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This is sixth in a long-running LitRPG series that you definitely want to read in order.

You know what you're going to get by now. The system/AI/worldbuilding is still complete and utter madness with a twist of satire*. I was pleasantly impressed with the character developments of this story. Yes, bad things happen, including to Carl and Donut. But they also persevere and continue to wreck all the complacency of the show runners while they're at it.

And I particularly like how they handled the fallout for the reveal that Katia and Donut are going to be at odds for surviving the ninth floor. They already have one plan in play to circumvent the dire development, but the author has never yet let the default transpire and I'd love to see Carl pull some contrivance out of his boxers to blow this one up, too.

I think I'll leave this here, except to note that this continues the impressive five-star streak (only one so far didn't reach that level of entertainment). I perceive a bit of a publishing slow-down by the author, but I hope that picks up again and this was an outlier. The hardest part of reading this book was the big gap now that I'd caught up to publication. Relearning all the intertwined relationships once again took a bit and wasn't comfortable.

A note about Chaste: There's technically time/space for moments of intimacy, but this isn't that kind of story. Carl has some great relationships, including some that could turn romantic if the author chose to go there. So far, that doesn't seem to be on the menu. Oh! And at least some of this story happens in, um, a male dance review (strippers. They're strippers) and there's plenty of sex-based "humor". I don't consider that unchaste, so gauge/adjust accordingly.

* There's a lot of satire here, and I mean in the classical sense of the author tearing apart modern ideas, memes, and popular culture. It's practically a modern-day Gulliver's Travels, only without the political axe(s) to grind.