He Who Fights with Monsters

This book starts off annoying, gets better, and then crashes and burns.

The annoying: Jason is a very chatty person and starts off his adventure alone and ends up talking to himself. A lot. He's also completely nude. There's a lot of middle school humor and bodily fluids - blood, vomit, puss - in the first chunk of the book. I almost quit reading.

Better: Still obnoxiously chatty but with lots of characters to bounce off of. So many characters I had trouble keeping track of them all. The audiobook reader helps differentiate some. The world mechanics are interesting but leveling is very slow.

Crash & Burn: One of the prominent female characters gets fridged. No one else of note dies, just the female character so the guys can build character and bro-mourn. I'd been ready to pick up the second book until this moment. Instead it's another series for the isekain't pile.