The books succeeded because of the humor.

His goal was to show that human beings were averse to change and that the introduction of the supernatural could not produce the drastic transformations in character seen in most urban fantasy novels. The author wanted to create a fictional world where a character became a vampire, but the transformation did nothing to change their personality. Most of the urban fantasy novels Hayes read followed this blueprint. The genre was filled with desperate, shy, socially awkward characters that became awesome, ass-kicking heroes after discovering their supernatural gifts. Hayes created the character because he was tired of Urban fantasy. Today, people know Hayes primarily because of Fred the Vampire Accountant. The most substantial aspect of his writing style was the humor, and he couldn’t deny the fact that he was better off leaning into the comedic elements of his stories instead of replicating the style of The Dresden Files. But later on, he realized that his early readers were correct. Initially, Hayes resisted these opinions. From what they saw, the author’s style did not match the tone he wanted to create. However, early readers did not appreciate his work. When he first decided to write fiction, Hayes wanted to produce serious, somewhat gritty urban fantasy in the vein of The Dresden Files. Hayes attended Texas Tech University, graduating with a BA in English. Drew Hayes, the fantasy author, noticed that some search engines would occasionally pair pictures of his face with articles detailing the death of Drew Hayes, the graphic artist.īecause people kept contacting the author to determine whether or not he was alive, Hayes decided to include a page on his website that specifically reminds people that he’s alive and well. and now I'm 40% through the first book.Hayes, who was overweight, died of a heart attack at the age of 37. I thought maybe I have to wait for things to develop. It reads like a boring historical journal. The writing is quite poor, but I can live with that if the story is exciting. Chaos Seed was by far the bestselling litrpg, so I'm giving it a try. I started looking around for other new litrpg books to read. I read Ready Player One years ago, Otherworlds (barely remember), and a whole crapload of related fantasy and scifi. A couple months ago, I had read Drew Hayes' NPC series without realizing it was kind of a litrpg. I then devoured Ascension Online and Awaken Online, followed by The Ritualist. I just discovered litrpg a few weeks ago with a random read of Dodge Tank and its sequel.

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