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Unsouled
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
Sacred artists follow a thousand Paths to power, using their souls to control the forces of the natural world.
Lindon is Unsouled, forbidden to learn the sacred arts of his clan.
When faced with a looming fate he cannot ignore, he must rise beyond anything he's ever known...and forge his own Path.
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- Just a reader
- 24-04-21
Too much worldbuilding/magic system
This is a good book. It is written by a new (back then) writer who is obviously talented and has taken great care trying to write a believable, relatable story about a magical fantasy world. The characters are people you start to feel for, and there is enough intrigue to keep it exciting. I believe this series is now at number 9, so I imagine some of this stuff will be resolved as well.
And yet, this will be a one time purchase for me. The reason for that is entirely due to my personal taste; it may be that what stops me is what actually interests you. So, I will try to explain it without spoilers. The best way to describe it is just that this book made me TIRED. Especially in the first few hours. It seems like every other sentence is used to describe the magical system and adding new rules to it, or introducing ways to circumvent them. It is very much like a complicated rgp that gives you a giant infodump right at the start, and then keeps building on that. This trend of fantasy books containing 'hard magic' is relatively new. If you don't know what this term means; 'hard magic' treats magic as chemistry/science/physics, with strong laws that govern it. 'Soft magic' in this context is magic that just IS, like Gandalf raising his staff and the world is saved. With hard magic systems people often have to do something other then training or having an innate ability, like eat a magic fruit, or do a complicated calculation or something like that. It basically recreates videogame dynamics. Someone who is really good at this type of fantasy writing is Brandon Sanderson. But, as a person who reads a lot of fantasy, it just gets exhausting to keep trying to remember the rules for series after series, since every writer tries to make their own 'world'. Making up a new magic system is seen as a show of skill, so they all try to outdo each other. With this book, I found it to be just overcomplicated. Practically every action is not used as something to drive the plot forward, but as an opportunity to explain some more. It reminded me of sitting in a lecture hall in college, taking notes so I wouldn't forget the formulas for when the exam (in this case: the rest of the book) came around. Since I read for relaxation in my free time, I just don't want to do that. And because there was not enough plot to interest me in the character's future, I also don't feel invested enough to learn about the way this particular universe works.
If you actually enjoy the above, then I think this book would be a good choice. It is not a bad book and the writer is talented, so it is worth taking a chance, especially if it is on sale. The narrator is not the BEST I've heard, but he certainly suits the material and is absolutely up to standard. I hope that whoever reads this is more informed now. :)
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- Edward Wright
- 29-06-20
Too short
Not a bad book, but too short. I'm struggling to justify the purchase of the second installment for such little content.
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- Ryan
- 13-10-20
Setting the scene for a GREAT cultivation series
The characters are well written, with varied and deep personalities and while the story doesn’t make huge strides, you get to witness the start of something wonderful!
I’ve seen a review that complains that this book has too much world building and explanation of the magic system and I can’t really deny that.
What I can say, is that this series picks up rapidly, becoming one of my all-time favourites.
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- MK
- 06-07-20
Meaningless
This author is always talking about progression and after listening to the 3rd book in this series I can say with absolute certainty that its meaningless.
The main character runs into some people 30 times stronger than him no problem the plot requires him to defeat this person so he does. In a fight that is a bit like dragon ball without the satisfying ending just the endless power ups which are secondary to the plot.
Imagine if you had a story of a slave on a plantation but every 5 seconds it sidetracks to oh he's cycling his madra call the fucking cops. Anyway now I think about it he only actual harvest aura 1 in all three books so that brings up the question if he never cultivates how does he advance down the path of cultivation? Well not really sure but the plot requires it so he randomly leap frogs forward. Never to a level that would actually allow him to defeat the opponents he regularly defeats but whatever.
The characters are literally personality vacuums the main character is sad... the friend the is boring yervin, Yarvan ,yahoo something like that... is angry. The elders everywhere are arrogant prices because reasons...
They have no progression at all in any thing he does the cultivation is meaningless a charecter arc is something the author has likely never heard of. Everything is poorly explain or not at all. He's writing a book like fan fiction for a really well established world except there is no established so everything is confusing and sucks.
This is the second worst cultivation novel I've ever read thats only because the worst one lied about having cultivation while in this book its meaningless.
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- -an-
- 13-11-18
Fun
Excellent read this not sure I enjoyed the narrator. Read the rest instead but it's an excellent funny story
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- Nicholaspoiuy
- 09-04-21
Epic English author version of coiling dragon
If you like Coiling Dragon and I Shall seal the heavens then you will love this series.
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- Richard
- 28-03-21
addicted
Never have i had a book series be so good and engaging that it physically hurts me when I finish the latest book. I am addicted so please never end it, i need my fix.
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- hudefa
- 09-07-19
I love it
Truely a good book and Series overall, certainly worth the listen. Would recommend to people who like cultivation books.
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- Ali Saleh
- 26-05-19
Awesome, highly bingeable
Awesome, most binge worthy audiobook i listened to in a long while. i don't know how i never heard of it before
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- SimonV
- 22-02-19
Superb job
Good story. Im enjoyed. But performance isn't good enough. The narrator has monotone voice, it's upset (
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