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Respawn: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG

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Respawn: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG

By: Stuart Thaman
Narrated by: J. Scott Bennett
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Lord Kadorax Darkarrow was born on Earth, but in Agglor, he's the highest-level assassin anyone can find. The leader of the famed Blackened Blades, he's made a name for himself, built a kingdom of sorts, and only had to respawn once along the way.

Then a rogue band of jackals sends him all the way back to a dreary tavern in a tiny village to start over at level one.

Hellbent on revenge, Kadorax sets out on a path littered with bodies - level up, find the jackals, slay their god!

©2018 Stuart Thaman (P)2018 Stuart Thaman Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Sword & Sorcery

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I am absolutely hooked on the genre of people getting stuck inside games and similar ideas, and this one continued to satisfy my thirst for this type of story.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

Hooked on this genre

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What a fun LitRPG. The characters seem real, and there is more than enough action to keep your interest. Definitely recommended!

I received a free copy of this book and am writing an honest review of my own volition.

Great book

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I'm not sure why, but the title of this series and to a lesser extent that of the book don't seem to be an ideal fit for the book, with killstreak in particular seeming particularly out of place in a fantasy context to me, but luckily this does not detract from an interesting listen.

The respawn of the title happens as the high level avatar of the main character dies in the prologue and in this game (or world) this means that they will respawn as a new level one character without the gear and skills of their previous character, being able to choose the same class again or take the opportunity to play something different that time round and the main character goes for the second option, this time choosing a rare and potentially very powerful character, albeit one with some negatives that ensure this book doesn't fall into the trope of a main character accidentally breaking the game due to some fluke during character creation.

Since Kadorax still has his memories of his previous life, he is driven through much of this book by his aim to level up again and avenge his previous death, which serves as a suitable way to introduce the listener to the mechanics and the world of this book, with one negative being the way that it is glossed over how somebody from earth even found themselves to be there in the first place, is it a virtual world or something else?

The narrator's performance is a good one, dealing well with a varied cast and helping to nicely enhance the story in the process.

Overall, this is a more than decent start to this series and I will interested to see how well the author progresses with it in any subsequent books.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

Interesting mechanics and world-building

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The book starts interestingly as the main character and his helper get killed off by a massive new threat to the world, and we get slowly introduced to the world on the journey from level 1 back to get revenge.
The character tries to power through and though his new character class seems to be somewhat randomly chosen with no thought, it slowly starts to live up to the idea.

Narration is great, well paced and with enough differences in the character voices to differentiate between the "cast".

While there is some minor weak points in how the world is supposed to work, it flows well and has enough of a difference with other fantasy to keep it interesting.
Looking forward to part 2!

good start of a series!

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I don't know what say about this book, I am still a bit lost, the story is good, don't get me wrong, but unlike other LitRPG's there is no reason for the main character to be there, I'm not going to say, hero, because so far I haven't really seen anything heroic from him, in fact, he is a little dark, jaded and only out for what he can get out of others, which is fine, but I digress, when I say no reason to be there, what I mean is, nothing has been said by how he came to be in this new world, only that he has been there for about 30 years.
But that said, the story is good, it isn't the best, but so far so good, the narrating is very good, so overall, I'd say, if you like LitRPG then get this. If you are new to LitRPG, then I would try something else first, this isn't the book to get you hooked on the genre.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

Not Bad

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