Books like The Realm Between: The Curse:

Reasons I didn't like this book:MC was morally ambivalent, not a good hero to cheer for or an evil villain to be chocked by. Just a selfish, spoiled dude that never really does anything bad, but only reluctantly does something good. Why couldn't he just have been a "normal good guy"? It was so hard to like him.MC is passive and never shows any initiative or driveMC is stupid and can't put two and two togetherThe time in-game is repetitive and boringIt felt like a really bad psychological thriller a lot of the time The hints and foreshadowing were so big they blocked out the sun. Too bad our MC is blind and stupid.No likable characters. I mean, not a single one. Why are all the women mothers or girlfriends? Or victims. Or helpless.Yay, let's throw in some rape....I take it the author has read Goblin slayer for inspiration?Ah, and why not throw in a "no homo" moment for good measure? (These scenes are all too common , at least in the genres I read) That moment our MC assures us he's NOT GAY. With horror. But of course he's all for them gays it's just he likes BOOBS! Only. No men! I don't get it.... the author chooses to write in a scene like that and I don't understand why when there hasn't even been a hint of homosexuality in the book. It just feels insulting, out of the blue. Like being thought of as gay by someone would be such a bad thing. It's so horrible you have to blurt out how straight you are immideatly. Usually mentioning boobs or something similar. The pacing was off and there's no build up of tension toward the end...the end. Well, I guess all we won't be getting ANY answers until the next book because the story just ends. I struggled to finish this book, but I hoped until the end that something clever would happen. It doesn't. It's stupid all the way through.Who would create such a shallow game world? You have a village, a farm and two camps. You can walk for days without seeing anything. It's an island but there is never any ocean, fishing boats or ships. We never get to know any lore. It's just so.... boring. The game system is unbalanced and boring. (You can level up by killing bunnies, so why isn't everything high level?) There's magic but we don't get to see more than glimpses of it. There's loot, but 99% trash tier. There are quests, but only one at a time? No side quests?