“No killing Goblins.”
So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.
It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.
In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn.
She’s an [Innkeeper].
My Opinion: 1632 pages, $3.99, Not Available On Kindle Unlimited
This online serial story just keeps getting better and better. The opening grabs you with excitement and never let's go. I stayed awake till 2am multiple nights to finish this volume and I don't regret it. Like volume 1, the story is still slice of life and mainly follows the adventures of two women transported to a fantasy RPG world: Erin, an [Innkeeper], and Ryoka, a Runner. There are other POVs and even a few very entertaining side stories, I particularly liked the where Erin's friends try to get her to mate, but the story mostly revolves around those two as they explore the world, fight monsters, riddle dragons, experiment with mind altering cooking recipes, tame wild princesses, and more.
The story expands its scope greatly in this volume, leaving the inn and the local gnoll/drake city and bringing in the larger world. There's some great world building, histories, and advancement of large continental threats. Multiple story threads are started with threats from the insect like Antinium, the Goblin Lord, the Lord of Destruction, a Necromancer, and more. Plenty of wonderful material to be developed in future volumes.
On the RPG side, things are a bit more developed than in book 1. No, the system isn't the big thing in the story the way it would be in a 'trapped in a game's story. But you get regular leveling, more info on various classes, and the system even gets its own plotline.
Overall, a great story that was hard to put down. I look forward to reading volume 3.
Score: 8 out of 10