He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure by Shirtaloon
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He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure

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Shirtaloon

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4.7

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Jason wakes up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters.It’s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil.He’ll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and that’s just on the first day. He’s going to need courage, he’s going to need wit, and he’s going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, he’s going to need pants.After cementing itself as one of the best-rated serial novels on Royal Road with an astonishing 13 million views, He Who Fights with Monsters is now available on Kindle. It's perfect for fans of Pirate Aba, Dakota Krout, and Luke Chmilenko.

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ISBN-13

979-8712811786

Print length

678 pages

Language

English

Publisher

Independently published

Publication date

February 22, 2021

Dimensions

6 x 1.7 x 9 inches

Item weight

2.21 pounds


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B08X6DRRNB

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3919 KB

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STRANGE BUSINESS

Jason woke up naked, face down in the grass. That was not how he expected to wake up, since he had gone to sleep in his own bed and his own Darth Vader boxer shorts. From the feel of cool grass on his unmentionables, he had been removed from his bed and shorts both. The last thing he recalled was doing what he did most nights: playing video games until he got tired and then fumbling his way into bed.

The grass he woke up on was weirdly comfortable; a dense bed of lush green softness. It wasn’t like any grass he had encountered before, which was a little unusual. His father was a landscape architect, and Jason had grown up learning more about grass than he ever wanted to know. Mostly because it was the only escape from his mother’s Japanese lessons.

Jason rolled himself over and sat up. He was feeling odd, beyond just the unusual circumstances. It wasn’t a bad sensation, more like waking up after a really long sleep. There was the lingering sopor, but also a feeling of refreshed energy. He ran a hand over his head, only to be startled when he realised his hair was missing.

“Uh…”

He felt about his head with both hands, but his head was balloon smooth. He made a quick check with his eyes and hands, realising there was no hair anywhere on his body. No eyebrows, nothing on his chest, or arms, or… other places.

“I thought it was meant to look bigger when you trimmed.”

He pushed himself to his feet and started assessing his environment. Casting his gaze to the sky, he saw that the sun was high and the air was warm. The sky was unbroken blue, the blazing orb burning away so much as the merest hint of cloud. Sunburn, more than cold, was likely to threaten his exposed extremities.

Looking around, he saw that he was boxed in between two long, tall hedges. Glancing up and down the dead-straight lane, side-junctions headed off at sharp right angles in either direction. The lane itself was wide and grassy, with plenty of room for unconscious sprawling. The hedge walls were meticulously trimmed.

After an unhappy glance down at his bald, naked body, he set off at random to explore. He quickly discovered he was in a hedge maze, the living walls cultivated to almost twice Jason’s height. Jason’s first thought was to climb one to get a better sense of his location, but a closer examination of the hedges changed his mind. Instead of the usual boxwood, the hedges were something very prickly, and he was very naked. He looked up and down the path he was on, with neither direction looking any better than the other.

“What the bloody hell is going on?”

As if in response to his question, something appeared in front of him. It looked like a touch screen, floating in the air, disembodied. He reached out to touch it with an experimental finger, the screen shimmering as his finger passed straight through. “Hologram?”

He looked at the ground and the nearby hedges for some kind of projector, but as he started moving, the screen followed. There was text on the screen, which he read.

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Shirtaloon

Shirtaloon

Shirtaloon was working on a very boring academic paper when he realised that writing about an inter-dimensional kung fu wizard would be way more fun.


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4.7 out of 5

16,875 global ratings

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Kindle Customer

5

Action packed with a side of wit

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024

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This book is amazing. The action scenes are great, the world highly detailed, and the protagonist witty and humorous that will have you chuckling and reading every word. I highly recommend to any fans of LITRPG.

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MoeC

MoeC

5

Worth the read

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2024

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I’ll start this review by saying that this is a fantastic read, plenty of character growth, a great balance of story to fighting scenes. It will keep you interested and entertained throughout.

The magic build, the world and the adventure are well done. Easy to comprehend and enjoyable.

A solid 4.85 star book.

As to negatives, this writer has a tendency to both write too much and too little at the same time. There are areas where more detail would not leave gaps in the story, and other areas where unnecessary information convolutes the storyline. However, not enough to overshadow a great story.

Definitely worth the read.

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Syd

Syd

5

5 I Want To Try Baking Into A Pie Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2021

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He Who Fights with Monsters is the first book in the LitRPG Adventure series by Shirlatoon.

I was honestly just craving some LitRPG goodness in my life, and thought to take a chance when this book popped up on my suggestions feed. I’m so beyond glad I did. This book starts off firing us into dangerous hair-brained situations, rife with death-defying stunts and crazy new magical abilities and instances. (I mean cannibals, really?)

Jason is such a every-man name for the one mysteriously and randomly plucked from reality, divested of all his hair, and deposited onto a whole new world. (In a whole new universe??) Jason turns into this slightly scary, probably (extremely) dangerous, political genius, who’s very good at people. (I meant what I said.) His powers are all evil and despairing-sounding. That he laughs kind of maniacally on occasion shouldn’t be, by any stretch, truly surprising. Like somehow licking into an apocalypse summon made of leeches and called a horror wasn’t a good indicator that he might be a mite eccentric.

Having a few (four?) gods/goddesses pop up occasionally was widely intriguing. I loved how varying their personalities and fields were. I mean dominion? Like—> Please chill.

So many interesting secondary characters. The trio from the beginning: Rufus; sword master, man on means, kind of big deal apparently, carries the world on his shoulders, needs to learn to relax. Gary; leonid (see: lion man), has a summon that ridiculously destructive, strong, oh and did I mention STRONG?! Farrah; throws lava like it’s candy, part of magic society, would’ve liked to study Jason as her specimen, crazy about taking magic theory seriously, is somehow both amazingly smart, and ridiculously beautiful, but also crazy freaking powerful, strong, and deadly. (Also has stupidly destructive summons).

Then there’s Jory, who is an all around decent guy. Runs a apothecary/clinic for the poor to get some healing (since the church of Healer is apparently stingy). Protects his friends almost to the degree that Jason does.

Oooooh! And Clive who’s a lot like Farrah in the Magic scholar aspect. Has a freaking ridiculously amazing HUGE runic tortoise. That may, or many not, be my spirit animal. Just saying.

And all of that without even getting into the many monsters, cray little hedgehogs, giant spiders (duh), so many different and progressively weirder types of trolls, these freaky little creepy trap weaver things. No thank you to all of it. But they’re all amazing to read about. I absolutely ADORE the world building. It is entirely too addictive. Give me more now, I need my fix. And yet still you have to consider the increasingly hectic and out there adventures or rather dangerous killing/capturing missions Jason and co. set out to take on throughout this book. All while navigating the undercurrents of political machinations constantly weaving an uncertain web of constraint. Which I have no idea how Jason is so incredibly (incredulously) good at both mastering this arena while still upsetting and inviting the ire of so many. (Perhaps those go hand in hand.)

I so wish the second book was already out so I could devour it in a day. I need it.

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