Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster’s Power

I'm enjoying this overall, but the characters are all pretty cardboard.  It isn't the common litrpg failing of the numbers of the hero and monsters go up in lock step, but only because the hero does get some unique skills and so is constantly learning how to use them.  However there is still the tendency to that litrpg failing.

Premise is cool. Main character is cool. There are some annoying typos, though not too too bad. I just can’t stick the two women he interacts with a bunch being manic pixie dream girls. It’s annoying to read. Theeeyyyy talk like thisss!!! It’s  deeeefs suuuuperr annoying!! 

Beyond the manic pixie dream girl trope being juvenile and annoying to read as a woman, the weird spelling the author uses to really drive the trope home makes it many times worse. They can be excitable. Heck, let them be manic pixie dream girls even. Just please spell their dialogue normally. 

If I wanted to be followed around by Paimon I’d play Genshin Impact  

My first review was deleted, which along with comments I've seen in chapters substantially diminishes my confidence in the authenticity of the review curve here. Posting again, with one less paragraph in the spoiler tag this time :)

Jay (the MC) is incredibly rash, does not think through consequences of his actions or even reflect on the consequences of his actions after the fact. It's like he knows he has plot armor.    

The basic shape of the world building is, well, not novel but the elements are all there. The secret advantage of the MC is interesting on its face. Characters are where it falls down. Outside of the MC we run into a lot of women all of  whom like Jay (even when he has not yet demonstrated any particular excellence or even character traits at all) and all of whom are in fact the same person. They all have the same speech patterns, and no real defining traits outside of skills and physical description.   
  

Suggestions: Jay (and others) should have meaningful personality traits. Jay is too dumb and obvious to survive the word that is portrayed, he should be eaten alive by the politics. He is not strong enough to remain as deliberately ignorant and foolhardy as he remains.  
  
Jay's ability needs limits to be interesting or even manageable. There are no meaningful choices, the answer to every choice is "yes".  

Possible rescue device: "It's all just mana control anyway" and we discover that higher level Elites can effectively use any number of skills or widen the application of their Skills through mana control. This is not as satisfying, but helps prevent snowballing too bad. Jay's ability could then have efficiency/power/versatility benefits without being so completely out of scale.   
  
That's less interesting than meaningful choices though.

I really like this type if genre tbh so my ratings might be bias...So I love the story although it is slow between 100+ but I still go through it because I like this type of stories. Also, the power level system stops depending on the system of leveling up now, its more like cultivating tbh at the later chaps which I find it fun to read.

The first section of text reads as folloes:

"I woke up in a daze after hearing a series of loud knocks at the door. My head was pounding, I shouldn't have stayed up so late last night reading comics. It's a bad habit of mine."

I read that at 10 pm... 

So guess how my mornings is gonna go? 

If I find the story bad I will delete this review and write a new one

Goated. Very fun read, quick and OP mc progression. Lots of fun side characters with complimentary OP skills. Absolutely a book you can blaze through, very enthralling and enjoyable. Author seems very invested and passionate, so thought I’d drop in a little review. Had to make the 50 word quota! 

Mc wasn't the person who transmigrated to that world, so why is his past so empty? What surprised me the most was the author made him a standard Japanese MC, OP? That's not what I meant, the way the MC interacts is so disgusting, he stutters every paragraph of conversation! Trust me. 

The second thing that doesn't make sense to me is when he looks around like a 4 year old, come on! He's a 20 year old guy, he's not even an Isekai MC, it's not the MC who suddenly appears in that world. But the author makes this very annoying, I mean the MC wasn't locked up in prison all his life, so why does he see the world like that? Like a baby who doesn't know anything.

I'm sure some of those good reviews are spam, this story is just a waste of your time 

My major beef ?

The English language has so many varied facial expressions; menacing smiles, encouraging grins to miniacal cackling. This character? He smirks. Only smirks. Every. F#ckng. Time. 

It's his only expression. He has smirked like an a$$hole for 186 chapters so far. It makes him seem like such an idiot. I try to replace smirk with smile in my mind but I'm not sure how much more I can take.

Other than that?

Good premise, read stories based on it before, but this still quite good. A bit too easy for me, but it works.

Very fast paced. Very. Extreme opposite to a slow burn. Everything is sacrificed to that end. World building? Vague to nothing. Character building? He wants to be powerful and seems to be a sociopath with a single facial expression. Other characters are also minimal, some basic physical description, but personality? Drives? Nope. Don't expect anything but very basic relationships also.

Character is frustratingly stupid at times, but this can be explained away by him being a young male and from the boonies.

 But for what it is? A (very, very) fast paced progression fantasy, sure. It's a fun ride. I like it. I'm still here.

One day he might smile. 

It was good (just good) for the first 100-150 chapters but I just can't seem to get through a chapter anymore. It gets pretty repetitive with the fights and none of the characters really have much depth, there's some plot points and intrigue that are either just to justify giving a new skill or never addressed at all. If they are in the chapters I haven't read, then that's just way to long for a pay off. The world they DO set up is neat, but that's about it. 

There’s a lot to breakdown about this book. The story and its plot is intriguing and it scratches an itch all Litrpg fan have. OP MC. Quick rise to power. Variety of cool skills. 

But character building is near non existent. I saw a lot of comments stating that the MC is heartless. I honestly prefer that rather than the MC having a breakdown every ten seconds and an emotional therapy session and everybody starts to sing kumbaya. But that’s me. 

World building is pretty good. Not the best but good enough.

Anyway, I’d say to try it and see if you like it. Ignore the reviews. It’s a decent book. Better than many other books I’ve read.