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Branded

By: Simon Archer
Narrated by: J.F. Harding, Andrea Parsneau
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Summary

Defeat slavers. Take their monster girls. Conquer the world.

When William stumbles through a portal in the middle of Antarctica, he'll suddenly find himself in a world unlike any he's ever known. Now, he's surrounded by monster girls, vicious warlords, and everything in between.

Worse, his only weapon is a magical branding iron, which seems to have one skill and one skill only, to overwrite slave brands. Thing is, monster girls seem pretty grateful about being freed from the tyranny of their masters, and with each one he brands, the stronger he becomes.

And that's a good thing because in a world under siege, William and his magical branding iron might be the only thing that stands between them and complete annihilation.

Warning: Contains a harem and adult situations. You have been warned.

©2019 Simon Archer (P)2020 Podium Publishing

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Great book

great story great characters great narrators thoroughly enjoying it so far wait to start the second book right away

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great worldbuilding, more andrea needed!

a fun story with an interesting premise. - brands that enslave and free.

more andrea would be great as both do a wonderful job. the only change would be perhaps for (rather than here only narrating the chapters from the girls pov) she could voice all the women. much like how Without Law does it.

beyond that - wondefully performed and i look forward to continuing with the tale.

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Great performances, otherwise… meh

It’s a decent concept, it just feels rushed. Huge social and interpersonal issues just get resolved instantly like it’s a Saturday morning cartoon or something.

Sadly, it boils down to this, the main character is a Mary Sue with a harem.

To Simon Archer: You’ve got some interesting world-building in there, I’d be interested to see more of your work once you’ve got some more experience under your belt.

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Good story, well read, but room for improvement

Narrating with male/female Should follows the male/female speach. not chapter with female doing male voice

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An Adventure Story

A fun adventure story where a hero finds himself exploring a new world, gathering friends and vanquishing enemies.

It is an easy listen with many cheesy elements and litrpg style events and encounters. I think these elements makes it a good listen.

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Very enjoyable

I enjoyed the narration. The characters were very easy to distinguish.
Good fun to listen too, I am already reading the 3rd book seeing as the audio books are not yet available.

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Reaction formation

Why do people write about harems all the time? Reaction formation in it's purest form.

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ok, but not my cup of tea

litrpg with harem elements. ok, but too little level/adventure focus for my taste. .

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Endearing characters, all but for the protagonist

I gotta say, I was pleasantly surprised by this one, it has been one of the better stories I’ve listened to as part of the free catalogue.
If you want a classic good guy fights baddies and rescues the Princess(es), along with some fairly interesting world building and ideas that are the right amount of classic fantasy cheese and interesting new ideas, this is a great choice.
My only real complaint is the main character. I'm not sure I've seen a better example of a Gary Stu than this guy, I can deal with him having all of this survivalist training thanks to his pops, but he was just way too much of a perfect being for me, and whenever we enter another pov, it's solely for other characters praising the main character in a way that would have been egotistical for him to think of himself.

Besides that if you think this sounds like its worth your time, I wholeheartedly think you should take that dive.

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mixed bag

The world building and story telling are pretty good. The characters are a bit 2 dimensional. The saving grace is the narration which is very good. Not a huge fan of Andrea after struggling through 30+ hours of the Wandering Inn, but this was better. The premise does require a very healthy suspension of disbelief.

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