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The Elder Demon's Dilemma
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Series: Realm of Arkon, Book 9
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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Publisher's Summary
The ninth and final book in the Realm of Arkon series.
The world stands on the edge as the Ancient Gods advance on the Great Forest. An enemy from a past life aims to transform into a Beast and destroy Providence itself....
To stop him, all must stake their life on the Scales of Fate. All must make a choice, THE choice. Death in battle or life in slavery. A beautiful demoness' smile or the eternal, infinite Void.
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- Christopher
- 2019-06-18
A great series... runs out of steam toward the end.
The best thing I can say about this book is that it wasn’t as bad as the one before it, because that one was absolutely terrible. Unfortunately, this book doesn’t come close to the promise of the first several books in the series. If you managed to make it through to the end of the train-wreck that was the second to last book I guess you should probably read this one for closure’s sake. However, I really don’t understand how this book got so many high reviews. The plotting is clunky and the author races through it to get to the end. It felt like he was just trying hit all the necessary plot points that were foreshadowed in the previous books without bothering to actually flesh anything out or even try to live up to the the promised climax that has been so long coming. This book was extremely underwhelming for an installment in this series, but considering it’s the ending of the whole thing I don’t know how anyone could finish listening to it and not be totally disappointed.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2020-07-21
rushed
A good series. Unfortunately the ending was disappointing. It felt rushed and slapped on compared to the rest of the series. I wanted to hear about his sister's kids and Donut and his wife. Why didn't we get to witness him meeting his friends after his return. He spent so long fighting to meet his sister and Max . Yet you don't get to see them reunited at the end. I do recommend this story but it the ending wasn't as well written as the rest of the story. It was bad enough that the person who narrators the story was changed but the author could have spent a little more time on letting us know how the MC companions were doing, besides just saying, everyone's doing fine. I wanted to see everyone's reaction to Glooms new form. 😭😭 so disappointing.
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- LordOfSkulls
- 2020-07-08
great conclusion
perfect endung to the series hoing to miss the characters and the enviroment . thanks
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- Kindle Customer
- 2020-01-25
nice story
the story is unique and interesting it could be extended he has not accumulated his armor set plus the border is not secure he needs to do some social stuff build his territory drink less and become a better manager maybe join AA setting up auction and why is his level so low he killed super gods over level 1000 he should be past level 1000
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- Travis Cole
- 2019-09-03
So good
Congratulations G. Akella. Out of the 30 LitRPG series I’ve read, you have created the best ending of all. Truly remarkable.
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- Stephen B Waite
- 2019-11-21
Epic tale
This story is every players dream of an epic game. Thank you for a great story.
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- Icelordfrost
- 2019-07-21
Final Book
This final book in the series wraps everything up nice and neat while giving us a glimpse at how thing will go even after the series is no more
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- Dragonis
- 2019-06-22
Perfect end to the series.
I absolutely envied how this ended and I'm sorry to have it ended. Great work and a overall awesome series.
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- Raistlin Majeres
- 2019-06-17
Elder Demon
Ha! That was beautiful. A great story, well told and preformed exactly in the way I expected from Podehl. Worth it.
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- Duck
- 2019-06-07
Well Done Author
Now that is how you end a series. A satisfying conclusion to a great book spanning Litrpg series. Those who have followed the story this far will be satisfied with the conclusion. Minor spolier: the point of view is mainly Roman 's. While I enjoyed and looked forward to Max's point of view, the story started with Roman and concludes with him, which is fitting since this is really Roman's story. From the fans of the series: "Well Done Author", well done.