Challenge
Unbound Deathlord, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Jeff Hays
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By:
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Edward Castle
About this listen
When virtual reality becomes real enough that people feel as if they're being transported to another world, Valia Online arrives.
A man running from his past joins the game to forget it all. Calling himself Jack Thorn, he chooses an undead race, Deathlord.
A mage by choice, and a swordsman by necessity, he soon finds out that he'll need to use much more than magic and steel to survive; strategy, creativity, and carefully chosen words can often accomplish what simple attacks can't.
As the game becomes too real and touches a part of him that he'd rather leave buried, he is faced with two questions: Who is he, really? And who should he become?
Challenge is book one of the Unbound Deathlord series, a LitRPG saga.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-05-18
excellent
I have listened to many books of this genre and this was one of the best .it kept me thinking and you really didn't know how the main character would react to different situations making it a really good story
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- David
- 07-09-17
Great tale and a new angle in LitRPG
Dammed fine read. This is a very well written and thought out book. I cannot recommend it highly enough if you are a fan of this genre.
The Main Character is well crafted and his background story and behavior is nicely feed to the reader through the book. The twists and plot movements are well telegraphed, without being obvious and feed nicely into the flow and yet still deliver a twist or two which neatly fit the story but were unexpected none the less.
World is balanced and nicely thought out. I eye to scale was clever as well as a stable form of leveling up which stops characters becoming over powered titans in their first battle, though there was a tiny bit of that in the early chapters. Still much less than other authors use so I was willing to forgive the author.
For a first book it is well edited, good plot and a good length, so excellent value for money. Looking forward to the next in the series.
The reading style and characters are well done and very listenable too. Others have commented that the list of the stats is too long at the end of chapters and by the end i was fast forwarding for a couple of minutes at the end of the chapter as it added nothing to the story, but i had also read the book. I would reduce this in the audible books as it is just dull, but not a reason to not get the book!
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- Teitur Ásgeirsson
- 26-01-19
GOOD BOOK
I have over 300 audible titles and I have to say that the narration and performance of this book is one of the best I've heard. It's a compelling universe with a great story and awesome characters
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- Dad
- 09-12-18
Excellent narration
Really well narrated - slow start to story, picked up quickly though and really enjoyed it. The irl back story was a little less believable than the immersive bits but still worth the time to read :-)
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- Ian Rider
- 14-01-19
Not for me
over all not bad, but I got easily distracted from the book, it didn't capture me. it was ok, I'm sure others would enjoy this.
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- L C
- 03-09-21
loved it but one thing
the only issue i have is the stat readouts after every chapter but i just skip them.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-06-18
awesome
One awesome story and I can't wait for the next one. Kept me listening to the end.
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- Dan Tilley
- 04-05-18
Absolutely brilliant
Interesting, deep characters.
Engaging game mechanics.
Familiar, yet fresh takes on fantasy tropes.
Great story with twists and sub plots.
Fantastic narration, each character has their own voice.
Totally bad ass, what more could you want?
The only negative is that book 2 is not on Audible yet.
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- Noel
- 22-03-23
Good story but MC a whiny little b
Another excellent performance by Jeff, as always brings the story and characters to life.
Not a bad story but the MC would argue with himself. He's an annoying, spoiled little bollox. I don't understand why he wasn't toned down a little, I nearly gave up because of his constant batching, grow a set of balls.
I'll give the next book ago and hopefully he's grown up a bit.
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- JP OK
- 22-08-17
One of the best in its genre
One of the best LitRPG around, up there with awaken online. Definitely worth a listen to.
Really looking forward to getting stuck into the second book!
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