A. Walling

We're finally reclaiming!

Revisado: 01-09-25

it's been a wild ride through training, but reclaiming the earth is even better! I am very excited to see where the story goes from here, and who the next people we find are going to be.

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Pretty Good

Revisado: 01-11-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

If you're a fan of Daniel Wisniewski, then it's pretty good indeed. I sit on the fence with him as a performer. His voice is good, his character voices and accents are good, his rhythm is sorta weird and can take some time to get used to. Elizabeth Plant was great, no complaints at all with her performance.

Now, on to the story that Han Yang has crafted.

It's a well paced story, I didn't think it had a slow part that dragged on, the characters are fleshed out well enough to understand their motivations, if a bit straight forward and predictable. It is a tower story, but with much of the plot and intrigue outside of the tower. I would say the tower is more of a subplot than the main plot, but the story is good. Han has created a world with a lot of potential to expand upon, with a tower system that he could dive deeper into, and a kingdom with political intrigues and a burgeoning magic system that could support many stories of its own.

Overall it's definitely worth a credit. I did receive a copy for review, but I would have spent a credit on this omnibus and been happy for the 30 hours...even if it does take a bit to get used to Wisniewski's reading rhythm.

Anyways, that's my two cents, hope it helps.

Joe

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Pretty Good

Revisado: 01-11-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

If you're a fan of Daniel Wisniewski, then it's pretty good indeed. I sit on the fence with him as a performer. His voice is good, his character voices and accents are good, his rhythm is sorta weird and can take some time to get used to. Elizabeth Plant was great, no complaints at all with her performance.

Now, on to the story that Han Yang has crafted.

It's a well paced story, I didn't think it had a slow part that dragged on, the characters are fleshed out well enough to understand their motivations, if a bit straight forward and predictable. It is a tower story, but with much of the plot and intrigue outside of the tower. I would say the tower is more of a subplot than the main plot, but the story is good. Han has created a world with a lot of potential to expand upon, with a tower system that he could dive deeper into, and a kingdom with political intrigues and a burgeoning magic system that could support many stories of its own.

Overall it's definitely worth a credit. I did receive a copy for review, but I would have spent a credit on this omnibus and been happy for the 30 hours...even if it does take a bit to get used to Wisniewski's reading rhythm.

Anyways, that's my two cents, hope it helps.

Joe

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Jez Does It Again

Revisado: 07-05-22

Seriously, Jez is one of the best to write in the genre, and this is some of his best work. Add to that Neil bringing some excellent voice work and it's a ringer.

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great story, good performance, iffy accents

Revisado: 05-17-22

Look, it's good, real good, I think everyone should give it a shot because it's really good.

You get used to the accents, arguably easier that that of Jax in another author's audiobook, but I gotta say it...Tristan, you got talent brother, great voices, unique and easily discernable from one another...but to me the Russian came off a bit like campy Hollywood Transylvanian.

Is it bad?

Hell no. Tristan has that talent thing, and he great material from Sergei and Anton. If anything it's just a nitpicky thing that I probably would have overlooked if my non LitRPG/gamelit/progression fantasy wife hadn't rode with me in the car and said, "Ooh this one has vampires!" I ain't mad at her though, it's still a damned fine story.

---Joe Walling---

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Harmon Cooper really went for it!

Revisado: 05-06-22

Look, we all know Harmon is a good writer, but this is a masterpiece. Smarmy and self deprecating with a pop culture onslaught somebody gave our man a hammer and he's gone a dinging bells...all of them. Daniel Wisniewnski goes just as hard as Harmon as well, great performance! Rebecca Woods shines equally bright even with less dialogue, y'all just get this, and enjoy.

---Joe Walling---

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It just keeps getting better!

Revisado: 05-03-22

Seriously, if you're already this far you know, it's just freaking awesome. It twists, it turns, it deepens, it just doesn't stop getting better.

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Another solid addition

Revisado: 04-27-22

I think my only complaint is that this book absolutely flew by. I am definitely looking forward to where J.T. is taking us. The characters become more fleshed out as the plot thickens, and the new characters are intriguing...which means book 3 oughta be pretty dang good! The voice acting has been absolutely top shelf stuff across both books as well, great job!

As always, ruining the algorithm for my wife's account

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A Strong Runner for One of My Favorites

Revisado: 04-25-22

As always, posting from the wife's account.

This is a very solid litRPG, not overburdened with stats but strong skill and attribute base. the MC is absolutely OP, but at such a low level, and lack of skills that it leaves him believably disadvantaged and even in danger. Aside from some profanity the book is clean enough for the kiddo to listen along in the car without me having to pause, skip, or have an unfortunately early birds and bees conversation.

The characters develop nicely with enough depth that even the bit support characters are believable, with the core characters engaging, and exciting. As the plot develops it hints at the overall larger world, which is promising deep history and lore.

I am excited for the next book. Definitely read this.

---Joe Walling---

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Wow! This one is so much better than the name!

Revisado: 04-04-22 El oyente recibió este título gratis

It's true, the title is a little tongue in cheek, but the story is good. Good character progression, romance, and world building. I enjoy the nod to newly launched games and their immediate updates and patches, it keeps the pacing correct and prevents the ever so popular, yet controversial, OP MC. If that's your shtick hey more power to you, but even you will enjoy this book.

The comedy is well timed to keep the book a fun read, balanced nicely with level and skill progression to keep the action interesting. There is a romantic relationship but nothing explicit, just a couple of fade to black scenes. I am looking forward to the next book in this series, it is a VR book, but even those that don't care for VR might still enjoy this one as the "real world" is just small slice of life moments and the majority of the book is in game.

I did receive a free copy of this book, but would never sully myself by being bought, my review is as honest as I know how to be.

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