This book is about a new VR game called Awaken Online. Our protagonist is a school kid who is bullied at school and ignored at home. Fairly similar to most LitRPG, but the twist here is that the game's AI works to resolve your emotional problems outside of the game.

The game itself is your standard sword and sorcery type game, however the AI rewrites portions of it in response to the users desires and needs, so longer term, who knows what it's going to end up as. The game has some Tabletop RPG aspect, namely the alignment system from DnD.

This book was very good for a litrpg, it didn't fall into too many of the tropes of making the main character a hero, and (I can't believe this comes up so often with LitRPG that I have to mention it) the women characters were pretty well written, and for once for this genre not everybody is russian and dying for a smoke.

If I had one criticism, it's that the author failed to build up my excitement in dramatic moments, and while they were kinda cool they didn't quite achieve that wow factor.

It's a 4 but it only just scraped that. I think I'll probably read the next in the series.