Mirror World

The closest you'll find to Shaman's Quest series -- also by a Russian author with an unpronounceable name. If you've ever read one of those news articles about prisoners in China forced to  mine gold in World of Warcraft 14 hours a day for the warden, well, THIS is that untold story from the perspective of the prisoner -- or the Russian equivalent of that story.Overall, it's quite a good book as LITRPG goes. The bar is low in the genre, but this series manages to stand out above the rest. if you liked The Way of the Shaman series, well you'll love the MIRROR WORLD series; overall, I find it superior.I'd say it's my favorite 'traditional LITRPG' series so far.Unlike most of the other LITRPG's where you have a nerd-turned-game-hero leveling up in the 'real' game world, usually by saying 'mobs' (game speak for monsters), this one is about a poor Russian schmuck who's forced out of desperation to do in-game jo jobs (mining in-game resources) to pay for his dying daughter's surgery.It sounds boring, but surprisingly, it's not. By book 3, things resort to the normal LITRPG style of things, but it's one of the better LITPRG series out. Like all LITRPG, it's best consumed as an Audiobook, due to the stat readouts by the narrator.