Interesting but frustrating

while the story is interesting to a point, it's never really progresses at its core. there is a good amount of character development, but most of that time is wasted since many of those characters are no longer relevant by book's end. both of the main characters are interesting, but conveniently forgetful of important bits of information and rather inconsistent. many of their decisions and moments of stupidity are obvious plot devices or simply annoying. the overall concept is interesting, but the execution suggests future episodes of pointless character development and needless frustration.

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well worth the listen.

Excellent and engrossing. The performance of the speakers made the story more than the written word; which is worth reading all by itself.

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Great story!

Amazing Andrea Parsneau! Thanks Pirate Aba for the great choice of narrator! The story is awesome thus far keep up the great work.

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Absolute banger

This book was so good. I finished it within 5 days and don’t regret it at all.

Do yourself a favour and buy it.

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Great start...

... and wonderful world building! Steady pace for story and character growth! Good job!

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Incredible

I am not sure how I found this , and how I missed it for so many years!

The narrator is an incredible actress. She brought this book into the real world in a way no other book has ever sounded.

At first, I was annoyed. The scenes took sooooooo long. Information was repeated, as if the author forgot she had already written it, but soon I was entranced.

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Can’t seem to manage those stars.

Anyone having trouble with the star selection???
Overall. 4 stars
Performances 5
Story 3
Ok

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Charmed

When I started listening to this series I wondered if I'd make it to the end of the first book. I decided to give it a chance and listened on. It was a great decision cause I've listened on and on and on. It's just a great story. If you're looking for great litterature, this isn't a story for you. But if you want a heartfelt, strange and exciting story, then give it a try. I fell in love with the caracters and just want to know where all this will go. By the time I'm writing this I've finisished my 9th book and I'm waiting for number 10 to come out in two months. Just love it. Oh, and I was forgetting... Andrea Parsneau is just one of the best readers at Audible. She definitely contributed in my ongoing interest in this story.

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two girls 1 world

what a fun read , you bouces between a few main characters and the story is constantly progressing, the VA is great ,even tho I found the lizard men annoying to listen too but she gave the characters each there own style and accents .the ending felt kinda rushes but over all I would say it's worth the liste.

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I love it, but...

I feel like it is important for any prospective readers to understand that this is not a 'novel' in the sense of most novels, that it has a beginning, middle and end and is plotted out to fit that mould. The Wandering Inn was originally (and remains to be) a Fantasy-LitRPG web novel that has very graciously been made into an audiobook, but that means that its formatting is quite different from other books. As of writing this review, it has over 25,000 pages and 6.7 million words- and while the audiobook and ebook versions have, I believe, been edited somewhat by the author since they were originally written, the story itself was never created in the same vein as a traditional novel or series.

Due to this formatting difference, you might feel as though the first volume of this novel has loose ends, focuses on characters that have little impact on the story, has little character growth or too little exposition; however, I feel that these issues mainly stem from the fact that this is a long-form style of writing. There is not too much thought put towards spelling things out for the readers through exposition as it is assumed that the world will unfold itself as you progress through the story, much like if you were to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. The characters' growth and development will take longer as we don't skip through time with them to major events but rather experience the minutiae of their everyday lives, which means that their development will occur over a longer period of time.

The author has been writing this story since 2016, and there are currently 7 Volumes (so 7 approx 40-60+ hour-long audiobooks hopefully!) written with the 8th underway- if you are looking for immediate satisfaction and answers to the world and the characters in this first volume then this might not be the audiobook for you (I mean, it's 43 hours long to start.) But if you are looking for something with incredibly detailed world-building, engaging and sometimes ridiculous characters, and unique mysteries that you are willing to wait a long time to see unravelled, then this is the story for you. If you like D&D, SAO, or Fantasy-LitRPG's, I highly recommend giving this a shot. If you like strong female characters that are relatable and aren't just a male character in a female body, this could be the story for you; alternately if you like male characters that have strength in a myriad of ways, this has those as well. If you like the typical hero's journey being turned on its head, reluctant heroes, dragons, humanoid species of creatures that are not humans, and monsters- The Wandering Inn has you covered.

There is magic and mundane, there are battles and slice-of-life moments, there are really smart characters and, admittedly, really dumb characters. I implore you to give this story a chance if any of the things listed above interest you because this series has become one of my favourite pieces of fantasy literature and I think that as many people as possible should have the chance to experience it.

All that being said, I love the narrator that was chosen for the audiobook. Considering there are a LOT of unique characters and different races of humanoids to characterize, her approach has really blown me away, especially with the Antinium characters. I honestly don't think anyone else could have done a better job.

Finally, give Erin and Ryoka a chance. They can be really frustrating sometimes, but their growth does happen- Ryoka specifically I find has a lot of growth in Volume 2. The fact that the novel still has a large following after nearly FIVE YEARS should- in my opinion- be a solid recommendation in and of itself.

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