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Loved it. Need more!

Revisado: 01-23-25 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Tao Wong masterfully straddles the line between slice of life and LitRPG action. I finished it in one sitting and I immediately went to get book two.

The characters are more than cliches and even a minor villain has depth of character. The book doesn’t end on a cliff-hanger but you definitely feel you want more.

Neil Hellegers is an excellent narrator, well suited to this book.

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Like watching television while blind

Revisado: 08-23-24

The entire idea is stupid. Lose the sound effects. Write a decent book. If I want to watch TV I won’t buy an audiobook.

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Annoying

Revisado: 11-07-23

The sound effects are annoying. The story is poorly written. The narration is wooden. Did not finish.

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I fell asleep

Revisado: 10-23-23

I must admit that I fell asleep listening to this book and missed the rape scenes but felt no compunction to return to them. My main feeling throughout the book was "This isn't going anywhere." People became blind and were treated badly until everybody was blind then society collapsed and that was mostly it. The small group of characters we follow in the book seemed cardboard cut-outs that changed very little. Eventually I had twenty minutes left and I was wondering if there was a sequel or if the book would just peter out.
Of course the author chose the easiest solution and came up with a happy ending, which left me dissatisfied. There was a fair amount of moralising internal monologue by the characters which I attributed to the author writing for a different language group with probably a different social history. Possibly something of the original story was lost in the translation, or not, but it felt off.

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It just got worse

Revisado: 02-27-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

I should've expected this after the second book was a disappointment, but I never learn. Firstly, the humour that I didn't find humourous in the first or second book now includes pop references to Dune, Aliens, Star Trek and others. Unfortunately this didn't improve it. In this book Admiral Deborah Allen Riker suddenly has a number of PhD's and fighter pilot experience and she can now defeat an alien threat that was unstoppable up to this point. I found this a very unsatisfactory ending to a mediocre series.

The narration was fine.

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More of what I didn't like in book 1

Revisado: 02-27-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

This time the characters are in a colony ship running away from some bad guys and then there are also saboteurs. It began to feel a bit like Battlestar Galactica (the new series, not the old one). The characters haven't changed or grown in any way and now there is a love triangle.... I didn't really enjoy the humour because it had grown old from book 1. There is also a fair amount of telling about what has happened, rather than showing it happening. I was hoping the style of the book would improve from that of book 1 but that was not to be.

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D&D and more

Revisado: 02-27-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

The book has the feeling of a D&D adventure with a fair deal of character development. I love the fact that the characters aren't paper-cut-out stereotypes. I haven't read the Adventurer series that this is the back-story to but still found this book to be enjoyable. Lots of action and the narration is also great.

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Ok

Revisado: 02-24-23

A reasonable re-interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, but not my cup of tea, I found it to be implausible at many points.

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Excellent start

Revisado: 01-27-23

Really cute. You just can’t help rooting for Threadbare. (“Your cuteness is level 12”). An engrossing story with a nice twist at the end. I’m definitely getting the next book.

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Idiotic MC does idiotic things because podcast

Revisado: 01-25-23

The main character is an idiot. He follows the instructions given to him by a podcast (that converses with him) to do idiotic things. I thought the story would be something like this except the podcast would suggest sensible things that slowly became more sinister. No, this was straight into stupidity. I did not bother to finish

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