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The Axe Falls Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Rozelyn Rader
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Lewis Alexander
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By:
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William D. Arand
About this listen
Dominic's world had been a fairly simple life.
To live his life to the best of his abilities, gain experience, level up, and strive to enjoy himself as best he could in a backwater. Which, while tough on its own, was made infinitely harder by his father being the local executioner.
All of that becomes infinitely worse when his entire family is murdered.
Dominic is then thrust into a war between noble houses that had been put on hold for generations. A war that the royal family lost, and now only had one true heir and claimant: Dominic Randolph.
Now, a voice that's supposedly a Dragon, who happens to be an ancestor, is talking to him. Dominic can have four classes at the same time, which is impossible, and his max levels have skyrocketed to heights unknown.
These are just the first of his royal gifts to be taken back even as the country descends into chaos as the Randolph family returns.
Armed with a new name, his father's axe, a map leading him to a Dungeon, and whatever he could stuff in a backpack, Domnic's adventure begins.
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Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?
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Great listen.
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- Norman
- 11-09-24
A good story with well thought out mechanics.
A very good story. Well thought out game mechanics and The Dungeon Economics make sense. The sex was kept under control, R not X.
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- Dude
- 05-18-24
decent
This story follows the same trend as the more recent Arand books. It is as if multiple people are writing it and disagree with eachother on everything. Characters and plot points can be introduced and dropped like it's written linear and the next writer just says nope don't like that, how about this now. It is also hard to believe Arand is actually writing these stories now because they don't follow any of his trends/style for MANY of his older books. With all that said I still gave 4 stars because it is entertaining, and ultimately this is entertainment
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- ryan
- 05-01-24
another banger
This is another series that I will follow closely, this first book is a great set up to a story that I fell will grow into epic favorite someday.
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- Maria B.
- 03-09-25
Great first book in this series.
Great story with lots of twists and turns
Great first book with lots of action and story progression
Very different characters than you normally find in books by this author
Lewis and Rozelyn work well together
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- Abraham
- 05-11-24
Good book.💯💢
Solid story, good character development into interesting scenarios.. I have very much looked forward to next book..
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- floyd eugene marker III
- 01-10-25
the whole story.
I greatly enjoyed the story from beginning to end I wanted to just keep listening to it.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-03-24
I NEED MORE
Lewis Alexander's come along way in his voice acting for me, I don't Find his voice grating any more, which is a plus because he wasn't terrible to begin with, I just unfortunately didn't care for his voice. Roslyn is good as always, the story is excelent, and isn't bogged down with constant sex scenes, there is the right combination of romance, action, and drama. There were a few points where I thought that certain plots or relationships would be dropped or ignored, but it turns out William has done a great job keeping them all tied together, either for later plot, or resolved by the end, and does a good enough of a job building up relationships throughout the story before game of thronesing them when he does do it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-19-24
Takes a min to hook you
A little slow to start, but it brings you in by the first hour. I recommend this.
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- Pat West
- 02-06-25
Book captures your interest right from the start
This has started out with the bones of a really good series! Couldn't stop listening.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-19-25
Better than I expected!
Thought it would be interesting, it didn't disappoint. Looking forward to the next one.
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