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NPCs (Spells, Swords, Stealth Book 1) by Drew Hayes.
Quick synopsis: Adventures in a D&D-like world.
Brief opinion: [Originally read in 2015, review here.] Ten years ago I rated this book as "Loved", but a decade later I had the opposite feeling about it.
Plot: The story started in the real world. A group is playing
Their characters got killed and the story shifted to the game world -- how all the NPCs in the game world react to four people just falling over dead (the PCs had earlier eaten poison mushrooms by mistake).
The story follows four NPCs and they take the roles the PCs had had -- they become adventurers.
Writing/editing: The writing style didn't work for me and there were a couple of editing issues.
What I Liked/What I Didn’t Like: I liked the idea of this story, but for some reason it was such a slog to get through. I kept wanting to DNF it from the 20% point or so on, but I had loved it in 2015, so I thought the issue was me.
By the 50% point I didn't care what the issue was, I just wanted to DNF it, but instead I kept pushing through. I finished it, but I wish I had dropped it early on -- I didn't enjoy it at all at any point.
Rating: 1-Hated / 2-Disliked / 3-Okay / 4-Liked / 5-Loved: ⭐️⭐️ - Disliked
DNF #31: The Werewolf's Guide to Life: A Manual for the Newly Bitten by Ritch Duncan and Bob Powers. A fiction non-fiction book. As the title says, it was like a reference manual for werewolves. No plot, just a reference manual.
There was nothing wrong with it, and it was even kind of interesting, but without a plot I had no drive to read it. Still, I got more than a third of the way through it.
DNF #32: The Misfit Soldier by Michael Mammay. I really disliked the main character and the writing style, so I checked reviews and saw my initial feeling on the book was correct (plus it's sexist, though I hadn't gotten far enough in to see that yet). DNFed early on.
