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Everything about this book was unusual. I've known Yahtzee for a long time from his awesome podcasts but never read any of his works.

Turns out - I was missing a lot!



From the moment I started reading, I couldn't let go. The story started great, written and told in a manner in which only a gamer can do. When you are a member of a group who likes the same things as you do it would be a pretty big feat to mess it up.

But building up an original story is a no small feat. While it's not of a LitRPG genre per se there are certainly some elements of it. It's a good, old-fashioned adventure comedy :)

I'm used to hearing Yahtzee speak so his narration wasn't a turn-off. But it did sound super strange! I remember thinking how he couldn't narrate to save a life! xD

But very, very soon I realized he just misses the vocal range to allow for separate voices for different characters. In fact, he was well aware of that and then his genius emerged - Each character has a specific... way of speaking. They have a predominant emotion and choose to express themselves only using that one.

Dramatic, scared, excited... sounds unusual, right? Damn right it does xD

And when perpetually-confused person is now happy and excited or drama-queen wants to intimidate - hilarity ensues xD



Very quickly we figure out who is who and Yahtzee's lack of "vocal spectrum" takes nothing away from the experience. If anything, the
workaround he introduced to make up for the lack of expertise adds even more enjoyment.

Right now it must sound like my brother wrote this and I'm urging everyone under the blue sky to read it. That would have made for some hilarious childhood, but no. Yahtzee isn't my brother, unfortunately :-)

Let me tell you a bit about the story, as perhaps some of you are reading this review for this particular reason. I pity you :-)



So, instead of another random tangent, let me tell you about that story.

Jim was human. Jim was a mage.

He wasn't a particularly good mage, but he wasn't a bad one either. See, Jim was still in the school. A mage academy.

Another school, a warrior academy, led by their thick leader sent their own students to attack Jim's academy. Jim died.

Jim was dead for quite some time, about 60 years when a necromancer newbie wanted to test his skills and raised Jim and his neighboring friends.

Jim and neighbors weren't particularly amused about the whole shebang and kinda wanted to go back to that eternal peace and quiet. Alas, it couldn't be done. Necromancer needed able bodies.

So our Jim got a job! An Overseer of the Rat Pit! Wooo! Go, Jim!



I won't tell you anything more as this is the book full of jokes and witty comments you just have to experience for yourself.

As for me, I so dearly want to see a sequel. I'd make a preorder for 2020 release. It's just one of those books.

Now I want to read everything by Yahtzee. Everything!

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Mogworld
by Yahtzee Croshaw (Author and Narrator)

Verdict: Compilation of impossible and insane events. Loved every second of it!

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