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Challenge

Unbound Deathlord, Book 1

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By: Edward Castle
Narrated by: Jeff Hays
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Summary

When virtual reality becomes real enough that people feel as if they're being transported to another world, Valia Online arrives.

A man running from his past joins the game to forget it all. Calling himself Jack Thorn, he chooses an undead race, Deathlord.

A mage by choice, and a swordsman by necessity, he soon finds out that he'll need to use much more than magic and steel to survive; strategy, creativity, and carefully chosen words can often accomplish what simple attacks can't.

As the game becomes too real and touches a part of him that he'd rather leave buried, he is faced with two questions: Who is he, really? And who should he become?

Challenge is book one of the Unbound Deathlord series, a LitRPG saga.

©2017 Edward Castle (P)2017 Podium Audio Cyberpunk Science Fiction Fiction Magic Game LitRPG
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Interesting, deep characters.
Engaging game mechanics.
Familiar, yet fresh takes on fantasy tropes.
Great story with twists and sub plots.
Fantastic narration, each character has their own voice.
Totally bad ass, what more could you want?
The only negative is that book 2 is not on Audible yet.

Absolutely brilliant

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A very well thought out game world, but unlikeable main and passable outside world sections.

Decent, with some issues

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Another excellent performance by Jeff, as always brings the story and characters to life.

Not a bad story but the MC would argue with himself. He's an annoying, spoiled little bollox. I don't understand why he wasn't toned down a little, I nearly gave up because of his constant batching, grow a set of balls.

I'll give the next book ago and hopefully he's grown up a bit.

Good story but MC a whiny little b

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I was going to refund this book. Then something made me laugh at the end of chapter 2 and I just couldn't stop listening to it. Jeff Hays needs some serious recognition for this. The MC is basically a Bruce Wayne like rich kid who grew up street fighting. I didn't like him and he was the reason my hand was over the refund button. But Jeff Hays made his voice a comedic rasp in the game and all of a sudden he was transformed from arrogant rich kid into a lovable rogue.

I'm not too sure on the story outside the game though. I think the author may have shot himself in the foot here and moved too quickly as do a lot of LitRPG authors however I am looking forward to the next book to see what happens next.

Jeff Hays made me finish this book

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bought this on a whim and really enjoyed it. I'd recommend it to anyone that like fantasy or litrpg games.

not what I was expecting.

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