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Reincarnation

A Xianxia Cultivation Series (Threads of Fate, Book 1)

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Reincarnation

By: Michael Head
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
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A cultivation world destined for destruction. A man fated to destroy it. There’s a prophecy to ignore.

Jim was thrust back in time, returned to his body at the moment he started cultivating. Anyone else might have given up, but Jim doesn’t have that option. He’s already made the mistakes that doomed him in his first life, and he knows what to do to make it right. Jim wants to right the wrongs of the past...or future? All while a pair of angry gods torture him through lack of sleep.

He must find a way to reach the top of the cultivation world without drawing the attention of those who would take his knowledge of the future for themselves. Jim has seen how the world ended, and he is determined to fight his way through the world’s hidden foes and defeat his destiny.

Weakened to merely a shadow of his former strength, he quickly learns that fighting alone may not be his best option, even though fate seems to like it that way.

Luckily for the world, Jim thinks fate is stupid. He doesn’t care what it wants.

©2021 Michael Head (P)2021 Mountaindale Press Action & Adventure Destiny Fantasy Fiction Sword & Sorcery Progression Fantasy
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Excellent story well worth the listen. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series and look forward to listening to how it all ends.

Great story

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very little time pasted unless there is many time skips in other books I don't see how this will have an ending

slow

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While unfamiliar with reincarnation jargon, I enjoyed the many twists, turns and battles. Kind of a Chinese Harry Potter meets lord of the rings

Very different in a good way

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Similar to The Beginning After the End. Plot, tone, and characterisation are familiar, but worse. I don't care about any of the characters, including the POV character. The personalities of all of the characters aren't believable.

The prose quality is above fanfiction, but notably below a professional level; it could have used a ruthless editor. There was a bit of repetition throughout the book that stood out when listening to the whole story.

The balance of the fights versus the main character's experience and confidence seemed to be way off. The fights almost killed him multiple times, he continuously gets snuck up on, and I lost count of the number of times he got sucker punched or knocked out. His internal dialogue however exudes nothing but confidence going into these encounters again and again. Surely by the third close call he'd realise that he's recklessly endangering himself and he'd be more realistic about his potential death (and world doom) instead of carrying on with the same attitude.

Character growth seems nil. Shouldn't there be character arcs accompanying the plot arcs?

Travis Baldree is a champ. Good voice actor breathes some life into a subpar story.

This book is an okay time waster if you're waiting for the next TBATE and enjoy trashy power trip stories.

Similar to The Beginning After the End

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Travis’ narration was good for the most part.
The story itself was interesting at times though it became a bit jarring when everything just seems to keep falling into place and the overpower MC just keeps winning/ achieving as much as they do in such a short time frame. I finished the book but wont be picking up the next. The Eastern influence is obvious throughout in both magical and societal norms which made the content a bit more (dry?).

Anyway decent book but not one I’d recommend.

Constant ‘convenient’ happenings.

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I honestly don't have much to say as there is little of substance to get invested in. The book constantly undermines its premise at every turn. Its a regressor book but alot of things change, the mc forgets since it was along time ago and gods constantly help the MC out because they know about him. The build up the nox (main villians) as a to-do list and the first one he encounters might as well be any other monster, but only the main character can kill it because he is special or something 🙄. Nothing is really earned, all the other characters have no personality despite wasting time involving themselves in the plot to blindly worship the MC.
The MC itself is undefined apparently his soul was altered by the gods he fell for a basic trap from the emperor but he was an intelligence officer that did the work of a entire empire in 1 hour a day while constantly make plans that fail because he is just so eye catching... and killing a 13 year old girl to justify the MCs 'battle instincts' is pretty god damn stupid, heck I would call the entire book unintelligent as a fact. I'm ending my listening experience here.

Lack of stakes and boring underwritten adversaries

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