Book reviews

Find a story by the choices its characters face, the pace of its opening, and the kind of reader it rewards.

Opening reviews

Adventure · OPENING REVIEW

Transmigrated As The Hired Villain in a Fantasy World

Hired Villain review: a convincing defeat is a professional service

Miles has survived one criminal life and found a peculiar alternative in the next: playing the villain so that sponsored heroes can win. He knows how to stage a fight. Teaching someone else to lose safely may be a much more difficult assignment.

Opening review · Based on story chapters 1–8

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Adventure · OPENING REVIEW

Apocalypse: I Raised the Ultimate Antagonist from Scratch

Apocalypse: I Raised the Ultimate Antagonist From Scratch review: the larger half of a bun

A surgeon wakes in a doomed stepmother’s life, only to find her five-year-old stepson already organizing the escape. Between them lie two hidden histories, an apocalypse and a surprisingly revealing argument about breakfast.

Opening review · Based on chapters 1–8

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