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  • Rise of Mankind Series, Book 1
  • By: Jez Cajiao
  • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
  • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (383 ratings)
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Age of Stone

By: Jez Cajiao
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
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Summary

In all the games Matt has played, dungeons are places to raid, places you dream of conquering, but when the world is stripped of electricity, and the first mana-twisted beasts start to prowl, the games all come to an end....

Matt's just an ordinary guy, but when he's beaten, robbed, and left for dead, bleeding out at the bottom of a gully, it all has to change as he grasps frantically at his only chance for survival, coming as it does in the form of a glowing, dangerously pulsing light.

With his reality forever altered, Matt must quickly find a suitable place to deploy the Dungeon Core, fighting his way through the hundreds of people between him and safety, because if he doesn't do it soon, a Core Detonation will solve all of his problems for him....permanently.

Welcome to the New World.

©2021 RJ Cajiao (P)2021 Tantor

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loved it from start to finish

when your up till 3 in the morning because you can't put down the book then you know its a belter of a story .. well done Jez keep them coming and thanks to neil for adding the cherry on top ..great work guys

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Starts strong, falls into oblivion

First, credits to the narrator he is amazing.

The story starts quite good giving a view in the life of the protagonist. Then it picks up speed and for the first ~40% it is a blast but then more and more logical failures sneak in, moral issues are shrugged away and the main character gets manipulated and used and he really is not the type of man who lets something like that slide….

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Misogynistic and violent - dreadful Geordie accent by narrator

Interesting concept and good momentum, I got drawn into the story as a sci-fi lover. But the author is certainly no role model for diversity and inclusivity. Women are sexualised and the fighting is absurdly graphic. Oh and the narrator absolutely butchered the Geordie accent - as the story is set in Newcastle that’s a huge miss, I think there should be a minimum benchmark for narrators to be able to even semi-accurately represent the characters.

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brilliant new story

I loved the story and narration, my new favourite series. I can't wait for more.

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Overall disappointing in all fields

The narrator seems to have some strange issue with speech when the characters are talking. Unnatural inflections and pauses. it must be deliberat because he can speak just fine during the none speech parts.

The accents are bad... like really bad, every man sounds the same, every woman sounds the same except for the "gypsies" who sound the same and slightly irish and the main character is American? You know it's rough when the one german character sounds like a gordie!

Story: It starts off strong with an interesting take on the classic dudgeon core story.
However the author seems to have some issue with travelling folk portraying them as idiotic thieves and murders. As well as old people making them all but 1 racists!

Women are overtly sexualised, with the mc being obsessed with sex and talking about his dick.

Repeated arguments over the same topics litteraly one paragraph then the same argument happening again in the next.

The bad guys keep doing the same thing over and over allowing the mc to escape. Ahh yes let's capture the guy that just killed 5 of our friends instead of just shooting him.

Oh and pistols have magazines not clips.
Assault rifles use MAGAZINES NOT CLIPS

The story is basically guy gets trained for a few hours by an old guy with a sword and all of a sudden he's able to take out GROUPS of people with a training sword and then gets his hands on a surprising amount of firearms even though it's repeatedly stated how different firearms laws are to America.

I just can't recommend this.

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Astonishingly weak

I listened to this as a bit of a toe-dip into LitRPG and if this is what all the fuss is about then it's not for me.

Every character is a poorly written cut out of a cheap 80s action movie. The descriptions, the quips, the weird "observations" - all felt like they were slashed out with zero thought.

The main character just seems like an incel's fever dream. From the obligatory "throwing up at the horror of it all", to the gleeful justification for shooting people in the back because they'd probably be villains in the future, it took about 2 or 3 scenes. The creepy "flirting" with the abundance of 2D female "characters", the super weird behaviour in the tied-to-a-chair scene, showed zero understanding and makes me wonder if the author has ever had an actual conversation with a woman.

The odd rants at the racist neighbours and misty sepia coloured memories of mama whateverhernamewas to show our hero was a real sensitive stand up guy were all equally gross.

The only thing I was mildly interested by was the world building and dungeon development. I expect that in the hands of a competent writer, that could be a pretty fun concept.

Anyway. I'd you've made it to the end of this review and still want to read this book, then I pity you. Either you're a glutton for punishment or you've just never read a decent book and have no frame of reference.

The narrator did his best, but chewed away on british regional accents about as well as I would with American ones.

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Disappointing

I listened to this because it was a freebie while I was waiting for my next credit. The story wasn’t all that bad which is what kept me listening. The most painful part was the diabolical accents for the British people. Neil Hellegers really was bad. I guess if you’re not from the uk it might be passable but it was torture for me. He kept switching from Irish to northern to southern to god knows what! Also, the scenes where Matt/Jez was fantasising about his sexual prowess were utterly cringeworthy and seemed out of place in the story, almost boyishly childish. When the hero/author of the story has to boast about the size of his penis its just disappointing and unnecessary to say the least. It’s almost as if the book was written by two different people. Anyway, I did make it to the end simply because it wasn’t all that bad and I was waiting for my next credit. It’s arrived now and I can confidently confirm that I won’t be getting the second book in the series. (Unless it’s narrated by someone else who can do English accents)

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Great start and middle, last 2 hours.. hmm.

I really enjoyed 3/4 of this book, really cool concept and delivery for the most part, well paced and delivered by the narrator.

My issue is that in the last two hours of the book the main character turns into a bit of a d**k. so much so that I nearly didn't make it through. idk if I'll continue the series.

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Excellent

Absolutely great litrpg dark almost souls like boss fight at one point which was awesome. Slow burn into the RPG elements which was different with an entertaining story beforehand not just filler.

The comments about racism, meh I'd just ignore it. There are racist people irl so why take them out of fiction?

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It's a Great Beginning

Well known narrator Neil Hellegers does this audio a great job as I would expect to relative newcomer Jez Cajiaos new series.
This is very much a litRPG Dungeon Core War of the Worlds vibe and somehow this weird modern real world story works kinda of like Boyces Red Mage. As this is his 2nd series I have gotten into and eargerly awaited the next installment this has now cemented his place in my must buy/listen category, something not easy in a large marketplace.
This feels very down to earth with that kinda close working grass humour style that appeals to me and I think to many of those who have been in these kinda environments.
5 out of 5 all round and hopefully for the rest of the series which Im hoping is round the corner anyday now

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