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This Quest is Broken! is the first book in the This Trilogy is Broken series written by J.P. Valentine.

This Quest is Broken book cover

Blurb

The Questing Stones have come to Nowherested, and Evelia Greene is finally ready to receive her life's quest. Perhaps she'll be a great warrior, or a wealthy merchant, or a brilliant mage. Perhaps her quest is simply to live a quiet life, constantly honing a craft to the heights of perfection.

Or perhaps the Questing Stones will grant her the Legendary mission of popping over to the next village to pick up a loaf of bread.

Wouldn’t that be ridiculous?

Review

The first chapter reminded me of How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe. Both in terms of tone and the gamelit setting. Humor can be hit or miss for me and this one seemed to fit my tastes.

It took me a few chapters to get going and then it was fast paced enough for me to keep wanting to turn the pages. I laughed out loud a few times and the power progression was as absurd as the quest. Some of the twists were pleasantly surprising, but I wasn't really paying much attention to the details.

Overall, I had fun reading the book most of the time. I would've probably binged the two sequels, but the book took a more serious turn towards the end, so I'll check them out some other time.

My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟☆

What others are saying

From Tushar's review on goodreads:

The jokes are alright, mostly consisting of puns and wordplay, but it's the ludicrous situation our party consistently finds itself in, which takes the cake in terms of humorous writing. Most of the worldbuilding is sourced directly from standard D&D lore, and the plot is fairly straightforward.

From Josh's review on goodreads:

Fun character interactions. The author has nailed it here. There are inside jokes, teasing aplenty, and good humored friendly banter. The flip side of the fun character interactions is the lack of any kind of realistic reactions outside of banter.

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