Sloppy writing, strange narration

The writer clearly has a story to tell, possibly a good one, but the writing is sloppy. You often get sentences where an item or person is referred to multiple times by exactly what it is, instead of "it". In general the text just isn't great. The narrator does a lot of weird accents. He also puts emphasis a lot of strange... PLACES..! Overall I was entertained but annoyed throughout the book. You shouldn't actively avoid it, but it's not on my recommended list either.

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a few editing errors

great story performance was good there were a few editing errors where a scroll seemed to turn into a book couple of other minor things like that. I did really enjoy the whole thing though

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Boring and non-immersive

I simply could not finish this book, I chose to buy this due to its' underservedly high review score. The lack of vocabulary and imagination combined with a monotone narration and a holed story made it hard to get immersed. I listened through most of the story yet I still feel no connection to the protagonists Eric and Rugrat, they are still just grunt one and two doing stuff with no explanation why. Like many other of the low-end litRPGs the author keeps explaining the motivation behind unimportant actions, and leaves out explanations for character developing actions. It seems the author wants to show that they are kind until threatened though we only get a bland and shallow insight of the characters and their motivations. Eric and Rugrat seem quite unintelligent which is normally not a problem, though in the case of this story they are apparently smarter and better at magic than the native population of a world where it seems magic users are as common as merchants. The character stats are repeated over and over but they seem to have little to no real influence on the characters, their behavior or their development hence the stats are redundant and could simply have been left out of the story altogether. At some point of the story Eric and Rugrat finds a creature, which is described from their perspective as something different and inferrior yet related to another species, but they still think of it as the other creature even though there are many names in the English language for said creature. Overall this has been a bland, unimmersive and at times very frustrating listen.

Great story

I was kind of put off by the cover art when I looked at this a few months ago. Judging books by their covers and all. What a silly chap I was! It is very good. If you like isekai lit RPG with a milSF/fantasy angle I would strongly recommend it. The world draws you in and the plot moves along well. The narrator gives characters distinct voices and does a good job conveying the emotions. He does a very good job bar the odd pronunciation issue (granary is not pronounced graynary whatever accent you are doing!) overall excellent voice acting. MCs are OP as usual for this sort of faire but it doesn’t detract from the challenges they overcome and rugrat and erick are very relatable, you want them to succeed and become even more OP. Some good low comedy in there (later book but rugrat occasionally sharts at embarrassing moments and I laughed out loud at how it was handled, don’t judge me!). There are a few continuity issues at points: scrolls become books then become scrolls again. At one point I think it is stated that master is before expert ranking and that confused the hell out of me. A she becomes a he temporarily (very progressive!). A teleport spell with a 100m radius would produce a 200m wide teleportation circle not 100m so the difference between radius and diameter got confused. Little things that while noticeable don’t break the immersion but should have been caught by the editor. Overall if you like litRPG and enjoy a rip roaring adventure I would strongly recommend. I’m about to start number 4 and I hope number 5 is out in the next 25 hours please?

A good bit of everything

It was refreshing to hear a LitRPG novel, which had a bit of everything (fighting, town building, level focus, skill focus, development) story was interesting and sub plots stopped the story from getting dull.

Slow, boring and exposition heavy

I couldn't finish this it was awful. From start to finish it crams exposition down your throat is monotonous detail. The story explains its systems and magic when they aren't even relevant to the moment. Characters are one dimensional and boring no motivation is shown anywhere. Whole story lines are started explained then dropped in the course of 1-2 chapters which are between 9-25 mins long about 10 mins average. If you know Litrpgs AVOID THIS. one of its worst sins are the character sheets ok we need to go though them every now and again that's cool. Maybe once ever 1-2 hours is fine in most LitRPGS. However this book has 2 maybe three in 10 minutes EVERY 10 MINUTES . My god I could chalk up an hour maybe 2 hours of this book is dedicated to character sheets if not more! I don't care unless a lot has changed ffs Hate this book a waste of time narrator was meh ok but not great

Great series

I really like this series and look forward to seeing what Eric and Rugrat get into.

Good but...

I really enjoyed this book; and the series, but I do find the MCs a bit over the top. I like them and it doesn't put me off but I found my self eyerolling at certain points. That said the narrator has done a great job of capturing what you expect the characters to sound like. Really enjoyable listens, but I think ill take a little break before starting the next one.

magic and guns

i have read a lot of Michaels books starting with the free fleet, and moved on to the traped mind , but this is my favourite book, its well written and well narrated, the mix of voices helps a lot and plenty of action, if you get the book you won't be disappointed

I actually Love this book!

The comedy, the relationships, the story itself, can't wait to get to book 2! Soldiers in a rpg fantasy world, a premie I've never thought I needed to read