Demon Card Enforcer
A Deck-Building LitRPG (The Cerberus Cards, Book 1)
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Demon Card Enforcer
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Narrated by:
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Justin Thomas James
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Jeff Hays
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Tiana Camacho
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By:
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John Stovall
About this listen
It’s Drop Night, the one night every decade when the gods hand out cards to a lucky few. If you get a deck, you’re a deckbearer capable of wondrous feats within the Great Game system. You can control powerful monsters and summon mantles that let you fight alongside your beasts.
Ethan Wolfe, top enforcer for the Grimm family mob, has already been overlooked on two previous Drop Nights. People of his ilk seldom receive cards, as the gods tend to favor people who follow their divine mandates, but that doesn’t mean Wolfe can’t hope.
Unfortunately, when Wolfe does get his deck, he doesn’t have time to celebrate. The rival street gang has six deckbearers and they’re cutting in on the Grimm family’s trade. Someone has to do the dirty work, and it isn’t going to be the spoiled children of Big Man Grimm.
And things might get worse for Wolfe when everyone figures out he received an ultra-rare card in his deck…
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On a whole I enjoyed the mechanics and deck building aspects of the book. It had enough depth and fit in well with the world. With the deck build parts I did start to question it sometimes which took me out of immersion of the story. The real-time action against what seemed like it could have done with some turn based actions. If you get a card which is a summon, arguments yourself or a instant spell it is great as you could use the card straight away but cycling through you deck for more cards while someone is punching you or shooting at you seems a bit weird and counter intuitive.
This is a fairly mature theme due to the mafia/ crime setting and violence involved.
I did find the story lacked a little bit in depth but being a first book in a series I was okay with with this. There was more of a focus on action being fast pace and the MC was forced to be more reactive to the situations and he was also ordered to do a lot of the things which didn't give him much agency to be proactive.
A negative for me but maybe a positive for someone else is this from Soundbooth Theater Production and it did have various sound affects. It had a reverb sound when talking about system notices, reading card description, etc and a bit of inner thought dialog echo. It wasn't over the top as there wasn't car noises, background music, step sounds, etc so it wasn't too bad. So depending on your preference you might like this or not.
This was enjoyable enough that I will be keeping an eye out for the sequel.
[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]
Cocktail of LitRPG, crime and deck building
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Not as expected
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The audio engineering was just incredible.
The MC 🐺 Wolfe is an incredible fellow - he just doesn't quit. He is a good guy but ends up doing all of the bad things. As the top enforcer for the Grim family, he is gifted with a deck of 🃏 magical cards that he uses to battle many other deck-bearers - and 🩸killing ensues.
This is hands down the best deck-litRPG I've ever read: it was incredibly imaginative and it was funny but in the most unfunny way as Wolfe continues to make bad pun after bad pun to the point where even his special 🃏 companion card Cerabu judges him for his lame as fuck puns.
I appreciate @JohnStovallAuth's writing - he is not afraid to use the English language to its full extent: expletives are placed exactly where they are supposed to be, especially in the instance where one of the Cobra gang members got caught raping a woman after Wolfe intervenes.
Our 🐺MC ensures the rapist handcuffs himself and is walked out the building. Just before he leaves, he turns back to his victim with contempt: 'I'll be back for you, cunt'.
For folks who listened to the series All the Skills and Jake's Magical Market, this series is for you.
📚5/5🌟#BookReview
Need an enforcer? I Noah guy
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Best deckbuilder litRPG I've ever experianced
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But then the MC is given more and more info, and is still surprised. If different people was given the each piece of thej puzzle that would be fine. But this is just lazy writing as it relates to the "mystery"
MC is not able to put two and two together.
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