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I'm Not the Hero: An Isekai LitRPG

I'm Not the Hero, Book 1

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I'm Not the Hero: An Isekai LitRPG

By: Tommy Kerper, SourpatchHero
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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About this listen

In addition to strength, steel, and courage, a hero discovers he's in need of a friend, in the first installment of a daring and dangerous fantasy adventure.

When it comes to action and adventure, every hero needs a good sidekick. Holmes has Watson, Batman has Robin, and Daniel has...Orrin. More like brothers than friends, they always have each other's backs. And as Daniel is the big, strong, handsome type, Orrin is more than happy to remain in his shadow at school, at parties, pretty much everywhere.

Then things take a turn for the truly weird when a terrible accident catapults the pair into a world totally unlike their own, in which the rules of a role-playing game hold sway. Naturally, Daniel is classified as a "hero," while Orrin is—also naturally—relegated to the fantasy equivalent of "bleh." Nothing new there.

But in this realm populated with lethal foes both inhuman and inescapable, sticking together matters more than ever, and soon Daniel and Orrin will discover more about themselves—and each other—than either one thought possible. In fact, Orrin just might find the confidence and strength to become something other than your average sidekick....

The first volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series—with more than 600,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

©2023 Tommy Kerper (P)2023 Podium Audio
Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Humorous Adventure Comedy Superhero LitRPG

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Overall the story is good. The audiobook version does a weird call out of abilities, skills and classes every time the word appears, even if it’s in the middle of a frase a character is saying, it switches from the character voice to the system voice. I find it hard to describe how annoying that is.

Entertaining story but a bad audiobook narration

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loved that the characters that were portrayed as intelligent were infact actually intelligent amd capable, hate it when a book says a character is smart then they proceed to to the most stupid things

Smart characters

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I almost stopped listening at one point, but the story starts to getting better after the half way mark.

Has upps and downs

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I really don't understand why the narrator emphasises the character skills really loud almost like the skills have been dumbed in its beyond irritating

Solid story

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Where to start...
first the bad:
alot of pointless stats. with eeeeverithing! even the manacost of spells and the xp of the spell and how much a upgrade costs. worth it's not only from the MC's but from random passersby too.
Then there is the really bad idea of using a different voice for classes and skills... kills the flow of the story every time.
Next is probably a personal thing but I hate the hypocritical moral highroad MC's. The whole moaning about how wrong it is to kill someone but doing it anyway.
And well the comments about the MC's being smart are not completely wrong but that's the rollercoaster. they do smart things then plot twist and they do stupid things and on it goes... super annoying

The good:
I liked the possibility of the not hero until the plot twist. afterward it was less op but still fun.
And that the not hero is not a complete pushover.

and then I had to stop because the plot twists got to annoying.


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