J. Armstrong

she does a great job of setting up meditation that works for everyone.

Revisado: 03-01-24

I do wish she talked more. But I love the meditation and it works great for me to sleep.

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I can't take it anymore

Revisado: 11-01-21

This book is awful. I'm not even 3 hours in and I just can't do it anymore.

Our main character is an incel in the making. His parents don't remember he exists, the principal bullies him, the school secretary bullies him, the other kids bully him, the love interest girl turns on him for the antagonist because the bully antagonist is so hot and great?

I barely got to the point where he actually plays the game the book is about! You start liking other characters that aren't the main character just because at least cardboard cut-out side characters don't whine so much about their "terrible" lives. I shouldn't want to also hate the main character just because the main character is so annoying but here we are.

The MC comes straight from an incel forum somewhere I swear. "Everyone is mean to me but I'm so nice and even the one girl I was nice to left me for the mean guy just because he's hotter! Wahhh."

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Book 7.25 and by far the worst

Revisado: 08-31-20

I found The Land after listening to Nick Podehl narrate another series. I loved his narration so much that I wanted more of him and found him in this series. That's why it's an absolute shame that I had to listen to this beast of a narrator describe a main character shitting for several minutes. There's stuff to include and there's stuff that's not necessary to include. Past books have definitely included some heavy scenes with gore and more. Not only was this singular scene written as if a child were censoring the word "shit" over and over, it sounded like a scene someone who enjoyed bathroom humor would write out while on drugs that "the bros" then dared him to include in the book. It almost felt like a, "How much can I get away with with the readers so they'll still send money?"

This whole book did not feel like it got anywhere and definitely feels like more of a companion to the series that needed a lot of editing. 16 hours that was comprised of mostly filler text and that food poisoning scene. I was shocked when it ended because nothing had really advanced. I'm not talking that there needed to be grandiose advancements constantly on par with the tier upgrade. That upgrade could have been included with the next book quite easily.

A lot of listeners can agree that the main character is fairly unlikable. He's cocky, overpowered, sexist, and always has some back story reason from being a medical student to being some sort of school sports star to justify things. But, that's fine. The main character doesn't have to be likeable and, as a developed character, there's no reason he can't be what I wrote above. The problem with it was that this was an entire book dedicated exclusively to one of the most unlikable characters in the series.

Listeners can also agree that the reason for listening at all is for the uniqueness in LitRPG. From having a main character and some side characters that are mentioned POC to the grand world building being actively created by the main character. Combined with some very cool side characters and Nick Podehl's amazing narration makes this series worth the continued reading.

This book, however, could be skipped with no loss to readers. Richter gains a couple of things that were bound to happen and I'm sure will be included in a future book. Maybe read the first couple of hours.

There are a ton of characters left above that can and should be acting in the interests of the village as well as themselves that would be far more interesting to hear about.

Author, please do better.

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Autism isn't for everyone

Revisado: 08-05-20

I've gotten this far in the books because I enjoy the premise and I enjoy the characters of Kellen, Lucifer, Micah, and a majority of the other male characters. The narrator is really what sells these books for me. this has got to be the best narration. Every character no matter gender or age has a very distinct voice, accent, and cadence. The range in voice acting is the best I've heard and I've listened to a ton of books on Audible.

I've not finished this book yet though, I plan to. I'm frustrated with two glaring issues that have now spanned all the books.

The first issue is the use of the word "autism/autistic" to describe when characters are seemingly slow to respond to social situations, not very talkative, aloof, or other antisocial traits. This harks back to kids saying, "that's so retarded" "are you retarded?" "don't be retarded." In place of saying someone is acting stupid or slow. In this book and those preceding it, autism is being used to describe anti social behaviors. A trait contributed to those on the spectrum. We're in 2020 now, why is an adult using autism as a slur in a book seeking to span generations of readers? Seriously? You are an author and you couldn't come up with something better to use? People diagnosed on the spectrum struggle daily to live and outshine particular traits without an adult using them as a joke. The Hollywood Autism trope is unnecessary and harmful.

My second issue with the books. The author note contains words that say the author wrote strong female characters with their own thoughts and not just objects. Let's introduce two of the main female characters: Sexy, high libido, fiery redhead with the temper of a child and badass, bitchy, sexy, high libido, demon girl...with the temper of a child. You might notice above that the good and more well developed characters I named were the males in the story. Even the one year old dog in this book has a more rounded character than either of the generic females I named.

Shannon's aspirations are as follows: Be with Kellen, have kids with Kellen, eat pizza (though it seems she forgot about the pizza this book around now that she's actually doing something even if the sole motivation of that something is be with Kellen.)

Megan: Be with Saremai, have sex with Saremai, talk and joke about sex, use "feminine wiles" to get things, remind people she is a Marine, be a bitch.

You might remember these females tropes as "fiery redhead" and "action girl" and other associated tropes with strong seeming women who really have nothing else going on in their heads. They are socially inept and get their way by being bitchy, loud, or using their looks. If Shannon doesn't get her way she throws tantrums despite being a nearly 30 year old woman. Somehow she has enough awareness to treat a fae queen with some reserve but not only does that not last the full encounter, she refuses to treat other people like humans either. Everyone is an obstacle and these two women are going to tongue lash them and each other until they get what they want. They aren't strong independent women, they are male fantasy characters. They don't seek jobs or other things beyond their male counterparts.

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