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Rise of the Grandmaster

By: Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle
Narrated by: Sean William Doyle
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Summary

Some people just knew how to go out in style. Tim had never been one of those guys.

Tim was always a planner. The plan was to get into college, graduate, and find a well-paying job.

That plan was coming together nicely until he saw a presentation to get paid to play The Etheric Coast. At his graduation ceremony.

After watching the company's employee recruitment video, Big Richie's words had a whole new meaning. He could spend his life going from a cubicle at work to a one-bedroom apartment and back again...or he could take a leap of faith by entering a virtual world of unlimited possibilities. And get paid.

Now he just has to figure out how to get the job of his dreams, help his parents financially, and catch the attention of the girl of his dreams.

It was time for him to catch his wave. Tim sure hoped it didn't kill him first.

©2019 Bradford Bates and Michael Anderle (P)2020 Tantor

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Good but not Great

There were like to obvious mistakes made with the characters abilities (not using them at the crucial part but used them almost every other time or should have used. But I will give the second book a go due to the amazing performance.

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worth trying

good start, builds well then somewhere in there later half I just lost the motivation for this and felt like I was grinding it out. I won't be doing the rest in this series sadly. Worth trying as it's free, and may tickle your fancy though.

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Loved every minute of the book 5 🌟

Amazingly well written and loved every step of it and the audio is suberb. I could gone without that much swearing.... 5🌟

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Hope to listened more books of Tim

Simple and very fun story with mass of direction changes, greate created caracterss that you would like to know morę.

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what a ride

A very enjoyable and fun read/listen. Great characters with just the right amount of depth. Nice world building a decent amount of detailing giving just enough to keep you fully engaged.
The narration is flawless.

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Great storytelling and amazing world.

The character writing is sublime and just makes the world feel so real, couldn't stop listening and bought the next book on the series a quarter of the way in.

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must listen

was a very good listen and great story, I really enjoyed it and recommend it

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Just too much swearing

the underlying story was good but the f word was used so much and the story would have been non the worse for it

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just buy it

amazing read, fun and Gripping can't wait till the next one. if u like books that is a Page turner get this one

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Nice story but very repetitive dialogue

Initially I didn’t like the narrator - but gave it a go and actually got quite into the story for first few hours so am glad that did not stop me.
The story while quite slow is nice, there are a couple of mistakes but nothing major.
If the book had been 2/3 the length and the repetition and morality content was much more limited I would give 4-4.5*.
It’s getting really hard to listen to the last few chapters :-(

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