Book description
Five years ago, Corin Cadence’s brother entered the Serpent Spire — a colossal tower with ever-shifting rooms, traps, and monsters. Those who survive the spire’s trials return home with an attunement: a mark granting the bearer magical powers. According to legend, those few who reach the top of the tower…
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1 author picked Sufficiently Advanced Magic as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is a ‘LitRPG’, a relatively new genre of novel that combines prose with elements from video role-playing games. However, unlike most LitRPGs, this one doesn’t have printed numbers and statistics. As such, it’s closer to a ‘LitJRPG’ (literary Japanese role-playing game) and so to Final Fantasy, and author Andrew Rowe (a former games programmer for Blizzard) is explicit about that influence and other related influences.
I very much enjoyed this book, the first in his Aracne Ascension series in which Corin Cadence needs to figure out how to progress through a tower of traps, obstacles, and monsters…
From Thomas' list on The best books that read like the novelisation of an original Final Fantasy game.
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