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Claim the Fallen 1

A LitRPG Adventure

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Claim the Fallen 1

By: Sam Ward
Narrated by: Sanderson Rand, Dolly D. West
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Summary

Two years in a cell for a crime he didn't commit. Ninety seconds of freedom. Then two barrels of buckshot in a parking lot, and Chris Carter's first life was over.

Death offers him a second one: a new world, a clean start, and five skills instead of the standard three. Carter takes the deal and takes the one skill with no description, buried in the list like a trap. Reaper's Claim. Kill something, and whatever made it dangerous becomes his.

He lands with nothing in Oakhaven, a walled guild town where power is bought and sold and the cheapest soldiers are the broken ones. Three women. A build, the deadliest party nobody saw coming, and a runaway guild mage sign on of her own free will, because she's seen what he's building and wants in.

But skills stripped from the dead leave a trail. The guild starts watching—asking who he is, what he can do, and why his people level faster than anything on record. And the farther east the road pulls them, toward the dungeon city of Deephold and the deeper things waiting under it, the more it costs the women who chose to follow an ex-con with a reaper's gift.

He never asked for a second chance.

He's going to make somebody regret giving him one.

©2026 Sam Ward (P)2026 Sam Ward Action & Adventure Fantasy Reaper
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Firstly, the narrators are new to me and if it's their first, this is a really good first impression. There's some audio issues and bits where the read could use some tightening up but I've heard much worse and you can always expect improvement. I'm going 5 stars there and being pretty forgiving there (I'm usually pretty brutal).

Now, the story itself has a solid premise but the writing style does have me giving it some side-eye. I hope the series will be good and this is a good first entry to the series if it is.

Decent craft, new narrators.

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Its Harem despite what the characters say. the subtext and psychology of the author is bleeding out. I hate that the mc pretends it is not and is giving them freedom when it clearly is a harem and the author just needs to get it out.

despite that i finished it. theres a good world building and system around the novel. thats the plus. the bad side is the author cant separate character personality from the need of creating a harem. its distracting. other books are upfront about it. but this book just denies it and comes off as inauthentic. also i dont know if the author taught about culture at all. or lack thereof. it was never brought up. like they are slaves thats it. whats the culture of the elves? wolves? how do they view marriages? slaves? relationships? anyway give it a go since its a plus. then be irritated for what it keeps denying itself to be.

also

Lorelais voice is irritating.

Its Harem, stop pretending it isnt.

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