Luke did a great job with the ladies in the group and also with the demons and other worldly creatures. And also with Luke narrating, they were a breeze to listen to, each with their own personalities which really shined through.

I thought all the characters had decent dialogue. As for a fav one, I’d have to say Natasha has a spot, but defo Amaranth has the biggest. However, each of the characters that Marcus/Lyrian enter the game with are well defined enough once he meets back up with them in the game.Īs for them being supporting characters, they’re pretty great all by themselves. I would have wanted some more interaction with it through Marcus, even if it meant he had to log off once. There wasn’t quite enough of the ‘real’ world for me. The story telling around these alone helps make this a book to remember.

It doesn’t slow the pacing at all, and Luke does a great job with reading them so they’re also not just hard core skill lists. It’s got enough crafting, fighting and loot to make all the gamers want more, and the stats read out aren’t as heavy as some other litrpg books. Once the story really does start to move forwards, you get the experience of Luke’s gaming and background as the world of Ascend Online develops, bits of history and information are peppered in just the right places so not to feel like too much of an info dump and you are as excited as the players for the challenges they’re about to face. I enjoyed all that each character brought to the story, and more from the NPC’s. The interaction with his friends at the start and then into the game is. Where the world that Marcus actually lives in, isn’t very well defined or spoken about much.

But it was well worth it.įor me, the start of anything takes a while, and I do admit this was a little slower for me than usual, but it’s more than worth it. It’s a long listen, so it did take me a while. So, when the audio was put up for pre-order with Luke Daniels as the narrator I nabbed it quick. I picked this up as Luke’s highly recommended in the litrpg Facebook groups.

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