The story of a software engineer that became a gravekeeper to escape the horrors in his life.

Vol 1: The Claw: ~70 pages. 7 Chapters. Releases Sat & Wed.

Vol 2: The Mage: In Progress. No scheduled releases.

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★★★ 3.0

Probably some minor spoils for the first 3 chapters included in this review, read at your own transgression.
The Grimmlaw Series is a book about a man who has created the most powerful advertizing AI, whom creates perfectly targeted ads to everyone on the planet, thus technically enslaving people and robbing them of their free will.
You'll often find out titular protag moping about his house, out in the booneys managing a graveyard for people who died 100 years ago. Or at least, I assume they did, since the date or the setting is never truly provided.
One day, a creepy woman comes to his house with a flier for a new VR console, and leaves. This sparks him to go buy it, since the ad is perfectly targeted, and he gets put into a Virtual Reality game.
All of that was explained in the first chapter, pretty good start, snappy and quick, it hooked me.
I was only able to read 3 chapters, however. It came to my attention that the writer obviously studied surrealism and was perhaps much more inteligent than me. While I like surreal books, in fact, my favorite book on the site is surreal, this is just unelagbly insane.
I might sound stupid upon saying this, but the ammount of times the MC breaks into scientific jargon is rediculous. The book suffers for it. The world he is sent into has some sort of science magic stuff (I can't even tell, it's really confusing) and they want him to learn it? We are just tossed into the world and the MC seems confused, but after a little while, he seems perfectly clued into all of the jargon they say.
Perhaps someone who has a college degree in these topics may understand it, but I don't really. And it's a shame, since if I understood, I think it'd be pretty good, as the characters seem interesting, and the 'magic' system is really unique.
For now, I'm giving it three out of five, since it does have potential, but I don't think I can endure anymore currently, it's too confusing.

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