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True Smithing

True Smithing, Book 1

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True Smithing

Written by: Jared Mandani
Narrated by: Henry W Kramer
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Angus Bjornson only ever wanted to do one thing: to continue crafting exquisite weapons and pieces of armor for his loyal customers. Unfortunately, after one accident too many that leaves the old blacksmith completely disabled, it would seem he has no other choice but to hang up his hammer.

However, that would be underestimating the stubbornness of the self-made man. Fearing he's not going to stop until he ends up dead in his forge, Angus' children offer him a virtual rig that connects to Imperium Games' many universes.

After choosing a fantasy-based world called Alterwelt, Angus - now known as Hephaestus - quickly learns that he can make use of his lifetime of experience by disabling the auto function and playing on manual. His skills allow him to create unique items that beat everything sold on the market. But Hephaestus has a long way to go before he can afford his own in-game forge. Moreover, he only ever learned to work with steel while here he has access to metals as strange and exotic as azuraneum, veridium, orichalcum....

©2020 Jared Mandani (P)2020 Tantor Cyberpunk Fiction Genre Fiction Science Fiction Game
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This is great little standalone nice story. it can be little technical about the blacksmith profesion but that doesnt hurt it one bit. Give it a shot. Narration was great.

Great little standalone

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overall the story is not bad . old RL blacksmith becomes virtual blacksmith . a quick issue with corrupt admin and book done . the narrator was the true saving grace .

not bad ,

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I really enjoyed the technical aspect of the story. Performance was also well done. I did not really like how one dimensional the antagonist was...

It was ok.

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Great book, just too short. I listened because it was included in the audible plan, but I won't buy the serie as it is not 15 hours+ per book. Other than that, great.

Great book, just too short

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The one dimensional characters and poor pacing leave a lot to be desired. I'm normally super forgiving of books but just couldn't finish this one since it felt like it was written by AI.

one dimensional

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