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Survival Quest

Way of the Shaman Series # 1

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Survival Quest

By: Vasily Mahanenko
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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Barliona: a virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles - and, predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home. In Barliona, anything goes: You can assault fellow players, level up, become a mythical hero, a wizard, or a legendary thief. The only rule that attempted to regulate the game demanded that no player be allowed to feel actual pain. But there's an exception to every rule. For a certain bunch of players, Barliona has become their personal hell. They are criminals sent to Barliona to serve their time. They aren't in it for the dragons' gold or the abundant loot. All they want is to survive the virtual inferno. They face the ultimate survival quest.

©2015 V. Mahanenko. English translation copyright 2015 by Natalia Nikitin (P)2016 Tantor Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Survival Game Magic Shamanism Dragons Video Game LitRPG Russia Computer Science Survival Psychology
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Vasily Mahanenko is a talented and skilled author I loved this book from start to finish the characters a well written and the world is very insightful the voice acting skills of Jonathan Yen make the characters and story come alive 12/10 stars....

Survival Quest book 1

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Immersed me, I enjoyed the limitations of a prison upon the character, I found the story much easier to follow and more exciting because I had well defined boundaries to align my expectations rather than open world litrpgs that I can struggle with.

brilliant

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This was an amazing inclusion in the subscription, I had doubts given it was a translation but I really loved it, have been binge listening through it all. Great character development, not an OP MC with limits and set backs. And a seemless melding of reality/game that a lot of the genre struggles with.

Amazing! Long! Great twists in the series

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The start of the book is slow and took me some time to warm up to it.
But once it got into it I slowly captured my full attention.
Good strong finish, just about to start book 2.

Slow, but good.

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I've read this book three times now, and each time forgotten that I'd read it before, only realizing toward the end. It's a decent read but the kind of thing you can just play and do other things to, not that worried if you miss a chapter or two.

The story is fine, but there's no real tension, just a tale about a dude that gets sent to a virtual mining camp. He works out how to game the system and... that's about it. The entire book feels very 'stuck in the starter zone.'

Grammatically, this book needs a good edit. Nothing that would cause you to put the book down, but the author mixes past and present tense every other paragraph.

Summary. A decent story but there's better out there (especially as it's reasonably short for a litrpg). Pick it up if you can get it cheap, or if you've read everything else out there.

Good but Forgettable

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