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  • The Kartoss Gambit

  • Way of the Shaman, Book 2
  • By: Vasily Mahanenko
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
  • Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (127 ratings)

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The Kartoss Gambit

By: Vasily Mahanenko
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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Publisher's Summary

A product of the latest technologies, Barliona is a virtual world brimming with fun and entertainment. The government has become the guarantor for the in-game currency, allowing its free circulation. As a result the population floods Barliona in pursuit of easy money.

It doesn't take long for the game developers to discover a source of free labor: real-world prison convicts. While their bodies are locked in special auto-maintenance virtual capsules, the prisoners' minds are released into Barliona's virtual mines.

Dmitry Mahan has been through it all. Sentenced to eight years' hard labor, he now struggles with an unpopular class - the Shaman - and an equally unpopular profession of a Jeweler. His fight for survival becomes anything but virtual.

©2015 V. Mahanenko. English translation copyright 2015 by Natalia Nikitin (P)2016 Tantor

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  • 02-03-2024

Brilliant

I actually thought it was boring but after listening to this second book it keeps getting better and interesting!

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Loved this

Outstanding story. Fantastic twists and turns. Such a wild ride. Cannot wait for the rest
Loved it

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Author’s character is useless. Narrator has a whiny voice

I got through the first book ok. Passing over the repetitive ‘luck’ the MC had.

But in this second book I got the Audible version. As I usually enjoy the narration.

First of all the narrator has an incredibly annoying American high pitched voice. Which wasn’t helped by the Authors utter lack of character creation. Mahan is incapable of learning anything. He has a Dragon totem. A creature so unique in the land. No one has ever been heard of having one. But forgets/ignores it 99% of the time.

I just couldn’t do it anymore. Terrible book. Terrible Author. Terrible narrator.

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good story

pretty good story line
narrator make aditory exclamations when the words of the story are juxtaposed

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bloody good book

love it it gets you really into it I recommend this book hope there's more

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