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Death's Mantle
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
Lucian North is supposed to be dead.
Suffering from a rare heart condition that doctors say should have killed him over a year ago, Lucian is playing a video game when Death finally comes.
Rather than give in, Lucian pulls a gun on the Grim Reaper.
As the two stare each other down, terrible demons known as injuresouls swarm into the room in pursuit of Death.
Summoning courage he never knew he had, Lucian comes to Death's aid. And for his troubles, he is awarded Death's Mantle.
Transported to a spiritual world he could have never fathomed, Lucian finds that he is instantly powerful, able to conjure weapons from scratch and perform incredible feats. He introduces game mechanics to his new role, develops a carefully curated inventory list, and modifies a HUD system that allows him to better track his targets.
It isn’t easy being Death, and Lucian will need just about everything he can get as he faces off against fallen angels, appalling parasites, demon-born injuresouls, and savage Death Hunters.
Regardless of his sudden strength, his newfound enemies, and his gamer ingenuity, Lucian can't communicate with the living, which wouldn't be a problem if he hadn’t discovered something terrible about his family....
Lucian’s brother is scheduled to die, and only Lucian has the power to do anything about it.
Death’s Mantle is a dark fantasy GameLit novel that LitRPG, metaphysical fantasy, occult sci-fi, and thriller listeners will love. Death’s Mantle is written by Harmon Cooper, best-selling GameLit author of Way of the Immortals, House of Dolls, Cherry Blossom Girls, The Feedback Loop, and Monster Hunt NYC. It was inspired by the anime Parasyte, the comic book series Sandman and Spawn, the books On a Pale Horse and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-11-22
best voice actor till now
Really enjoyed this book. It has references to the book of Enoch, the Annunaki and ... videogames! The descriptions of the monsters and battle scenes inspired me as an artist.
The voice acting was truly in its own league. Andrea Parsneau does an amazing job of portraying each individual character
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- sloth
- 15-04-23
thoroughly enjoyed
I really liked this book I like how it mixes the real world with the litrpg factor only down side I see is it's to short of a story done it in two days but will be getting the next in series 👍
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- Pollyoxo
- 23-09-23
Amazing
Loved every minute of it! Captured my attention and imagination immediately. I would thoroughly recommend.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-12-23
Lucian meets old Death
It blurs what is good and evil and makes you think Death is not always evil and Lucien tries to improve the relationship with the good angels . Will it possible ?
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- Cj
- 26-12-19
another great series
deaths mantle is another great series from Harmon Cooper.if your a fan of his other works you'll like this one too!
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- james mcadam
- 17-12-19
another great one by a great author
great book loved it .great story with great characters and the narration is awesome as always
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- gordon
- 25-09-22
Worth a listen
No a bad story, it is a good idea with some interesting concepts. definitely worth a listen.
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- Ashley
- 08-12-22
Interesting
loved the concept of an average guy becoming the reaper and Andrea's delivery was outstanding.
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- Angrenades
- 18-12-19
Absolutely brilliant
Harmon Cooper has done it again and written an excellent book and Andrea has narrated it brilliantly.
We follow Lucian who has a rare heart condition, and the grim reaper comes for him. He’s playing a video game at the time and discovers that he sees things that he shouldn’t. He can see Death & Injuresouls, and Lucian helps death escape these monstrosities and it’s found that Lucian is much stronger than the reaper gave him credit for, so Lucian becomes the new Death whether he wanted it or not.
He updates the old notebook that the old Death had, so that he has the information and stats just as he did in his video games, so he knows when he needs to walk away from a fight. Lucian creates ravens and a “Dr Strange” cloak to help him fight the parasites that are changing the balance.
The fight scenes are well-choreographed, and the characters are realistic with their beliefs, demons, angels (life), and family secrets, and some of these scenarios will tug at the heartstrings.
Harmon has a touch of Terry Pratchett in him for portraying Death in a way that makes him a likeable character.
A well-paced listen and I’m looking forward to more like this.
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- S. Reid
- 14-01-20
An Amazing Gamelit experience
Not since Terry Pratchett has Death been so well portrayed and so ingenious a character. In an increasingly mature and in depth writing style ,this audio covers real world problems in a new and novel way.
How we see Death and Life may be forever changed as an entire realm of possibilities of Angels, Deaths , Demons and Parasites are shown in an emotional rollarcoaster of fun, excitement and unrepentant reader participation. Add in the professional talents of Andrea and this can be nothing less than 5 stars all the way as she brings us ever closer to living this story.
This is Coopers finest work to date and i hope the beginning of my new listening obsession.
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