OYENTE

thomas haass

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I really like the concept here.

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-22-25

These books gave a real sword art online, but nothing went horribly bad vibe the entire time and I thought that was great. I love the subtle odds to the black ocean franchise, another excellent book series narrated by the same guy so that was certainly fun. The wizard class would be too OP in a black ocean mmorpg.

The transition between Arnold(Conner) loosing touch with who he was in meatspace and becoming a world conquering demigod of a character was awesome. This is another series I want to go back to, especially with the next spire teased to the characters at the end. Give us a new lead, or a retired Arnold going back to the game, years later. Could be tons of fun

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I’d like more with these characters

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-18-25

A sequel series was already set up thanks to eBay at the end. I’d love to have another adventure with this crew. As expected, excellent character design. The main cast felt like real people, even when they were in character at the beginning. There’s few stories that make me feel this way about characters getting a sort of sappy ending where I don’t feel ashamed reading it.

I’ve already picked up the other books by this author and their non pen name works as well. I finished the non pen name books already and I’m glad there’s more stuff to listen to. I’m really looking forward to more

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There’s so many little issues that I find extremely hard to ignore

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-13-25

I’ve read most of the books that are connected to the story. The shattered gods series, the magitech series (that last one being how I got here in the first place) and honestly, I’m just looking forward for the torture to end.

The author has a consistent habit of writing very one or two dimensional characters. The male lead character in his books seem to always be schlub of a guy at the beginning of the story who gets put in a situation where somehow he becomes the completely in shape leader beat it by magical or training, but somehow this guy is always the guy who is the right leader for the job. There’s usually a one dimensional marine type character whose entire development effectively consists of “ yeah get some” and then some sort of spy character. I will give credit with credit is due, this one kind of flips the script and has two older, grizzled commander characters who can still get shit done. Usually, it’s an older female character who has some form of general or admiral or otherwise some ancient leader who is still extremely attractive for their age for some reason and can absolutely kick ass if she needs to, but she prefers to let the younger generation handle things. This book at least adds Dryker as a male counterpart, but his role seems to be greatly diminished in the back half of the series

As far as the female characters go, he draws from 2 to 3 archetypes. One I already mentioned, the grizzled older commander, who is still extremely attractive for her age and could absolutely kick your ass if she needs you, but to let the younger generation handle Things. Then you have the extremely hot girl next-door character. The typical love interest for the mail lead (again. Credit card is due, this book kind of flips that on its head and doesn’t actually go with that. This book seems to be the exception to most of his rules) that female character can absolutely kick ass. Tough as nails, hottest girl that the main character has ever met and is usually extremely smart and is typically the problem solver.(I guess technically speaking you could say that role did kind of go to the girl who became the scientist in the back half she just became a scientist out of nowhere) and then the last archetype is the military check. May be attractive, not always specified, but it is usually in shape and is considered attractive in some way shape or form. Absolutely could kick your ass and isn’t afraid to tell you how it is. (this book has three of that one). Their individual personalities may differ, but they’re so boiled down into that archetype that it kinda doesn’t really matter as they’re all roughly interchangeable aside from their specific skill set in the story.

The writing itself is also kind of lazy. There’s a lot of time where development happens where it’s not even specified. They’ll be random skips of a week or two where all of a sudden their healed, have new gear, or are just in a different situation and the author has the backpedal to explain what happened

Additionally, and this is the thing that annoys me the most personally, he can’t even stay consistent with his units of measurement across the course of the story. Amongst the human race, not even counting aliens here, only the humans, he switches between metric and imperial style measurements on a whim. The back half of the books seem to be more consistent, at least in using metric only, but he’ll go from saying how something is X number of meters long to then saying that something is X number of miles away within the same chapter. He’ll measure somebody’s height in feet one second, and then switch to somebody else’s in meters the next. I don’t know who his editor is, but they should’ve been more on top of him staying consistent with his measurements


Considering I got the first collection as a gift and I decided to pick up the other books for cheap on a sale, once I finish this series up as I only have about eight hours left in the book at this time, I don’t think I’ll be picking up anything else from this author. Every book I read from him really just reads like a bad Dungeons & Dragons campaign, just set in various different environments. I know he created an RPG based off of his book series, and I honestly think that he has used what has gone into his books as the campaign at some point or another in his session.

The author honestly takes what could’ve been an excellent idea and ultimately executed it in the worst possible way at every single turn. I find it genuinely ironic that the author has a book about how to write better and faster, but then throws out drivel like the other series he’s released. Frankly, I wouldn’t take his advice on how to write given the evidence I’ve gotten so far about his talent. I personally think he needs to slow down and reevaluate, and maybe give his books another revision or two before publishing the next one.

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As ever, my only complaint is these books are too short

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-05-25

When one of my friends put me onto this series (black ocean in general, not just passage of time) I’ll admit that I was a little skeptical at first, but have since shed my skepticism and have become quite an avid fan, having purchased every other collection after finishing the first one, and also picking up several of the other series just because I enjoy the writing style that much.

I think my only real complaint is that each individual installment is so short. I would love longer individual books in the stories. 5 to 8 hours for a book just doesn’t feel like it’s long enough for each installment. I would love for there to be more content in each book, the best part of the writing is the characters and I would love to have more time with each of the characters. This book kind of felt like some of the B cast took a backseat. Like Mindy got the nanobots, but we didn’t get any of her perspective as the nanobots began to enhance her and considering it seems like she’s going for a different modification than either Daphne or Jessie and it would have been nice to get more from her perspective. I understand that there was quite a lot to balance, and that really wasn’t the main plot of this particular book, the sub plot was kind of taken up by Carl the two wizards with him, but even they felt like they kinda took a backseat. I don’t know, this particular book feels like the odd one out in terms of the rest of the series. Like if every other book averages a nine, this was closer to like a 7 1/2. It’s not bad, it just feels not as good. It’s not gonna stop me from getting the next book when that releases.

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Excellent payoff for fans of the black Ocean series

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-29-25

OK, I’m genuinely impressed. Over the last few books. I’ve had my suspicions about who the captain of the mystery ship was and while I’ll avoid spoilers here, the midway reveal honestly had me shocked that I was wrong in my predictions, but also happy with the outcome at that point. It seemed entirely plausible and was something that I never even considered and was an excellent subversion of my expectations. I really had a “ wait what!?” moment at that reveal. I’m also very happy with the how the story continued from that point. The reveal was satisfying and the repercussions from that reveal we’re also immensely satisfying. It was a very nice payoff to stuff set up from other books.

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Way too edgy

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1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-14-24

The main character is overpowered and edgy. It’s not a fun story with him constantly going on about how strong he is and everyone around him going on about how strong he is and about how basically might make right the entire time. Main character girlfriend is bland and boring. The new girl introduced in this book is obnoxiously annoying and every character just seems to have one treat about them. That’s a focus and that’s it. It’s honestly just really annoying and I have no interest in continuing the series. My friend tells me that it gets better later on, but after sitting through the first book and thinking it was terrible and then going back and listening to the second book and thinking it’s even worse, I don’t think that I have the patience to sit there and get up to a 16th book where the finale is and then the follow up story that takes place after the ending, which apparently is also good, but I have no interest in getting there.

Performance was fine. From what I understand, I got the voice actors from the show to reprise some of their roles so it’s not bad in that regard. If you like the voice actors from the actual series, there is a good chance you might actually enjoy this, but considering I don’t even like the anime, which apparently has much better writing, I don’t think I’m ever going to continue with these books again. I’m dropping the series after this book. I’ve already got a refund from Audible and I don’t think I’ll be continuing if they ever released any more audiobooks in this series.

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Kinda felt flat for the end of a series

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-04-24

The end felt all too convenient and easy to wrap everything up. Like sure, some of the characters had a rough battle, but realistically, it felt like a bit of a cop out.

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The story is fine, but the narrator manages to sound like it’s the most boring thing that they’ve ever read

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
1 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-27-24

I swear it’s as if the publisher is going out of their way to get the worst narrators in the business to read these books. I’m not a professional narrator, but I swear I think I could do a better job at this point. A wooden performance with one kid the worst reading cadence’s I have ever heard. There are such bizarre pauses in random places. Like seriously, does nobody over the publisher listen to what these people are turning in before they get published? I’ll admit I’m an amateur with audio editing, but even my amateur skills could tune up some of the awkward pauses to make the sentence flow more naturally. None of the other like novel stories that I read have this problem. This is also the only audiobook series that I’ve read that has changed narrators so many times yet they still managed to suck consistently. These performances are so bad and it says if they get worse over time. The first narrator, Kurt wasn’t the worst. It wasn’t great but at least was at least tolerable . Matthew was awful and I’m glad to see him gone, but Shea is starting to go down the same path that Matthew did.

I know I personally have left a lot of bad reviews about the narrator on this series specifically, but that’s genuinely because I care. Konosuba, Mushoku Tensei (both jobless, reincarnation, and redundant reincarnation), spice and wolf and sword art online don’t suffer from this issue. I know three out of the four that I just mentioned actually managed to get some of the voice actors from the English of the show to reprise their role in the audiobook, and I do believe that’s probably something to do with some contract that the audiobook studio has with the adaptation, but Cliff Kurt is not a English VA for MT and he has yet to fail to deliver an engaging performance. 27 novels later and he’s nailed every single one. I’m not saying you should bring him in for this, but when you’re going to pick out the next person, use him as an example of what to do and use Matthew and Shea, as an example of what not to do.

Sadly, I’m still going to continue buying the audiobooks no matter how bad the performance is, only because I’m trying to support the original series. And I know that, regardless of whether or not I’ve bought the book, the narrator has already gotten paid.

This just really irritates me that you still have yet to get a good narrator for these books. The best you’ve done so far is passable. No one has been truly good. This is the 11th book in the series and they’re still hasn’t been a truly good narrator. I know all these people are professional professionals, and everything, but it really feels like they brought out their C game for these books. Like they’re just collecting a paycheck and they don’t really care about the end result.

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Great to finally read the book that one of my favorite shows is based on

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-16-24

Been a fan of that time I got reincarnated with a slime for a few years now, with all the audiobooks that have been coming out based off of Japanese light novels, this has been one that I’ve been looking forward to more than anything else. The fact that they got Rimuru’s VA back to narrate the book is even better. I think my only complaint is the narrator doesn’t have all that much range, so all the main character sounds great, characters like Veldora leave a little to be desired. Otherwise, the cadence is great, the inflection for the various characters is also excellent, and I look forward to continuing the series. Hopefully they will release more.

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It’s enjoyable.

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-27-24

I’d like more of this written by this author, but please get Martin freeman back to do any further installments.

Also, there’s recoding issues near the middle and end of the book. Sounds like the microphone had something rubbing on it, and there’s a few garbled words in the last chapter.

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