It was difficult to stop listening

Narrator was great and added so much to the story, which is a little slow paced but still keeps you wanting more. Great performance, great writing, and great emotion, all bound up in one package. But be warned, there's a lot of sadness and struggle to accompany the light-hearted entertainment and heart-rousing moments.

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Awesome

I loved this book!
Took me a little to get into it but then I was sucked in. So much adventure and so many creatures.
The narrator is outstanding!

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Just get it - worth it.

I typically have multiple books on the go at any given point and can power read through a story if it's not really grabbing my attention. With that background, I could not for the, life of me, read the story of the Wandering Inn. I just couldn't get into it and i love this genre. this This audible version on that other hand, I binged it in a week. I was hooked. Hooked enough that I'm Wandering if I buy more credits to get the next book in the series.

The performance was amazing and the character depth is unbelievably good - really sneaks up on you. I don't review very often, but this one deserves it. Cannot recommend enough.

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Better than you think it will be

I was hesitant to get this book because of all the varied reviews. I love a good story and good characters. What's more, I've come to learn how great audiobooks are from my horrible experience in the past listening to an "Author read" audiobook. So I took a chance as I do like the genre, or even the overall fantasy genre, even if it's Urban Fantasy (Charles de Lint). I was quickly surprised at how good it was. I thought it would be lots of short stories...NO. It has set characters that it follows and soon you will be like me. As soon as one character's story arc stops you're yelling "NO! I want more!" But the story picks up where it left off and you get completely wrapped up in it. I honestly don't see why people have a hard time with this book. If you like good stories, great characters and oddly enough FANTASTIC voice acting, you'll love this! I will be completing the series.

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buying book 4

I'm currently a few hours from finishing book 3 and I have already bought book 4. it takes a very simple concept and flipped it on its head. the strength of this series is definitely it's character, very vell written and complex characters.

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Wonderful story and Narration

This is the best story I ever heard besides Harry Potter. Both story plot and Narration were overwhelmingly good.

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Spell Binding

Enjoyed the characters. A great audio book and the narrator is AWESOME!!
Keep me entertained for hours.

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I love it, but...

I feel like it is important for any prospective readers to understand that this is not a 'novel' in the sense of most novels, that it has a beginning, middle and end and is plotted out to fit that mould. The Wandering Inn was originally (and remains to be) a Fantasy-LitRPG web novel that has very graciously been made into an audiobook, but that means that its formatting is quite different from other books. As of writing this review, it has over 25,000 pages and 6.7 million words- and while the audiobook and ebook versions have, I believe, been edited somewhat by the author since they were originally written, the story itself was never created in the same vein as a traditional novel or series.

Due to this formatting difference, you might feel as though the first volume of this novel has loose ends, focuses on characters that have little impact on the story, has little character growth or too little exposition; however, I feel that these issues mainly stem from the fact that this is a long-form style of writing. There is not too much thought put towards spelling things out for the readers through exposition as it is assumed that the world will unfold itself as you progress through the story, much like if you were to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. The characters' growth and development will take longer as we don't skip through time with them to major events but rather experience the minutiae of their everyday lives, which means that their development will occur over a longer period of time.

The author has been writing this story since 2016, and there are currently 7 Volumes (so 7 approx 40-60 hour-long audiobooks hopefully!) written with the 8th underway- if you are looking for immediate satisfaction and answers to the world and the characters in this first volume then this might not be the audiobook for you (I mean, it's 43 hours long to start.) But if you are looking for something with incredibly detailed world-building, engaging and sometimes ridiculous characters, and unique mysteries that you are willing to wait a long time to see unravelled, then this is the story for you. If you like D&D, SAO, or Fantasy-LitRPG's, I highly recommend giving this a shot. If you like strong female characters that are relatable and aren't just a male character in a female body, this could be the story for you; alternately if you like male characters that have strength in a myriad of ways, this has those as well. If you like the typical hero's journey being turned on its head, reluctant heroes, dragons, humanoid species of creatures that are not humans, and monsters- The Wandering Inn has you covered.

There is magic and mundane, there are battles and slice-of-life moments, there are really smart characters and, admittedly, really dumb characters. I implore you to give this story a chance if any of the things listed above interest you because this series has become one of my favourite pieces of fantasy literature and I think that as many people as possible should have the chance to experience it.

All that being said, I love the narrator that was chosen for the audiobook. Considering there are a LOT of unique characters and different races of humanoids to characterize, her approach has really blown me away, especially with the Antinium characters. I honestly don't think anyone else could have done a better job.

Finally, give Erin and Ryoka a chance. They can be really frustrating sometimes, but their growth does happen- Ryoka specifically I find has a lot of growth in Volume 2. The fact that the novel still has a large following after nearly FIVE YEARS should- in my opinion- be a solid recommendation in and of itself.

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1 star off for 1 character

okay it's good, real good. but 1 star has to be removed for 1 character who was annoying enough for me to think about stopping every time they're the focus of the story...

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Excellent book excellent narrator

Loved this book and can't wait to hear part 2. The narrator is hands down the best I've heard!

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