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Gunboat

A LitRPG Adventure (Gunboat, Book 1)

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Gunboat

By: Dean Henegar
Narrated by: Alex Perone, Marissa Parness
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Summary

Coast Guard Captain Jesse Watkins is killed in action.

Instead of moving on to the afterlife, Watkins wakes up as something different. He has been reborn as the core of a war-ravaged starship and must work to repair his vessel if he wants to find his way home.

Threats to his new existence abound, both in the darkness of space, and lurking aboard the ruined hulk of the ship he now commands. Despite the danger, Captain Watkins has a lifetime of naval service experience to call upon. With the help of his system adjunct, they must rebuild and prepare their vessel for the battles to come.

Captain Watkins must become something more than he was before. He must become a vessel powerful enough to survive the journey home.

©2025 Dean Henegar (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC Military Science Fiction Space Exploration Interstellar
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I think the world building and a lot of the basic ideas here had great potential for an amazing story but found the pace of the story far too slow and the story boring overall.

In my opinion there was far too much detail given on far too many activities that we didn’t need so much detail on. In the end there was very little story in this story.

Interesting Premise

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Good Start but i would almost say too much too fast with little room to breath and I understand your trying to build things up and want to get to the next big best thing but its just action that leads to another action scene that leads to another action scene bam bam bam and it doesn't let him breath much to deal with other things that are necessary on a ship like water when he gets a crew or showers. Like i don't think the crew rests in the 3-4 action scenes that happen i think all in one day and act like their not over stressed or exhausted from fights. I'm talking about the living crew. But but it dose have good bones for if he upgrades to more for future books and how will he deal with trade and civilization and off station neutral zones. So I look forward to see and hope he becomes a big ship with big guns.

It's alright but Just seems too much

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