/lit/ - Literature

>>20624349
>Bros has anyone here read the wandering inn? Thinking of trying it but not sure if it's worth it, couldn't see anything in the threads about it.

>>20383455
>maybe I will give it a chance then. Is there anything that makes it particularly worth reading?
It's late and I am going to bed, so I'll just picrel my old recommendation of TWI, sorry. But I wholeheartedly recommend it.

>>20315580
>is this worth reading? it's in my backlog but I'm hesitant because main character is a girl, not saying this in an incel-ish way
Erin, the main character, is not a typical protagonist, period. She's an Innkeeper, but it doesn't mean she doesn't do stuff, the opposite really. You don't need to worry about the character being written weird, characters are TWI's biggest strength. TWI, for me, is one of the best Fantasy stories ever written. If you wanna know more, look picrel of my earlier write-up on it.

>>20293445
Definitely The Wandering Inn, it's an Epic Fantasy story, with a lot of Slice of life elements. Above all, it posses that classical fantasy feeling that many stories never manage to achieve.
Honestly, just read my earlier shilling picrel

>>20251425
>Hey resident Wandering Inn shill, sell me on this story as someone who has zero interest in litRPG, what does this story have to offer that the other 100 webnovels don't?
Picrel my earlier TWI shilling, but if you want to know how it's better than other webnovels, then for one it's not a normal LitRPG that's focused on 'numbers go up,' the entire idea of characters having Levels and Skills comes from DnD and table-top games rather than computer games, so it's purpose is different than other systems, serving the story rather than the reverse. It was started in 2016, and the author said (IIRC) that they didn't really know of LitRPGs back then, it was something created in parallel to tge genre, not a part of it.

Quality-wise, it's head and shoulders above 95% of webnovels. When I say I read thousands of books and would still The Wandering Inn top 50 of everything I've read, I mean it. It's an amazing Epic Fantasy with original characters and great characterization, with plot that is incredibly epic and yet full of slice of life. It's honestly unlike any other story I've read, it seems very basic on the surface, with basic fantasy elements such as goblins, dragons and other fantasy races, but the execution of the idea is amazingly good. If you don't like typical LitRPGs, or even the genre, TWI is very likely to be enjoyable to you. The 'system' in the story isn't actually some thing in the background that just exists and serves as quick dopamine shot from seeing numbers going higher, but has its own important place in the story.

As I said in the earlier post, the rewrite is coming, so if you are willing to wait to the next year you are likely to experience a better version of the first volume. However, after thinking on it, I don't think people should really wait for the rewrite if they are interested in the story. The first volume isn't bad, but only decent. It contains only a sliver of the greatness that comes later. Back then the author was still figuring things out with their writing, the earlier volumes are very different from the later ones. As it is, the first two volumes are just decent, the third one being a bit less liked due to certain events, however if you get to the fourth you will see how the entire thing starts to roll and with Volume 5 you will realize you are reading the better part of literature. Volumes 6, 7 and 8 are knocking everything out of the park, but by the time you get to them you will already know.

In case you think: 'But I don't want to wait before I get to the good part,' the earlier volumes aren't bad. Just not as good as the later ones. The first three volumes are also only 15% of the entire story, as it grows with every volume. I personally considered dropping the story a lot during the first three volumes, Main Character was really insufferable at times, but there were things that kept me in. Now I am glad I kept reading, because TWI is top 10 of the best stories I've read in my life.