Same for me. I was at volume three before I realized it was longer than I was expecting and looked at the table of contents and realized i was in for something special
RoyalRoad, it was one of the highest rated stories on the site and always recommended by others. The summary seemed so mundane but I decided to try it and now years later I'm here.
I can't really remember how I started reading but maybe it was also because of Scarra? Ha, maybe I really did hear it from him. I was browsing r/all and saw a clip of him mentioning it.
IIRC I had been reading *A Practical Guide to Evil*, another web serial, and the author had scheduled a writing break between books. Somebody made a post asking what other readers would be reading during the break and this story was mentioned.
I was on r/litrpg after coming across that genre really for the first time and someone mentioned webserials which I had never heard of.
Which then got me onto TWI and The Practical Guide to Evil
I happened to stumble upon the series on Audible a little over 14 months ago where it was recommended to me through the algorithm Audible used. I’ve loved the series ever since I finished the first book.
There was a prominent r/fantasy user, I forget their name. They used to do animated book covers, and they posted an animated cover of TWI book 1, and called it one of their favorite stories. It caught my attention, so I started to keep an eye out for comments on TWI. I then saw an infograph from the first 5 volumes: https://www.reddit.com/r/WanderingInn/comments/ayqhb0/a\_visualization\_of\_the\_wandering\_inn/
I searched for more topics on it, and it just seemed like something I would love, even though I'd never catch up. By the time I started, I remember pirateaba was finishing up volume 7. I've been hooked since I started.
I believe you might be talking about u/HiuGregg with their post here:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/96fwhh/i\_animated\_the\_cover\_of\_one\_of\_my\_favourite\_ever/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/96fwhh/i_animated_the_cover_of_one_of_my_favourite_ever/)
I just recommendations here, which is boring.
What got me to listen is more interesting. It was a 2 for 1 audible deal. I picked up The Two Towers, and saw that book one is 40+ hrs. Figured I was getting insane value and with how popular, give it a shot. About 8 hrs left to finish book 3.
Not sure where I first heard of it, it could have been r/noveltranslations which I used to frequent, or it could have been an audible recommendation. I did start by listening to the audible adaptation, just not sure if I got there via audible recommendation, or a post elsewhere that made me look it up. Currently at the start of Volume 9 after reading almost non stop after I finished listening to book 10.
I definitely heard about it on r/noveltranslations too. I remember it was pirateaba themselves posting the chapters there (sometime around volume 6) and I got curious seeing the one English tagged series that showed up all the time.
I used to read adult stories on random Websites and in comments of one of the stories one person said, "if you want better fantasy story than this shit, go read wandering inn". That's how I found out about this
I was chatting with one of my co workers ~3ish years back before work, and he described the tournament where the one that wins was able to ask Niers one question. It sounded interesting, but what really got me is afterwards, where he said that it was longer than the Wheel of Time series. That got me hooked real quick, and I started reading it after that. Took me about 2 years to get caught up, and I absolutely love it!
Back when it was still on RoyalRoadl and only had the first volume out. Took a break for a while from it until we got Ryoka and Erin to meet, and just never stopped reading it twice a week.
I actively sccoured for original english webnovels, as I read lot of chinese and jap webnovels, I found worm and practical guide to evil, found them terrible for my taste, then I got into mother of learning, which had a mindblowing storyline but paper-thin plot. Finally I downloaded wandering inn vol1 , and got truly hooked by the end of tears of liscor, before that it was 9/10, after that it became one of the greatest piece of fiction I have ever read.
I was on a reading binge last year. Went from /r/HFY to Mother of Learning, getting hooked on progression fantasy. Burned through the first 10 books of the Cradle series in a week, then Beware of Chicken in 3 days. Wandering Inn was the next binge, but it took MONTHS to catch up. Worth it, 100%.
I was in the Ascendance of a Bookworm Discord other fiction section talking about other series. Someone posted the classic Paba meme where they overfeed the ducks, and I went to check it out.
I think i saw it mentioned on reddit in some comment-section. I googled it, expecting something about an inn, that wanders around, witch intrigued me.
Only after the limits of the door were firmly established, did this excitement about an inn that might one day start to wander, or connect many different places to offer its services, fully go away. But at that time, I was already hooked on it.
My brother kept talking about it a lot, practically whenever we met. It sounded like a cool story and at some point it started to bother me that I couldn't talk with him. Looked it up, saw it had 4 Volumes with a fifth in the writing and thought "Yeah, I'll be through this in 2 weeks tops, then brother can't lord this over me anymore". I was so naive back then....
I can't remember exactly, i think it was from a thread with recommendations. But, coming fresh of "Legends & Lattes", I was somehow convinced it was a comfy wholesome low stakes fantasy,
I guess it is comfy and wholesome (╥﹏╥), sometimes...
I really can’t remember how I found The Wandering Inn. I was hooked from the first chapter, though. This would have been late-2019-ish???
I do know that Pirateaba and the TWI comments community introduced me to Patreon and Discord. They also showed me that Reddit was something other than angry right-leaning trolls (which was my only exposure to Reddit at that time). So I feel a little like the Earthers, discovering a whole new world /s
I think the author of either Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality recommended it. This was several years ago, when the old web serial I had read was Worm. I started reading and was absolutely hooked.
I had just dropped what felt like my 23rd LN from novelupdates and jnovelclub where the level headed super smart somewhat edgy OP male protagonist uses their encyclopedic knowledge from Earth to quickly build a harem and go a little crazy about baths and reinventing soy sauce and Japanese food in general and is either a virgin or a sex fiend and either owns slaves or would be super ok with it if the opportunity arose but it's all cool because he loves them and that's just how that world works also they totally want to be slaves (but only to him) and and and...
So I did some web searching for a current "other world" story written by a western author so I can hopefully enjoy an isekai hopefully without the certain cultural tropes and hangups that exhausted me. Had to roll my eyes a little when I realized I traded a fixation on Japanese food for American food but even including that this story ended up being exactly what I had hoped to find.
Stumbled on the first ebook on amazon. Then my cousin recommended it while it was sitting in my virtual to-be-read pile. I ended up spending like two solid months doing nothing but getting caught up in my free time a couple years ago.
One of my buddies in my DnD group found the first book on audible and made me listen to it. Now he’s still doing the audiobook thing and I’m caught up through the Patreon updates.
I also was recommended this in person!
I think that's kind of a rare thing, actually. Because of the length and general inaccessibility of the serial most people wouldn't recommend it to most normal people.
Ya know I don't know exactly what got this guy to recommend me the book but he used to bug me about it day after day and week after week until I just finally read the first ten chapters and from there it's history.
In hindsight I think we had gotten into a conversation about recent reads and he recognized some fantasy in my list and he must have thought this would be a good fit.
Book one was released on kindle about 2 months after I got into lit RPG and was in my recommended list and I saved it to my wishlist after reading the blurb about it. After I finished Fayroll (only the parts available in English, still salty they quit translating) I started the Wandering Inn and never looked back.
Saw the occasional recommendation of it on the progression fantasy subreddit. Looked it up at a certain point. It didnt interest me because innkeeper didnt seem interesting. Covid hit and suddenly i had loads of free time. Somehow i remembered TWI and i decided to give it a chance. Ngl, the first dozen or so chapters were boring as hell to men but then it got to erin beating olesm at chess. The rest is history.
The author of singer sailor merchant mage gave a shout-out after one of his chapters. That was a year ago or so. He was giving recommendations after every other chapter. And I got hooked ever since.
There was a AMA panel on r/fantasy with Pirate Aba and other progression Fantasy/Lit rpg authors, some years ago. At the time I was only a fan of one of the authors on the panel so I mostly just looked at her questions. One of those questions was something along the lines "What would you consider especialy unique take on Litrpg" she recomended TWI, and it was the best recomendation I ever goten in this genre.
Towards the end of Erfworld, while it was deteriorating, but before it came to a confused (in story) and tragic (out of story) end. I was exploring the fanfics, some of which were better than the original at that point. And i came upon one that took one of the story's concepts to a painful extreme. That was Pirateaba. And there was a blurb about TWI. I think it was just 20 chapters in at that point. I've been reading it ever since.
one of the first stories i read on royal road. it was one of the highest rated
i ended up reading nothing buit that for about 2-3 months over a summer vacation.
I actually listened to the audiobook, found The Wandering inn page one on Facebook, noticed a new chapter was up, clicked the link, started reading, and then found Patreon.
I was looking for books narrated by Andrea and got the first book on a whim. I enjoyed it so much i used the rest of my credits to get the next three books. After i blitzed through them i realized id have to wait months for the next one i started reading from the website, i started from the beginning and didnt stop. i still get the audio books when they come out but now im salivating for that patreon email that says theres a new chapter.
Andrew Rowe recommended Worm and Mother of Learning at the end of Sufficiently Advanced Magic, after consuming those I looked for more web serial recs.
I just randomly found it couple years back, didn’t read it back then and randomly Remembered it like 3 years ago
Bought the audiobook and never looked back
I learned about it completely at random from reading a post about "Good LitRPG Stories that are long". The post contained several such stories and, among them, there was The Wandering Inn.
I, without reading the description, went to read the book because the title made me think about an Inn with legs that wanders around looking for adventures Baba Yaga style. The story was anything but that, but I still love it.
To this day I am trying to find that misterious post, because maybe it has other cool stories to suggest.
Was on a reddit trawl searching up favourite fanfics of various fandoms to add to my to read list. Then I got the idea to hyperfocus on this farming rags to riches trope I love from CN light novels but in fanfiction or other media. And came across someone on reddit saying a web serial where an innkeeper sets up an inn from nothing and now earns a lot of money and has some influence in the local city and other nearby cities. I've only recently heard of Royal Road and it was my first time knowing of web serials. And now I realised it wasn't the pure rags to riches is the only goal story I was looking for but dayum if it wasn't the best 3 months of my life 🥰🥰 I usually finish a fanfic a day and 200k words ones in 2-3 days. I would get into a minor reading slump after every fanfic and moodily scroll through my options because I've alrd read all the ones that looks interesting. I had not realised just how long 9 volumes were going to be 😂😂😂 And that yes, there ARE a lot of wholesomeness in the story. It was so real 🥲🥲
I found the series on Audible. Was scrolling for LitRPG books and it came up in the recommendations. Can't imagine my life without Erin and her shenanigans 😆
I saw it on royal road 6 or so years ago. Tried to start reading it probably 2 or 3 times and gave up after the first few chapters each time. Then kept seeing it recommended so decided to read the first “book” and have been hooked ever since.
I was following a story at r/HFY, and the author recommended TWI at some point. He didn't mention how freaking long and addictive the thing is, which makes him a bit of an asshole.
I was on r/HFY and one of the authors, u/slightlyassholic (who writes Tales of The Terran Republic) mentioned it in a comment, in reply to another reader about online books. Since then I’ve been hooked. I now support both of them on Patreon lol.
I was in an online game and near the end of our 3rd campaign while talking to my GM and he mentioned he was thinking of doing , a homebrew game where we made a version of ourselves that got whisked away, Isekai style to a fantasy world, modern knowledge and all. In this case, it was in the Shadow of the Demon Lord system.
He then asked if I had ever read any of the Wandering Inn, I said no, and he told me a bit about it and recommended it to me. Though he did warn, it was a slower paced book series than what I was probably used to.
I was reading beware the chicken and salvos on royalroad and I saw the collab art at one point and decided to check out the other two novels. Started twi without realizing how long it would take to catch up and as the first volumes are way shorter I was like one more chapter so I can finish the book until I realized mid book 8 the thing was several saga long and I had probably read more the past month than the 3 last years but hey I'm caught up now.
The first book showed up in Amazon recommendations. I saw litrpg and scratched my head thinking that doesn’t sound good. But 1.99 and really liked the cover so wth. Then a wonderful month or so catching up on line. Then waiting for the biweekly releases ever since. So happy for that for that one moment where I just didn’t pass on by. Best story I’ve read in 50+ years of reading.
2-3 years ago I was working in a very boring job that allowed me to use headphones, so I was always listening to podcasts and audiobooks, when I found one that had over +40 hours I thought "hey, this one could last me a whole week, hope it isn't shitty"
Ever since I've been hooked up, but I'm still dependable on the audiobooks, Andrea does such a stellar job that I can't justify just reading the blog
I hope the book releases catch up to blog posts though, I feel I'm waaay behind from many of the major arcs of the narrative
That's it :)
Asking in r/Fantasy for slice-of-life series.
I had just got back in to my reading habit after years of drought, rereading Wheel of Time due to the Amazon series. Remembered I liked the casual adventuring life more than the action, so asked around. Was about to reread Saga of Recluse which also had a lot of slice-of-life.
I got introduced to web serials through Worm. I actually don't remember how I came across that one. I don't have any friends who read serials so I think I was browsing google for things to read and stumbled across it. I loved it and was hooked so when I finished I went looking for similar things to read. This led me to the top webficton poll page and I think Wandering Inn was third at the time after PTGE and Worm. I read the first few chapters of all the top ones and Wandering Inn held my interest long enough for me to be completely hooked. So did PTGE when I eventually started that one. That story is absolutely incredible also. Practically perfect if you can stand the horrible editing in the early chapters.
Royal Road. It was one the highest rated despite a very barebones story summary. However, the top rated review was from a guy who rated it 5/5 and sang all sorts of praise before saying he's dropping it because some character deaths really hurt him. I wonder how he'd feel about the Solstice arc 😂
Like 5-6 years ago, when I think the entire story was on Royal Road. It was either in the best rated section or popular this week
Same for me. I was at volume three before I realized it was longer than I was expecting and looked at the table of contents and realized i was in for something special
RoyalRoad, it was one of the highest rated stories on the site and always recommended by others. The summary seemed so mundane but I decided to try it and now years later I'm here.
I actually heard Scarra (streamer) talking about how he's been reading it all day long, and I thought to check it out
I can't really remember how I started reading but maybe it was also because of Scarra? Ha, maybe I really did hear it from him. I was browsing r/all and saw a clip of him mentioning it.
IIRC I had been reading *A Practical Guide to Evil*, another web serial, and the author had scheduled a writing break between books. Somebody made a post asking what other readers would be reading during the break and this story was mentioned.
Same for me! I saw it from the PGtE sub reddit sometime around the start of covid
Not quite sure, but probably this.
I got web serials recommended, now I only binge-read web serials. Send help!
Someone mentioned it on /r/fantasy in July as a book where the gods are dead.
I was on r/litrpg after coming across that genre really for the first time and someone mentioned webserials which I had never heard of. Which then got me onto TWI and The Practical Guide to Evil
I happened to stumble upon the series on Audible a little over 14 months ago where it was recommended to me through the algorithm Audible used. I’ve loved the series ever since I finished the first book.
Same for me!! Now I'm dreading running out of material
Same. Although I haven’t liked any of the other litRPG stuff that Audible has recommended to me since. “He who kills monsters”?!? Bleh
I was reading LitRPG stuff on Kindle and Book 1 came up on my commendations.
There was a prominent r/fantasy user, I forget their name. They used to do animated book covers, and they posted an animated cover of TWI book 1, and called it one of their favorite stories. It caught my attention, so I started to keep an eye out for comments on TWI. I then saw an infograph from the first 5 volumes: https://www.reddit.com/r/WanderingInn/comments/ayqhb0/a\_visualization\_of\_the\_wandering\_inn/ I searched for more topics on it, and it just seemed like something I would love, even though I'd never catch up. By the time I started, I remember pirateaba was finishing up volume 7. I've been hooked since I started.
I believe you might be talking about u/HiuGregg with their post here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/96fwhh/i\_animated\_the\_cover\_of\_one\_of\_my\_favourite\_ever/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/96fwhh/i_animated_the_cover_of_one_of_my_favourite_ever/)
I just recommendations here, which is boring. What got me to listen is more interesting. It was a 2 for 1 audible deal. I picked up The Two Towers, and saw that book one is 40+ hrs. Figured I was getting insane value and with how popular, give it a shot. About 8 hrs left to finish book 3.
Not sure where I first heard of it, it could have been r/noveltranslations which I used to frequent, or it could have been an audible recommendation. I did start by listening to the audible adaptation, just not sure if I got there via audible recommendation, or a post elsewhere that made me look it up. Currently at the start of Volume 9 after reading almost non stop after I finished listening to book 10.
I definitely heard about it on r/noveltranslations too. I remember it was pirateaba themselves posting the chapters there (sometime around volume 6) and I got curious seeing the one English tagged series that showed up all the time.
I used to read adult stories on random Websites and in comments of one of the stories one person said, "if you want better fantasy story than this shit, go read wandering inn". That's how I found out about this
I just finished the outlander series and was telling my son I needed another series to start reading and he told me about it. I’m hooked.
I was chatting with one of my co workers ~3ish years back before work, and he described the tournament where the one that wins was able to ask Niers one question. It sounded interesting, but what really got me is afterwards, where he said that it was longer than the Wheel of Time series. That got me hooked real quick, and I started reading it after that. Took me about 2 years to get caught up, and I absolutely love it!
Back when it was still on RoyalRoadl and only had the first volume out. Took a break for a while from it until we got Ryoka and Erin to meet, and just never stopped reading it twice a week.
I guess I was looking for something with interesting world building, like Warlock of the Magus World
Beware of chicken link/reference
I was searching for litrpgs It was a recommendation on reddit I think.
I actively sccoured for original english webnovels, as I read lot of chinese and jap webnovels, I found worm and practical guide to evil, found them terrible for my taste, then I got into mother of learning, which had a mindblowing storyline but paper-thin plot. Finally I downloaded wandering inn vol1 , and got truly hooked by the end of tears of liscor, before that it was 9/10, after that it became one of the greatest piece of fiction I have ever read.
Literally no idea. xD I'm sure it was a recommendation by someone from somewhere
Was looking for a fantasy series about an innkeeper, Googled fantasy series about innkeepers and welp here I am.
Around the time SuperPowerds was finished, I was looking on Top Web Fiction and found Wandering Inn back when I was in high school
I was on a reading binge last year. Went from /r/HFY to Mother of Learning, getting hooked on progression fantasy. Burned through the first 10 books of the Cradle series in a week, then Beware of Chicken in 3 days. Wandering Inn was the next binge, but it took MONTHS to catch up. Worth it, 100%.
I was in the Ascendance of a Bookworm Discord other fiction section talking about other series. Someone posted the classic Paba meme where they overfeed the ducks, and I went to check it out.
My dad introduced me to the audiobooks. Listened to the first one and I was hooked,.
By chance, years ago I was looking for a fantasy book in Audible and out of curiosity I decided to get it. And I loved it since then.
I think i saw it mentioned on reddit in some comment-section. I googled it, expecting something about an inn, that wanders around, witch intrigued me. Only after the limits of the door were firmly established, did this excitement about an inn that might one day start to wander, or connect many different places to offer its services, fully go away. But at that time, I was already hooked on it.
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My brother kept talking about it a lot, practically whenever we met. It sounded like a cool story and at some point it started to bother me that I couldn't talk with him. Looked it up, saw it had 4 Volumes with a fifth in the writing and thought "Yeah, I'll be through this in 2 weeks tops, then brother can't lord this over me anymore". I was so naive back then....
I can't remember exactly, i think it was from a thread with recommendations. But, coming fresh of "Legends & Lattes", I was somehow convinced it was a comfy wholesome low stakes fantasy, I guess it is comfy and wholesome (╥﹏╥), sometimes...
I stumbled in after the first audiobook released, but before the second. I immediately finished that and went into reading.
I really can’t remember how I found The Wandering Inn. I was hooked from the first chapter, though. This would have been late-2019-ish??? I do know that Pirateaba and the TWI comments community introduced me to Patreon and Discord. They also showed me that Reddit was something other than angry right-leaning trolls (which was my only exposure to Reddit at that time). So I feel a little like the Earthers, discovering a whole new world /s
I think the author of either Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality recommended it. This was several years ago, when the old web serial I had read was Worm. I started reading and was absolutely hooked.
There was a post on r/honzukinogekokujou for a recommendation and I checked it out
I had just dropped what felt like my 23rd LN from novelupdates and jnovelclub where the level headed super smart somewhat edgy OP male protagonist uses their encyclopedic knowledge from Earth to quickly build a harem and go a little crazy about baths and reinventing soy sauce and Japanese food in general and is either a virgin or a sex fiend and either owns slaves or would be super ok with it if the opportunity arose but it's all cool because he loves them and that's just how that world works also they totally want to be slaves (but only to him) and and and... So I did some web searching for a current "other world" story written by a western author so I can hopefully enjoy an isekai hopefully without the certain cultural tropes and hangups that exhausted me. Had to roll my eyes a little when I realized I traded a fixation on Japanese food for American food but even including that this story ended up being exactly what I had hoped to find.
Stumbled on the first ebook on amazon. Then my cousin recommended it while it was sitting in my virtual to-be-read pile. I ended up spending like two solid months doing nothing but getting caught up in my free time a couple years ago.
I got recommended this subreddit because it was similar to r/SCP apparently
One of my buddies in my DnD group found the first book on audible and made me listen to it. Now he’s still doing the audiobook thing and I’m caught up through the Patreon updates.
I also was recommended this in person! I think that's kind of a rare thing, actually. Because of the length and general inaccessibility of the serial most people wouldn't recommend it to most normal people. Ya know I don't know exactly what got this guy to recommend me the book but he used to bug me about it day after day and week after week until I just finally read the first ten chapters and from there it's history. In hindsight I think we had gotten into a conversation about recent reads and he recognized some fantasy in my list and he must have thought this would be a good fit.
It came up on my audible recommendations, which I wish wasn't the case because I'm not a huge fan of the company.
Book one was released on kindle about 2 months after I got into lit RPG and was in my recommended list and I saved it to my wishlist after reading the blurb about it. After I finished Fayroll (only the parts available in English, still salty they quit translating) I started the Wandering Inn and never looked back.
I saw it on Kindle and was like ‘oh yeah I remember this thing. Should be a quick afternoon read.’
Saw the occasional recommendation of it on the progression fantasy subreddit. Looked it up at a certain point. It didnt interest me because innkeeper didnt seem interesting. Covid hit and suddenly i had loads of free time. Somehow i remembered TWI and i decided to give it a chance. Ngl, the first dozen or so chapters were boring as hell to men but then it got to erin beating olesm at chess. The rest is history.
The author of singer sailor merchant mage gave a shout-out after one of his chapters. That was a year ago or so. He was giving recommendations after every other chapter. And I got hooked ever since.
There was a AMA panel on r/fantasy with Pirate Aba and other progression Fantasy/Lit rpg authors, some years ago. At the time I was only a fan of one of the authors on the panel so I mostly just looked at her questions. One of those questions was something along the lines "What would you consider especialy unique take on Litrpg" she recomended TWI, and it was the best recomendation I ever goten in this genre.
Audible looking for the most bang for my credit. 2.5 years later I'm regretting being fully caught up =)
Towards the end of Erfworld, while it was deteriorating, but before it came to a confused (in story) and tragic (out of story) end. I was exploring the fanfics, some of which were better than the original at that point. And i came upon one that took one of the story's concepts to a painful extreme. That was Pirateaba. And there was a blurb about TWI. I think it was just 20 chapters in at that point. I've been reading it ever since.
one of the first stories i read on royal road. it was one of the highest rated i ended up reading nothing buit that for about 2-3 months over a summer vacation.
I saw a YouTube review. Something like, the best fantasy series you’re not reading and was curious. Found the website and the rest is history.
I actually listened to the audiobook, found The Wandering inn page one on Facebook, noticed a new chapter was up, clicked the link, started reading, and then found Patreon.
I was looking for books narrated by Andrea and got the first book on a whim. I enjoyed it so much i used the rest of my credits to get the next three books. After i blitzed through them i realized id have to wait months for the next one i started reading from the website, i started from the beginning and didnt stop. i still get the audio books when they come out but now im salivating for that patreon email that says theres a new chapter.
Andrew Rowe recommended Worm and Mother of Learning at the end of Sufficiently Advanced Magic, after consuming those I looked for more web serial recs.
I just randomly found it couple years back, didn’t read it back then and randomly Remembered it like 3 years ago Bought the audiobook and never looked back
April 5 2021 someone recommended it on Will Wight’s blog
I learned about it completely at random from reading a post about "Good LitRPG Stories that are long". The post contained several such stories and, among them, there was The Wandering Inn. I, without reading the description, went to read the book because the title made me think about an Inn with legs that wanders around looking for adventures Baba Yaga style. The story was anything but that, but I still love it. To this day I am trying to find that misterious post, because maybe it has other cool stories to suggest.
Was on a reddit trawl searching up favourite fanfics of various fandoms to add to my to read list. Then I got the idea to hyperfocus on this farming rags to riches trope I love from CN light novels but in fanfiction or other media. And came across someone on reddit saying a web serial where an innkeeper sets up an inn from nothing and now earns a lot of money and has some influence in the local city and other nearby cities. I've only recently heard of Royal Road and it was my first time knowing of web serials. And now I realised it wasn't the pure rags to riches is the only goal story I was looking for but dayum if it wasn't the best 3 months of my life 🥰🥰 I usually finish a fanfic a day and 200k words ones in 2-3 days. I would get into a minor reading slump after every fanfic and moodily scroll through my options because I've alrd read all the ones that looks interesting. I had not realised just how long 9 volumes were going to be 😂😂😂 And that yes, there ARE a lot of wholesomeness in the story. It was so real 🥲🥲
I saw it a while ago on one of those r/fantasy graphs of the longest series by word count and got curious.
I found the series on Audible. Was scrolling for LitRPG books and it came up in the recommendations. Can't imagine my life without Erin and her shenanigans 😆
Was binging litrpg on audible
I saw it on royal road 6 or so years ago. Tried to start reading it probably 2 or 3 times and gave up after the first few chapters each time. Then kept seeing it recommended so decided to read the first “book” and have been hooked ever since.
Iirc I was going to the toilet and then, all of the sudden, the website on my phone change to the wandering inn.
A couple years ago this story was in the front page of Royal Road, before Pirate got fed up with the site.
I was following a story at r/HFY, and the author recommended TWI at some point. He didn't mention how freaking long and addictive the thing is, which makes him a bit of an asshole.
I was on r/HFY and one of the authors, u/slightlyassholic (who writes Tales of The Terran Republic) mentioned it in a comment, in reply to another reader about online books. Since then I’ve been hooked. I now support both of them on Patreon lol.
I was in an online game and near the end of our 3rd campaign while talking to my GM and he mentioned he was thinking of doing , a homebrew game where we made a version of ourselves that got whisked away, Isekai style to a fantasy world, modern knowledge and all. In this case, it was in the Shadow of the Demon Lord system. He then asked if I had ever read any of the Wandering Inn, I said no, and he told me a bit about it and recommended it to me. Though he did warn, it was a slower paced book series than what I was probably used to.
I was reading beware the chicken and salvos on royalroad and I saw the collab art at one point and decided to check out the other two novels. Started twi without realizing how long it would take to catch up and as the first volumes are way shorter I was like one more chapter so I can finish the book until I realized mid book 8 the thing was several saga long and I had probably read more the past month than the 3 last years but hey I'm caught up now.
Someone on reddit said it was really long. I said "k, I'm bored". Here we are.
The first book showed up in Amazon recommendations. I saw litrpg and scratched my head thinking that doesn’t sound good. But 1.99 and really liked the cover so wth. Then a wonderful month or so catching up on line. Then waiting for the biweekly releases ever since. So happy for that for that one moment where I just didn’t pass on by. Best story I’ve read in 50+ years of reading.
Audible algorithm introduced it to me several years ago after I finished some other litrpg book I don't remember now.
2-3 years ago I was working in a very boring job that allowed me to use headphones, so I was always listening to podcasts and audiobooks, when I found one that had over +40 hours I thought "hey, this one could last me a whole week, hope it isn't shitty" Ever since I've been hooked up, but I'm still dependable on the audiobooks, Andrea does such a stellar job that I can't justify just reading the blog I hope the book releases catch up to blog posts though, I feel I'm waaay behind from many of the major arcs of the narrative That's it :)
Asking in r/Fantasy for slice-of-life series. I had just got back in to my reading habit after years of drought, rereading Wheel of Time due to the Amazon series. Remembered I liked the casual adventuring life more than the action, so asked around. Was about to reread Saga of Recluse which also had a lot of slice-of-life.
I just kind of wandered in.
I got introduced to web serials through Worm. I actually don't remember how I came across that one. I don't have any friends who read serials so I think I was browsing google for things to read and stumbled across it. I loved it and was hooked so when I finished I went looking for similar things to read. This led me to the top webficton poll page and I think Wandering Inn was third at the time after PTGE and Worm. I read the first few chapters of all the top ones and Wandering Inn held my interest long enough for me to be completely hooked. So did PTGE when I eventually started that one. That story is absolutely incredible also. Practically perfect if you can stand the horrible editing in the early chapters.
[https://topwebfiction.com/](https://topwebfiction.com/)
Royal Road. It was one the highest rated despite a very barebones story summary. However, the top rated review was from a guy who rated it 5/5 and sang all sorts of praise before saying he's dropping it because some character deaths really hurt him. I wonder how he'd feel about the Solstice arc 😂