Challenge

Unbound Deathlord, Book 1

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By: Edward Castle

Narrated by: Jeff Hays

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When virtual reality becomes real enough that people feel as if they're being transported to another world, Valia Online arrives.

A man running from his past joins the game to forget it all. Calling himself Jack Thorn, he chooses an undead race, Deathlord.

A mage by choice, and a swordsman by necessity, he soon finds out that he'll need to use much more than magic and steel to survive; strategy, creativity, and carefully chosen words can often accomplish what simple attacks can't.

As the game becomes too real and touches a part of him that he'd rather leave buried, he is faced with two questions: Who is he, really? And who should he become?

Challenge is book one of the Unbound Deathlord series, a LitRPG saga.

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I was going to refund this book. Then something made me laugh at the end of chapter 2 and I just couldn't stop listening to it. Jeff Hays needs some serious recognition for this. The MC is basically a Bruce Wayne like rich kid who grew up street fighting. I didn't like him and he was the reason my hand was over the refund button. But Jeff Hays made his voice a comedic rasp in the game and all of a sudden he was transformed from arrogant rich kid into a lovable rogue.

I'm not too sure on the story outside the game though. I think the author may have shot himself in the foot here and moved too quickly as do a lot of LitRPG authors however I am looking forward to the next book to see what happens next.