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  • Written by: Ryan Rimmel
  • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
  • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (187 ratings)

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The Mayor of Noobtown

Written by: Ryan Rimmel
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
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Publisher's Summary

It could be worse. You could be stuck with a literal shoulder demon.

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.

©2019 Ryan Rimmel (P)2019 Podium Publishing

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Fun book

Was a good book, but it did feel a little bit slow to me. Started picking up a lot more near the end

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Each book is better than the last

This first book in the series was pretty funny, had some interesting moments. I thought it was pretty good. It was hard to tell the female characters apart, but the voice acting was still reasonable. If I had left a review after reading only the first book, I probably would've knocked it down to 4 stars on both the story and the performance, so my five-star review here is based on the first four books combined.

Initially, I wasn't going to read past the first book because it sounded like it was going to become a town-building simulator. However, during a period where the only LitRPG books I was being recommended were all dark and dour, I wanted humor so much that I returned to the second book despite that misgiving and found it was NOT going to become a town-building simulator. That job got shuffled off to an NPC that Jim hates, even though the story still does take place in and around that single town. It was still an incredibly humorous story that improved on every aspect of the system, characterizations, plot progression, and even voice work. The second book cemented the idea that I was definitely going to enjoy this series to the end.

After that, the third book improved on all fronts again, and by the fourth book the system and characters are all so well fleshed out. I can't wait for the fifth book to come out! The fourth book had a powerful cliffhanger ending, and I want to see how the new story dynamic will play out.

Shout-out to Jonathan McClain who has become my absolute favorite voice actor because of this series. It was mainly from the third book that I really noticed he had begun putting strong emotions into every line, even the basic narration. The voices of the female cast never changed through four books, but I found I was able to tell them apart extremely well by the third book just based on their accents and, interestingly, the way they breathed. The action scenes are also described in non-stop heart-pounding excitement, and the humor is only enhanced by his comedic timing.

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it's just too many game stats

I'm not really familiar with the genre, but there is just not enough excitement to get me invested. it's like someone describing a game as they play.

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great book and series

just starting the third book and I'm really enjoying the book. if your looking for a silly yet compelling litrpg, this book scratches that itch just fine.

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i enjoyed it

Its okay ,not the best of the genre but i do intend to buy the next one too. I think its leading up to a better story .

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Too op, flat stereotypical characters

Why is marvel better than DC? The struggles! This book builds Jim with a built in limitless pill. He's too op, as the author is too Stat happy. The stereotypical objectification and portrayal of women wants me to give this a one star, but alas, I'm a sicker for RPG lit and goblin smashing is fun. 2 stars.

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A good start

The Mayor of Noobtown was a fun, easy, and relatively quick listen. I bought book 2 right away.

the narrator isn't bad but has very little variation between characters, though I'm a bit of an elitist as I listen to a lot of audiobooks.

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Fun listen.

Pretty standard for a Lit RPG. I enjoyed listening to it and plan to keep listening to the other stories. There isn't really anything mind-blowing about the story but it's fun and has a good amount of snark and action once everything gets going. Not too many characters to keep track of in book 1, which made it easier to follow and I'm glad there wasn't a giant harem of female characters all hitting on the main character which I found refreshing. There was definitely a lot of repetition on the stats and I am a little worried the stats/skills will just keep getting longer but hopefully the author condenses it in later books.

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  • 2022-10-31

I want to like this, I do.

It is a great story, with a great plot, but maybe not put well into an audiobook. Too many repeats of stats, and you do expect some from the genre. Also this narrator's way of adding extra inflections is all over, at times funny and other times very jarring.

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Not my cup of tea.

I found the narration to be stilted and slow. The main character had near zero development before the world change, but occasionally references his wife and children (that remained unnamed) as if we have an emotional connection to them. He was able to easily overcome any trial put to him by outwitying his opponents with little challenge. I initially liked the bickering between the main character and the demon, but it quickly became rote and annoying. They argued without purpose. Lastly, the long, drawn out stats blocks pull me so far out of being immersed. It would be better if it only went through the necessary stats, as opposed to the 3 minute long pointless droning.

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