Review – Play to Live
Play to Live is the first book in a series called AlterWorld and I’d recommend you read it! It is a fun adventure full of high stakes and riveting challenges. The series is seven books long and a page turner throughout.
I listened to these books in audio format and was entertained for multiple weeks of commutes and household chores. Not going to lie, I’ve even started to do more chores in order to continue listening to this book. The combination of the writing style, the humour, and the exciting world keeps you engaged and engrossed. Again, Read it!
The author is often credited with single-handedly creating a new genre: LitRPG (RPG stands for Role Playing Game). It is characterized by a completely immersive gameplay, usually in a medieval fantasy world of sword and magic. Not a single player game, but an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online). It is a fun genre, and is now seemingly the most popular genre in Russian literature.
Start exploring the genre with the book that started it all.
Great! Sometimes I think that nothing new is coming but the human soul is an everlasting source of creativity. We need to create worlds.
It is a fun genre and is already full of its own tropes and cliches! But that doesn’t make it worse – each new series challenges the author to create a world from scratch and thus is full of really interesting ideas and plot points.