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Law of Strength

Written by: David Burke
Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski,Rebecca Woods
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Rob is a sheriff's deputy faced with a choice: die in a meaningless shootout six hours from now, or accept the offer of a new life in another world offered by a mysterious goddess.

But it won't be easy. He has to bring law and order to the wild frontier. The shocks keep coming when he finds out humans aren't native to Olimero. It is a land populated with fierce orcs, wild beastkin, and cunning elves.

He may not have their magic, but he does have an edge. As an outsider, he has no cap on his stats. He will need to train, fight, and survive if he wants to rule. But with that comes a world worth protecting, complete with exotic beauties he never imagined.

Disclaimer: Contains mature content and sexy monster girls.

©2022 David Burke (P)2022 Podium Audio

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female Narrator is good male not so much

the female Narrator makes cool and distinctive voices that I love one of the best i have heard Narrators the male one is ok at best the recording is fine but he sounds like he is putting emphasis on random words to its a little odd not terrible but it was a little off putting. loved the story had good strength progression and relationship development.

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Found it fun

I was Impressed with the performance of Rebecca Wood. Overall the story develops well and exactly what I thought it would be.

I had a really hard time with the performance of Daniel Wisniewski. He delivers the whole thing like William Shatner, long pauses for seemingly no reason, wierd emphasis on certain words, and the longest "s" sounds of any person I have ever come across.

Overall I enjoyed it, but I will avoid Daniel performances in the future.

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Corny, but loved it... Better love furries, lol.

Honestly, was surprised as hell at how much I enjoyed this title. Corny and a bit of old-fashioned misogynistic storytelling but not too much. Lots of sexual innuendos and romping at the end, but again, not too much. The world-building was very cool and unique to me. It's a good cheeky story. Definitely, a solid recommendation from me. Ordering 2nd book in the series right now, Cheers!

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  • Roy
  • 2022-04-22

Not that impressed

FYI, I used this on Amazon as well as an updated review, that's why it speaks of an old review since, on Amazon, I left my old review below it.

Fair warning, some spoilers are used as examples...

First things first, Daniel and Rebecca do a great job. They bring characters to life and as usual, I love the dual narrative approach as it helps one immerse themselves in the story as if listening to an old radio show.

Also, there's entertainment value here for some people and I recognize that although the bulk of my review is going to focus on criticism. Although I listened to the majority of the story (skipped the smut), I can't say that I found myself enthused. I feel like I'm starting to drift away from the current trends in HaremLit and Law of Strength didn't do much to help me feel different and in fact I found myself stating out loud to myself after listening to it, "I think I'm done with harems." Let me explain.

First, I'm not the type of fan/reader who favors the smut. In fact, if the author did a decent job getting me invested in the build up with one of the romantic interests, then I might read the first intimate moment and after that skim/skip as they all have the same qualities and none, if any after the first time, rarely benefit the plot or relationship development. They're just there for the smut content and counter. I'm not a prude, but when you have so much of this across the board throughout the genre, it's repetitive, boring, and as I said, often times unimportant. I realize there's a collection of readers, likely the majority, who want this given the high review numbers (which arguably isn't an accurate measure given some of the skewing and discouragement going on in the community in regards to negative opinions), but here we are. Not going to rant about that as ranting about that too much cause some of my reviews to get suspiciously "deleted."

Still, the point is that I'm not the type of fan who cares about the smut yet, MC's constant rejection of doing the deed annoyed me. That's saying a bit of something. Let me try to break this down further. I'm not against slow-burn harems and romances. In fact, as I've said before in other reviews, I actually prefer them. So what was the problem with this one? Well, I felt Burke handled it in a way that just brought the irritation out of you. What do I mean? Well, first, he sets it up with a character whose physical and mental stability is tied to having sex. The bunnykin in Burke's story, well the female ones, of course, when they reach puberty become the horniest of the horniest in this world. If they don't get enough sex, they start to lose their capability to reason properly and make proper decisions let alone the implication that it starts to influence them physically. Thus, by their nature, they will jump the bones of whoever to alleviate these negative side effects of not having enough sex.

To me, that's a giant problem. You'd think that the society around them would began to foster a safe environment for bunnykin girls to grow up and thrive in and ensure they have husbandos or friends who ensure they can alleviate their needs in a safe environment. Nope.

Still, the point is that MC's first love interest, is one of these bunnykin girls. MC is told, (this happens often) directly that bunnygirl has saved herself for him. Que in the aforementioned point about if they go to long without sex. She's already reached puberty, she's still a virgin tho, and none of the previous Sheriffs wanted to take her up on her offer. Her job is to alleviate the Sheriff's stress and ensure he's happy here in this world. She's essentially the Housewife figure, yet also the Nymphomaniac trope.

Yet, still the MC rebuffs her advances. Advances often caused by his actions. These are animal-girls, I'm reluctant to call them monster girls, but I guess that fits too. So, they have heightened senses and bunnygirl tells MC that she likes watching him work out, she likes watching his "muscles move" and watching him sweat. She's also the resident healer. So, when MC gets the bright idea to work himself to near death sometimes, he needs her to heal him. This puts them in close proximity where she, being an animal-kin smells his scent and he smells her. Where she, being what she is, has already been holding back and patient and when they ultimately end up in close proximity and, of course, in certain positions, she instinctively goes for it only to be rejected.

This happened again and again and again and I got what the author was going for with the MC. I understood it. It just started frustrating me. Especially when the MC gave the bunnygirl a definitivel line in the sand as a point where he promised he'd stop rejecting her. Yet, when he reached that achievement, what did he do the moment bunnygirl thought it was time to celebrate and had been patiently waiting on his promise? He rejects her again because he drudges up another issue to hem and haw about. He suddenly decided to focus on the fact (although he'd been told time and time again) that bunnygirl, as a Clerk in the Sheriff's employ, one of her jobs is to "alleviate his stress" codeword for do the nasty with him. So, he starts to worry that she don't like him like that for reals and so rejects her once more.

This caused me to ultimately not care once they finally got around to it. To piggy back on this, the author didn't do well showing the relationships developing. With bunnykin girl, this was one of the MC's hang ups, but instead of the author showing us their relationship developing and the MC actually putting in work to close this gap and solve this concern, we're told it. We're given a few lines about how over time they got closer in a short time skip. Yet, Burke has MC trapped in a building with bunnykin for a large portion of the beginning of the story "training" and misses an opportunity to use that time to allow them to have a few conversations revolving around getting to know one another, breaking the ice. Not conversations about sex, not conversations about the MC being a fish-out-of-water, and even if the author chose to do the latter, it could've been in the sense of the MC also getting to know bunnkin girl.

Burke also does this with the other girl. The MC goes on and on and on about how he won't force a woman to do this or do that. There's a point where the obvious future third member of the harem is promised to the MC in marriage. He inner monologues about how he's not down with that, etc. Right after doing the nasty with bunnygirl and saying to himself that he's going to stop approaching this world's culture with his own and trying to force his own views on this world. He goes right back to doing that. I digress. My point is he swears up and down to the reader (inner monologue) that he wont' force a woman to do anything against her wishes. He declares to Future 3rd Girl's father that he won't force his daughter to marry him if she doesn't want to. Yet with 2nd girl, Foxgirl (cover girl) at the end of the story he gets into bet with her that's supposed to be friendly, it's not until the author forces it to be, and forces her to kiss him (despite declaring he's not doing that.)

People who read this will say I'm misrepresenting it. I'm not. Let me explain. First, MC and Foxgirl had a sparring match. Up until this point she'd been beating him. He wins. She's upset. What little bit of a relationship they had, which wasn't much, takes a downward spiral as she's been unresponsive to him since that loss. After failing to have a proper adult conversation with her about their issues the next day, all his fault because he instead antagonizes her, MC still manages to get some time alone with her later the next day (I know, very short period of time, go with it), they go to an obstacle course MC had some people make. I won't get into it since I'm already dropping a ton of spoilers. The people who built the obstacle course want the MC and Foxgirl to race each other at the obstacle course.

MC, again, failing to have a proper adult conversation with the woman, decides to antagonize her to get her to do the obstacle course. Again, let me remind you that he knows she's already pissed off about losing among other things. He knows she's been on edge since he's been there because all of the humans sent to this world have died in a short time span and she feels responsible for his safety (despite a lot of his stupid ways). So, instead of having a heart to heart with the woman, taking charge like a mature adult male, the MC acts like a teenager who can't talk to people. He antagonizes her and manipulates her to accept a bet where she has to kiss him if she loses the competition? What? Seriously? Why is it that nearly all of the HaremLit authors, after some point and time, some morality heming and hawing, ultimately turn their MC's into jerks? Long story short, she loses the competition, of course, and MC forces her to kiss him (while saying he's not). Sure, she could've said "no" or showed disinterest, but when she tried to walk away after the competition, MC calls her back saying she forgot to give him a kiss and they had an audience and MC sort of points that out. Not necessarily, physically "forcing" her, I get that, but very very very heavy handed manipulation. So, still forcing her to do it. Still, of course, she's secretly "interested" and of course, this is a set up to get her into the harem because, of course, Burke forces the issue and she likes it and later ends up in the hot tub with him with bunnygirl. C'mon.

Then there's the inconsistencies or I would say the author forgetting he had characters or the narrative cover a thing only later to have the narrative or characters act like they didn't cover a thing. Two examples, the first one I covered below but will cover again. You're told that the goddess has sent Sheriffs to her world from Earth. Thus, they're not strange to that world. When MC gets there, some of the characters act like they never seen a human before. You're like, okay, maybe this is a remote area where humans have never been, and Burke tries to play that up, he really does, but he dropped the ball here. Why? Because when MC gets to the nearby town, he's told several times that all of the previous Sheriffs of that town were humans. Soooooo? Why did the first handful of people act like they never saw a human before? Also, throughout the story this vacillates. Some characters (yes, in the town) act like they're mesmerized by seeing a human.

Second example, bunnygirl and Foxgirl tell MC about the second floor of the Sheriffs office at some point in the story. They explain in tandem with other things, that it'll become available when MC achieves certain goals and the goddess, or whatever rewards him. They even express spending time with a sheriff who accessed the second floor, at least Foxgirl, IIRC. All in all, Indicating they have knowledge of the existence of this second floor. When MC wins the second floor and gains access to it and after the aforementioned loss of Foxgirl during the sparring match, he figures it might be a good idea to give her access to the Divine Console, for lack of better way of putting it, on the second floor to help with Foxgirl's investigation efforts and help them work as a team. Okay, cook, although I still felt like he could've just had a decent, adult conversation with her about everything. But still, he made an effort. When he goes to take them to the staircase that leads up to the second floor, they can't see it. Wait? What? I know, I know, I felt the same way. What made this an issue for me is that bunnygirl and Foxgirl act all in shock and like MC's making something up or acting crazy. Remember, they expressed knowledge that the second floor existed earlier in the story. Foxgirl even gets irate with MC because she lost last night and thinks he's mocking her even more. Even when MC walks upstairs to show them, they're all in surprised? I'm like, why? They know this place existed.

With that said, the story isn't horrible. Like I said, I can see entertainment value here, but these are the things that annoyed me. There's another point that I still felt annoyed about that I mentioned below such as the whole goddess bringing humans to Earth knowing they were ultimately weaker. Yes, while that point gets answered through the course of the story and I won't get into that since I've already dropped enough spoilers, suffice to say, it still raises questions about the goddesses ability. It starts to get into the discussion of having too much freedom and little security versus too much security and little freedom along with the topic of having so much freedom that a strong man (criminal element, etc.) comes along and either way, you're not really free. But, of course, as usual for HaremLit, Burke only uses that to give us faceless baddies for him to sick MC and entourage on from time to time.

I can nitpick on other things but won't. I'll leave it here and let you read the old review (on Amazon) if you choose to do so.

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 2022-04-24

could not finish

Where to start... This story is a jumble of ideas that do not connect well. The author flip flops on lit-rpg and fantasy mumbo jumbo. I can tell the author is trying to create a unique world and setting but it fall very flat. Story is painfully slow with waaay too many paragraphs dedicate to characters appearance. A 1/3 of every chapter is spent re-hashing just how attractive already established characters are.

The MC is a lawman, but the author did zero re-search into that profession other than the Hollywood idea of generic cop guy. It seems to be a key part of the MC's character but it is neither integrated or expanded upon.

Daniel and Rebecca do a decent job of trying to bring this story to life but there isn't much to work with.

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  • DaynenMc
  • 2022-05-20

I love it!

This is a GREAT start to this series.
A goddess of a world gets a peace officer from southern California to go to her world to become the sheriff of a rural town.
There are a lot more females than males and he is the only human. But he is a lot weaker than everyone.
I love this book and can't wait for book 2.
7 out of 5 stars.

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  • James
  • 2022-05-01

loved it

my favorite David Burke series so far. looking forward to the rest of them coming to audio.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2022-04-23

Monologue

Way way way to much monologue between that and the interlude just about killed the whole story Daniel tried way to hard the voice acting got so you hated listening to it Rebecca omg hit a home run lick always what a doll
As the story goes lacking action because of to much monologue people come ask for help and he’s more worried about lifting weights
I expected more good concept just got lost

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  • Michael Thorp
  • 2022-04-13

Totally Awesome!!!

This book and the narrators drew me in from start to finish. I thought it would be good but it was even better than expected. five stars and two thumbs up. Definitely worth the credit.

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  • will
  • 2022-12-27

Look for it on sale

I was surprised. I went into it just looking for something to kill time with and enjoyed the story and the narrators. The guy narrator gets better in the second book and the woman is very well done.
Overall, I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it, but throw it on your wishlist and wait for it to go on sale.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2022-05-20

omfg weak mc to the point he its stupid

idk if after the first few hours anything happens but after hour of the mc locked inside and doing jack shit other than get told he's no help I just couldnt keep interested anymore

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  • JB
  • 2022-04-14

good litrpg/cultivator

I liked the story, it was fun. the two narrators were great as always. similar to authors other work, which is a good thing.

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  • Daniel
  • 2022-05-17

Typical, standard male fantasy

This book is exactly what it is advertised as, a typical character sent via portal by a goddess to an alien world where there is magic and everything is governed by video game mechanics. But as far as the game mechanics go, the book does a pretty good job keeping that information light. There is a downside to this in that the rules of the setting are never well defined , thus as the story progresses the environment seems more and more made up as we go along rather than well thought out.

There major draw backs of the story are that the implications are that the setting is an old west frontier town - but this is not shown to us, or even told yo us much - it’s mainly just implied. Overall, the author shows great weakness at describing locations and actions by characters.

There is also a lot of “nerd” projection into the main character that often times feels jarring since these comments come out of no where with no character building to suggest that the character had such interests. To my mind, this suggests that these are moments when the author is projecting himself into the character rather than taking the time to build and found out his protagonist. Further more, the philosophical claims of the protagonist regarding relationships is contradictory at best. There is the stereotypical “no, no, I’m a nice guy and won’t make you even though I want you” which is suppose to build tension but fails completely because of the juvenile descriptions and fantasy personalities the author puts into the female characters.

The most frustrating part of the story is the tease of a Devil character who is manipulating the Goddess by giving her help. The story is extensively vague in these scenes, of which there are two, and this is not intriguing or original.

The performance of the two readers are outstanding as both make great efforts to give each character a distinctive voice so it’s easy to follow along while listening. This is easily the most redeeming quality of the audiobook.

To sum it up, if you’re looking for a teenage boys fantasy tale complete with all the stereotypes regarding body image and make stamina then look no further.

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