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Bastion

Immortal Great Souls, Book 1

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Bastion

By: Phil Tucker
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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Scorio will rise from the ashes to conquer the 10 layers of hell.

Reborn without memories, Scorio learns that he is a Great Soul, a legendary defender of the ancient city of Bastion. That within the hallowed halls of the Academy and under the stern eyes of the underworld’s greatest instructors he will enjoy enormous privilege, rediscover unique and wondrous powers, and one day return to the millennium-old battle against their infernal foes.

Until he is betrayed. Singled out and sentenced to die for crimes he can't remember, Scorio is hurled to his doom - and forgotten.

But from even the dimmest spark an inferno may one day rage.

Clawing his way back from oblivion, Scorio vows to return to the Academy at any cost. To emerge from the ruins and within those golden walls defeat his elite classmates in a quest to ascend the ranks and change the course of history. For only then will he learn about his forgotten past and why his enemies have rightly feared him since the day he was reborn.

©2022 Phil Tucker (P)2022 Podium Audio Action & Adventure Dark Fantasy Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Progression Fantasy
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great depth to characters and heaps of potential in the development of story in the comming novels

brilliant

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I absolutely loved this book. It has a fresh take on the 'chosen one' and 'academy' tropes that keep you engaged throughout. Excellent writing and it remains unpredictable throughout. Great performance by Nick Poedehl, too.

Fantasy at its finest

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Amazing book. story, setting and premise all very good. highly recommend. really want the whole series to be released. would also love to see an Anime adaptation

love it

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book, have listen to it twice through.
Beautiful character development, and overall story writing keeps you compelled and wanting to know what happens next

A book to rival the best

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from sub zero to hero, a fantastic book with larger than life yet deeply relatable characters. not to mention a great performance. book 2 when?

progression fantasy at its peak

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This was a hard slog of a book. A propensity for big words and slow storytelling made this a hard slog for me to get through (indeed, I eventually gave up). Words like 'biers,' 'adumbrated,' 'obfuscating,' 'succor' and 'leonine' dot the paragraphs, as examples.

Action sequences were exciting, but I found myself just not caring when we got into the magic system, which is usually something I enjoy. This book may have been exceptional value for money at almost 40 hours length, but it's definitely quantity over quality.

I made it 30 hours in, but unfortunately this is a Did Not Finish from me, and not something I can recommend.

DNF

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This story is what I imagine The Fellowship of the ring would feel like, if it was purely from Frodos perspective. Great world building if a bit linear, but a MC with a serious chip on his shoulder. If you can make it through it seems like a good story may unfold.

A worthwhile slog.

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well this is the book I have been waiting for, for a long time nick podal added his great narration to the book and brought it to life as with all his other works,well done nick

Awesome story

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The world is really unique and interesting, the characters havn't really grown enough for the 'magic' to be decently explored but it has potential.

Unfortunately, this story suffers by being explored through the main characters eyes. He has been dealt a legitimately bad hand, is born into unfair circumstances in an unfair world, but then goes onto blame all his problems on that. It's always the circumstances, it's always someone else's fault, at no point does he sit down and acknowledge that he is impulsive and arrogant and his actions only dig him deeper. His friends occassionally call him out for being overconfident and self-destructive but never for being self-absorbed, and even if they did he'd only pretend to listen and then keep doing whatever he wants without any self-reflection. It's like the story wants to make it seem like he has it so rough, but always tosses him enough lucky opportunities/plot armour that he never really faces the consequences of his actions.

Just, yeah, I feel like this would be more enjoyable if I was actually on the main characters side instead of hoping that the world will slap him down so that he has a reason to grow up. It's a good story with a frustrating main character.

Worst part of this story is its main character

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well what is there to say it starts off interesting then 10+ plus hours of it being boring sometimes the MC seems like a caring thinking hard working young man other times he is an angry rebellious 16 teen year old who lashes out at anyone friend or foe at this point i have listen to 23 hours out of 38 and im calling it quits

not as good as i was hoping

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