
Dante's Immortality: Beginnings
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Narrateur(s):
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Jeff Hays
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Auteur(s):
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Antonio Terzini
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For those who reside in the outer regions of Aleria, the day of bestowal is what determines their destiny.
It is the holy day of the Goddess. The day that allows those of age to step forward and receive their blessing, to embark on the path that she has chosen for them. To receive their Classification, which dictates their strength and ability. For those people, the holy day of bestowal represents fate itself.
For Dante, it represents salvation.
Years have past since he found himself abandoned without memories: years of hunger, ostracization, and solitude on the streets of Alazel without any hope of reprieve; of entrapment at the hands of the creatures that roamed the wilds beyond the city walls that made leaving impossible.
Now, there is a chance for everything to change.
In a cruel world where power could be gained through slaughter, strength meant everything. For Dante, that meant that the last his hopes lay in the Goddess' blessing. A combat Classification would be a lifeline, a way for him to escape the hell he had been living in. Anything else would only mean death.
This is a fantasy story that is heavily influence by LitRPG elements, which include: classes, status screens, skills, leveling, and a form of experience gain, among other things.
©2018 Antonio Terzini (P)2018 Jeff HaysAmazing, Can't wait for the next book
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Masterful
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Just epic all around
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Wow
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Best book ever!!
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Don't Buy This Book
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Now let's talk about the story which is the reason for the headline of this review. The truth of anything often lies somewhere between the varying views that people provide on it. After going through some of the five stars, this book is great reviews, and some of the lengthier this book is flawed reviews I would agree with some points.
1. No characters in this book jump out as being particularly memorable or likable. I feel like this was in part because the Author, Antonio Terzini, was looking to bring key players and upcoming events to light without really establishing them well.
2. It does suffer from genre tropes to a significant degree. However, I will say that it also breaks away from some of said tropes nicely. A good example is that the unexpectedly friendly nobles that pick Dante up near the beginning turn out to be evil (with the exception of the younger brother Alex), rather than becoming the beginnings of his new harem/fan club/what have you.
3. The world feels ever so slightly contrived and the repeated status stuff really did break narrative flow and immersion. While this may be part of this genre, I feel there is a better way to handle this in-universe than a literal menu. In another book I read, Sufficiently Advanced Magic, there was a similar concept to the status and classifications but they had to use an actual, in universe-item, made by people to apply numbers to the gifts given by the goddess.
Those are the common criticisms I ready, I do not disagree with them but I would say that I found some of the reviews to be harsh. There is some potential in this book, primarily in the protagonist Dante himself. As he is presented in this book he comes off, to me, as kind of a bland and unlikable blank slate character. Very par for the course considering his given origin, friendly and polite despite a life of abuse. Intelligent and adaptive to an insane degree and experiencing rapid power gains despite it supposedly being hard for normal people to power up in the world, but hey he got special gifts. But all these things are par for the course for this kind of book.
However, what I think is interesting about Dante is he might be crazy which would make a certain deal of sense. Abused, used, hunted, and socially isolated I got the impression that our author was wavering between two ideas for Dante. Sometimes his blandness comes off as him just being a standard, Gary Stu-esque protagonist. Other times it comes off as him being completely devoid of empathy and a real monster. The latter would be an interesting take and even characters in the book suggest it might be so at varying points. However, little in the narration we experience from Dante actually makes me think he is that disturbed, although that would be very interesting.
Anyway, I think I will get the sequel as I did enjoy this one. I just hope that the author can resolve some of this issues. Make the world feel less contrived, do a bit more showing and a lot less telling when it comes to characters, stray further from genre tropes and make Dante's degrading mental state come off more in the naration. I mean, the only times it really seemed like he was coming unhinged it was blamed on the glove, come on man! But yeah, over all it was enjoyable for me, I'd recomend it, but there is missed potential here.
Unrealized Potential
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