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The Kartoss Gambit

Way of the Shaman, Book 2

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The Kartoss Gambit

By: Vasily Mahanenko
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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A product of the latest technologies, Barliona is a virtual world brimming with fun and entertainment. The government has become the guarantor for the in-game currency, allowing its free circulation. As a result the population floods Barliona in pursuit of easy money.

It doesn't take long for the game developers to discover a source of free labor: real-world prison convicts. While their bodies are locked in special auto-maintenance virtual capsules, the prisoners' minds are released into Barliona's virtual mines.

Dmitry Mahan has been through it all. Sentenced to eight years' hard labor, he now struggles with an unpopular class - the Shaman - and an equally unpopular profession of a Jeweler. His fight for survival becomes anything but virtual.

©2015 V. Mahanenko. English translation copyright 2015 by Natalia Nikitin (P)2016 Tantor Adventure Cyberpunk Fiction Science Fiction LitRPG Game Feel-Good Fantasy Russia Computer Science

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Good continuation of the series.If you like Ready Player One, then read this as it is better. Top notch narrator as well.

Better than Ready Player One

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so now that's 2 of the series down, and nearly 30hours of my life too all the while I've enjoyed listening to this story. still brilliant characters development still great in the RPG style and can't wait to see what happens next.

I want to be a shaman

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A perfect follow on from the last book, the way the characters are starting to really take on their personalities and become their own entity's is fantastic. Thank god there are so many books in this series.

Great continuation

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I don't remember when was the last time I got so stuck to an audiobook. it wine be long till I finish the whole series, and what then?

addictive

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thoroughly enjoyed this and rhe previous book, while i have listened to books where the narration was better (jim butchers dresden files read by james marsters) this series is coming in a firm second. looking forward to the next book.

great listen!

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