Brian

An omnibus... is it really?

Revisado: 09-30-24

Ok, first of all.., I am a little disappointed to find out that the Omnibus only contains the first 3 books. Book 3 more or less ends in a cliff hanger and after research I find out that audiobooks for volume 4 and 5 were never done. Also the author may have abandoned the series and never completed book 6. He wrote a summary stub but has not added to it for over 22 months. Not a great sign after getting drawn into a series. I know it is a risk in some of the Litrpg series as many authors abandon their works. Hopefully this series will be completed. I have not read volumes 4 or 5 though and there is no Audible version yet - so here is to hoping its completed.

The narration and voice acting are done pretty well. I have no complaints about the voice acting. They seem pretty solid. I do like the fact that there are male and female voice actors. That is a nice touch.

One annoying thing though is the amount of time we spend reviewing the stats sheets. Having literally 5 minutes of stats being read all of a sudden in the middle of a battle or something gets old after a while. I know it is a mechanic to represent the "system" and its events, but literally the amount of narration and timing of that narration dedicated to reading stat charts and level ups wears on you. It gets old after a while. By the end of it I have really no idea what the purpose was and what stats I am even supposed to be paying attention to. So it ends up just losing the listener and adds some confusion to what could be a more solid story without all the stat interruptions.

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Mixed feelings...

Revisado: 10-18-13

I was really looking forward to this book and the conclusion of the Dragonvarld story arc. The story itself is sound and draws you into it and progresses well. The story does draw you in such that you look forward to hearing what will happen next and hear the rest of the story. I really do hope that we get to see more in this world and that it does not end with this book.

Narration wise, I felt that the narrator did an excellent job portraying the story and did well with the majority of the female voices. However, I found Suzanne's portrayal of the male voices left me wanting. I would have almost preferred the narrator just read the male parts normally instead of attempting to portray the male characters with unique voices as she has an excellent and eloquent reading voice.

I felt after a short while that I almost wanted to cringe during the male narrative sequences and often found it difficult to imagine them as males at all. It made me think of the war of a bunch of munchkins marching off to battle the dragons and that image often times made it seem almost humorous. After a while though, I more or less put the male narrative out of my mind and just concentrated on the story and over time I was able to get over it and found it was not as distracting.

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