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Ragnarok Rising

The Accidental Archmage, Book 1

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Ragnarok Rising

By: Edmund A.M. Batara
Narrated by: Conner Goff
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An epic fantasy on another world. With a modern twist.

What if you fell through a crack in reality? Like those people disappearing in plain sight you have read about.

What if you find yourself in a strangely familiar world? A world full of Earth’s mythological beings, lost civilizations, and people from its primitive and brutal past? Where magical energy still exists. Where gods play games among themselves, with the fate of mortal men as pawns. A land where a sword is deadlier than a five-inch thick contract drawn by a hotshot lawyer. Would you survive.

That's Tyler West. Alone, lost and bewildered, the three moons in the sky made it clear he wasn’t on Earth anymore. It is not a game. It’s real. And there's no coffee, pizza, fries, or his favorite show on HBO.

©2017 Edmund A.M. Batara (P)2019 Edmund A.M. Batara Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Magic Game
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I remember buying this book a while ago when it first came out and I recently bought the audiobook version. Once I listened to the narrator I remembered why I only got half way through finishing it. The information dumps. Instead of allowing the lore to weasel its way into the book the author fills entire chapters wore of world-building and then smothers the reader with it. It doesn't help that the story in itself is boring.

Plot: MC gets mugged and ends up getting teleported into magic land that is about to have a religious war. Something about gods and spirits and stuff that I just didn't care about.

I can't even go into the characters and their baggage. The main character is Travis who appears to enjoy being an utter idiot. Stating that he would rather die then be a pawn for a god and but continuously puts himself in their cross hairs. He feels more like a tourist than anything else asking the most boring kinds of questions while there is a war happening around him.

Other than a few concepts there is nothing I like about this book.

As for the narration, the narrator feels as if he is trying to rush the reading.

Information dump again and again. Boring.

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