Russell Gray's Reviews > He Who Fights with Monsters 3

While I still enjoyed the book overall, my enthusiasm for this series has deflated quite a bit. There are a variety of reasons for this, some are specific to me while others are evidently not, as evidenced by multiple lukewarm reviews by other fans of the series.

There were a lot of typos and grammar mistakes in this book. This was even after the update that corrected the most grievous errors. It might not bother everyone, but the issues were prevalent enough to be a distraction and this book probably had more mistakes than the previous two combined.

The semi-omniscient 3rd person pov combined poorly with a slowdown in pacing to the point where I skimmed regularly. I don't really care about the specific details of a fight when there are no stakes involved. If this story was a movie, then there would have been montages to show the passage of time and growth of strength, but nothing else of import. The skill descriptions were a bit too long and frequent for my tastes as well since I've never really considered this a hard or 'crunchy' litrpg. When mana cost is simply referred to as 'low, moderate, or high', then I don't really need to see page after page of skill info.

The joy of discovering a new world and game mechanics has faded for me and now I'm finding the story a bit slow and unengaging. I still look forward to the next book, but I also hope that the series ends there or with Book 5.