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So, It's Really Good, So What

Reviewed: 01-08-22

The story is really we done, fun, and captivating. But what makes a story even better when buying it on Audible? The Narration. And I must say that this is one of the best narrated audiobooks I've ever listened too, and I'll definitely be buying more from Yen Audio.

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Makes Space Team

Reviewed: 06-01-22

Makes Space Team more awesome than the normal audio books, and I couldn't help but buy these too.

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Pretty Fun Read

Reviewed: 28-10-19

If you love the MMORPG genre then you'll love this; it's not the best I've read, but it's up there and beats out all of the ridiculous amounts of stuck in an MMO fantasy world that animé studios keep spitting out. At least in book form they aren't going to rush it out so that it feels lifeless.

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Good... but.

Reviewed: 03-03-19

It's a good story a part from some annoying aspects. Such as "smile/smiled" being used to much. I didn't notice that during the first book, but 2 onwards seems much too prevalent.

The author also likes to repeat themselves or actions such as a character doing something big and awesome and the author showing that quite well. Then it will either have that character explain what he's doing to aomeone(s), or cut to another character who either explains everything in more detail via inner monologue, or explains it to someone else once they've "obviously" figured it out. It's like what they do in animé. It's a terrible trope for any author and makes the reader thing the author doesn't think we're smart enough but not doing the right think in show not tell, but showing and telling.

It's also gotten soooooooo lovey dovey in areas it's sickening. I'm all for a bit of romance in a story, but come on.

Though, as you can likely tell - book 6... so I'm still enjoying it, even if the main characters are starting to get OP. It's starting to feel a little too much like an animé inspired read. Though, there's nothing wrong with that, even Manga writers that write novels know not to add animé/Manga tropes to their books because that doesn't work, and the only reason there is so much explanation in Manga is because of the style of the print making it harder to show everything without having some other character dictate a little, and when that gets translated into animé (they don't do it nearly as much anymore) they kept the long-winded gasped "I get what he/she did now" moments that were needed in the Manga, which tended to fill out series more, which is partially why most animé series are so much shorter these days.

But I kind of got off tangent there. Overall, the book series is rather pleasant. The narration is good; not great, but good. The guys voices are much better for the male characters, but feel and sound wrong on female characters.

I will rate the series so far, 4 out of 5. The first book dragged me in with its unique litRPG story. Blending Sci-Fi and Fantasy with a real world "VR"MMO and aliens and all that good stuff. It's what has kept me from doubling the speed of the read, so I don't miss a thing.

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Love Barry's work!

Reviewed: 26-11-18

Barry J Hutchinson has become my favourite fonking author. And his books are made even better in narration.

I can't wait for his latest works to be read by Pill.

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The plot isn't as good as the first 9 books

Reviewed: 28-10-18

Not as good as the first series, but still an enjoyable read. Though, the narrator of this one is the worst in the series. And I rather hoped the one who read the last book would read this one as she wasn't bad, and since the series is more focused on Valkyrie than anyone else as she grows and becomes independent a woman narrator sounded better.

Anyway, the worse thing about the series so far is Valkyrie's characterisation. It's not the same, not even remotely. She's become too much like Harry Potter, brooding and moping about things she can't change.

And during the beginning book it was hinting at a Valkyrie/Militsa relationship (as more than friends), but then never returned to it. But hopefully the next book will get further into it.

As a side note I would like to know how this series, from book one can get a kids book rating. There's much too much murder and gore for it to be a 9 .

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Okay

Reviewed: 07-08-18

Still much too long, and the way they talk to each other is much too... clever. It could have done with dumbing down to make them seem more normal.

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Not bad.

Reviewed: 27-07-18

The story is much too drawn out. I'm kind of scared at the thought of book 4 as that is over 60 hours long. But I'm going to continue reading/listening. I would hate to actually have to read the books because it felt like they wouldn't be that well written in actual words. Though, I hate the narrator as he speaks so slowly and blandly with no excitement or enjoyment in anything, which made him sound boring.

The story is third person with a huge first person flare. I felt it would have done better in first person if not for the continued jump in perspective and countless characters.

Its drawn out too much with mundane things, and the big-bads at the end had no foreshadowing, or did, but the long-winded stretch of tediousness made anything like that instantly missed.

Of the main 5 characters I liked them all except for Nick as I felt he was badly written and too Stu like without any likeable qualities.

My favourite characters had to be Thomas, Claudia (I think that's the healer girl's name, she wasn't in it much), and Vince.

I would only really recommend if you have some spare time and nothing else you're interested in reading and love superheroes. More so if you have Prime Reading. You can get the eBook for free and then only pay £2.99 for this audiobook.

Over all the slow moving plot and terribly tedious narrator let this book down a lot. His voice is just so boring and unenthused. If the narrator doesn't invest in the story they sound bored and uninterested, and that can ruin even the greatest of books.

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Awesome

Reviewed: 16-07-18

I really hope this is going to have a sequel. It's left on a great cliffhanger. And another great Yahtzee story and read. It's the last Audible by Yahtzee that I've listened to and he is brilliant. I would recommend to anyone.

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Funny until it's sad.

Reviewed: 11-07-18

I can only hope that Travis gets his happy ending! And yet another great audiobook by Yahtzee. A must read, and in the same universe as Mogworld while not being apart of the MMORPG.

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