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The Seventh Princess

By: D.C. Haenlien
Narrated by: Diana Richardson, Blaine Maddox
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A tale of ambition and power

A soul from Earth awakens as Seventh Princess Adelheid of the Vuldar Empire. With a weak body but a monstrous reservoir of mana that threatens her very life, Adelheid engraves an oath into her very soul. She shall seize the throne at all costs, but with ambitious cousins and discontent nobles, her father and brother are far from her only rivals.

Experience Adelheid's journey through victory and loss to achieve her deepest desires.

©2022 D.C. Haenlien (P)2022 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

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Captivating from the start

From the moment this book started I was fixed I finished it in 1 sitting, well preformed, well written and enjoyable to read

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Good overall

the story was solid it follows alot of story beats you see often in modern eastern fantasy comics but avoids some annoying tropes . Both narrators do are pretty good to

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Twelve hour prologue

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Pretty generic OPENING CHAPTER to a litrpg, with a mary sue protagonist following standard tropes for tropes sake. The whole story comes off as the traditional opener to a hero's journey, where its entire 12 hour runtime is set up for future events, even though this take many in world years, bookending on a call to action with the powers that be making their first move. The story goes from plot point to plot point doing very little to expand the world or characters outside what is needed for the next plot point. It gets so bad that the main character does not have much time to shine and do things as info dumps, alternate perspectives and conspiracy plot lines develop (where they literally go "little do they know x... *insert evil laugh* -> next chapter).

The worst offence in this case is that I can not tell you why the protagonist has her main motivation, the throne. She just sees it, dismisses it for the emperor himself, but when she becomes an heir, makes an internal oath for it. She shows no want for power, dismissing lots of examples where someone is showing any respect for her; shows no particular want for leadership outside the throne and no want for the vanity of the position. All that we know is that in the past the protag lost inherited shares in a company due to her extended family stealing it, which would be great as a motivation for the thrine, except she doesn't want it to spite her family or take her inheritance but wants the throne for the thrones sake.

The protag otherwise does business things, following the reincarnation trope of reinventing things from contemporary Earth, because they used to have a business pre-isekai, does political things to get the throne and cooks because isekai tropes demand cooking scenes. She is perfect at all these things and more, except warrior magic... which she is above average at. However it is immediately overshadowed as she is pretty much the best protegy in standard magic.

It's quite sad, as in the final chapters we have basically a full chapter where the protagonist is by themselves, without their mary sue abilities, no further distractions or info dumps, we can focus on her. So instead of characterising her in this moment, showing what they would do in a crisis, they reveal more mary sue powers.

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The two voice actors did a very good job, and I could easily discern characters via accents etc. Only problem on this front is that the male va's lines sounded muffled, unsure if it is the microphone, studio, mixing or compression.

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