storey for the ages

love these books. written in a way to inform you as you go and sooooo moreish. narrated brilliantly as previous books in this series. if you like fantasy at all you'll love this series of books

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Mostly filled with waffle

There’s actually very little story progression, and mostly going through stat prompts with little actual plot. Not to mention the whole chapter about the character’s upset bowl movements.

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Amazing

This series of books has EVERYTHING. Humour, danger, magic, monsters and twists. I just hope the next one is out soon! I don't think I've laughed so hard when listening to, or reading a book. I really do love it.

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10/10

i have binged listen/read this entire series and I absolutely love it, perfect find!

as for all the negative reviews and comments about this book I still really enjoyed it and the poop scene just had me in stitches! love the series the author has done amazing and I love the voice actor and performance, I can't wait to see what happens next loving the character development too.

peace, love & the perfect margarita to you all.

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Fantastic!!!!! great book great narrator

Nick is probably the best narrator ive heard and combined with the land series being my favorite series on audible this makes for somthing truley special.

on this book more specifically (without spoilers) its a new setting for richter on and its really cool seeing him cope. there are alot of notifications but after the last books ending they are needed and oh so good ! the develoments in this book are awsome plenty to enjoy one flaw if i had to pick one would simply be it leaves you wanting more and we can only wait !

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Too much

I like Aleron Kong's writing style, grown up, funny and full of pop culture references. Thankfully Nick Podehl is one of the best narrators out there, as for me this was too little story and too much rpg. nothing really happens, it felt to me like the first two thirds of the book were spent looking at the character sheet and checking the rule book, rather than playing the game. great series so far but this one was a let down. hoping it picks up for the next book.

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Disappointed.

A definite drop in quality this book. Seems to be a bit of filler book, lots of stat ready and little story progression.

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Great narration can’t forgive numerous flaws

I’ve been following the series since the start and whilst the writing has never been stellar it’s been good enough and kept my interest so I’ve been able to stick with it.

The high quality of the narration forgives a lot but In this latest book the author seems to have switched his target audience from young adult to prepubescent male teens, such are the numerous classless and puerile remarks.

Additionally, the book is about 70% prompts and notifications and the protagonist doesn’t make it out of the starting location so there’s no conclusion (or intro for that matter).

So even though this had decent fight scenes and carries some promise for the future books I struggled though this one.

It was more novella than novel due to its failure to move the story forward and its repetitive reliance on quoting stats and prompts.
Even if this isn’t reined in going forwards it really needs to focus on a broader audience. (As in not exclusively 10-14 year olds whom some of the puerile commentary might have impressed).

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Explosive poop

Lots of giggles and a wicked sense of humour. Great character development. He dies in the end

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Good start to a book needing another 15 hours

Like a lot of other people I couldn’t wait to find out the fate of richter after his battle against the Lytch! Well when the last book was over 40 hours and this was only 16 or so you know deep down It won’t be as in depth.

It was a good book, follows on nicely and gets some interesting plot lines going for the main character but the story doesn’t advance much and it’s 99.9% based on dialogue from the main char only and his ego can sometimes be annoying and there is quite a bit of narrative repetition.

Needless to say I can’t wait for the next book to follow on and this won’t put me off Aleron in the slightest. You do get a prologue to a new series he’s writing at the end which I hope means we won’t have to wait years till his next book for the land.

Nick Pohdel smashes it again, his ability to maintain character and convey feeling and emotion is astounding.

Thanks Aleron

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