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  • The Selfless Hero Trilogy
  • By: William D. Arand
  • Narrated by: Jeff Hays
  • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (150 ratings)
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Otherlife Nightmares

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Summary

Runner and company have safely left the city ahead of the siege. Completing their class promotions with barely any time to spare.

Unfortunately Runner hasn't discovered the password he needs to begin the logoff process to save the 400,000 or so crewmates left alive in this game where dying truly means death.

The game continues to shift and change with each day and as a byproduct of Runner's actions.

Not only do the rules change, but those he's with have changed. No longer simple programs, they have reached actual sentience.

Pressing himself ever onwards to learn more about the world he finds himself surprised at every turn.

On top of navigating the ever changing game, the outside world has contacted him directly. Now he has to begin to navigate the situation as a gamer, IT support, and an officer.

Of course this would all be a lot easier if he hadn't gotten captured within a few hours of leaving Crivel.

Fate seems to be stacking the deck against him as quickly as she can this time around.

©2016 William D. Arand (P)2016 William D. Arand

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Book 2 of The Selfless Hero Trilogy

Book 1: Otherlife Dreams
Book 2: Otherlife Nightmares
Book 3: Otherlife Awakenings
Really enjoyed this book. It was really easy to get into the story and the narration from Jeff Hays was top notch as always.

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amazing

i very much enjoyed these books i just cant seem to put them down and always start the trilogy again when a new one is out or i start the entire series again the re read factor is amazing and you enjoy them as much the tenth time to the first great books and character great writing to tie them all in together just amazing

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The return of the reluctant hero.

Moving on from not wanting to die and wondering how he came to be in this other world game reality, to discovering he may actually be the cause of his possibly unchangeable situation, Runner sets about trying to fix it in his own inimitable way.
Excellent plot and themes, beautiful writing and story telling will keep you enthralled.
Jeff Hays narrates excellently throughout, though there are a few Easter eggs in there from ELLC that are either there because the author planned Hays as a narrator for this series, or were just a lucky happenstance that are amusing nonetheless.

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what an ending

another excellent book from a great author. I look forward to seeing what happens next in the series.

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One of my favourite series

My review of the first book in this series lost a star on the performance due to the narration not always getting things like tone of voice right. Either that happened less in this book, or listening to them back to back I've stopped noticing. The bottom line though is that Jeff Hays has done an excellent job of bringing this book to life.
And the book itself is well worth bringing to life.

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"Black and white morality has no place here"

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Despite not being a gamer, I very much enjoyed this book's predecessor, Otherlife Dreams, so was delighted to be gifted a copy of Otherlife Nightmares by the right's holder, via Audiobook Boom. But this time, without the underlying mystery of what had pulled the entire ship's crew into a game which killed for real, I found this story less enthralling. I prefered the emergent characters as they struggled to make sense of their existence (and my own endeavours to understand the gaming world) more appealing than the ongoing story filled with fights and daring do. Jeff Hays'narration is still superb, breathing life into the protagonists and excitement into the text. But although I wanted to know if Runner can finally resolve the ongoing problem of how to end the game but survive and save the crew (and his companions), I found this book slow going.
I am sure that any gamer or lover of fantasy set in a pseudo mediaeval time would very much enjoy this book; but in spite of a great background storyline and excellent narration, this one was not for me.

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