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  • A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 10)
  • By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
  • Narrated by: Heath Miller
  • Length: 25 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (118 ratings)

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He Who Fights with Monsters 10

By: Shirtaloon,Travis Deverell
Narrated by: Heath Miller
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Publisher's Summary

A subterranean power creates strange bedfellows for Jason and his friends in the epic next installment of He Who Fights with Monsters.

Following the devastating attack on Yaresh, its people are left to pick up the pieces.  The city lies in ruins, but its decimated defenders have more to deal with than just reconstruction. Jason's actions during the battle have brought unwelcome attention from allies and enemies alike. While the adventurers question his loyalty, the messengers question his very nature. Both have designs on Jason that he intends to thwart, but a danger comes to light that shifts everyone's agenda.

Deep underground, a hidden civilization has survived by tapping into a long-buried power. That power's growing instability has become both a threat and an opportunity to the warring surface factions. Neither side can stop or claim the power alone, leading to an uneasy alliance with a reluctant Jason at the center. The adventurers, messengers, and Jason himself all have intentions for the power but little idea what awaits them below ground. There are more players involved than any of them realize, and soon, they will have greater problems than each other.

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great as always (it's kind of his thing)

all the banter with god's and diamond rankers always make me laugh. preformed amazingly. the Aussie sense of humor really shines in this series. can't wait to find out what happens next!

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Awesome like the other 9

Story continues and can’t wait until the next instalment of he who fights with monsters 11

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Kept on my edge of my seat throughout

Loved it my partner and I were both listening to it at the same time and found it really amazing and kept saying no spoilers. Amazing series can't wait for the next book.

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Too much navel gazing

This was a third of a book with a lot of unnecessary and boring introspection to pad it out into full length. Loved the start of the series but not sure I will read the next one.

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What a story, loved it. what's next? where to from here?

What a story, loved it. what's next? where to from here? I look forward to future works

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Brilliant!!!

Again another book where 25hrs disappeared in a flash love the story!!! My only complaint is that some parts of the book are really quiet, which does an excellent job of conveying the emotion of the scene but can make some parts very hard to hear.

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This release is 95 per cent filler.

This entire book felt repetitive in the extreme, because it is. The author had to dredge every single character out for our plucky protagonist to have the same conversation with. Sometimes more than once. I've had this feeling a couple of times throughout the series but this book was simply egregious with how little actual development takes place.

In summary, stellar performance of a boring story. Read the wiki plot summary of this one and you didn't miss anything worthwhile.

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when is the next

I'm a little unhappy the next one is not available as i write this.I have loved it from the start to the finish, we'll done to the whole tream who has made this happen. keep it going, you are all rock stars in my eyes.

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Brilliant

This book like the other nine was exciting and finished well too soon.

The characters well defined and the dialogue is never boring.

I can’t wait for Book 11

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Another stalwart in the series

Jason and Co, back doing the big things while looking good doing them. Boris has no Rizz

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  • Anonymous User
  • 30-11-2023

Disappointed and tired of the rehash

TLDR; has little substance and spends so much time recapping Jason’s time on earth that this books arch is incomplete and we’re left waiting on the next book. Actual run time should have been 8 hours if all the recap was cut. Yes it’s that repetitive.

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Credit where credit is due!
I chuckled many times it has a quirky humor that is fun and brings the characters and story to life.

The rest is basically trash….
I’m sick of the series having turned into some kind of mental health struggle for Jason, and a rehash of his old exploits. Jason used to go on new adventures and the story felt a sense of progression in each book. Now instead of having new adventures they just talk a lot about old adventures for the first 3/4 of the book and then finally something big happens, but in this case the story didn’t even get finished I was so upset after such a long run time and so much time wasted that the story didn’t even reach a conclusion to its own climax. Wtf?!

Jason gives up the ability to resurrect, forever..? That was kind of his thing…

This series has really taken a sharp decline after Jason got back from Earth, it just keeps coming back to how tough of a time he had on Earth and how everyone should be nice and respect Jason because he’s some kind of super hero god in the making.

The unforgivable part to me is that the book didn’t finish the story is started to tell at the beginning of this book and the substantive part of the book is maybe 4-5 hours if you cut out all the recapping bs and the ego stroking of Jason, which I don’t even mind everyone constantly doing, but not at the cost of having an incomplete book.

In the same way that Rufus mentioning his family runs a school I would drink every time someone brings up how much Jason has been through, except there isn’t enough alcohol in the world for that. We get it he had a tough time do we need to keep hearing about it for 3 books straight?! Get over it Jason; life’s tough get a helmet.

I really hope this series can find its way back to something that I really enjoy instead of just barely tolerate because I’m so invested at this point. I’m surprised to not see more people feeling this way and all the glowing positive reviews, which began appearing within just a few hours of release, suspiciously fast, almost like it wasn’t enough time to actually listen to the audiobook.

The narrator, you’re 10 books in how are you still muddying the voices and sometimes using the wrong one of the wrong character, it’s strange how these kind of mistakes are made and make it into the final cut. The voices of new characters are surprisingly good, but there are times when the team is talking and it gets hard to track who is who anymore based on the voices, which again, after 10 books is pretty disappointing.

Thank you if you made it this far into my review, I really was in love with this series and I have been in denial for the past couple books about how much I’ve started to be annoyed by the recapping and mental health issues of Jason, I could understand if you turned the arch a of book toward that but it’s just not fun anymore, get back to awesome kick ass adventures and struggles of life and death. Not whatever has been happening for the past 3 books.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 30-11-2023

18 hours of fluff

By far the worst book in the entire series. nothing actually happened in the story progression until the last 6 hours. Really? most of the book was banter and I like banter but 18 hours worth is complete crap. Some important things happen in the first 18 hours but you could fit all of that into 1 hour. Thus book could have used an actual editor.

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  • jacob
  • 30-11-2023

Trash editing and the story has fallen off a cliff.

This is not great the direction with repeating plot points makes this awful and the editing is just piss poor. -Was a good series but it's mediocre now.

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  • Z
  • 30-11-2023

11 hours in, and...

Pretty much nothing has happened at all. Disappointing to see authors try and fall short at delivering what made the story and characters interesting in the first place.

Endless ranting disguised as development, and about as much action as watching paint dry. If the author doesn't get back to the story's beginnings and roots, then I'll overcome the sunk cost fallacy and not look back.

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  • Quintin Creswell
  • 29-11-2023

This Guy Needs An Editor

Ever since the 7th or 8th book there's been an issue where the first half of every chapter is a recap of the last chapter. I get that it started on Royal Road and was self published and released, but for the audio versions he should have someone else tighten up all of this recap.

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  • Lee Williams
  • 30-11-2023

repetition

The amount of times the dialogue repeats itself in just slightly different ways is extremely nauseating. Then you have Situations where one character explains to another an event that they themselves already know about. So it's not for them it's for the audience. But we're in book 10 have a little faith in us. Unfortunately, I've seen this very heavily in the last few books, And for me all it does is make it extremely boring and different to listen to. As an experiment I started skipping chapters, With how bad it is I didn't miss anything. And I went back to make sure that I didn't as well. And you can't say it's because it's a teen book because there's so many That are this long and don't do this. I loved this book series in the start, I want to keep loving it. But as it stands, these just aren't fun to read slash listen to anymore.

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  • Mr. D. Nortje
  • 30-11-2023

Meh

Monologues and endless conversations about how mysterious, great, unique, womanising Jason is. Struggled through 60 chapters and just gave up. Series is becoming worse and worse per book

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  • David Horton
  • 30-11-2023

Jason talks about Jason

These books have turned into long monologues from Jason about himself and his dealings with more powerful beings and his resolve to resist them. And also all the side characters talking about Jason. In the first 19 chapters it’s just various characters talking about Jason. The last 2 books have followed this trend and the series has lost its momentum. I am on the fence about getting the next book due to the repetitious cadence they have taken. If you removed the bullshit repetitious monologues the book would be 6 hours of total listening time.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 29-11-2023

if you haven't done dedicate to this series

The man who 4 years ago couldn't even work up the will and courage to confront his family has now conquered space, time, magic, and God's. Through 5 years of back and forth in this world he has conquered more than 50 generations of the greatest Adventuring families have ever been able to. Jason is Space Jesus imposing will and final voice of all, this book was written by a whack neckbeard who wants to see himself as the main character and crafts any and all plot armors to achieve that.

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  • Brian C Collins
  • 29-11-2023

Not Happy

The last 3 books in the series has too much conversation and not enough action. Jason has not ranked up and the meetings and social criticism overpower the litrpg aspect of the book way, way too much. I’m tried of being lectured on social views and I’m not sure if I follow this series anymore.

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  • 30-11-2023

skip through 2/3 of the book and it will be alright

well it's not all about Jason's therapy now which is a bonus after the last few books but now it's just endless conversation and no action leaves us with a book that hasn't progressed the story much at all and is for me the last one I will buy.

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  • Phil
  • 30-11-2023

Lazy & sold out

Poor poor book, writing of the most farcical depth of actual story, close to impossible to actual follow the arc of the lead characters. Pointless this so just a waffling novella without connection to the progression of lead characters.

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  • Anthony
  • 30-11-2023

well polished but slow and meandering

so this is an odd book, i think its in line with the previous books in terms of themes and feels, but I will say that unless your the kind of person that just likes to watch characters move about in a world like fish in an aquarium this book is not for you. id say about half of this books run time could have been removed and the plot would be fine, their isn't much progression in any regard, the characters don't really change much and the plot gets about half way towards progressing and all of that happens in the last third, almost nothing happens in the first 2/3s of the book. most of the book is characters just talking, and most of that is them just talking about themselves like you would to a therapist. personally i really love this world and the characters from the previous books so i am content to just sit with them talking in the back ground like a weird fantasy pod cast, but if you want real progress and substance you won't find that in this instalment.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 30-11-2023

20 hours of nonsense, 5 hours of pure adventure.

The first part is just repeating mono- and dialogue. So much tiresome banter and exhausting side-characters. Then, suddenly it's back to book 3 quality adventuring. Please let the next book keep building on that and not the "I'm Jason Asano, Clive's wife, Rufus family runs a school"-jokes. We all get it by now. Move on.

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  • David Raymond wood
  • 30-11-2023

Great story

so I'll enjoyed this book can't wait for book 11 to come out next year and hopefully complete this whole thing with the soul Forge

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  • Remy
  • 30-11-2023

Good humour, Better story

Great listen. Of course I would have liked a bit more progress, however the humour and characters development takes time. Can’t waut for the next installment

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  • Shaun
  • 30-11-2023

Back on form

the end of the earth arc felt like a breath of fresh air and this finally takes us back to the atmosphere of the first three books just with a much more mature version of Jason... and yes I realise that trying to use the word mature and Jason in the same sentence is folly but go with me here...

I would advise anybody that was flagging with books 6 and 7 to stick it out cause 8,9 and 10 are all markedly better.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 08-12-2023

Losing its charm to politics and set up.

I love this series. The world, the characters, the banter, I love it all. I love exposition, dialogue, character development, and slow burns. I don't love the direction it's been taking the last several books. I got hooked on this series because the banter and action was top notch to me. I know not everything needs to be fast paced, high octane, Michael Bay explosion ever two seconds, but the tonal shift is slowly killing it for me.
For the past I don't know books, everything has grinded to a extreme halt. I still enjoy the books, don't get me wrong, but the sense of adventure and wonder just isn't there anymore. Now it's all politics and set up, with almost nothing else. Having Jason explore his emotions on a more spiritual sense and taking a journey of self healing and discovery is pivotal, I agree with that. Having it take up 90% of the past 3-4 books? You're loosing me here boss. It's almost like they're not sure how they want to end the story, so they just keep dragging it out as much as possible.
Go back to the earlier formula a bit, less exposition more action. Show, don't tell. Is it too much to ask for? These past books have barely progressed anything, it's like a side quest for the main plot but it never ends. I'd rather have an ending that is a bit unsatisfying or underwhelming than to have the book keep being milked like it's a shonen anime going on season 28.

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  • Chris Goddard
  • 08-12-2023

Such a cliff hanger

Incredible writing, fantastic narration and a hell of cliff hanger! Can’t wait for the next one to see what Jason does next

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  • Daniel L.
  • 08-12-2023

It’s fun

This series is fun wild magic powers and worlds. Jasons disregard for authority and his witty musings are great but have started to feel his style is infecting too many of the side characters which I noticed more so in this book especially regarding some new characters introduced towards the end. But in all honesty it’s still fun well written and performed will continue buying this series just to see how stereotypically evil Jason’s powers get

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