Maks

A beautiful ending to a great series

Reviewed: 05-06-20

This was the last book of the series and the ending was quite something. I must say I even shed a tear in some cases but I’m overall very happy with this series. It was one of the first series I listened to on Audible and I’m very happy with how Mr Dean finished this book up. Now it’s time to wait for some Heroic Villain.

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Great but for one thing

Reviewed: 03-06-20

More of what was in the 2 previous books and that more is exactly what I chose this book for. A lot of that sometimes even childish humour with characters I like make this book a really great listen.
I would have given this book 5 stars except for that one thing, it sometimes reads like a ntr book. See, I’m not married so I don’t know how it feels but with this being the 3rd book in the series I would have liked Jim to get over the fact that he HAD a wife and start enjoying this new life of his. Hearing him say that he wants to do the right thing or that he want to be a gentleman is honestly annoying. Mind you I have like 2,5 hours left of this book and I’m writing this review now because you can hear Jim talking about how he misses his wife half of the time. I get that this might be how this would usually work but this is a fantasy book, I don’t want to spend my time listening to a guy reminisce about a wife he will never meet again instead of looking for different opportunities and Jim doesn’t have to look far.

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The main character doesn't fit the story.

Reviewed: 22-03-20

This review has minor spoilers, you were warned.

I really like some of the ideas this book used but it seems as if the author wanted to mix too many things together. The MC gets a non combat class, a treasure hunter that by all means would be perfect if this book was about solving puzzles or even just a LITrpg ripoff of Indiana Jones series and not a primal earth, combat focused story it is. Don't get me wrong I like the idea of a game that's in such setting but it would have been so much more interesting if the main character actually suited the setting. This could have been a tribe-war kind of a story, survival story or even city building one but in the end it became what it is now. By that I don't mean it is a bad book as it can be really interesting, but it can also be a slog to go through especially when you have the MC, Hudson trying to do things so out of character (like fighting) and then complaining that he isn't good at them and I as the listener was just sitting there and going "Wow, who would have expected that a treasure hunter isn't exactly a combat master".
Besides that I liked the Arcon (if that's how you write it) theme, putting gods in a story can often backfire but from what I've seen up till now it's good. As long as it doesn't go the Gods sending their avatars everywhere/Holy War and crazy church/cult route it's going to be fine.
The narrator did a very good job, he wasn't monotone and the voices he made were different enough, one minor thing is that sometimes he made the MC sound really whinny and that really grinned on my nerves.
One last thing, in my opinion everything that happened after the fight with Tim was bad, the reactions of the tribe, the decision Hudson made, it kinda feels like most of the story was for nothing.

To conclude this review, this book was Ok, not more, not less. If you have a number of books you want to listen to I would advice to check what are opinions on all of them, cause this one here wouldn't be my first pick. It also wouldn't be the last cause there are definitely worse books out there. This one would be somewhere in the middle and sooner or late you can give it a try. One thing that can really help out here is book 2 if it comes out but the author needs to figure out what kind of story he wants and then make the character fit in a bit more.

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Not for me

Reviewed: 18-03-20

I like books with some humour in them...and this one is not one of them. To be honest this book is probably good it just doesn’t do it for me. I started pitying the main character rather quick and it’s not something I enjoyed, I listen to books to hear about some unusual adventures and interesting action not about game addiction problems of a poor guy that spirals deeper and deeper into unreachable by most state of self pity and that’s honestly what this book ended up being about. Even with an interesting combat and overall interesting world, I just didn’t like it.

Besides that Vikas Adam is a good narrator and I enjoy the voices he makes for both male and female characters.

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Depends on your perspective

Reviewed: 10-03-20

This book can be booth great and terrifyingly boring, depending on, if you’ve read/listened to the completionist chronicles. I did and it caused me to be honestly bored with good 75% of the book, be it the skills, enemies or the areas that our MC Sam experiences, they’re all mostly repetition from the original series. I understand that it’s because Sam is also a mage like class but that’s exactly the problem, I feel like this book would have been so much better if this was a book about some obscure meele class and not another mage. Also personally, I didn’t like the way the MC acted, it’s hard not to compare every single thing in this book to the ritualist series but I doesn’t change the fact that I liked Joe better.

Now if I was someone who hasn’t read the original series (or relistened to it like a week before starting this one) I would probably enjoy it far more. The word in this series is interesting and really makes the reader/listener wonder what else is in there. The game system is also really enjoyable to hear about, especially all the possible class variants that exist. There’s also that healthy does of humour that comes with most of the system prompts, which made me chuckle from time to time (although again I felt like some of them were straight up copied from the original series). Overall this book is somewhat hard to grade as I can see how many people would like it and I would as well if not for the circumstances (again, I literally listened to the 3 book from ritualist like a week before, Rexus not included). To conclude, this is a book might recommended to people who haven’t read the Ritualist but then again they might just go and read it first and as for all the people that did read it already...honestly I don’t know, you might enjoy it or you might not, your credit not mine. Do what you will with it.

Also Nick Podehl did a great job as always, I especially enjoy his female voices, they just hid the right spot for me.

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I’ve waited too long

Reviewed: 19-01-20

So the first two books were ok but I wasn’t so sure about buying the 3rd one and as I’ve come to realise, waiting was a mistake.
This book had quite a good amount of action as well as well as story profession. It greatly expands the relationship between Rorik and Zeera as well as Rorik and PawnerBoner (if that’s how you write his nickname), which was quite a surprise for me. One another thing that really appealed to me was that there was a lot happening but it all clearly led to that one point which was securing Troll nation and making sure it prospers. You wanna know what is the Troll Nation? Well go and read than.
(This is not a paid promotion or anything like that I simply liked the book and wanted people to know it)

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I got what I came for.

Reviewed: 29-10-19

As always, it was a great recording. Both Todd’s performance and Michael’s story were amazing. I really like how we get to hear about what’s happening to different people throughout the story. It’s especially amazing because be it Eric’s and Rugrat’s point of view or inhabitants of Alva dungeon, they are all interesting and really pull you in. I can’t wIt to hear the recording of the 4th Realm, whenever it will come.

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Some people don’t like it but I really enjoyed it

Reviewed: 21-10-19

This series was always about comedy so the fact that both Dale and Cal are being goofy from time to time was expected. Also the fact that I could hear about how certain characters from the Completionist Chronicles came to be, made this book really enjoyable. Now I feel like Re listening to adventures of joe and look for other people from divine dungeon I might have missed out.

Also when it comes to Luke Daniels being the new narrator, I like his voice so a good thing for me and I even got used to his narration fairly quick. People usually hate changes so if you are wondering if you should buy this book or not basing one the comments then ignore the ones about narrator and just give it a try, after all you can always get a refund. So yeah, great book 5*.

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I don’t like it.

Reviewed: 17-08-19

This book took the meaning of the main character to the new meaning. Overall the whole book revolves around Alex and his friends while they play a VR game. The game seems rather lacklustre, it’s your typical knights vs demons and that’s it. I haven’t listened to the whole book simply because it was tedious to listen to. There are other books with VR elements that are much more sophisticated with more interesting characters, a simple example would be Ascend Online.

Jeff and Annie still did a good job, they were a major factor in my decision to take up this book and I honestly wish I didn’t. Still have them 5* for performance.

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Simply amazing!

Reviewed: 11-06-19

At first I wasn’t sure I liked this book, because the main character acted like a wimp but with time I listen as Jack grows up and solves his issues and it was really pulling me in. Overall this was a great LitRPG and recommend it to anyone that likes the genre.

It’s also worth mentioning that people from soundbooth did a great job. This was my first book with Justin but Jeff is my favourite narrator and Annie is close behind.

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