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  • Jake's Magical Market

  • By: J.R. Mathews
  • Narrated by: Travis Baldree
  • Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (317 ratings)
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Summary

Meddling gods. A magical card system. An apocalypse no one could have predicted.

Jake is working at the neighborhood market under his apartment when the world ends. He expected nuclear war, a computer virus, or even climate change burning everyone to a crisp to bring about the downfall of civilization. But cruel and arbitrary gods from another world? Who would have guessed that?

When these cruel gods shuffled Earth like a deck of cards, nothing was in the same place anymore. Monsters, dungeons, and magical items appear scattered across the globe. And suddenly, everyone has access to a new, strange magical card system that gives them magical powers.

Jake, wasting his day slacking off in the cooler, as he usually did, found himself alone in a completely new and very dangerous world. Can he learn to survive? Can he collect enough cards and create a good enough deck to fight back against the monsters that have overtaken his former home? And why are these strange people that look a lot like elves knocking on the door of the market he is hiding in and asking to buy some of his goods?

The gods may have stacked the deck against him, but Jake just might have a few cards up his sleeve that will help him survive.

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Not one story

Fans of LitRPG take note: this is and isn't traditional LitRPG.

it starts with a light amount of crunch with the card system, which returns at intervals through the story. however it branches away from this in some very unexpected ways, almost bordering cultivation novels at times

word of advice is to go into this story with 0 expectations. this isn't just a shop owner sim, it's not just an action novel, and it's not just an apocalypse novel. it's all of those things at different times

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Greta book, easy listen

Really enjoyed this, easy listening, fast moving story, and lots of twists keeping you interested. Travis is always a fantastic narrator of course.

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Very Good

The narrator exaggerated voice is kinda cute. The story is very solid, it is moving and have substance. Progress are explained just enough without dominating the entire book. The MC, like most title on litrpg is not mature. There's no adult conversation in this book, and his approach on most thing are rather whimsical. But compared to the rest litrpg on this platform, i can safely say this is one of the best of its genre. Worth, every, penny.

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A new take on Litrpg

Honestly, I throughly enjoyed this book. Without any spoilers, the two halves of this book were incredibly different, but I enjoyed each half.

And the ending was a shock. I can’t really have no idea where the book will go from here!

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Excellent read

I really enjoyed the story and look forward to getting the next one.
The story itself is both different and similar to others I've read, as in many have the dumped in a strange world/world is changed around you and you have to survive. This has this and cards. I've never got in to card based games and I was worried that would ruin the book for me but no, I really enjoyed it.

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Excellent translation into an audible book

This is a little gem of a story which has translated into an excellent audible story.

I am not going to spoil this - just buy it and listen - you won’t regret it.

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Quite enjoyable

I picked this one a while ago. Took me a bit of time to get into it, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The worldbuilding is fascinating, and the main character can be a bit of an idiot, which was immensely enjoyable.

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Brillent

A wonderful quirky audio book with both the story and naration being of high quality.

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Love it, give us more!!

Absolutely loved this audiobook. I hope the series will be continued. The story is definitely setting more plots up and the universe is big. Love the concept of a deck of cards!

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Completely blew me away!

I wasn't sure what I was expecting when going into this story based on the title, but damn! I'm really glad I gave this the time it deserves. I strongly recommend!

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