The Reef Guy

Great start!

Revisado: 03-20-24

Good character development, although I need more. This is what I would consider an excellent first book in a series, setting up the background and mechanics for the readers, but it ends on a soft cliffhanger. It’s a good stopping spot, but if there was more of the story ready, I wouldn’t put the book down here. Highly encourage people who like litrpgs to pick this one up, as it doesn’t have the endless stats that bog down so many books in the genre, and it is a refreshingly novel take on character building.

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These are never enough!

Revisado: 12-11-23

Great story. Great intrigue. Great characters. Great narration. The author is so good at character development, and there are so many characters to love and hate! I just need more!!!!!

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Knew it was coming, love it anyway

Revisado: 08-11-23

Easily saw where this prequel series was headed, and I love getting filled in on the back story! Highly encourage reading the other series in this universe.

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Getting backstory

Revisado: 07-31-23

Love catching up on all this backstory. Keras is my favorite character in this universe, and I love all the side episodes of his life that explain why he is so powerful later.

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Excellent as always

Revisado: 07-26-23

Joe ledger is one bad sun-of-a-gun, and this series is what modern sci-fi should strive to be.

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Where is the counselor

Revisado: 07-26-23

Straight up victim abuse. Hopefully in the next book the main characters actually learn something useful. This entire book amounts to “at the end, the only thing you learned is that you already knew you can’t trust anyone”. Where is character development, where is any kind of redemption? Where is the school counselor?
I know that fae are portrayed in literature as generally as evil as it gets, but in a story where the main characters ARE fae, I expected more development of the race, and less blatant victim bashing.

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New narrator strikes again

Revisado: 07-13-23

This story is excellent, if a little rushed at times. Lots of action keeps it interesting as always with this series.
Stop changing narrators this deep into a series!! Even a decent reader like the one who narrates this story will struggle to fill the shoes of another excellent reader who has given life to the entire cast of characters.
We as listeners have become accustomed to certain inflections and personalities given to the characters, and have been let down by the choice to switch readers this late in the series.

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Getting less enthused about these cliffhangers

Revisado: 09-07-20

These books are amazing, and are narrated perfectly. This is however, the first book in the series where I had to actively fight to not skip ahead through superfluous descriptions of spells and skills.
Some of the past books have taken months of in-book time, but this book is less than 7 full days of time in The Land. It also ends on what I consider to be a less than necessary cliffhanger.
That said, and potential small spoiler, no one is in immediate danger of dying when this book ends. I hate it when books end without at least tying off the main plot point they began on, and sadly this is the first book where no major plot point is to be completed.
I am still looking forward to the rest of the books in this series, but I worry that with the teaser of the new book series this author is writing (as an epilogue), that this series may suffer or may not be written/finished soon. It is always sad to see authors take on too many projects and lose sight of what made one or multiple good series great, this can cause those older series to flag. I sincerely hope that this isn’t the case with these books. I am sure that I am not the only person invested in Richter and The Land itself, and I would hate to see too many more books like this one in the future.
Overall the book is still good. My criticism is that it has a noted rise in menu screens that are painful and slow to make it through. Characters still grow some, and while I wouldn’t have cut any of the main story plot points that do occur in this book, some of the descriptions and reiterations of past events are unnecessary.
I feel like this would have been a great first half of a longer book, and should probably have been held back until the story line could be finished. The previous book was three times as long as this one, and while this book is on par with the earlier books in the series in terms of length, it fails to finish a story in that amount of time/pages.

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Way to RUIN my favorite book!

Revisado: 08-08-18

I have a hardcover copy of this, and a soft cover one that I loan out to people who haven't read it yet. This book is one of the best in this series, top 3 for sure!!! I bought the audio version to listen to in the car on my way to work. I will be returning the audio book so that I don't support this reader.
The reader is a monotone combination of "Stallone's Judge Dredd" and Clint Eastwood, even when he is reading the female voices. He absolutely ruined Zedd's voice, and Richard's voice makes him sound like a bad spaghetti western hero. It AMAZES me that anyone at brilliance audio managed to make it through 38 and a half hours of this guy reading into a mic, let alone all of the mistakes/retakes he must have made during his read, kudos to their patience.
I will never again buy a book read by Jim Bond.

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The series really picks up with this one

Revisado: 11-07-17

The first two books in this series were a little slow to start and had a lot of loose ends that haven't been addressed yet. In contrast, this book really picks up right at the beginning, and carries interest thoroughly throughout! Take a break from the war on the frontier with goblins, and enter into the magelord's fief, with all of the petty squabbles and high politics you can handle! This is my favorite book in the series so far! Keep em' comin'

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