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A Snake's Life

Written by: Kenneth Arant
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
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Publisher's Summary

The afterlife isn't always what you think....

A loving father of three children, Albert lived a life of few regrets. He served his country far from home. He outlived his soul mate. He died alone.

However, his assumptions about a peaceful eternity, reunited with his wife, are thrown out the window when a meddling god digs his fingers into Albert's afterlife.

The positive? He will have a chance to see his wife again.

The negative? He has to survive the dangers of the legendary World Tree for the next 300 years. He's been reincarnated into a world full of magical evolutions, monstrous deer, sassy 10-year-old elves, and untold hidden dangers. It won't be easy, but if life has taught Albert anything it's this: If something is worth having, it's worth fighting for. And he intends to fight.

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What a ride

This book was so well done and the performance was fantastic.

This book spiced up the classic trope of rebirth in a fun an unique way. I would highly recommend for those who enjoy LitRPG books and those who just want a good story.

Can’t wait for the next book!

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Good story bad character

It a good story and great writing with an even better narrator but the main character is just a douche bag i find myself wanting him to lose every fight because of just how much of a dick he is

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A pleasant Surprise

I like MC being a monster it's interesting. I can't really put my finger on why I always want to hear more. but worth your $$$$ 💰 money. give it a try I highly recommend 👍

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Enjoyable to the end

I like this more then expected. The mc is pretty funny in his gluttony but the side characters like fenris make the story. The book really picks up once he starts interacting with the worlds rather then just eating everything.
The fast progression would be my only complaint as he seemed to move thru the tiers by skipping every other stage which to me defeats the purpose of a tiered system and kinda makes him op a bit early. That being said most opponents are stronger and its not as one sided as some of the books with op mc's.
Performance was top class tho I wish they would remove the more repetitive rpg menu stuff to adapt it more to the spoken word rather then written. An example would be during evolutions when the narrator repeats note b4 each sentence. Sounds odd and kinda annoying but thats not really a slight and his voices were awesome.

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A Must!

A completely unique perspective on the genre!! I took a chance on this book and absolutely loved it!

give it a go you have nothing too lose

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Cant Wait for the next one

This is a wild ride, The guy gets reincarnated as a snake like monster and you go on an adventure with him.

Now this audio-book is nothing new but instead of being the hero your a monster. Ive read manga that are like this and yea its like all of them yet different. Prepare to be enthralled.

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RPG Lit better than the sum of its parts

A guy dies, some god interferes, he is sent to a reality with magic, druids, dragons to await his wife who will be reincarnated as a hero. As he gains skills go goes up levels and has evolution paths. This part is all pretty standard RPGLit stuff. One of the things that sets it apart is he doesn't go to the reality as an elf or other mythical race. He goes down as a snake.

The dialogue is pedestrian. The story is mostly linear. But the aspect of him being a snake and having to find a way to evolve that would get him to make him able to interact with his wife is interesting. Also the subplot of the machinations of the gods is interesting.

The narrator is decent. My concern for the rest of the series is that he has become super powerful by the end of this book, I don't really know if there is anyplace to go. But I guess the end game is he has to fight the gods. I will probably get the next book in the series.

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9/10. great listen.



narrator did an amazing job with the different voices! thoroughly enjoyed this book.

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Not for me, isakei for you? Likely not.

Picked this book up more for my son then myself, but he didn’t care for it either. What we have here is the usual isakei power fantasy (this time a big snake! By someone who didn’t do a lot of research on how snakes actually move/behave) but because the rules of writing isakei mean you need pop-ups and other video game aspects... but they don’t make sense. There is no reason for the world to have video game elements. The pop ups are both informative and not useful as the ‘plot’ demands. Such as the plot is.
Go to a fantasy world as a snake and evolve in power over and over until your beloved wife (who starts this book many years Dead) is reborn into it as a hero.

Because the video game aspects weren’t thought out, they don’t make sense or work as a ‘game.’ The character is shallow and underdeveloped too. In fact, if I had to guess from the way the chapters are spaced by word count, this story was written a chapter at a time and posted online every so often. A chapter a week likely. Maybe a chapter a day as the level of thought put into things feels about that.

The reader is trying his best, but the writer didn’t come up with great material and sometimes the writer delivers some ham-fisted lines and it just doesn’t work.

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Never quite got the point

Kept waiting for it to get better. Never quite happened. If I had realized sooner I would have asked for a refund. Just a story about someone who was always hungry.

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