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Gathering Strength

Character Development, Book 2

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Gathering Strength

By: Aaron Jay
Narrated by: Rhys David
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Miles Boone is running out of time. He had one year to solve every beginner’s quest the Game offers or he faces a lifetime of slavery. Now, time is flying by and he can’t even find a safe place to play the Game. His apartment has burned down while he was in it. His secretive father won’t let him enter the Game from his home. Miles’s only choice is to enter the underbelly of society and try to win his bet from anonymous VR pods controlled by an old associate - or is that enemy? - of his father’s.

Meanwhile, the Party’s hunt for him in-Game continues. Surrounded by enemies from without and within, Miles has to keep upping his Game. His lack of a Luck stat makes it impossible for him to play like anyone else. With no luck, Miles will have to gather the strength to survive.

Gathering Strength is the second volume in the Character Development series.

©2018 Aaron Jay Weingrad (P)2020 Aaron Jay Weingrad Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction Game LitRPG
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Half of every chapter is devoted to talking about the Gm girl which adds nothing to the story. Nothing really happens and everything seems superfluous. The bet has somewhat lost its relevance with the introduction of all the exposition and his gathering of strength is just doing some tutorial missions that only he has access to. only the last couple of chapters seemed to have the same feel as book 1. plus the book dropped the F word.... bloody fate in a post apocalyptic premise they dropped the word fate! bleh.

oh and the changing narrator perspectives is really infuriating because it drains all the suspense out of the situation and the book.

Major pacing issues.

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