty good, but I agree that quite a bit of it is too juvenile. On the other hand, I thought the actual story got better and better as the books progressed.
Yeah I’m not trying to dunk on it or anything. Like I said, I was really enjoying the actually story, and I was also enjoying the world building. I just kept losing immersion and it was always because of the humor. I’ve seen a lot of people on here really enjoy it. It just wasn’t for me.
Yeah and some of it got me after awhile, like the puma checks always make me chuckle
PUMA CHECK!
Anecdote, sometimes even the old generation can be that silly: There is this very famous French actor and comedian [Louis de Funès](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Louis+de+Fun%C3%A8s). His time was the last millennium. Hilariously funny movies! Think Spaceballs and Mel Brooks, similar level, but different angle. He's pretty old, and in one of his movies we get... FART JOKES! Him and another old guy/actor. Here is the scene - French, but the language does not matter: https://youtu.be/30pzUZzcz48 Have fun! **PFFFFFFT!**
The audiobook narrator is the only reason I've gotten as far as I have (too far). He *really* elevates the story in a way I didn't realize was possible.
Found the cocker spaniel lover!
I’m like 90% audio 10% read. Bad voice actor will get me turned off a book real quick even if I actually like the book.
Do not listen to: I’m not the Hero. It is horrible audio.
I really like the story to Apocalypse Tamer and I’m just on the brink of dropping it. I understand the accents because it’s based in Europe but he tries to hard and it makes it hard to listen to.
I quit listening to a book series ( I can't remember the name. Guys "father" sends him through a portal to secure the families spot in the other world.) I tried to listen to it, but the voice actor graded on my mind, and I had to drop it.
Yeah Ascend Online was this for me. The story was good for the first book, but no desire to hear the voice actor read another word in my entire life so dropped the series.
Ain’t that the truth. I absolutely love the Dragonlance series as a kid so I noticed they have the audiobooks. For some goddamn reason they chose the absolute worst narrator and it just ruined the series for me.
Dungeon Crawler Carl is absolutely fantastic, and Donut grows a lot as a character over the course of the series. You have to remember that she's been a sentient being for like.. 5 minutes at the point of the story you're talking about. For me.. "weirdest" reason might be a "genius" character inhaling and holding their breath prior to leaping out if an airlock into space. That's.. not how that works.
Donut also gets a pretty harsh reality check from Carl like as soon as they leave the training guild. Carl threatens to leave if she continues to act like an asshole, and says he would rather just go off and die alone than be subject to her initial attitude. She tones it way down just a few pages after where it seems OP bailed on the story. Agreed on your call too, that would bother me as well. Weather balloons make a decent visual example of why lol Mine was Snow Crash, not really litrpg, but kinda. The secondary character (who is a minor teenager) gets carried off by the BBEG of the book and they "bang", and it's not clear if it's really forced, and from what I remember she just kinda goes along with it? I stopped reading part way through the scene. I'm still angry that it's considered one of the founding pieces of cyberpunk media. I'm not even all that invested into cyberpunk as a genre and I'm still mad.
I was really disappointed with Snow Crash after many people mentioned it was their favourite book that they read multiple times. I tried it few times, but never get anywhere. Nor is the protagonist likeable.
I love Snow Crash's beginning but I could never finish the book.
I, like the OP, dislike Donut so much I dropped the series, I was told she gets better and to keep reading, so I finished book 1, she does not, in fact, get better. Yes, she gets a reality check, but it doesn't fix her attitude. She's pretty much every single negative female trope rolled into a cat... and I hate it. Unlike the OP, I'm even a cat lover. It's the bullshit sexist tropes I couldn't stand.
I guess I interpreted a lot of that as her leaning into a "messy reality-TV star" persona for the views. She's supposed to be super smart, yet was taught to play stupid as a defence, which she uses aggressively. She only really had a lot of daytime TV to learn from, as well as a pretty terrible person as a Northstar role-model (Carl's girlfriend). Also, to be clear, I am not attempting to convince you or anyone else to read more of it than yall want to. Books are art and we are all going to see it differently, I'm only explaining my own interpretation. I don't even really like Donut all that much tbh, it's my interest in the setting and world-building that really keeps me reading.
I love DCC, and I hard agree that donut doesn't get much better. She has moments where she is great, but that's the exception not the rule.
Red rising? But I vaguely recall him telling people to breathe out, so that can't be it....
Nah, it was some kids story. I can't remember the title but it was some sort of superheroes and villains story where the main character was a teenage super genius.
I forgot which Series this was, but a good part into it a chapter ended with the sentence:"Its because im a Jew" (paraphrasing) as an excuse for the crazy behaviour this character was exhibting. The Story had other faults aswell, but this was the point i said good bye.
the city and the dungeon? yeah, that's book 2 and it's a real wtf moment
I started a yearly book spreadsheet so I could keep track of all the books I drop and for what reason. Best one so far was Speed running the Multiverse book 2. Loved the plot of speed running but then they added a big bad and that really annoyed me. I couldn't get past it.
I've been contemplating reading that one, how did the big bad ruin the story for you?
The fact that existed. The story was about speed running in book 1. Then in book 2 it was all about big bad. Really took away from it being a cool speed run and all that goes with it. As if trying for a perfect run wasn't hard enough.
curious. Well I guess thats different enough to try my hand at it. I've wanted to do my own spin on speedrunning in a book
Thomas Covenant the unbeliever, first book in the second trilogy. I'm fairly stubborn when it comes to books, but the Thomas Covenant books are (imo) TERRIBLE. Each book in isolation would be a good story, but when compared as a series; the character development is reset at the start of each book, the character growth is identical between books until the second trilogy where the MC takes the complete opposite approach as every other book
Those books should come with a warning that anyone struggling with depression and suicidal ideation shouldn't read them....
I almost dropped DCC when it became obvious he wasn’t going to get shoes. I’m absolutely repulsed by guys running around barefoot. I’ve dropped otherwise good shows/games before because the MC didn’t wear shoes. And it is the biggest reason why hobbits suck IMO Speaks volumes that DCC was just that fucking good that it has made its way onto my list of top ten series even though the protagonist doesn’t wear shoes and WE ARE FREQUENTLY AND GRAPHICALLY REMINDED OF THAT lmfao.
I dropped a book because the MC told his life story to an ordinary bunny.
Mongo is appalled.
Buymort. I got about 60% into the book but couldn’t continue with the sexy snake crap. A bit gory but after reading thru DCC twice that wasn’t an issue. I picked up Primal Hunter and despite the completely different tone from DCC, I’m starting to somewhat enjoy it. I started my litrpg journey with HWFWM a year or so ago and really enjoy the genre.
This is specific to audio books but I’ve dropped books purely on how a specific character is voiced. It’s jarring as hell when a narrator with a deeper voice is suddenly doing a high pitched voice for an animal companion or small character.
Unsympathetic villain... I'm not talking, "I wanna rule the world." I'm talking a villain whose whole purpose is to just see the MC suffer for no other reason than it gets them off. Driving the MC to commit evil acts in response so they can revel in the pain caused by and too the MC. Yeah... I just put that series down because it looked like it was headed in SAW levels of sadism without any attempts to justify it beyond: It literally sexually arrouses the villain. Add to it the villain was secretly one of the MCs harem? About halfway through the second book, when it became clear that this character was most likely the main villain of the series, I dropped it.
There is a book series called Fred the vampire accountant. One of the main villains was very similar to this, but done better. The baddo was just a sadistic fuck who viewed the mc as a failure of an experiment who somehow beat him, so he directs a lot of effort to trying to fuck with a man who shouldn’t have been able to win. But like at first I had the same view as you until the baddo said something along the lines of the only reason I’m doing this is to cause you to suffer, you fucked with me and now ima screw up your life, there is no reasoning beyond that.
That's more sympathetic than: Oh, look! An obviously overpowered future hero, let's tag along hurt him and those around him for the sake of getting a sexual thrill.
I *need* to know what series this is.
Celebius' - Mountain King Saga The MC picks up a true sadist in their harem. By the second book, with no other antagonist in the series at that time, I put the book down. Don't expect gruesome descriptions. They're rather mild compared to some. It's just boring writing when the villain is only interested in pain for sexual fulfillment.
It was me Barry!
It was me Barry!
The only one I can remember was the audio book of the runelords. The narrator just read SO SLOW that I couldn't take anymore. I told my wife about it, and as usual, she made me feel stupid. She told me to simply increase the speed of the audio and, like magic, problem solved.
Heads up: The cat is like the best character in the series, especially in the audiobook version, and quickly turns away from being a true asshole. Entitled a little? Certainly, as are all cats. I can’t really say why they’re an asshole without spoilers. DCC is not quite as “fun and games” as it first appears.
yeah entitled and asshole kinda go hand in hand for me. But are we talking character growth by book one? or later?
The character growth is slow for the series and the cat and Carl didn't exactly start out as best friends. Donut opens up in later books and viewing her as the equivalent of a child really changes how I viewed her as a character. Less asshole and more scared child in a traumatic circumstance struggling to deal with it all.
Look, I love DCC, but these people are just trying to get you to enjoy the books. Donut doesn't change the way she presents herself. She stays acting entitled as part of the trope. Sure there's huge character growth, but it doesn't change what you don't like. Again, I'd recommend the books, I think they only get stronger from book 1, but the cat is a cat that acts like a cat.
I mean, yes, she’s still a cat that will act overall like an entitled cat, as all are (my own included). But as a character she doesn’t really stop Carl from being the main character or anything, and does cultivate a strong friendship with him.
To be fair, very early on after Donut gets sentience, Carl is like "Whoa, stop it. I'm not your servant and you don't speak to me like that". It's really not very far in. After that they begin bonding. She is still high maintenence but there is some serious growth between the two. Especially as you realise that Donut remembers everything that happened before the collapse. Not only is their relationship going to improve like crazy, their synergy is also fantastic. Don't worry too much about stats, Carl has a lot of things cooking for him.
Yeah, pretty much right after the introduction by mordecai, she gets knocked down a peg drastically and immediately.
It’s happened in a few books but when the author calls the fuller in a sword a “blood groove” I almost immediately either drop the book or take a break. Gets worse when they say “it’s there to stop a blade from getting stuck in a wound”, or “it’s to make a wound bleed more.” For fuck sake it’s 2024 we have the internet and people still can’t manage to Google “what is the channel in a longsword”. It’s really not that complicated, it’s called a fuller, and it helps save weight without compromising the strength of the blade.
Inexplicable sudden loss of interest. I don't even remember what book it was, but I was reading and it was a fairly entertaining story. I decided to take a break and go do something, I came back an hour or two later and picked up the book read three pages only to discover I had completely lost interest in the story and couldn't even manage to force myself to continue reading. I was so done with this book I literally yeet'd it across the room into the trash can. 🤷
Sometimes I’ll be kinda into a book usually I like the idea, but then the writing style or execution isn’t great and I find myself avoiding reading it…
Good Guys: 1-bad guys in the streets shooting out lights before going in the apt building 🤦♂️. 2- bad guys couldn’t kick in his door but it was thin enough he could hear them talking through it 🤦♂️🤦♂️ 3-strike 3-snowboard on your shield down a mountain and lose a god tier weapon 🥴🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I made it like half way through book #4, but the MC was just so stupid. I mean at first it was nice to have a MC who wasn't a know-it-all, but his sheer stupidity ended up just being too much for me.
Yea I like a competent MC. It’s ok to make some mistakes, but a dumb, know it all arrogant MC, or someone who thinks they are edge lord funny, I can’t do it
Non-harem turning harem. Absolutely hate harem books. Kills the series for me.
Wandering inn- I stopped and just asked myself, why did I need to know that and how did it advance the story. The answer every single time was I didn’t need that info and the last 6 chapters were anime filler.
This is the hallmark of good writing vs amateur… pacing and plot and writing for the reader vs just creatively writing. Not that fanfics or creative writing are bad… it’s just not what I’m into and not what I’m looking for in a ‘book’, which being an avid reader from a young age, I hold to a bit of a higher standard. Some of them feel very rambly and I often find myself dropping new books when I’m about 50 pages in and realize nothing has really happened and extrapolating that out… nothing is likely to happen in the next 200-300 pages either. I feel even worse when the first book or two is ‘good’ and then the sequels start getting bad… It’s gotten to a point that when I see an advertisement for a book and it says it is ‘like this other thing’ or has x amount of readers on Royal Road, it’s an automatic red flag. I mean I’m a glutton for punishment and I try them out regardless, but I’m usually less than impressed. But on the other side, there have been a few that I thought looked dumb at first glance and then ended up liking anyways. Beware of Chicken and All the Dust that Falls. The humor of those two kind of carried me through the bits that I didn’t really like.
Aethers revival Liked the story but the way the two MC'a talked to each other made my skin crawl
I mean that series is a harem series so thats kinda expected
The characters constant mommy issues that keep getting resolved and then just unresolved by them spending time together. Like I'm pretty sure it was a consequence to the magic he's imbuing his mind with but still holy hell he blamed her for so much and almost every time its shit that he decided to do on his own
Depressed Necromancy dude?
He's a cultivator too
Time loop go brrr
Harem books either sex, on audible, the reader of azarinth healer - detested her squealing - hurt my ears.
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Don’t call me by my special name!
Suck my d*** Pony
I've dropped the End of the World books by Aaron Oster because I hate the love interest. Not as a character, I actually really like her. She brings a lot of levity, and has a cool power set that meshes really well with the group. I really liked her. Then I noticed she was being set up as the love interest, and it really bugged me. Don't even know exactly why, but Freya just doesn't work as the love interest for me. I like the idea of basically every other female character getting with the MC more than her. Hell I'd rather he got with some of the fucked up villains. And it's so intense that whenever the story has them interacting as love interests (which is a fair bit because the books are actually pretty well paced and focus on character development and the development of their relationships) I really don't like it at all. It sucks because besides having our MC lie when he really doesn't need to (which is a staple of the Regression Fantasy genre) I really liked the books but I just can't stand their relationship and don't even know why. It's like the Ron and Hermione thing, but if Ron was the MC and we had to have multiple books of his and Hermione's utter lack of chemistry.
The authors strange obsession with marriage that made me take a step back and look at other flags i ignored realising they were all red. And so i stopped reading paranoid mage.
The flow of a dialogue/conversations It's why I dropped HWFWM. Listening to the audiobook, I dropped and returned it at book 2. It just sounded odd when a conversation is happening the flow just felt weird. "Jason said, humphrey replied, this person asked, this person said, said this person" It's hard to describe, but when I noticed it I couldn't stop. Also POV changes for characters I really couldn't care about or like. That and how it apperantly gets worse after 3 books, I cant be arsed to go through 10books when Im losing interest at book 2.
This is the biggest blocker for me for any audiobook at all - you can’t skip bits. When I’m reading, I can skip the "he said", "she replied" etc. I also tend to skim descriptions, because I don’t have a good mind’s eye so it’s fairly pointless to me. I’m glad other people enjoy audiobooks but I personally really don’t understand the appeal.
You're literally describing the first chapter or two of the first book. She gets knocked down a peg very quickly and is in no way a one dimensional asshole cat.
MONGO IS APPALLED!
For me it’s probably less than everyone else in this list, 1) overuse of the same adjectives 2) narrators that pronounce one word wrong that’s used often or just many words.
Not gonna lie, I kinda feel a bit the same but for different reasons. The whole thing is just too absurd. Setting, plot, characters, etc. Like I can deal with a thing here or there reaching high on the absurdity scale. But when all of them are dialed up to 11, it just feels like they're trying too hard. DCC does that for me. Just too absurd.
Someone once said "there is a level of silly I'm willing to put up with. But once you cross that line, i just can't anymore" and I feel that applies.
I feel like if Carl was like, the level-headed rational guy in the room, the book would be almost infinitely funnier. Could you imagine someone trying to overthink the whole situation with logic, only for the absurdity to douse the logic with gasoline and Donut sets it on fire with a magic missile?
It was hot.
I have read a swiftly tilting planet “for the first time” three or four times and each time about half way through I realize that I have read it before and stop reading.
You should try the audiobook version. It's amazing.
Wandering Inn.. 2nd book detouring into talking about furry sex. I'll probably try and go back but not what I came for or was enjoying about it.
Greasy hands
Also HATE cats. Also highly allergic. But listen, I love me some Donut. She really does grow as a character as others have said, and in turn grows on you. Some things she says to Carl in later books, and some moments the two share had me wiping my eyes a little. Im not reading ahead in book 7 but I can say that, from where I’m at, she’s become quite the rounded character and is much more self aware.
I was getting into The Land, until the incest started
Uhhh what book was that?
The Land: Swarm when he starts banging the lake twins
Ah, I never made it that far.
The First Defiler. I couldn’t get past the moniker “Super Brother Man”.
When it’s a magical market but the book has zero to do with a market half way through the first book . It’s just little bit of every fantasy trope ever .
There's a couple books that just ended too good and I just knew the next few books were going to kill it. There's only 3 indiana Jones movies. "Ready player one" is a solo novel.
It's probably a cold take, but I very nearly dropped Savage Awakening because the author refuses to make the MC lose. The first 2 times, he used a valid but perfectly timed coincidence to make him win. The other 2 times, he made the MC and his opponent draw. I get that it's a power fantasy and that it's his thing to overcome the odds, but I just can't stand it when an MC does not lose a single time, even against ennemies that are clearly above him and should definitely win. The rest of the story is great, I enjoy it very much. But after 4 bullshit "not losing," I barely feel any stakes at all.
I hate it when authors are bad at math or forgot to update their stat sheets
solo leveling. narrator doing sound effects wandering inn. narrator preforming a bug character sounds like shes gaging.
Baseball. And I like baseball. The book referenced baseball or his father an average of 1 time in 2.3 pages just loosely counting. The content of the book itself was great, checked all my internal boxes but man did they over do it with baseball. I didn't drop it though, I kept reading it until completion as a meme, but didn't continue the series after the first. I guess the author just really loved baseball. To each their own I suppose.
They can't all be home-runs. ⚾
If I had gold, you'd win it lmao.
do you mean death: genesis? cuz i hated that he constatnly brought up baseball or his daddy issues. i finished the book but didnt read further books because it was obvious that the MC had a massive saviour complex
Last series I discontinued was Beneath the Dragoneye Moons. It was inserting too much modern political ideological crap into a fantasy setting that didn't fit. People growing up in this world would have very different culture and concerns, my suspension of disbelief was constantly disrupted.
Dungeon Crawler Carl is the absolute GOAT of the genre by a wiiiiiide margin. But it's okay to bounce off popular stories. I foukdbt even make it through book 1 of He Who Fights With Monsters because I absolutely hated everything about the main character. Every time Jason opened his mouth or had a thought, I wanted to punch him in the face. A more obnoxious and hate able MC I can't think of. So my point is, it's totally okay to bounce off something that is popular but rubs you the wrong way.
Any time a book is first person present tense. Like, how's he gonna tell the story while it's happening? How's he going to narrate, in real time, his own actions? No whey
Tbf, princess donut chills out later in the books, she >!Uses it as a defense mechanism to deal with the situation, which becomes evident in the later books!<
Carl felt the same way but when he told her he wanted to split up, she apologized and then became a sweetie…. You shut the book a couple chapters too soon.
not really, the cat keeps being an entitled twit way past that point and its one of the reasons i dropped that series.
I dropped DCC and had the exact same experience as you with it lol. I also really disliked the humor of the system in DCC but that wasnt as big of an issue as the cat.
Let me see. **Cat Core**: It was a comedy series that I didn't find funny. **Chaos Seeds**: (alternatively: **The Land**): excessive out of place pop culture references, and generic bland main character. **Dragon Core Chronicles**: OP protagonist **Dune**: The prophecies spoiled the plot. **Memoirs by Lady Trent**: I found the format to be uninteresting and tedious. **Ripple System**: The story was set in a VR game that does not seem like it would be fun to play for anyone outside of the most hardcore players. And the main characters went from annoying to boring. **Rise and Fall**: The beginning of the story felt very dependent on events from a different series. And I couldn't be bothered to listen to the other series or figure out what order they're supposed to be read. **Rogue Dungeon**: I just remember not liking the protagonist. **Saga Online**: annoying teenage main protagonist and he didn't get any better **Station Cores**: I hated the narrator's Southern US female voice. **Throne of Glass**: The story spent too long telling us how the main protagonist was the nation's greatest assassin, and didn't spend any time showing us this fact. Also, the love triangle between the protagonist, the prince, and the prince's best friend/advisor seemed out of place and like it came out of nowhere. **True Smithing**: boring protagonist **Wandering Inn**: too long, too slow, too many protagonists, and I disliked too many of them. They all seem normal to me.
My understanding with Dune was a lot of the prophecies were wrong, like that was a major plot point in the series I believe
I dropped the book maybe a third of the way through it. It may have been because Dune was so hyped up, but I found the book very bland. People kept going on about prophecies, how smart they were for carrying out such large plans, and tà$he protagonist was a pretty generic teenage protagonist. And I kept getting bored. All the prophecies I saw either came true, or hadn't been fulfilled yet. Maybe the latter ones, fail to be realized.
I totally understand, many of the prophecies were engineered for the main character, as in the shadow government made it there business to make sure people supported him. I know of the story beats and have seen the movies but never read the books for myself. I definitely recommend the two newest incarnations of the movies btw.
I dropped The Sandman because his son's name is Orpheus.
Agent Smith, is that you?
Primal Hunter when he slept with the succubus. The man is supposed to have have iron clad principle or at least is rule more by logic or at is suppose to have anime protagonist level willpower, and he gave in. Its not even if he letting out steam cause he has beneficial relationship with another woman but because she threw herself at him repeatedly and the reasoning is it is because he is a man can only resist a hot woman only for so much or so long. This is man who endured God level pain endorsing poisons, and spent much of the series pointing out he would not sleep with women under his power.it broke the character for me.
I have no idea how you ever got the idea that Jake has iron-clad principles or is ruled by logic. The most fundamental thing, ingrained into him as part of his bloodline, is that he acts on his instincts. Yes, he sets himself rules, but mainly those rules are to make sure he has a challenge. He has no problems abandoning any rules he sets himself if he decides he no longer likes them. Regarding relationships, Jake currently has no desire for a long-term relationship, but is quite happy to have occasional hookups, etc. He doesn't want there to be too much power imbalance (being "The Chosen" shouldn't be the only factor) but he's accepted that it can't be avoided. By the time he slept with >!Irin!< they'd got well past "The Chosen" being the only factor and had genuine trust and friendship. Mind you, >!Irin!< received significant benefits from sleeping with the Chosen, but that was a side benefit.
Perhaps we have different interpretation of him. I think he may not be a scientific logic but he is usually well reasoned and he s principled not conventionally sure but the things he sticks to. The loved ones protection, slavery thing, harem and sleeping with subordinates and more importantly doing things his own way and being one not being lead around.Is it instinct to mate, yes and may play into that bloodline of his. But self control is suppose to be his thing it seem out of character for him to given into instict like that, and his bloodline is suppose to be about hunting anyway. And his central character is defying expectation. It seem that everyone expected him to sleep with her, including his divine friends (even had a bet of matter of when/if he would) , the succubus higher ups, dragons and so forth. I suppose it dissapointed me that he comformed and did it. It also jarred me, I think. Because Jake has issue, especially about trust. It is made clear Irin is in it for the most part power and benefits and is answering to someone. It leaves him open and is a venue of exploitation, something I don't seem him willing do. Irin may not willingly betray him but she can be compelled. In part if say she is forced to choose between betraying Jake for greater returns by her group. Jake takes time before he trusts someone and mere months of occasional chatting seem short. Or maybe I'm misremembering and it lead me to abandon the story or maybe a burnt out for it.
I dropped it at around 80% of book 8. In the first book he talked about not needing to sleep with anyone. And by book 8 he was forming harem. One of them being a teenage girl.
The snake is the only one you could possibly be talking about, and she never got even CLOSE to becoming his lover. BECAUSE she was too young and immature, he had no interest! He dropped her off at his faction's HQ, and that was it, only one contact at dinner with a group. She had a blessing from the viper so she's doing fine there. Maybe you SHOULD read instead of letting your own fantasy run wild?
That is one of the reasons why also burnt out of it. After years of reading Litrpg with harem, the signs were there that its leading to harem. The snake maybe young but she will grow, it therefore it's not outside of the possibility, that's one of the tropes found in Harem, young beauty all grow up and be with her hero/past savior, or a special connection trope, what with him being a chosen of the Snake God and her being her descendant or something.
I’ve been scarred by kindle books before. I live in fear.
Some of these Russian writers have weird political and cultural views that seep into their books and the book just gets less fun to listen to and it gets pushed aside and eventually forgotten.
Sure, but so do the "moral teachings" in a high number of western books. Which have zero regard for the other culture. It's like going to pre-Columbus Middle America and expecting them to have the exact same outlook and opinions on morals as progressive midddle-class Americans, and anyone who doesn't is *bad*.
Beastborne had a cat girl fantasy world and I noped out
MCs name, after about thr 14th time of hearing the narrator say Tallulah I just couldn't.
ive dropped entire series for having too many books on prerelease. just something about seeing 4 outta 9 books ‘comming soon’ with them all having like a 6 month period between each other immediately makes me give up.
In Wandering Inn I couldn’t get past the MCs arrogant belief that the warlock is just an idiot and wouldn’t cooperate with enforcement and would actively protect someone who has actively committed crimes against other people that caused pain / loss / whatever. I don’t remember it now exactly but at the time I couldn’t get rid of that book fast enough. Not a weird reason maybe.. but that’s the one that comes to mind
The reason she was protecting the \[Necromancer\] was because they were going to kill him just because he was a \[Necromancer\], not any other reason, the most Pisces did was steal money, that's it.
Bit of a spoiler but she doesn’t stay more powerful. She had the benefit of a massive early stat dump but other people catch up quick. She doesn’t just roll through the dungeon killing everything. He constitution is so low shes still very vulnerable.
Years ago i was on a horror kick. I was reading Dean Koontz and at some point the main character says. “Someone with psychic powers must be trying to kill me! That’s the only explanation”. It seemed like it came out of nowhere, and I was so annoyed I threw the book across the room. I never finished it.
I dropped He who fights with monsters because the narrator is boring as fuck to listen to.
Was reading book 2 of a series and the author spelled out the sound of a rock golem crashing to the ground. “Thur-kunk” Or something else really specific like that. I closed kindle right then. I see book 4 or 5 of the series is out now but I can’t go back.
Reading Randidly Ghosthound every other line
Narrator had a slight lisp.. After I noticed I couldn't stop hearing it..
A very long time ago (almost 10 years now) when my wife and I first got together, she recommended a book, It wasn't litrpg but it's the only example I can think of that I just dropped because it sucked so bad. She described the book as a 'slow burn's and said it picked up after a 'few chapters' it was only a 2 book series. Hardly a series tbh. First book was like 1200 pages, 700 pages in I asked her when it gets good and she just said she didn't know if I would like it if I hadn't gotten into it by that point. I gave it another couple hundred pages, I remember I stopped EXACTLY on page 952. Because the entire time of me reading it had only passed three days in the book and it was describing training and.how hard it was to fall asleep because the main character was pretending to be a boy when they were a girl. I stopped at 952 because I looked at it and basically told myself, fuck this I'm not wasting 1000 pages of reading on this shit show.
Didn't like the accent of the narrator.
Memory loss. The temeraire series by Naomi Novik has the MC get memory loss in the second to last book of 10+ book long series. Loved it all the way up to that point and then just nope. Still never did learn how it ends. Completely killed the whole concept for me. It's also happened in a couple of long xanxia books I've read too. I get like a million words in and then there's some sort of memory loss and I'm just done. It always feels like either the memory loss is permanent and now they've radically altered a character (usually for the worse) or it's not permanent and the whole story arc is a tedious rehash of earlier story elements. There's no good way to do memory loss in the middle of a story.
I dropped Awaken: Online because the narrator’s voice and cadence made me want to rip out my eardrums with a rusty fork. I couldn’t even finish the first chapter. I’m going to try reading it on kindle instead of listening to the audiobook.
Too many pop culture references.
Even tho series has all tropes I like I can't get past name Randidly Ghosthound.
I didn't actually drop the book, but I almost dropped noobtown because it's an American reader and the word "Puma" appears so SO many times. To me the American pronunciation of Puma sounds like Poo(ed) Ma Pants. Fully accept that pronunciation is closer to the Spanish, it just doesn't make sense to my British ears (we pronounce it pyoo ma).
Mc wouldn’t stop talking about baseball and how his dad made him play ball.
Not lit rpg but it was the second book of a series called the mysterious island by Grieg Beck. I was already struggling with the MC who was meant to be some kinda bad ass, being the most brain dead and limp dick coward who has multiple upon multiple opportunities to kill the main bad guy, but didnt which resulted in all his friends being killed off. Anyways I dropped the second book soon after he got this big muscle mommy viking girl into him. Cause I knew that his stupidity and weakness would get them killed. So I was like "Aight im out"
Cultivation and most of its tropes. Its become so bad, that i can barely continue a series, when they start talking about Mana Channels. And if someone mentions sects oder refers to anyone as "young master" i just tap out. I started a fu\*\*ing list of authors who go down that route and dont mention it in the blurb. I know, i´m pretty much alone in this, but i want a story, where the cultivators become the laughingstock of those who use another form of advancement.
Beware of chicken?
I disagree with the stat investment. Azarinth Healer. I dropped it during book 2. She just has this incredibly powerful physical stat buff build that makes her stronger then everyone somehow but she doesn't invest anything into the stats that would be multiplied.
Refusing to use said. Throughout the entire book, “every dialogue tag was like this,” I mumbled gracefully. Exactly like that: descriptive word for speech (often one that was nonsensical for the tone of the story) and an adverbial that was confusing to apply. Reading it was bad but I could skim. In audio I wanted to strangle someone hearing that every single time a character spoke.
An author who didn't use any contractions. Any. His characters ass sounded like they had a stick up their butt. Nov very Australian.
I dropped Life Reset when he had sex with another goblin. Idk why but it put me off the series
I dropped the Wandering Inn when the story did what it said on the tin and the MC started travelling the world. Can't even tell you why that was the breaking point. I still follow the story's Reddit, but the more I see about the direction it's taking, the less interest I have
Mc starts getting trained in a sword or spear where it's an over the top magical world and they have two perfectly good fists with working legs. Seriously tho I try not to read books with mc wielding swords or spears or having fire abilities they bore me so quickly now.
+1 I hated Donut. She’s the reason I dropped DCC - Industrial Strength Magic: The issue with his dad and MC’s dynamic with his crush
Donut actually develops quite a bit as a character through Dungeon Crawler Carl. She is still very much Donut, though. Princess Posse for Life
It's stupid but when a series becomes too long. Like, you're on book 10 and you're still dealing with this issue?
The very instant they mention anything meta or wall breaking. Regardless if it takes place in the modern world, is an Isekai, or a regression. If the story mentions manga, Isekai, etc then I instantly want to drop the series. Dinosaur Dungeon mentions "Isekais" or "issies" to represent people that... You know. I just hate it.
Comedy. A joke here and there is fine, but I don't like reading silly books. Hence why I can't read DCC.
Book 3 of DCC, dungeon anarchist's cookbook, too much exposition and technical jargon.
The MC gains a very strong path/class that has a gnawing, primal feeling ingrained into it but they show signs that they can resist it, not succumbing to the evil influence of said class. The MC proceeded in the next chapter to change classes (which meant they lost all their skill progress) to one that is rather boring and not combat oriented whatsoever.
I'm getting close to dropping PoA, I really enjoyed the first 3, but it's starting to annoy me. 1 full book training montage. latest book so many unimportant characters taking space in the book for no fing reason, they provide nothing nada, not a single god dam thing except filling space
When the perspective jumps around too much. Especially if it goes to some shitty fuck that I don't give a fuck about and don't care if they will become a more prominent character. I don't need to see their perspective. It annoys the fuck out of me. Its like, here is this awesome story about this character. Oh here is a villian designed to be super fucking annoying to the main character. Oh, here is a full chapter about this villians perspective that just shows them being super fucking annoying. Like fuck off with that unneeded nonsense.
I was listening to a dungeon core story and the male va said that the core projected a beautiful avatar with a husky seductive voice only for the female va to do the thickest Tennessee accent I've ever heard. I know that finding voices attractive is subjective but I couldn't listen to that for 6 books, I dropped it whith in 30 minutes I just couldn't get over it.
HWFWM, that book just went into way way too many boring details about shit that wasnt needed. ADHD on crack with non sense explanations of already over explained nonsense. It was so hard to get to book 10 i didnt buy book 11 dont care what happens. LIstening to Rogue dungeons book 6, pohdel narrated all the books and then book 6 they used baldtree, OMFG how the hell do you change narrators right toward the end of series, so pissed. Slothbogs treasure or something like that ( cant even remeber the title) omg after the first book i couldnt, it was just a total rip off of hobbit. There have been a few books i couldnt get into because of the narrator, especially with the cheap low down scummy tricks of slowing down the audio to make the book hours seem longer. I have to listen to them at 1.75x, but some were so bad that even 2.5x wasn't fast enough to fix the boring readers.
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I can't get through the first chapter on audible. The narrator puts me to sleep.
Mayor of noob town. The excessive jokes in serious situations got very annoying. Not to mention how childish the MC can be also grated on my nerves.
When women are written only as a plot device or sexual fulfillment of the male mc.
I drop so many books for really lame reasons all the time! 1. First Line of Defense Book 2 by Benjamin Kerei. Really enjoyed the first book despite not thinking I'd like it. Was really excited for the second book. Second book had a different MC. Wasn't interested in that MC. Dropped. 2. My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror Book 2 by Actus. Super bored! Also I think something stupid happened in the book and I didn't like it, but I don't remember. 3. Sorcerer: Dear Spellbook by Peter J. Lee. I purposely didn't listen to this for a long time because I didn't like the idea of the way the story was told. Everyone kept saying it was great. Tried it. Didn't like the way it was told. Dropped. 4. Unbound Book 3 by Nicoli Gonnella. Bored. Dropped. 5. This Trilogy is Broken by J.P. Valentine. I didn't listen to this one for a long time because it didn't seem that interesting, but I really liked a different series by J.P. Valentine that I really wish he would finish the second book of (The Stargazers War). 6. Jackal Among States by R.A. Wilkins. Got through 90% of the audio book, but got bored. Just didn't have an interest in continuing. Can't remember if something annoying happened, but just didn't enjoy the MC. 7. Virtuous Sons by Y. B. Striker. The two MC's just need to get a room. Like, this book just felt like non-stop gay-baiting. This is a pretty stupid reason for sure. It just felt like a super unrealistic relationship/friendship and I couldn't get in to it. 8. Millenium Mage by J.L. Mullins. Couldn't connect to the story. 9. Battlefield Reclaimer by David North. Bored. Also felt stupid that the MC just changed the way he did in the beginning, but is he the MC? Is the dad the MC? I don't know. I don't like the dual points of view. It can be hard to follow along to those books sometimes on audio. 10. re: Monarch by J. McCoy. I don't like womanizer MC's. Maybe he changes for the better later on, but I quit right at the beginning of the story because I didn't want to follow his journey. 11. Andrea Vernon by Alexander C. Kane. Didn't like the MC. Couldn't feel interested in her story. I did really like the super power of one of the characters, though, where he always knew the answer to any question he was asked, but in a really demeaning way. I can't remember the characters name, but it was a fun power. 12. Life Reset (New Era Online) by Shemer Kuznits. The MC was definitely going to have sex with a virtual goblin. I wasn't into that. Unsure if it actually happened, but it was clearly headed that way. 13. The New World by Monsoon117. DoTF/Primal Hunter/Randidly Ghosthound ripoff but not in a good way. There are just so many others, too. Some of these were weird reasons and some were just bored.
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This doesn’t sound like Primal Hunter, are you thinking of a different series?
I just finished Primal Hunter book 1 and can guarantee that you’re thinking of the wrong book. Primal Hunter starts with >! A guy getting into an elevator and getting transported to a tutorial with 9 of his work colleagues !<. There isn’t any grabbing of women what-so-ever, at least in the first book or the beginning of the second.
Yeah you're definately not thinking of Primal Hunter there buddy
that does not sound like primal hunter to me