He Who Fights with Monsters 5

A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 5)

By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell

Narrated by: Heath Miller

Jason has discovered that his homeworld is not what he thought. What’s more, the rest of the planet is on the precipice of sharing his revelation.

With magic on the rise and forces pulling him in multiple directions, Jason is faced with challenges greater than ever before.

Even as his power reaches new and incredible heights, he is faced with the realization that going beyond his best is still not enough.

About the series: Experience an isekai culture clash as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic. Rich characters and world-building offer humor, political intrigue and slice-of-life elements alongside lots of monster fighting and adventure.

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annoyed and not complete

I was hooked with the first book, I love the series and especially love the length of the first book, being nearly thirty hours. Unfortunately the book lengths have gotten shorter and shorter, and his political points went from a side point with him fighting monsters and other adventurers, to him being political first and fighting second. the last actual fight that is really explained and detailed out is four or five hours before the end of the book and the end of the book seems like it was supposed to keep going and was cut to make a new book. No wrap up, nothing.
I love the series, but really hope it isn't ruined in the next one.

Much better than the previous entry.

I instantly bought this when it came out, but I hesitated to push play. I love the series, but book 4 felt like padded filler. I didn't want that again. Luckily, book 5 gets things rolling and moving forward and picking up speed again. I don't know what the overall full series direction is really aiming towards, but at least this book is getting it moving somewhere. I guess we'll eventually get back to the main builder and their mysterious motives and plans and such. That still feels like it's another five books off though.

It's always fun to be back with Jason Asano, even if he's a bit of a jerk and seems to have some beef with America despite loving all it's general culture and pop culture gifts to the world. That seems more motivated by the Australian author. Whatever, I enjoy his writing regardless. My only other negative with this book is the handling of certain deaths. I don't mind that characters did get killed, it just seemed anti-climactic and not too impactful. Just kinda like an afterthought. Like tossing a used plastic spoon. They deserved more than that.

Anyway! Bring on the next book! Let's see the momentum keep going and growing!

I love this series !

This is my new favorite series. I can't even tell you how many times I've listened to it. Jason is the best (and worst). I know some people don't like the political views in the book but it makes it feel more alive to me. Really, I hope the author writes these books all the way through to diamond rank. I will listen to them all.

Superb

This book series is amazing. Characters are funny AF. Plot is perfect. Magic is complex. Everything I look for in a fantasy novel.

More of the same.

If you enjoyed the last book, you will like this one too. Although, I grow a little tired of Jason’s constant moral agonizing over necessary acts and other peoples condemnation of decisions they didn’t have to make themselves.
My main criticism of this and the last book is the fact that where before Jason would be seen acting from the first person, this book and the last one would rather tell us what Jason is doing from an outside perspective.
When we do get to hear what Jason is thinking, he’s thinking about how he would like to do things but won’t because he’s worried about what other people would think of it.
It’s like he went to the new world and decided it was time to live again, to cast aside his social anxiety, self loathing and make the decisions he wanted to make, the decisions that needed to be made; what other people think be damned.
He died in a tiny apartment alone and estranged from his family and now he wasn’t going to waste his second life in a new world, yet here we are on book five and we are back in his old world with a family that condemns everything he does and suffering from anxiety over his actions once more.

T.L.D.R: Jason is once more a sad boi, estranged from most of his family who condemn him while he agonizes over every little decision and what others think. He’s more powerful than ever before yet continuously renders himself powerless through moral agonizing and inaction.

great entry

Quick review: book is good, read book if you liked book 4.


longer, more spoilery.

I liked this book, however I would have preferred if we would have returned to the other world.

Keeps getting better

Iv listened to the series 3 full times so far and will do so again when book 6 comes out. 10/10 all around!

a fantastic take on a conundrum

the author takes New World (Isekai) litRPG genre and brings it to Earth. if you've read the other books, this is a shift in tone. a little less humor and more mental health awareness. overall it shifts towards post apocalyptic style.

Main Character is a Twitter head case now.

If you like a curtain type politics constantly being pushed by an edgelord narcissist. This is the book for you! Everyone else steer clear.

As many have said the authors politics is leaking into his characters designs. The problem is not the politics itself, but that the main character exists in lock-step with a particular parties current talking points. This is not in my opinion a good way to developing a great character. Most REAL people do not live and breath their politics. We are far more dynamic then that!

Wish I could have returned this book… I would have stopped at book 3.

Solid but gets in its own way

The book is a good read and the concept is good so a solid story. Though you can tell the author with the last two books on earth has not known the direction he wants to take. The book has its ups and its downs going from event to event. You have an over arching story that the book touches on here and there but then gets distracted by side stories and politics and character reflection and development that we’ve seen already in previous books. All of this has little impact to the main story that is trying to build up too.