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Jackal Among Snakes, Book 1

A GameLit Fantasy

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Jackal Among Snakes, Book 1

By: Nemorosus, R.A. Wilkins
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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In a world on the brink, survival isn’t just a game—it’s the only game. But when only one soul holds all the cards, they get to play however they want.

Argrave, the royal bastard of House Vasquer, went into his magic apprenticeship cruel and awkward, yet left it with a neat dignity and an acerbic wit. But beneath the veneer of self-assurance, the body’s new soul is wrestling with the dread of existence in a reality that once existed only in the pages of fantasy.

In the blink of an eye, a wiki editor’s deep and somewhat unhealthy understanding of a game becomes useful, usable knowledge when he inexplicably replaces the once-cruel royal bastard. Before he can start to push his frail body to use his deep understanding of the lore to handle the imminent apocalypse, or go off to stop an invasion, there’s a more personal task he needs to handle first. His cousin has a knife in her hand, and death in her eyes.

©2023 Nemorosus (P)2023 Mountaindale Press Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Game Royalty
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voice of the main character got annoying real fast could only get half way before needed to drop. its a voice that can't convey emotions properly always sounded dreary

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I really liked the story. A college student gets isekai'd into the world of his favourite game. Unfortunately, he was put into the frail body of a villain destined for an early death and has to navigate the politics and the coming catastrophe.

Thankfully the book was also on Kindle Unlimited so I could read the book instead because the narration was awful. I've listened to good narrations by Luke Daniels before but this wasn't one of them. The protagonist sounded whiny and overall the performance sounded amateurish and characterisation of many characters was all over the place, i.e. they sounded incorrect to the personas that the text version gave me.

Great story marred by bad narration

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