One thing has become clear to me in the decades of my reading experience. Character driven stories win every time. Dungeon Crawler Carl has the structure of a LITRPG and the spectacle of a video game, but focuses entirely on the characters and how they interact and develop within the created world within a world. Jeff Hays skillfully peels the curtain back one glimpse at a time as he reveals his much larger story – always through the commentary and development of the characters.
Cannot consume these books fast enough.