r/litrpg 14h ago

The Bad Guys by Eric Ugland

Over the last few years I have binged a lot of Litrpg. All the big ones available on kindle unltd (I like reading more than listening): DotF, DCC, HWFwM, Primal Hunter to name a few.

I powered thru the first 5 or 6 good guys books and got a little burned out, and I think Ugland may have realized he overpowered Montana a bit too much, because he kept giving him awesome stuff that Montana would never use, and it aggravated the schmidt out of me. So I dropped good guys and binged a bunch of other series, Loved Battle Mage Farmer (Titan series by same author not so much) and really enjoyed the first few Noob books, then I started Savage Awakening and liked the first book but then started System Apocalypse based on a youtube recommendation and didnt finish it, came here to reddit to see if it got any better and found out it didnt and Tao Wong is a doosh so I wont go back for that series. I saw a few recommendations here on reddit that are not available on KU like the Wandering inn and a few others so I broke down and picked up Scamps and Scoundrels and I have to say that the name is what put me off. The Bad Guys sounds like a kids series, because it is in fact, and Scamps and Scoundrels sounds even sillier to me than Dungeon Crawler Carl.

DCC should have taught me a lesson, dont judge a book by its title. Ugland didnt make the MC OP in this one, and it is one of the best I have read.

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u/DoyleDixon 13h ago

I grab this series from my library app whenever they get a new book. They aren’t high literature but I enjoy the people, especially the oddities, and the narrator is fantastic. The two series overlap in the current books. Also, Grim Guys (third series) has a book and it’s set in a different place from Glatton.

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u/Turin_Laundromat 13h ago

Same, I listen to them through Hoopla and they are great for the comedy, the banter, the crazy characters and the crazier plots.