David Verburg‘s first A Practical Guide to Evil novel is quite good. One particular thing to note about it is that unlike most works based on a Royal Road webnovel, this one’s an extended rewrite rather than a direct transcription. Meaning that the two versions do not match up and you can’t just jump from one to other. Allegedly it’s only the first webnovel volume that’s being expanded this way though and theoretically the second should match up 1-1 with the fourth published novel.
The second of Natalie Maher‘s Are You Even Human novels seems specifically designed to annoy me. The first military-heavy half with the boot camp was aggravating enough, but it was the full switch to the alien perspective that ultimately lost me. It no longer felt like a story… more like a collection of expressed opinions.