Dave Deranger peaked in the nineties. He won the Nintendo World Championships, picked up an Olympic silver medal in boxing, and now spends his days unclogging toilets. Naturally, this makes him the ideal candidate to save Earth.

Last Save Dave follows a middle-aged plumber who is abducted by a minor deity and entered into an intergalactic competition where the winning champion saves their world and everyone else gets vaporised. Armed with a hefty pipe wrench and the ability to create save points and reload them after death, Dave quickly discovers that dying is going to be a fairly regular occurrence.

And he dies a lot.

The save-and-reload mechanic is the heart of the book and one of the things I enjoyed most, even […]
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