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True Smithing

True Smithing, Book 1

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True Smithing

By: Jared Mandani
Narrated by: Henry W Kramer
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About this listen

Angus Bjornson only ever wanted to do one thing: to continue crafting exquisite weapons and pieces of armor for his loyal customers. Unfortunately, after one accident too many that leaves the old blacksmith completely disabled, it would seem he has no other choice but to hang up his hammer.

However, that would be underestimating the stubbornness of the self-made man. Fearing he's not going to stop until he ends up dead in his forge, Angus' children offer him a virtual rig that connects to Imperium Games' many universes.

After choosing a fantasy-based world called Alterwelt, Angus - now known as Hephaestus - quickly learns that he can make use of his lifetime of experience by disabling the auto function and playing on manual. His skills allow him to create unique items that beat everything sold on the market. But Hephaestus has a long way to go before he can afford his own in-game forge. Moreover, he only ever learned to work with steel while here he has access to metals as strange and exotic as azuraneum, veridium, orichalcum....

©2020 Jared Mandani (P)2020 Tantor Cyberpunk Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Game

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a wonderful tale of an old man following his passions.
fully enjoyed it all the way to the end.

simply delightful

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as the title says i think overall its a good book, how ever there were times where the story.. or rather the characters were a bit lacking... example, bad guy goes out and admits he did a really bad thing that would ruin him Infront of everyone, and that character doesn't even realize it and the main character doesn't realize that he now have a trump card.. when it is very obvious.
i don't mind the narrator at all but it does kinda sounds like he reads movie scrips and reddit posts on YouTube, he has that kind of talking style.
i would how ever recommend giving it a listen that it is an overall good book

overall good book

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A well written and executed book with a MC who is old and size in years. Very refreshing.

Loved it

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A nice underdog story focusing on the crafting aspect of a fantasy realm as opposed to your typical swords and sorcery.
I really enjoyed this and I would have gave it 5 stars, except for the performance. While the performance wasn't bad, the narrator did remind me of an AI text to speech voice, granted I listen to books slightly sped up which may have contributed to this.

All in all I would recommend this book to litrpg fans :)

A nice underdog story

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A very good read with interesting ideas and plot. Well voiced drawing you into the reality of the plot.
Ps. enjoyed so much that I listened to it again.

True Smithing. of words and ideas as well as iron.

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