The Plainswalker

Excellent book Science fiction, Lit RPG, and real science blended into an engaging and entertaining tale. Three strong characters, not counting sentient blades, that are all well developed and different helps keep the story moving. Highly recommended, and looking forward to the next book.......more

Rothman hits a home run Not quite fantasy, not quite science fiction but a good blend of both. Entertaining thriller with solid world building. I’m ready for the next book. Don’t miss the addendum at the end where he delves briefly into the science behind the magic......more

Decent start, but goes downhill fast. The setup and concept of the world is an interesting enough twist on things, though it is not relevant to the story as far as I can tell. It is isekai with a baton handoff from vague sci-fi to fantasy. If it had been a magic portal or recalcitrant god or a reinc......more

An Inter-Dimensional Fantasy that didn’t quite work for me. This book is described as an epic fantasy LitRPG and so I had high hopes after my recent experience reading ‘He Who Fights With Monsters’ that it would tick those same boxes. Well, it ticked some but not many for me. I could not see what was......more

The author describes this as LitRPG and he is not wrong in that. While I certainly am an avid reader of SF/F (as that's the vast majority of what I read), I also enjoy Japanese media. Thus, as soon as I was more than a few pages in, my first thought was, "He's written an isekai!" Indeed, about the on......more