He Who Fights With Monsters 10 (HWFWM #10)[August 27, 2025]

[Yanique, Thread Master]

This is a Buddy Read for He Who Fights with Monsters 10 by Shirtaloon starting on August 27, 2025.


Happy Reading!

[Nirkatze]

Thank you!

Anyway. Series!
1. He Who Fights with Monsters (July 27) [link]
2. He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (Dec 27) [link]
3. He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (Jan 27) [link]
4. He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (Feb 27) [link]
5. He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (Mar 27) [link]
6. He Who Fights with Monsters 6 (Apr 27) [link]
7. He Who Fights With Monsters 7 (May 27) [link]
8. He Who Fights With Monsters 8 (Jun 27) [link]
9. He Who Fights with Monsters 9 (July 27) [link]
10. He Who Fights with Monsters 10 (Aug 27)
11. He Who Fights with Monsters 11 (Sept 27) [link]
12. He Who Fights with Monsters 12 (Oct 27) [link]

Audio: All are Audible Exclusives.
Ebook: All on KU, #12 releases May 20 2025

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Timothy Olyphant might be a fan:



Jason would be proud... (the running joke about amphora, with pamphlets)

[Nirkatze]

Totally over my head...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Amphora is ceramic jugs... Jason tries to get Rufus's dad to invest, with pamphlets and shenanigans...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Book 2, chapter 33

[Nirkatze]

LOL that's so long ago by now. But I can totally see Jason saying some thing like "Amphoras are the future, bro. All the cool kids are using them."

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

antique chic

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

people on the HWFWM reddit can't decide if Timothy Olyphant is a fan, or just a coincidence in phrasing, and hopping on the Hollywood hobby bandwagon, and aware of the issue with microplastics... so ceramics are the future :D

[Nirkatze]

If he's not a fan... someone needs to introduce him...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

He seems the type that could be a fan... Also been a bit of a weirdo / chaos gremlin when I've seen interview clips of him on Conan kinda dressed like his character in Justified (jeans and a hat)

[Nirkatze]

Yeah, he seems like he'd enjoy Shirtaloon & Jason's sense of humor... and disregard for authoritative governments...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Time to jump into this a few days early...

I just read the blurbs for this "trilogy" and God Damn... this goes off and has it's own story for 2-3 books, kind of as expected, as each set of 3 books makes up a larger Royal Road Volume... but I wasn't expecting half the stuff I read in the blurbs...

Sounds like things escalate, as usual, but the most jarring thing was the statement that in book 12, it's been 20 years since Jason was pulled into this world, back in book 1... I assume alot of time is going to be lost in book 11, because, by my reckoning, at this point it's been less than 10 years, right?...

Jason spent a year or 3 in the first trilogy, then he spent 3-5 years back on Earth, from the sounds of it (I think some time was lost in the transfer back and forth, and then traveling across the fantasy world back to his friends...

And then maybe a year or 2 past in the 3rd trilogy, since they left the area they were in to go to the islands, then stuff happened...

And I feel like I'm being generous with those amounts of time...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

And I found my answer, and yea, I basically doubled all the time measurements, generously...

Redditor said: "

Books 1-3 are a year and a half. Books 4-6 are 2 ish years. Books 7-10 are a year and a half. In total about 5 years for 1-10.

The second part of book 11 is 15 years. So book 12 will start 20 years after book 1. 5 years of story and a 15 year time skip
"

And very little of book 13 has been written, since Shirtaloon is still recovering from his illness in April... as of a few weeks ago, he still can't sit for long periods of time and get the writing juices flowing, because of meds/etc...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Started... there's a foreword and accompanying PDF cheat sheet of magic abilities of characters in the series... it's only taken Shirtaloon 10 books to see the downsides of not planning out the magic system of his series as meticulously as Sanderson tends to...

Early chapters: Jason gets accused of always being surrounded by new hot girls... Jason gets offended... Jason asks for a moment... goes and answers the door... it's a group of clergywomen... typical Jason...

[Nirkatze]

Wow. That's a very interesting acceleration there... really interested to see why...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Zoomed through this... had alot of fun... wish there was one more chapter... bit of a cliffhanger, but I spoiled the details forever ago, for those curious (view spoiler)[Hero god gave Jason a World Phoenix orb, so Gareth can resurrect on Earth, instead of dying permanently... I think he resurrects as a baby tho, so it's more like reincarnation... but then, we also know a 15 year time jump is coming, so New Gareth could still turn back up in the story, which I didn't know before yesterday (hide spoiler)]

I find it crazy that people suggest Earth arc haters skip books 4-6 and continue with books 7-9... it feels like book 10-12 rely on the events of 4-6... and 7-9 do, too, to a lesser extent, with how much power Jason gained on Earth and the Astral stuff...

But, it looks like books 10-12 are mostly Jason dealing with an Anomaly on Pallimastus, similar to all the anomalies on Earth, only with much more dangerous allies/foes to content with, on top of everything else... book 11 is gonna be a real Battle Ground book (to compare it to Dresden)...

[Nirkatze]

Reading this now! This made me laugh: "There's only so many times you can save the world before you have to admit you really are special."

[Nirkatze]

Took me a bit to realize the Builder's folks were referring to Jason as "The Defier" and not "The Fire." "The Fire" would've been cool.

Through Chapter 64 and really enjoying, Jason being Jason, and rubbing off on his friends, is guaranteed to make me laugh. I'm also really enjoying (view spoiler)[Jason freeing the Messengers and Sophie's Mom from their fanaticism, and of course each time that he stands up to someone thinking that being powerful means they can railroad smaller folks without earning respect... (hide spoiler)]

[Nirkatze]

Finished! Thanks for that spoiler tag--(view spoiler)[I got that they had a plan to save Gary, but I missed the details... that'll be interesting.

I feel like I got a better handle on this book in general, but I still don't have a lot to say besides it was a fun ride... Lots of people trying to put Jason in his place and either being warned off or figuring out why they shouldn't... the one Diamond Ranker who accepted the invitation to his soulspace was interesting. I enjoyed that moment when she was like "oh shit you don't have a backer..."

The ending battle was properly epic. Kinda made me think of Wandering Inn book 1... but with more humor and less emotional moments. These are pretty cozy even when slaughtering undead. (hide spoiler)]

[Marie]

Love that Clive's wife has been resurrected as a running joke lol. Idk if it was already in the previous book but recently it's having some great banter and jokes.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

it's been mentioned off and on, all along, basically... less so during 4-6 obviously...

[Marie]

I guess it has but seems to be used in more varied way where I am reading.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Clive references it more now, not just Jason and occasional others...

[Nirkatze]

It's a great running joke.

[Marie]

“Just give someone a letter for me. You know, final goodbye stuff.”

“You want me to go to Greenstone and find your mother?”

“What?” Neil asked. “No, the letter is for Clive’s wife.”

“Oh, come on!” Clive exclaimed.

“You don’t have to go to Greenstone,” Neil continued. “Just give it to anyone at the Magic Society. They’ll know how to find her.”

This one came so out of nowhere lol.

[Nirkatze]

Oh, that's a great one.