C. M. Carney

A solid 3-3.5, the MC didn’t seem to truly have to struggle much, too easy, the parallels with will wright’s cradle are clear, not a bad thing really.

I made it about 40% in, listening to the audible version. The Narrator performance is really good, and is the main reason I listed this as a 3 star. The MC is written to be a certain way but has regularly made decisions contrary to how he was written so far in the book. Also it's pointed out multiple times that he doesn't play games and has never played a mmorpg but he knows what a lifehack is? It just hit a point for me that I can't suspend disbelief anymore and will move on to something else.

Mostly a dungeon crawl.
Agent gets a hint from his sister to go to a virtual world. Has a super badass artifacat and equipps it right next to the bad overlord. a bit dumb. then a long dungeon crawl with an end that is a bit too much meta thinking. Anyway - a readable litrpg. wonder what comes next. (and the book would have gained from an editor.)