Samuel Hoke puts in an excellent performance.
The majority of the story takes place in a game but we are meant to understand the world more than the game mechanics themselves. The story is more Lit than RPG in that respect. If you've read many LitRPG you may expect more stats, levels or experience points or skills. It's a more mature story while still being clean such that a YA could read it, enjoy it and mull over it a bit. and the characters have real emotional stakes. It asks big questions that don't necessarily have easy answers.
It's so sprawling and immersive that there are areas that are still unexplored and enemies that have never been vanquished. Epic is its own world with creatures and races derived from mythology and fantasy from various cultures. If you are one of the people that could have done without the litany of pop culture references crammed into every nook and cranny of RPO or want a more mature take on the theme - then you are in luck. That's not to say that if you have read one then you can skip the other - they are different beasts. why do I mention this? If you are familiar with RPO from the book or movie then you may see some parallels. This novel was originally published in 2004. The economy has stagnated and most people live a subsistence lifestyle while a small collection of the few live in virtual luxury since the economies of the real world and the game world are intertwined. Epic is an early LitRPG novel set in a dystopian future where all violence has been abolished in favor of combat in an MMORPG, Epic which has been around for decades. This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
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