{"id":11340,"date":"2024-04-25T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2024-04-28T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T15:11:20","slug":"reborn-as-the-first-boss-1-2-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/reborn-as-the-first-boss-1-2-leviathan\/","title":{"rendered":"REBORN as the FIRST BOSS #1-2 & LEVIATHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another novella series, Reborn as the First Boss<\/a> is notably different from the author<\/a>‘s Lich Returnee<\/a> series.<\/p>\n

That’s post-isekai while this is ‘reincarnated into a game world’, that features an asexual antihero while this has a promiscuous villain in the lead, and that is superficially anti-slavery while this is openly pro-slavery. What they share is a similar page count, an overpowered protagonist (albeit less of one here), and entertaining character interactions. So give it a chance if you liked that and don’t mind the occasional sex scene.<\/p>\n

I picked up Erik Schubach<\/a>‘s Leviathan<\/a>, the first book in his Worldship Files<\/em> series, by accident. See, I have two hard rules about whether or not to pick up a series: Avoid those that advertise the genre in their title (Half-Life Empire<\/a> slipped through here because I mistook ‘Alien Apocalypse’ for the series name), and avoid any with a consistently sub-200 page count (novellas excluded). This falls into the latter category, with each book being a bit shorter than your average light novel.<\/p>\n

That said, it seems decent enough if you can look past the rather forced romance elements. ‘Urban fantasy on a colony ship’ is a pretty interesting setting at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another novella series, Reborn as the First Boss is notably different from the author‘s Lich Returnee series. That’s post-isekai while this is ‘reincarnated into a game world’, that features an asexual antihero while this has a promiscuous villain in the lead, and that is superficially anti-slavery while this is openly pro-slavery. What they share is a similar page count, an overpowered protagonist (albeit less of one here), and entertaining character interactions. So give it a chance if you liked that and don’t mind the occasional sex scene. I picked up Erik Schubach‘s Leviathan, the first book in his Worldship Files series, by accident. See, I have two hard rules about whether or not to pick up a series: Avoid those that advertise the genre in their title (Half-Life Empire slipped through here because I mistook ‘Alien Apocalypse’ for the series name), and avoid any with a consistently sub-200 page count (novellas excluded). This falls into the latter category, with each book being a bit shorter than your average light novel. That said, it seems decent enough if you can look past the rather forced romance elements. ‘Urban fantasy on a colony ship’ is a pretty interesting setting at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[838,28,841,29,839,62,813,30,840],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-erik-schubach","tag-fantasy","tag-novella","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-reborn-as-the-first-boss","tag-science-fiction","tag-stuart-grosse","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-worldship-files"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}