amazing concept. beautifully executed

as a fan of fantasy and dystopian future, It's good to see it mixed together in a way that works. only negative point I have is how early into its production. I found it 😆

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Must get for Alchemy fans!

Engaging, "hard to put down" story that just sucks you into the world. The sense of adventure and the unquenchable thirst of Kadia's curiosity combined with her meticulous descriptions of her experiments makes for a really entertaining combination.

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Well made

a good book that is enjoyable to read.

the book starts out sounding more dystopian than it is, with those not contributing to society being digitally uploaded to other worlds. with the bonus that any disability is removed in that world, it even has connections to the real world.

writing is good, with a focus on the struggles of our mc as she is wrongly sent to digitalisation, along with an exploration of the world's alchemy, which have a for bit of explosion and exploration that you follow along with in a way few things feel like it is just for a scene and forgotten.

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I was not expecting such a good story

I have listened to quite a few of these 'isekai' and 'VRMMO' titles before, and most end up quite disappointing. So I went into this one without any expectations.

From the very first chapter the story was compelling and introduced in a very natural way the reason for the VRMMO part. From there, the story was carried on by this initial premise and bloomed into a wonderful mix of MMORPG, mistery drama and plenty of pop culture references for the average gamer to pick up on.

This honestly has become my favourite series, sometimes it's a bit slow in parts due to how many recepies are followed, but they always have a purpose to why they are done.

This is a series worth a listen to. The really emotional parts hit hard, the comedy is on point and the know-how on the way MMOs (and their communities) work shows that the author had a passion when researching the topic.

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a perfektly alright book

not every book has to be exelent somethimes beeing just alright is something of an achivement when your choice of genre weighs you down so mutch.

TLDR: its alright, not a combat story and passes teh "you need to be this tall to be remotely interesting threshold with room to spare

first of this is ome of the buy now prolific "trapped in a game world" genre witch means it has to contend with both the handfulle of titans and the todal wave of generic slop its lined upp alongside.

to its credit it not only passes the bare minimum buy doing something with the sentral genre premise: that most the of action takes place in a game, i will not spoil how but it is not meerly present in the first few chapters and then basikly forgotten abaut later on.
it also spends relatively little time on the largely tension-less combat of a world were death has no real meaning and rather focuses on "academic" discovery and charkter relationships.

no the paticular trait that lets this story stand out is its delving into the consepts of clasical alchemy, if you have tasted its edges in full metal alchemist then you will find a far deeper dive in this series.
to intersperce the "enlightend pholosopy" you get sotial relationships, with a belivable cast of charakters that are cleverly limited in scope buy the narative structure.

owerall a worthwile book that manages to portray a game world withou relying on the crutches that are massive stat-sheets and numerical procretion.

oh and this bears mentioning: contains what feels like real charakters behaving natrualy, this is not a "OP harem cheat maxlevel upber-rare & uknike class with cute sidekick" story, the main charakter has pets, relationships are clearly a part of the world but not realy something the charakter is interested in, other people are high level combat junkies and the charakter is thankfully not all that interested in the games combat grind and the author seems to quickly realize or know that it is in fact not that engaging so she gets to move on.

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Not for me

Sadly the MC is privileged, childish, vindictive, small minded, egotistical and whines constantly. I do understand the circumstance she finds herself is awful, perhaps these character traits are due to this, but it doesn't stop her from being someone who I'd instantly dislike on meeting.

Saying that, I did enjoy some of the alchemy insights, however, there was little action and it's very flighty in subject. Overall, not a bad book, quite interesting in places and concept, but it really isn't for me due to the mc.

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