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Death's Mantle

Auteur(s): Harmon Cooper
Narrateur(s): Andrea Parsneau
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Lucian North is supposed to be dead.

Suffering from a rare heart condition that doctors say should have killed him over a year ago, Lucian is playing a video game when Death finally comes.

Rather than give in, Lucian pulls a gun on the Grim Reaper.

As the two stare each other down, terrible demons known as injuresouls swarm into the room in pursuit of Death.

Summoning courage he never knew he had, Lucian comes to Death's aid. And for his troubles, he is awarded Death's Mantle.

Transported to a spiritual world he could have never fathomed, Lucian finds that he is instantly powerful, able to conjure weapons from scratch and perform incredible feats. He introduces game mechanics to his new role, develops a carefully curated inventory list, and modifies a HUD system that allows him to better track his targets.

It isn’t easy being Death, and Lucian will need just about everything he can get as he faces off against fallen angels, appalling parasites, demon-born injuresouls, and savage Death Hunters.

Regardless of his sudden strength, his newfound enemies, and his gamer ingenuity, Lucian can't communicate with the living, which wouldn't be a problem if he hadn’t discovered something terrible about his family....

Lucian’s brother is scheduled to die, and only Lucian has the power to do anything about it.

Death’s Mantle is a dark fantasy GameLit novel that LitRPG, metaphysical fantasy, occult sci-fi, and thriller listeners will love. Death’s Mantle is written by Harmon Cooper, best-selling GameLit author of Way of the Immortals, House of Dolls, Cherry Blossom Girls, The Feedback Loop, and Monster Hunt NYC. It was inspired by the anime Parasyte, the comic book series Sandman and Spawn, the books On a Pale Horse and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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Maybe I'm more picky since I've been through hundreds of audiobooks, but this is just really average. The concept is super interesting and could of been incredible, but it really falls short.

Great concept, but average execution

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While an interesting idea and story, the main character seems to lack the ability to converse and complete a thought. The author always awkwardly has him avoid saying anything that would easily clarify or directly address. It makes me unlikely to waste more time on half thoughts and pointless and vague statements.

Interesting but annoying

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The story potentially is good, but it’s so hard to get past the awful voices that the reader is doing that I couldn’t waste more than 35 minutes on this. Making the lead character sound like a cross between a gangster and a country bumpkin just makes it hard to listen too.

It’s free so

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Harmon Cooper introduces a most-interesting premise: 'Death' (actually multiple iterations of the Grim Reaper that wander across the World) is in a constant War with 'Life' (actually an army of Angels that feed on hope). 'Lucian North' joins the Death army and learns a fascinating interpretation of how death works - helping people to die by destroying the horrifying "Parasites" that feed on many of the living (in the forms of Addiction, Mental Illness, Greed, etc). It's an intriguing idea that Cooper does a nice job explaining & exploring.
Unfortunately, the author also shoehorns in a GameLit structure by having Lucian impose a numerical system for keeping track of what he calls "Soul Points" and converting his perceptions into a HUD Interface. All-too-frequent updates on his "SP" scores interfere with a pathos-heavy Dark Fantasy story - instead of adding to it. The plot includes Lucian trying to save his drug-addicted brother and befriending/romancing a Life/Angel named 'Denira'. It ends up as a fairly juvenile story that is both corny and pretty weak on the gaming aspects.

As to presentation: Why Podium Audio chose to enlist Andrea Parsneau to read this book is baffling. First of all, there are very few female characters. Secondly, while her diction, timbre, cadence, and tone are creditable, her enthusiastic voice-acting is over-the-top.. and a couple of central character interpretations are legitimately *cringeworthy*.

Altogether - even as a 'Plus' selection - this book was a 2.5/10-star waste of time. Paying a Credit for it would be indefensible.

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Sooo.. let me get this straight. Lucian is DEAD and trapped in a combat-riddled reality with God-Like Powers (willing sentient weapons into existence, for example) - that he purposely turned into a game so that he can cope with it.. AND he discovers he has Internet access in his etheral dimension (for some reason) and spends hours playing an avatar of *himself* in his favorite MMORPG?!? This guy has serious addiction issues of his own.

Disappointingly Sophomoric

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