Judicator Jane
A LitRPG Adventure
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Judicator Jane
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Narrated by:
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Angela Clark
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By:
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Brian Rouleau
About this listen
Jane King’s life was a dumpster fire of bad luck.
Unpaid bills, dead-end jobs, and a constant raincloud over her head. So, when she wakes up in a vast, deadly desert with a mysterious glowing menu floating in front of her face, she makes a desperate gamble. She dumps every single one of her available stat points into the one thing she’s never had: Luck.
All 630 of them. In a system where 10 is the max, Jane just became a statistical anomaly. Now, the laws of probability have bent the knee to Jane.
- Hopelessly lost? She stumbles blindly into the fortress of the most powerful army in the world.
- Attacked by high-level monsters? Critical failures have never hit so hard.
- Rolling her class? "Legendary" was only supposed to happen once every thousand years.
But having god-tier luck has a downside.
When the realm's greatest evil is eliminated by a bizarre, one-in-a-trillion mishap, the terrifying Demon Horde assumes Jane is their new, all-powerful queen. Now she has to lead a legion of monsters, navigate a game-like System she barely understands, and hide the fact that she has absolutely no idea what she’s doing.
She just wants indoor plumbing. The demons want a conqueror. They’re about to get Judicator Jane.
Judicator Jane is a hilarious, isekai (portal fantasy) LitRPG adventure perfect for fans of overpowered protagonists, misunderstanding-based humor, and accidental world domination.
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If everything resolves itself by lucky chance, nothing really matters.
So in a way it makes sense how shallow the world feels.
Very skippable
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First issue I had was with the writing style. Descriptions are lacking, scene setting is non-existent, and the characters, including the main character, have no substance. Who is Jane? What is she like? What does she look like? All of these I cannot answer because it simply isn't there. Word choice was odd at times as well, like the author just used a thesaurus to give a bit more variety.
As I progressed through the 'story' I found that I was disappointed by how the luck stat strategy played out. I was expecting opportunities and circumstances to favour Jane, but instead the luck stat just ends up being Deus ex Machina. Very disappointing.
The book contains situations and circumstances which have very heavy ethical topics that aren't really addressed or explored. Discussing these without spoilers is going to be a challenge, but hopefully my statements are vague enough. This modern-world 'girl' is put into the role of judge-jury-and-executioner with no dialogue or discussion about any of the ethics of this. She is given control (literal control) over the lives of thousands and makes no attempt to consider how to improve their situation.
I have no issue with the use of fantasy stereotypes/tropes as long as they serve a purpose and are used well. This book had ALL of them and used them in such a bland and uninspiring way as to make me wish they weren't there at all. Add to this a complete lack of dialogue between characters across the whole book and the characters were even more dull and uninspiring.
Lastly, the voice acting leaves a lot to be desired. I suspect that the voice actor is either unfamiliar with the fantasy genre, or with fiction in general as their narration is very out of sync with the genre. There is emphasis on parts of sentences which make sitting down for a meal seem more epic than it actually is. The attempts at reading the descriptions of the system were quite jarring. Not having heard any other works by this narrator I would not want to tar all their work with the same brush, but in this instance their performance just added further disappointment to an already disappointing read.
My two friends and I did have high hopes for this book, and do have to give credit for some interesting ideas, but really hope that the author works on their language and storytelling skills. I don't know much about them but this feels like the audiobook equivalent of a child's finger painting when you are used to listening to the equivalent of works in a professional gallery.
I won't be listening to the rest of the series.
An interesting take on isekai but poorly executed
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