MetalWingedWolf

Long awaited

Revisado: 08-04-22

The anticipated wait was worth every minute. This book is 24 hours long and needs a replay as soon as you finish it. It was wonderful right up to the literal last word. No spoilers, go listen to it, it is all kinds of epic that builds on parts of the characters that were entirely unexpected.
The only downside is the next wait. In the future when this series has been completed in its entirety there will be some ttrpg/ fantasy fan that gets it recommended to them and trades weeks of their life for an enthralling binge that they will carry with them forever.
In particular I feel like this series can be blindly recommended to anyone interested in the genre without risk of disappointing them.
Five stars all around, always on board for more of this.

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So incredibly mixed

Revisado: 11-12-21

There’s always potential. There’s always cringe. The past two books have had sections around the 10/11 hours remaining mark that force me to stop listening I hate them so much. Changing how the audiobook will be performed or the horrible sexual addiction back and forth that provides filled in the stead of interesting potential. That is the hardest part, seconded by the fact that the best writing overall was started two trilogies ago and will be sprinkled over all future works to tease a functional resolution. Can’t take it. Officially done with your work on this series.
Showed a lot of potential though, love the struggles at high power, didn’t get lost every time there was combat and finally by the third book I found some plot that interested me to continue the real story.
Definitely done, I hope the pertinent information is one day summarized where I can find it if the series reaches an ending.

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A fair start

Revisado: 12-06-20

First book of a new series we meet a series of characters, find this new world and learn about its rules, possible limitations and probable overarching challenges the characters will be faced with.
Honestly to bigger things these characters have to face than their opponents create a lot of intrigue, it opens possibilities to a long road towards their ultimate goals and makes the characters grow a bit to play roles in the stories future.
Writing wise the theme is a little jarring now and again at mixing relatively real world mentalities with very.. imperious maybe high born ways of speaking and acting. Honestly speaking and acting might be exactly what I mean with that clash, a lot of the times those are the two kinds of dialogue you find.
Front to back I think it stayed interesting and all I really wanted was some longer explanations of things. Five more hours of book, mostly expositional maybe another side quest and I think I’d be excited for more. Still going to pick up the second one as a lot of recent game/reality/fantasy titles smooth out their wrinkles in follow up books. 5/10
Performance wise I was struggling at the beginning. Before some really fun side characters arrived and it was all exposition and empty 2 line interactions with extras I was struggling to distinguish who was who or what their tone was supposed to be before the words were spoken aloud. Something I admit a lot do first books have as characters get off the ground and the process is refined. If you stick it out until the fun character or the.. sultry character comes into the picture you start to see where each person comes alive and you run into far fewer confusing back and forth moments that need “said so-and-so” to tell you which character spoke which half of the dialogue.
It’s exactly what I would point to for a middle of the road young adult novel. Love the genre, it stumbles at similar hurdles to a lot of other works but if you hold onto it and want it to be good you’re only going to be upset there wasn’t more of it and that one day when the whole project is more polished that you likely won’t get rewrites or revised voiceover for this first book. I hope it’s thought of as a good start to a better middle and a great end, I don’t want a middling review to discourage either party so please keep at it and show us more of Another Online.

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Gotta say

Revisado: 11-24-20

Enjoyed the heck out of it, had to stick it out for the whole ride to understand the directions it took but the production felt well thought out and that the experience was sculpted with solid purpose.
Lots of questions left while we look forward to the next title but hopefully we can find more news in the coming years.
Performance wise, I have to say I don’t remember one instance of the written word being emphasized in any “off” ways. Many audiobooks have more than a single spoken line of conversation that is performed like it was read without understanding exactly how the sentence works in conversation. That didn’t happen once here. I only may have caught one time where one voice read both sides of dialogue for a moment. That might have been a mistake on my part.
Had to write this just to say how amazingly well done this was. I enjoyed it immensely.

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Dear goodness...

Revisado: 08-01-20

Fantastic listen, every part of the story needs to be told even as Bevan scars us all with more graphic descriptions and obscure thought processes. Characters are really fleshed out and viewpoints feel well justified and defended. Again we face the conundrum that is having another book that is well worth the wait while sadly reaching the end and beginning the process again of looking forward to more and thinking and stewing incessantly.
Jonathan Sleep needs a tip jar after the musical numbers we were all subjected to, and the sound effects throughout are a very appreciated touch. Thanks to both these artists and everyone else behind the scenes that’s makes these books possible, I’m guaranteed to buy these until all of the story is told, D6’s included!

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Improving

Revisado: 02-09-20

The series is improving for sure, this is my first review having read all the books that are available at today’s date over the past couple weeks. This title in particular improved a lot for me and I feel more adjusted to the first person perspective by now. The upsides are that as the events unfold I’m more drawn into what’s coming next and how battles are being decided. The party’s planning improved for me, cohesion was good and the basics of what everyone’s doing is enough for me to believe in the actions of the group. The Druid feels a little.. lacking for me in his execution sometimes. Mentally you can rattle off lists of ideas and combinations that don’t come to being during the fights so it feels a little like he’s always rusty, like the amount of time spent in the world has yet to be properly utilized for the task of stomping the objective into the floor and going home. It’s the third book now and for the life of me I don’t understand why fox boy never thinks of or mentions the mother of his son. I miss my boy, maybe the time difference will equate to just an evenings rest when we all get back home and maybe we just signed up to be brutally killed on the frontlines of a war that will see our families enslaved or destroyed by the end of this and yet we’re planning a party for everyone in a few days and let’s be patient while our friend remains trapped in hell. I get that anxiety doesn’t help anyone in that situation and that when the game is real enough to where your body takes the toll and actual rest is needed that a persons real life tendencies should interfere with usual gamer mentality. It just still feels to me like the cast is exactly just a team of fictional characters being picked up and put down for their scenes to perform a storyline for us.
Last plot gripes would be that the parties lives are tag alongs to the Main Character. I’ve only listened to these so it sucks I can’t tell you how he spells Zeke, but Zeke has several higher powers to go calling to for advice and quests while the party I believe can be counted on as having 2, no spoiler. Zeke picks up and shares his quests with the party but it never feels like any of his bros bring much to the table beyond their roles in the group. This is a group of people trapped until victory or death parts them from a realm of existence, possibly permanently, and it doesn’t seem like it carries any weight. Just me, rambling, but the series is getting better for sure.
Last comments that need to be said are two sticking points for the performance section of an audiobook review. Two specific things are recurring in this series with the delivery. Some lines of dialog are missing proper emphasis/inflection of words to present how they would be said coming naturally from a person talking and in turn hit like a truck as a line read from a page, sucks you right out of the immersion, and the second problem with the same outcome is the multiple times a line of dialog is spoken and then narrated as a shout. When performing the part of character one second and narration the next sounds wholly like two sentences being read from a paragraph where the second one invalidates the first... I could pop all the blood vessels in my eyes. It makes you pause. I’ve audibly groaned and called bull in parts of this book for that exact reason, it feels like 2+2=5 when you say “‘Something rational and informative’ - he shouted to me” I can’t properly capture the expression with written words but I’m listening for it constantly now.
Series is still improving, I can tell a lot of characters blindly on the sounds of their voices and I know the whole product is getting better as time passes.
Please keep pumping these out and don’t take the whole of this as discouragement from trying this series for yourself.
If you’ve already come as far as the third book to read this writing as it may be relevant for you, I want to fully express my belief that it will continue to improve and by the end have been a worthwhile adventure. Just swallowed like 30-40 hours and finally finished to write this and eventually back track to write something for the other two.

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Didn’t know I wanted it til I had it.

Revisado: 02-05-19

With all the actor biographies to pick from on Audible, I’m glad I picked up one with the character and charm of Bruce Campbell’s autobiography. It was a laugh and an interesting read all the way through. Hearing what Bruce was up to for the many years of my youth before seeing Evil Dead, and where he’s been since then, has been a hoot. Here’s wishing him all the best going forwards and a warm thank you for being the voice of his book, I liked it a lot.

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Another wonderful title

Revisado: 02-05-19

Loved the premise/MC/adventure. Was annoyed by some of the characters and the cliche tension point, a sticking point that has me hesitating when I’m looking for something to revisit, but the characters in question were made to be annoying and it’s simply a sad consequence of success that follows you after you put this read down.
Will follow the author for good now, I expect, he’s always good for a laugh.

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A Quality Continuation

Revisado: 02-05-19

This book needs a spoiler review, but, if I have to be quiet and fair... The performance was wonderful, as it always is, and the story itself was more of what I’ve been following Arand for. It’s a sequel so that was expected. I liked portals, I liked world events, I enjoyed a fair amount of politics and business decisions. The characters were fun and intriguing but a certain aspect of mystery was driving me crazy during the first read. Listened to it twice and decided to review to say “I’m enjoying where the story is going, looking forward to more of it, and slowly tiring of the worlds interest in a harem theme surrounding a character with no interest in it. I get that beautiful women are beautiful women, but do I care?” Otherlife/The Selfless Hero Trilogy made me care more than I expected to, and for that I’ve been a little spoiled going through this series. Though I can feel the frustrations of the characters better than ever, that’s translating powerfully.

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Lost me at the boomers investments.

Revisado: 03-31-18

Really pushes the ideas of one generation politically uniting to ruin the country, regardless of political leaning, to collectively choose the policies of sociopath and burn the place down behind them when they die. Might turn around after a while, might stop sounding heavy handed and one sided and might bring decent supporting evidence to support some damning language, don’t really care, not my cup of tea to sit and listen to one voice tell me one side of one opinion on what a mess America is. Nobody needs to hear how bad life has been led up to be and how much worse it’s going to get. I’m out before the first quarter of this book ends.

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