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God's Choice
- Sigma Worlds, Book 5
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
With the new knowledge that Jason has about The Being, he gets information that's life-changing...for him, and even for Earth.
As he had suspected, he also discovers that the Cosmos were more than what he had been told. Once he returns to Destiny, he finds out that his little place next to Silver Lake isn’t so little anymore, and he can thank his wives for that. In an amazing change that he seems to be the catalyst for, he never expected that things closer to home would change so much!
As he knew, taking the battle to the Gods, he would need allies. He journeys to meet the Demon Kings, the Father of the Dragons, and even the King and Queen of the Angels. He did not expect friendship and a choice he never wanted to make, but they forced it on him. And can he live with it? If not, Earth might suffer.
But on the way to these meetings, Jason finds more adventure, with new friends and old. He didn’t expect that the one choice he has to make as a god - a god’s choice - would be his biggest one yet.
Contains harem themes, adult language, and some monster girls.
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- Robert Knight
- 02-06-21
More a review of series than book.
Ok, I've read\listened to the series so far and have fallen in love with this series. It is a great storyline and developing characters. The story is told in a fashion that is easily enjoyed. With this storyline several words come to mind chuckleheads and meatheads. At times the characters are almost real as you see a character goes duh! and puts his in his hand when his wife reminds of something he said. This series is well worth reading \ listening to. 5*****
The narrators being the story to life with the different accents for each character. Great narrators!
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- David Raymond wood
- 21-07-23
thoroughly enjoyable
this is the third or fourth time I've listened to the series and still thoroughly enjoyable
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- Brad M.
- 06-07-22
Good but Annoying
Having read a fair number of LitRPG books now, many from this publisher, I have to wonder if they employ an editor or if they do, if that editor is not subversive to their employer. This series of books has been far the worst.
Consistency is almost non-existent, so prevalent that when you hear it you get a physical sigh of relief. In most such books the author always screws up the stats bit and that happens here too but my goodness, it is so much worse. At one point his age of 42 is stated to be 32, a 3600x time dilation turns into a 3500x dilation and a ship allegedly 4x larger than a ship 1500 feet wide by a mile long becomes exactly the same size, give or take what has been added to it since the person describing it as 4x larger last saw it. And so much more inconsistent silliness. A listener would need to be comatose not to notice the myriad instances of this.
Worst example of so, so many examples... In one of the earlier books the author goes through a scene where the protagonist hits 12 in demigod level and immediately his followers hit level 6, a whole scene of them passing out because gaining so many levels at once, 5 for his best buddy and 6 for everyone else, being a strain. The explanation being they level as he does and will always be 6 levels lower in godhood than he is. Shortly after this all changes, his best buddy forgetting to check if he can gate at L4 demigod because when he levelled to 5 (keeping in mind we were already told he and everyone else was L6) he forgot to check. He's even told off for not realising this by people we were told previously had surpassed the level to get that spell. Later still, the protagonist is shocked that his fellow demigod followers can portal, despite portal being the L1 power! It makes NO sense.
The story is great, very imaginative even if it is a bit 'Mary Sue' fanfic, but the inconsistency detracts from it worst of all. As for characterisations, they are well intentioned but they repeat. For example, how many times can the protagonist go through the exact same moral dilemma, resolve it and then go through it again?! At one point the protagonist ponders actions confirming his 'suspicion' that another two characters are lovers yet not a day prior they literally told him they were lovers, several times! Oh really, what made you 'suspect', them telling you outright? It's that ridiculous and something that might have been caught if only an editor was employed.
As for the protagonist, OK I like him, save the aforementioned and one other thing - he's stupid until he's not required to be stupid, and then whoever he is talking with is. The author clearly has a plan and, give or take not being dim, the reader can clearly see the plan coming yet the protagonist, with zero deference to the LitRPG stats included (why bother), behaves stupid AF.
And speaking of stats and INT, this guy has had 15% intelligence and 15% to healing yet at no point has he added that bonus to the intelligence stat and at no point has, say, a 500 point healing spell done more than 500, certainly not 575. The protagonist never uses any skills intelligently, like the author forgot what he'd written constantly. He can become intangible and invisible yet does he use both to sneak into the castle? You know, like he's got into other places? Hell no, he instead "feels like a level 1 rogue" while NOT using his abilities. And let's not mention how the god who's 85 levels higher than him not only doesn't become ruler of his pantheon in his place, because higher level gods can take over, be careful, when invited but apparently can't do even the same demigod spells he can do, let alone the fact she apparently has no god spells despite she has access to more power than she ever had at her level, through him giving it to her. Oh but wait, one of his wives, an ex-AI who has been all over the game world, he couldn't possible use HER gate spell because the author is either stupid or thinks his readers are. But that's OK, apparently even his unicorn who's been there before can't go straight there because it's got some Doriath-style girdle of Melian protection which "players" can just walk into since the Elven king hired them, despite concluding they were a-holes.
OK, so deep breath. In overall summary, I do not regret buying every book in this series but dear gods above, hire an editor for your authors Podium, or fire the editor you have because they are either incompetent or wilfully incompetent. You took a good idea from an author who likely wrote this over months/years so can hardly be expected to keep track, and ruined it by not giving them an editor who could sort all that out.
As for the narrator, first book I was a fan after he pronounced nothing stupidly but that didn't last /sigh. Now I've heard some abominations previously by other narrators, like the guy who pronounced the word "are" like it was Latin so said "ar-ay", why I have no idea, so thankfully this guy isn't that. However, he eventually got to the words "cosmos" and "mob". I despair. The first, did the guy never watch Carl Sagan so hear it pronounced cos-mos, you know, like everyone in the entire English-speaking world says, instead of cos-mo? Cosmo is a fairy in a cartoon so stop saying that. And no, I have not checked the original, what is it, Greek? but then I seriously doubt the narrator did either so hey, how about you pronounce it how everyone else does, here, now and today. If in doubt, go listen to the late, great Mr Sagan and if he got it wrong, be proud to follow in his esteemed footsteps instead of making it up thinking you sound 'educated' because guess what, you don't, you sound dumb AF instead.
Worse still, "mobe" instead of "mob"? Seriously, even if it was short for "MOBile" it would still be pronounced mob instead of mobe but it's not. It's short for "Mobile OBject" so an acronym pronounced MOB, or M.Ob. if you feel capable of pronouncing punctuation. Anyone pronouncing it like this narrator would be labelled the biggest of a-holes just for that, let alone playing like a 'player' how the author means it and yeah, I'm a soloer as well, when I played, so agree with the author on that one. Play with friends or don't play, pick-up ain't worth it.
Disparaging sure but about face - buy it if you can afford it. You'll laugh a bit, feel sad a bit maybe. If you like the genre you'll like these books. Just be warned, if you aren't comatose listening, if you pay attention, you will be annoyed. But if you do purchase, for the love of all that's holy, do not ever believe a game "mob" is pronounced mobe or that cosmos is pronounced cosmo. That's not even an American accent thing, it's a plain dumbass thing. Period. Seriously narrator, dude, you were doing so well until those two words and while that's less than most other narrators' dumbass pronunciations, some of whom I love, it's two of the worst I ever heard. What are you, Canadian? :P
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