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The Heroic Villain
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott, Justin Thomas James, Anneliese Rennie
- Durée: 14 h et 48 min
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Mimic & Me
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- Narrateur(s): Ryan H. Reid, Dorrie Sacks, Jeff Hays
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun!
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Dungeon Lord
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- Auteur(s): Hugo Huesca
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When Edward is swept into the world of Ivalis as a Dungeon Lord, the Dark's most powerful servant, he has no servitude in mind. He'll oppose the evil plans of the Dark god, Murmur, whatever it takes. Through only his wits and his guts to help him survive a weakened arrival, Edward must rise to power if he is to earn the right to live another day. But in the battle between Dark and Light, what can Edward choose if both sides are cruel, uncaring monsters?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wouldn’t recommend, wouldn’t listen to again, but overall a good story.
- Écrit par Cameron le 2019-03-13
Auteur(s): Hugo Huesca
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War Aeternus: The Beginning
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not for everyone
- Écrit par steve le 2021-02-13
Auteur(s): Joshua Swayne, Autres
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Morningwood: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.1)
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic, hilarious NSFW series.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Trash... but addictive trash.
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Apocalypse Comedy
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Au global3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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2 out of 5 stars
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very slow start
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Mimic & Me
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 12
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Betrayed and left for dead by a group of slaving nobles, he thought there was nothing left but to bleed out as he counted the number of bricks on the ceiling. But fate had other plans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun!
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Dungeon Lord
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- Narrateur(s): Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 158
When Edward is swept into the world of Ivalis as a Dungeon Lord, the Dark's most powerful servant, he has no servitude in mind. He'll oppose the evil plans of the Dark god, Murmur, whatever it takes. Through only his wits and his guts to help him survive a weakened arrival, Edward must rise to power if he is to earn the right to live another day. But in the battle between Dark and Light, what can Edward choose if both sides are cruel, uncaring monsters?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wouldn’t recommend, wouldn’t listen to again, but overall a good story.
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Auteur(s): Hugo Huesca
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War Aeternus: The Beginning
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not for everyone
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Morningwood: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.1)
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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what an amazingly crazy idea
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5 out of 5 stars
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Witty adventure
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5 out of 5 stars
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Could be better...
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The Mayor of Noobtown
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After dying and being reborn into a world that's built like a video game, Jim has found himself stuck in a very old-world style new-player zone for low-level adventurers. Unfortunately, the zone fell out of use centuries ago, and no one told the monsters they were supposed to take it easy on the Noobs. Even worse, the only new player around is Jim. Jim has been given an opportunity, and he'll do his best to take advantage of it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun book
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Auteur(s): Ryan Rimmel
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Challenge
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1 out of 5 stars
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terrible world
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Auteur(s): Edward Castle
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The Archemi Online Chronicles Boxset: Books 1, 2 & 3
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- Auteur(s): James Osiris Baldwin
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- Durée: 45 h et 38 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global4 out of 5 stars 4
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Before being conscripted to fight in the Total War, Private Hector Park had a shattered family, a collection of old video games, and a promising career as a motorcycle stuntman. Now, he is dying from a virus threatening humankind with extinction. He has three days to live. When Hector’s brother contacts him after years of hostile silence, Hector goes to try and make peace. But his brother offers him something even better: the chance to cheat death by joining him in Archemi, a full-immersion fantasy VR-RPG video game.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gets better, but pretty generic
- Écrit par Mr. Spice le 2023-11-26
Auteur(s): James Osiris Baldwin
Description
Although he was once the promising young CEO of a successful corporation, Lucas abandoned everything he knew and retreated from both the real world and his demanding life following a horrific accident. In order to cope with tragic loss, he began spending his time in virtual reality, lazing about in the sun, and living a carefree life.
When he learns that his escapist paradise is being threatened and is about to disappear, however, Lucas is once again forced to take action and do what he does best: take charge. With newfound purpose, Lucas desperately begins making plans that will not only save the world that he has come to love but also propel him back into the spotlight once again - only this time as the villain.
In this GameLit LitRPG adventure, Lucas overthrows local lords, assumes command of the evil Imperium’s forces, and begins designing a dungeon that no player would ever want to miss out on. As he struggles to evolve his monsters and create an entourage of minions in order to become the greatest villain ever, however, Lucas realizes that things aren’t going to be as easy as they initially seemed.
Dave Willmarth, writer of the Greystone Chronicles: "A great start to a new series from a master storyteller! The MC being more of an anti-hero is a new twist for Charles, and I’m really enjoying it!"
This book is brought to you from the author of the Litrpg series War Aeternus, The Bathrobe Knight and Merchant of Tiqpa.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Thomas Devlin
- 2019-11-03
AMAZING
This is one of the best books I've had the pleasure of listening to. I hope this book becomes a long lived series. Enjoy listeners
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-04-22
Overall great
I'm not super good at reviews so the best way to say it is like an rpg made into a book.
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- Kyle
- 2021-10-07
Sound effects are too much
The story seemed good, but after a few chapters the sound effects were just too much. I was hoping they would die down as I got further, as it seemed like a good series. Can’t finish it though. Would not recommend. I’ll be keeping an eye out for ‘sound effect boosted’ books to avoid.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-06-19
good story with little issues
Loved the story that was presented and i loved the performances but the biggest issue i had was with the mixing of the special effects. The two major instances i can think of a this point are when the mc speaks with the giant spider (i could barely understand what it said due to the noises it made) and the second one was when a pc spoke behind a door (the sound was so muffled that i couldn't hear what was said without earphones) otherwise this is a great read and i'm interested to see what the second book has to offer.
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Au global1 out of 5 stars
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- Matthew Lane
- 2021-01-25
Was not for me.
Lord, how many times can we copy and paste the same whiney useless fing character into a single story? the main character is the only one that shows any sign of development but just when it gets good, in comes another useless whining sack to ruin what could have been a great story. voice actor is fantastic, which is what brought me to this book but this is not his greatest work. thank god for the refund policy.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-08-28
enjoyable
Funny story at times with someone just having fun saving his or his wife's favorite game. The characters are well done and pretty quirky, the princess is hilarious when she goes off on a tangent. Great pacing and decent combat scenes. The magic is simple but fun and the world is getting fleshed out at a great pace. My only complaint would be with the main characters backstory, that causes him to reminisce fairly often and each time theres this sad song like violins playing in the background. I realise these moments are meant to be sad but the music reminds me too much of the parody where ppl play the tiny violin to make fun of whiners and it ruins the reflection. Buddies grief is understandable it's more a combination of the effects and the timing that bugs me. He usually falls into these moments after a success or a moment of joy which then transitions into a sappy background track and buddies melancholy grieving. Since we dont know this character or his wife very much its hard to care for a fictional characters grief when u were trying to enjoy a well written fight and the post battle banter. Great book worth a look for sure.
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- Shawn
- 2020-05-13
excellent overall
My only issue was the lack of profanity. Either needs a more creative and world appropriate swearing or just swear, don't dance around it.
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- Darian Van Gläske
- 2021-10-20
Hard to follow sometimes.
I found the story hard to follow at times. It seemed like more detail should have been included, which would have made it a more enjoyable listen. Sound Booth Theater did a great job as always.
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- joel pinay
- 2021-06-10
Excellent
Great story and wonderfully narrated and produced a must listen for anyone who enjoys mmorpg style games
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-07-05
Enjoyable
Who hasn't always wanted to play the villian? Charles Dean holds true to how all evil Gillian's should run things, while taking us on a few smaller side quests. The characters are enjoyable and funny. I'm excited to start the second book, hoping for some new excitement!
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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- Peyton
- 2019-10-18
World not thought out
I’m always getting older. So I don’t have time or tolerance anymore for stories that don’t have well-thought out worlds. When it’s said he was the *only* player to *ever* fall into the negatives, I was like ‘okay sounds good’. When it said after that that the game had been out for eight years, given the previous fact I was like ‘well... ok... not impossible I guess but highly unlikely.’ When he discovered the bug, I was like ‘I’ll begrudge you that one given the first fact but I don’t like it.’ When she said that the devs *knew* about the bug, I was like, ‘okay super lazy for a futuristic tech but sure— human incompetence transcends time.’ Then. Then! It says that he is the *first* player to *ever* take the villain route. Nope. Fuck that.
Plus, through all of this, it danced weirdly around the protag’s background and never mentions nor demonstrates his personality as CEO-like, as provided in the synopsis.
Also the sounds engineering is pretty distracting. There are some parts where the effects are so loud it drones out the narrator. It could have grown on me though.
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Au global1 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-12-02
Do we need or want bongos?
The story was slow. the sound effects are cheesy at best. the music was so loud at times you couldn't hear the narrator. the characters are annoying and I had to just drop this one I gave it a try sound booth dropped the ball on this.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- AngBato
- 2019-07-24
It’s like the Anime Overlord
Its almost like the anime Overlord only the MC isn’t overpowering & broken or trapped in another world. The story is pretty good as the MC makes his way towards the top, Jeff & co. did a really awesome job on the voices, I rather enjoyed it & can’t really say anything otherwise it might spoil the story. All in all it’s a really great book!
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- Crispy Bacon
- 2019-11-03
I like my LITRPG's without wine and cheese, thanks
I actually listened to this one twice. First time, I was distracted, so I didn't really get to notice how bad this one was. I guess I was distracted by all the pretty noises, the overused drum track and the other noises.
Before I year this a new asshole, I have to point out that the supporting characters were actually fantastic with their own personalities and I found myself caring for them more than the main character.
Now, lets talk about the overloaded MC.
First, a CEO; ok, so that's a trope to make the reader believe he is smart without actually having to prove it. Got it.
Second, he likes wine and cheese: which in our society somehow conveys sophistication? Got it...
Third, he somehow accidentally was the only person to stumble upon a cheat in the system. Ok?
Alright, so we have smart, sophisticated and lucky. Got it.
Then we go through the rest of the book and not only are those three traits completely ignored, the main character actually conveys opposite characteristics than those he was supposedly created to embody. Ugg.
This book was trying to be too many things at once. It was trying to be a love story, a tragedy a lit rog and a fantasy/sifi all smashed into one, yet it failed miserably at them all. It actually had terrible game mechanics that were built upon not so we'll thought out world progression, with trope mechanics that were only meant to scare the reader into thinking the main character was about to lose it all if he died.
Then there is the ending... Talk about an anti clamactic ending. Without spoiling it for those who.might be interested after all this, the ending resolution is explained away by his main love interest, for the most retarded of reasons. Basically, the main bad guy is a bad guy in IRL and his actions in and out of the game would land him in some serious shit, yet like true Asian anime style, lets just pretend it didn't happen and it will go away...
Yep, this is truly a trash story that could have been better if the writer had cared about the book. The writer knows nothing of gamers to think that people who played a game for eight years would not know every in and out of every quest line, event and character in a game. It's an insult to people who actually play games and I am surprised people are eating this so highly because it has sound effects.
Fucking melinnials!
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- LITRPG Audiobook Reviews
- 2019-08-19
Evilly good like an unhealthy snack cake
Awright, you know what time it is. That’s right it is time for another SOUNBOOTH SPOTLIGHT!!!! Whoop Whoop!
Sorry had to naughty up the narrators a little bit since this book technically lacks naughty bits. The actual narration is performed by Jeff hays, Annie Ellicott, Justin Thomas James, with a special guest appearance by Annileise Rennie.
So, I am including this in this show for few reasons. First, because we have a naughty MC who is the villain of the story rather than the hero. Secondly, because Charles Dean likes to create harems and then make you want action to take place but you never get to see any action. Third, simply because this book is such a departure from what he usually writes that there is barely any beer in the book, and nary a strip of bacon to be seen. There is a sultry bath scene that is nicely descriptive, but don’t go looking for other types of naughtiness.
I will say that I did talk to Charles about this book, and we had a bit of a disagreement over the ending. He claimed that when he wrote this he had no intention of writing more books in this series, and that it was a completely self-contained tale, but I disagreed. I think the end did nothing but set up a second book. We had too many things unfinished, such as the vampire’s questline, and the other continents that needed dealing with, so I’m calling him naughty for trying to make me doubt what I’d read.
The book is clever and smartly written, and centers on a lonely guy mourning a loss and trying to just spend his days drifting about a game world doing nothing but drinking wine and eating cheese until he learns that the game is going to be shut down. Now, any other player would just move onto a new game, but the MC, Lucas, has reasons for not wanting to see this particular game world die off. So he pairs up with a dev to figure out a new way to draw players back to the game without any new content being developed.
Dean is pretty slick in the way that he handles negative levels, and having Lucas handle betraying team members. As always, he creates a set of characters to titillate the reader, but for me the BDSM Mercenary was my favorite. Bonnie! That’s her name. I loved her, if I had to pick a favorite then she’d be it. There is also the sympathetic girl, played by his game changing accomplice who is more than she seems and closer to him than he realizes.
I especially enjoyed the fat spider and the flying gorilla, but the spider Saba made me laugh consistently. A body shamed spider is not something you see everyday. The story is whip smart and crafted meticulously and definitely leaves you wanting more.
The SBT crew add in a ton of SFX and music and they perform the hell out of this book. Oddly, I did think the drumming during the battle scenes didn’t fit as well here. They kind of distracted me from the story, and I know that I’ve said that I’ve enjoyed similar work in the past but here it just seemed out of place for some reason. It wasn’t a game changer, but it did throw me off when it started up. Otherwise, just amazing. Oh, and kudos for including the ever amazing Anniliese Rennie in the book. That was just chocolate sauce on my whipped cream banana split. I can never get enough of Rennie, and to hear her paired up with SBT was a really special moment. Hays is just fun, and takes a morose Lucas into a conniving villain role very believably. JTJ has fun with his role as the betrayed gamer. Anneliese fits right in with the SBT team. Personally, I think they all get better every time they do a new book.
Final score 8.6 stars. Super awesome, with some great surprises both story wise and in the narration.
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- Joseph
- 2019-10-13
Doesn't deliver on premise
This book had so many good ideas, which made it all the more annoying when it failed to deliver on them at all.
Lucas is just a terrible villain, and the author didn't make me believe he was some ruthless CEO at all. He comes off as a regular ass litrpg protag that is just playing the game for a different faction. To use Warcraft as an example, he's more the first Horde playable character than he is the ruthless, cunning, diabolical Onyxia.
One of his companions is a straight up spymaster. Instead of sending her into enemy territories to sow discord and make his enemies fight amongst each other from within...he has her healing in most fights. I'm not joking.
A story like this doesn't actually need many fight scenes, but they are littered throughout and fought in the most uncunning way imaginable. Honestly, I just started skipping them entirely because the thought of him acting like the regular protagonist that proclaims he despises just got annoying.
I should add, I'm not complaining that Lucas wasn't cartoonishlt 'evil' enough. I'm disappointed that he lacked the cunning and charisma I wanted from a truly memorable antagonist... the kind the in-universe game actually needed.
Performance was stellar, as usual. However, SB have a habit of making spider monsters completely unintelligible that I wish they'd stop.
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- Kaz
- 2019-07-23
Narrator did best he could
Narrator did a good job.
I wanted to like this story. The story started out strong but fell apart pretty quick. It had a limited track and showed very little promise for growth.
It’s a bummer was looking forward to starting a good new series.
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- Raz
- 2019-09-05
Decent narration marred by amateur writing
The audiobook production quality on this is pretty good and there are a handful of interesting concepts marred by poor writing and storytelling.
The characters are unengaging and almost universally unlikeable. The backstory of the main character is bizarre and unconvincing, and the rest of the characters are walking anime tropes. The attempts at humor are sophomoric and lead to cringing about every five minutes like clockwork. Deus ex machina is the primary plot device and my eyes rolled so hard I was afraid my corneas would detach every time the author used the word "Philistine", which was often.
The worst part of it all is the main character seems desperate to not be labeled a white knight to the extent that he's pretty much a walking cliche of a white knight.
I'm really not trying to be mean, but this was really bad. I think masochism is all that drove me to the end.
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- Captainfish
- 2019-09-05
A Thorough Audio Adventure
This story follows a traditional LitRPG troupe, but doesn't say within the virtual realm (though not enough for my taste for these types of voluntary litrpg inclusion-type stories). It follows a former higher-up in a company who helped create a vrmmo game but loses his wife and then his meaning for living. He spends months and months after her death by hiding and "dying" in the game in order to escape from the real world. Something that many people can relate to. The story touches on some aspects of depression and how it affects the families as a whole. It handles this subject well.
The story from there goes as expected. But what sets this audio book apart is the audio producers and the audio artists who give their all to this story. There are sound effects galore that DO NOT get in the way of the story. In my opinion it adds a much desired dimension to the narration.
I can not but recommend this book if you are in to litRPG. There is no harem. There are some strong sexual innuendos and situations however.
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- Meh
- 2019-08-13
Cringe filled mess
There is a lot of garbage in the LitRPG genre and this entry is no exception. This is one of those books where it is made very obvious that the author has either never played a game before or just doesn't understand how they work on a fundamental level. Quite possibly both.
The characters are bland and alternately annoying or unbelievably cringe inducing. Normally I'd say Sound booth Theatre is a redeeming quality for a book. In this case not at all. The readers were fine, but good lord the sound effects. Constant, intrusive sound effects.
Having read some of the author's other works I figured I'd give them another chance. What a miserable mistake that was.
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