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The Slayer
- A LitRPG Saga (Aether Gate Online, Book 1)
- Narrated by: J. Scott Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
"Raise your blade. Take up the mantle of Slayer."
Adam’s life was anything but easy. With people at both school and home eager to make his life a living hell, the only place he felt like himself was in the virtual world. At least there he had some control.
When the newest VRMMORPG title gets announced, Adam and his best friend, Max, are more than ready to dive in. Launch day arrives quickly, and Adam is plunged into a world that’s more immersive than anything he’s experienced before. Although the game offers a bevy of character choices, Adam quickly chooses the title of Slayer, a class that specializes in taking down stronger, more difficult opponents.
Adam begins his adventure, but it's not long before he realizes there’s much more at stake when taking a life in this new game. The pain is very real, and death...is permanent. Now, trapped in a virtual world, Adam must take the mantle of Zander Darkblade and brave the dangers of the Aether Gate.
It is a world of mighty creatures and fallen gods. A world where powerful familiars bond with their masters, granting them extraordinary powers they wield with uncanny force...and as Adam and the others will soon discover, it is a world of secrets that have lain hidden for far too long....
Welcome to Aether Gate Online.
Disclaimer: This novel is a LitRPG/gamelit title. Its contents include various role-playing game stats and video game references.
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- Ian Rider
- 14-10-19
A solid LITRPG
I was given a free code for this book, where by I promised to leave an honest and voluntary review on audible once I'm done.
This first instalment of Aether Gate online is great, it's got all you could ask for in a litrpg serise, the characters are very likeable and easy to follow. The journey takes you in and keeps you entertained.
The narration is pretty good, and he brings life to each character.
This deffinatly has the makings of a great LITRPG serise.
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- kharnynb
- 11-10-20
Not for me, too inconsistent
Disclaimer, free review copy and couldn't finish it past first chapters.
more or less standard"new game with some weird bug/event" litrpg, except there just is too many mistakes and thing unexplained to get really stuck in.
The game is vr, not portal, but you can't log out, so how does the character's body exist after about 3 days without food/drink in the real world? how is our MC able to fight npc's 5-10 levels higher without instantly dying and get constantly rescued even though he's supposed to be a "good gamer"... it just doesn't work, would have worked much better as a portal game with the first chapters actually spread out a lot more and more reasonable.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Lee
- 02-10-18
A Very Good Read
This is a typical LitRPG, it isn't anything groundbreaking but it is a good solid read with very good narration that when it ends, leaves you with a bit of a cliffhanger which is just enough for you to be wanting more.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
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- Queen of Swords
- 29-04-20
Badly Needs a New Narrator
The MC is supposed to be a young adult... high school age, maybe early 20s.... So why does it sound like a grandpa is speaking to me? Terrible casting. This is especially true for a first person point of view novel.
The story is sort of okay at times, but I can't give higher than 3 stars for something that rips off Dungeons and Dragons. They didn't even change the monster names (Dryders, Mindflayers, etc.), and base stats, It's not like these are different creatures with coincidentally the same names, these are a direct copies of their D&D counterparts with the same powers, appearances, and abilities. It's okay to use stuff like this when a book is a parody, but that's not what this is. It seems more like someone was flipping through literal Dungeons and Dragons books to find antagonists and stealing their intellectual property.
There are also issues with the structure and organization. For example near the beginning of the book, "Familiars are so rare, no one knows how to get them, they can't even be accessed via skills, oh hey look there's one on the side of the road. Guess what it's even one of the most powerful creatures in fantasy literature (a dragon), and we don't even have to work for it. MOAR POWAH!"
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