Tower of Jack

This could have been a good story, but the MC is the worst. He's supposed to be a great assasin, but he seems to lack the preservation instincts that someone in that field should have. He's careless and antagonistic beyond reason.

The plot is ok but generic. The people of earth are all pulled away to this magic tower because reasons. There is a system that grants classes, skills, and abilities. They have to climb the tower or die.

Protagonist is a little to over the top with his Frank Sinatra I did it my way attitude.  It is one thing to just go with your gut and ignore advice.  However, he wouldn't even listen to a healer with decades more experience.  There is being an individual and being a full.  The fact that luck keeps allowing him to come out of these situations practically unscathed is getting old.  

The prologue gives you straight-up, high-fantasy vibes and a scope of the world being built. It's interesting, expansive, and leaves you with lots of questions.

Then you meet Jack. Oh man, do I love Jack. 

While the story is full of fun fantasy tropes, Jack is a breath of fresh air. He's irreverent, funny, and an endearing asshole. He's not the typical main character who gets everything handed to him; though there is plenty of Deux Ex Machina; he skips over relevant quest details, breaks important items, and spends his skill points in a ridiculous way that absolutely makes a goofy lop-sided character.

I love it.

He also really cares about his team, a colorful cast who are interesting and brings new elements to the story. This duality is what makes the story interesting and provides redeeming qualities to what could otherwise be a flat character. He's an asshole by day, caring protector by night, with a growing backstory that helps explain it all.

If you are looking for a fun read to make you laugh while also providing a solid story arc and some great LitRPG elements, this is it. 

I almost stopped reading this story several times throughout the early chapters as I encountered several warning signs of a powerwank story: unexpectedly helpful cabals, interventionist gods, overpowered rare classes, and items "cursed" with awesome power. Luckily, I read long enough to realize that these events are as important as they seem, and this is a world where a person's potential can be boiled down to some numbers on a character sheet.

The story is very enjoyable, the action is gripping and the dose and feel makes you want to come back for more. This coupled with the fast release date(at that time) makes it one of my favorite stories when he still released chapters.

There are part of the story that could have gone better move development with his mentor/archnemesis, less simping for the girlfriend and the rivalry with the dragon.

This could still go either way, as the dragon can still become an enemy and the master is still not dead. The dragon can kill the girlsfriend and then the MC kills the dragon with his master, a lot of way it can go.

Overall this story is not finished and even with the ending being sudden it went on a decent point just like Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices and just like the aformentioned book I still find myself coming back from time to check if there is an answer to my comment and that says something about how much I enjoyed it.

P.S Author come back or do not come back but just put us out of our misery at least.

I was honestly pretty happy with the story, even with the problems of the MC. It had signs of improving, the MC was grappling with his mental issues.

Then near end of the second book book, the author decides that the whole story is going to be the classic MC whose mind has been completely broken and only driven by revenge, and broken body with no ability to use mana. Even worse, this time we know that the MC will not be redeemable. MC goes from a complex character grappling with a complex personal situation, to a one minded bot, whose potential for character growth has already been killed by information about his end state.

Some of the other reviewers here note the MC being braindead in early chapters. I was willing to put up with that, because there were signs that MC would grow as a character, being made more complex. It was dangled, then wiped out irrevocably in an instant. Potential for character growth is dead.

Story has been bait and switched, so I'm dropping, and don't recommend starting it.

Engaging world and characters.  Enjoy the tongue-in-cheek humor, literary and historical barbs, and the fast pace.  You're bringing your audience along and giving your cast of characters some semi redeeming traits despite their...excintricities.  Makes you want to root for your cast, warts and all. Curious to meet Sarah and looking forward to seeing it all play out

TLDR: 5/5 stars, good tower integration with good characters. Worth reading.

Tower of Jack is a standard tower integration novel. Gods are prevalent and...meddly as well as the Tower itself being more than willing to stick its fingers where they don't belong. The primary appeal is the characters -- namely Jack -- their dark secrets in their past, and how they grow to overcome them. This is one of those fictions where the main character is missing a few cards in his deck and is proud of it. 

Tower of Jack is an odd one. On the one hand, the introduction to Jack is rather polarizing and I feel that it failed to properly excite me regarding what was coming next. He comes off as an idiot or suicidal with a rather uninspiring amount of plot armor, rather than the ultra-competent assassin wearing the mask of a buffoon. That bothered me, but on the other hand, the story has a setting, plot, characters, the works. It isn't a mindless murder fest, nor is it a repetitive comedy that gets stale after three chapters. My only complaint is that the setting and magic system are a little stale (for me), but they don't get in the way and get the job done. 

The story gets lost at times, and there were at least a few occasions where I felt like the plot lost an argument with a brick wall. That being said, I enjoyed what was written currently, and encourage you to give it a try yourself. 

Style notes: The author uses nonstandard -- I think -- definitions/spellings for the words reigned and nonplussed. From the context, reigned=rained, and nonplussed=unperturbed. 

The premise of this fic is a sort of extremely assholeish James Bond esque stand in, the problem comes in with the point that one, despite being extremely skilled he regularly chooses to do things that screw himself and those around him over, and two it never matters.

Despite the problems, the fic has involved characterization, eschews basic writing errors, and has interesting world building. Unfortunately, the tendency to write events that neither follow motivations well, nor are the result of compelling or interesting characterization leaves it an exercise in frustration.

Succinctly put, the characters well character, should matter. Although the assholery isn't great to read either.

Cain from "heroes die" meet litrpg.

Great mc is the force that push forward this novel. Drunk, asshole assasin (im sorry, hitman! Dont tell him I called him assasin)

Great comedy/action in tower simmilar to "tower of god". 

I love all the references and "hey fuckface" got me giggling, not gonna lie.

And I swear to god, they should learn to stop throwing glass potions, they are really expensive. 

Read it, you will not regret that