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finished this recently and enjoyed it quite a lot. the one thing i thought was weird was that literally none of the main characters die. for a cataclysmic ending you'd expect some more deaths but it just ends abruptly and somewhat awkwardly. in general there are a lack of character deaths in this book.

also, what should i read next?

>>23366654
when the world is overly racist/sexist/has slavery (in an unrealistic way) so that the author can preach through the main character. i get that a fantasy world may have societal issues but making it the focus and yapping about it so much puts me off.

>>21677049
Azarinth Healer #1 by Rhaegar

[Plot]

Ilea is just a normal teenage girl... except for a promising kickboxing career (that she avoids due to the idea of bad knees in her future) and her future as a doctor with her local university. Unfortunately she's stuck working at a fast food place. Returning home after another terrible day, she falls asleep only to awaken in an entirely new world called Elos. There's two suns... and mountains that nearly cover the skyline. Ilea is forced to defend herself against a group of wolves that back her into a cave. Barely surviving, she receives a system message that her stat values have been re-evaluated and she teleports... into a sealed room.

In this room are several training manuals, a basin of purified water that heals you, and a wall covered in 'bluemoon grass'. After learning that 35% of people who consume it go on to develop fantastic abilities, Ilea goes ahead and tries it... becoming a combat healer in this litrpg world. Spending 3 months training, she masters a teleportation spell and escapes back into the surrounding forest. Though originally in it just for the fighting and fucking, Ilea becomes embroiled in political affairs through out Elos. Even influencing its progress with Earth-like customs.

[Characters]

Ilea is a prospective med student that finds herself taken to a fantasy world. After coming into significant power, she strikes out towards the nearest village and becomes a full-fledged 'adventurer'. This leads her to plumb dungeons and find necromancers, scout out Dwemer ruins, fight dragons... you name it. Ilea gladly accepts these high risk jobs because of the thrill. Her body is exceptionally resilient, able to heal itself from nearly complete destruction.

She is a rare class that appears to have disappeared hundreds of years ago called an Azarinth Healer. This is a combat monk, essentially - you can channel healing or destructive energies into the targets you make contact with. As she prefers being alone when adventuring, she has basically power-leveled and is one of the strongest individuals at the world from an incredibly early point in the story. This leads her to flaunt said power and get herself into grievous situations, leading to the death of others. Unfortunately she gets over these deaths rather quickly.

If you've read one Mary Sue, you've read them all by now. This is an attempt at a power fantasy cultivation novel but the writer couldn't quite pull it off, so he instead stuffed Ilea full of arbitrary stat numbers and easily defined skills so that we wouldn't notice.

Gonna start reading this tonight after i finish dinner