Heretical Fishing
by Haylock Jobson
About This Audiobook
Fischer burned out on success back on Earth; summoned to Kallis Realm — a world its gods abandoned, running on a degraded System — he takes one look at the power-progression rat race and opts out to go fishing. Which happens to be literal heresy, policed by actual cults. The rebellion of it is the joke, and the execution is the reason r/litrpg won't shut up about this series: fishing, cooking, and collecting accidentally overpowered animal companions, headlined by Sergeant Snips, a sentient crab who is the breakout character of cozy LitRPG, with Corporal Claws the otter close behind. Stretches go by where nothing happens, gloriously. The one critique with teeth: Fischer talks like a Jason Asano clone, and with Heath Miller narrating both series, the déjà vu is real. It doesn't stop Miller from knocking this out of the park — his laid-back register was built for exactly this. 5.9K ratings at 4.7, five books, and the genre's premier hammock listen.
