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The Wandering Inn by pirateaba

The Wandering Inn
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An inn is a place to rest, a place to talk and share stories, or a place to find adventures, a starting ground for quests and legends.

In this world, at least. To Erin Solstice, an inn seems like a medieval relic from the past. But here she is, running from Goblins and trying to survive in a world full of monsters and magic. She’d be more excited about all of this if everything wasn’t trying to kill her.

But an inn is what she found, and so that’s what she becomes. An innkeeper who serves drinks to heroes and monsters–

Actually, mostly monsters. But it’s a living, right?

This is the story of the Wandering Inn.

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    parttimer
    + 9 ⋅ 1 -
    this story is grossly underrated. this story, though it has a bit of a litrpg flare, does not allow itself to be bland and without soul. you will not find mc's being overpowered and easily ploughing through every speedbump in their path to glory. no, you will find heartwrenching stories about HUMANITY and what being a person really is.

    yes you will get annoyed with some characters, but i find a lot of these characters to be very real in how they behave. if you stick with it, you will likely see that many seemingly static characters were really changing all along. yes, some changes are forced by the [class] system in their world but overall this is a story with heart, and a lot of it.

    oh also, the writing quality is pretty solid and you don't have to worry about translation issues if you read english
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    kiwi
    + 5 ⋅ 0 -
    Hawk's mom?
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    DepressedUniStudent
    + 13 ⋅ 6 -
    I can’t actually think whether or not you guys will like this. On one hand, if your love LitRPG, it’s super light in this, barely there. If you hate annoying characters, you’ll suffer.

    But you guys are really good at just powering through sh!t, devouring thousands of chapters of garbage to get to good stuff. I’ve done it too.

    However, the main characters and obnoxious and extremely irritating, and they don’t get better, at least, not for a looooong time.

    The main character is naive to the point of ridiculousness, and the second main character hates being reincarnated so refuses to interact with the power up system while hating those who do.

    It’s good writing, but IMO if you have to have characters grow on you like mold while you lightly slice yourself open reading a story to enjoy it, then I can’t recommend it
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      jidmoov
      + 8 ⋅ 6 -
      I read it on RR. Forced to support the review above. MC is an annoying hysteric. She tries to impose her morality on others and at the same time does not delve into a foreign culture at all (other biological species and peoples of another world).
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        sora7
        + 5 ⋅ 2 -
        SO basically what colonizers did? I saw very good reviews about this but this is making me reconsider.
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          jidmoov
          + 7 ⋅ 2 -
          I vaguely remember the details because I read it a long time ago. For example, a reasonable beetle (part of the colony) comes and the heroine begins to hysterically teach him freedom from slavery or something like that. The beetle itself cannot live otherwise. This is the essence of their species. Some security guard helps the MC, but she acts like he must always do it and listen to her demands on how they should live. After all, she came from our world, and their civilization is not so kind and humane. Something like that. Specific details may be wrong. Like I said, I read it a long time ago. On the royal road, I found two stories with good potential. They are not perfect (for my taste) but deserve 4 out of 5 on a strict score. These are "A Practical Guide to Sorcery" and "Double-Blind: A Modern LITRPG". There are also stories with potential: "Book Of The Dead" (pretty good), "All The Skills - A Deckbuilding LitRPG" (interesting, but too few chapters so far).
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            ElderYharon
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            Again that is before chapter 30 of a more than 700 chapter novel
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          hillsidejohn
          + 2 ⋅ 3 -
          That's not true, Erin does not easily blend well but that does not mean she forces her views on others. It's mostly a kid trying to get a semblance of control after being thrown into a new world where there are literal giant man-eating crabs that will eat her on her way home.

          She's also a bit of a prude, but that's more of a personality, the girl's a bit shy and she doesn't really tell others to be as shy as her and tries her best to build a home for everyone even though her attempts inevitably includes her idiosyncrasies.
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      hillsidejohn
      + 5 ⋅ 2 -
      I don't think your review is valid basing on how the story is right now. (well not now, I haven't read the latest volume)

      But I will agree that this might not be for the ranobes crowd where a huge (and/or vocal) number likes the arrogant and bloodthirsty mc template.

      I will tell everyone this, the characters here are REAL almost to a fault, you will relate with them, understand them, love them, and hate them. If you don't want to feel a myriad of emotions, which makes sense since a lot of people like "getting that high" from specific niches, then I suggest you avoid this.

      BUT I also have to tell everyone that this is definitely top 10, even top 5 in all of the web novels ever written, probably in every language too. The Wandering Inn is that good a story, and that good a world.

      This thing is a saga where multiple continents are contained and explored AT THE SAME TIME, not as the story progresses.

      The author pirateaba is also one of the best writers in the world when it comes to non-filler but lengthy content. Pirate is able to write about 2 light novels every month, to give you some idea, imagine the length of the average Chinese web novel and release schedule, then make sure that there's no filler.

      She writes about 60 to 80 thousand words EVERY DAMNED MONTH.

      So there's a reason why The Wandering Inn has reached legend status, but again, Ranobes might not be the crowd for it.
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        DepressedUniStudent
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        Tbf, I specifically said it’s good. Both well-written, and that it is good later on.

        The issue is that
        1. This isn’t really the audience for it
        2. The starting volumes (which are what my review is mainly about) 1-4/5 (been a while) are excruciating to read through. Not because it’s bad, or poorly-written, or doesn’t make sense. Like you said, the characters are real characters, and that’s why it’s hard to read. This is coming from the guy who read through the first, what was it, like 300 chapters of Overgeared? Where it’s absolute shit and then breaks into hilarity, good times, and fun writing. I did that, I couldn’t keep going through this.

        Again, most of us webnovel readers are used to a few things; rapid plot development, strong characters (starting strong, OP MC, weak-to-strong, even characters that gain political or economic power), lots of fighting, sociopathy and/or psychopathy, and relatively weak characters (personality wise, not strength)

        Ultimately, I don’t think it’s fair to say my review isn’t valid, as AFAIK, the first 4-5 volumes remain the same. The fact that there’s a relative ton of amazing content after the gates of those volumes doesn’t change the fact that they are hard to get through.

        Wandering Inn is a slow-paced, character driven, emotional epic of a story that if you cut out the weak explicit RPG elements and cut-up the first few volumes, it wouldn’t be out of place in the mainstream fantasy consciousness - but I still wouldn’t recommended it for Ranobes’ readers
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          hillsidejohn
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          Yeah I think our disagreement comes from the sheer length of this work, like for example, we both agree that your review apply to the earlier volumes and that this might not be for the Ranobes crowd, but at the same time, v4 or v5 is so different from the volumes that come after it that it's also true that the review is no longer valid, but that's only because TWI is so f#cking long.

          Well in any case, I suggest you read v6 and v7. V6 has the goblin war I believe which culminates in one of the best moments ever put to paper, f#cking tragic but the highs are f#cking high.

          And v7 has one of the best chase scenes ever written, whether in text or in movies, just f#cking amazing! One of the best moments for Ryoka too, just the girl without a system, doing her best to heal sick children because everyone else got bullied into saying no. Just a damned good scenes.
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        sonicslow
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        pls, tell me your top 10-1 I really need good stuff to read. ngl tho TWI is the top 1 of all I've read, Practicle guide to evil second, not sure what can top that.
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    TheAngryViscount
    + 6 ⋅ 2 -
    Read this on it’s official site. The mainline story is addicting litrpg. Side story sections are hit or miss when the mainline story takes a break. World is very well developed, things generally make sense and people die (tho some get revived thru arcane shit). Can get very sad/crippling depression when some characters die. MC is likably dorky and kinda naive, which characters comment about a lot but also allows her to use magic most people think is lost.

    I read a bunch of volumes before a section of back to back side stories bored me to death, I’m waiting for the current mainline arc to makes its comeback before I return.
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    Jopij
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    HOLY ITS HERE
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      ZeaZ
      + 4 ⋅ 1 -
      Is it good?
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        Jopij
        + 5 ⋅ 0 -
        yes but its really long 9 million words as of now i think
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          Eon
          + 5 ⋅ 1 -
          ITS OVER 9000- sorry uh ITS OVER 9 MILLION
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            kiwi
            + 1 ⋅ 0 -
            lol
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            hillsidejohn
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            Yeah, last year it was at over 25k pages where each page is about 275 words (lemme calc) so that was 6,875,000 words and the author writes DAMNED fast even though there's really no filler (even side characters are moving the main story) I'm not surprised that it's now 9m words.
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              Eon
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              Holy F**k
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        AnomanderRake
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        Is it good?


        Is water wet?
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