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City of the Dead
- Alchemist Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Henry W. Kramer
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Publisher's Summary
There are whole anthologies of stories out there about what humankind does when a game enters their world. But what about when they're living in one where a game arrived thousands of years before? What if they're the survivors of a bloody struggle, having fought for and earned their place on the planet?
Tailyn Vlashich was a young nobody far away from all those grander issues. All he cared about was one thing: making his way through a harsh world where the emperor, evil foes, and an impartial god held sway. And the god, of course, demanded nothing less than that all things were done in accordance with its divine will.
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- Caleb
- 2024-02-19
Decent story. Interesting lore. But I feel uncomfortable
Decent story concept. Game literature with character leveling without actual main character leveling.
I like the world lore that is hinted at and the way the explanation gets slowly trickled in. Hope it continues with future books.
But. These are KIDS. The young age is mandatory for much of the character interactions. But am I really supposed to relate with these pre-puberty children’s semi lewd feelings? I just feel wrong now. Hope it doesn’t continue in the next book. Or that we time jump a few years at least. Or that we step back to a more innocent relationship
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 2024-05-24
Great story with lovable heros
This is a Great start a new story and to /new characters! Just a little short!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Langer MD
- 2024-06-01
Somewhat Sophomoric.. But Entertaining
GameLit genre pioneer Vasily Maharenko offers the First Book in his 'Alchemist' Series.. a tale about 10-year-old Tailyn Vlashich - learning to make his way in a harsh Fantasy World. The characters are realistic, the worldbuilding is impressive, and the Magic System - using Charge-holding Cards & Decks in the place of Spellbooks and Memorized Incantations - is original.
My main complaint with the book is the immaturity of the story (the naivety of Tailyn eventually gets pretty annoying). This book is clearly aimed at 12-year-old kids.. which is fine, I guess, but I'm not in that demographic. I found it to be frustratingly unsophisticated.
As to presentation: I assume that translator Jared Firth captures the tone that the Russian author intended.. because Henry W. Kramer does an impressive job delivering it to listeners. Mr. Kramer's voice-acting is occasionally cartoonish.. but his diction, timbre, cadence, and pacing are decisively above average. The lighthearted narration approach to a kid-friendly story that doesn't take itself too seriously is *pitch-perfect*. I would listen to more from Kramer any day (in fact, I recently downloaded a book just because he is on the project).
It is unfortunate that LitRPG entries don't format well on the audiobook platform - repeated metagame Character Sheet updates are often intrusive & interruptive - because the story in this book is an exemplary combination of Game Mechanics, Adventure, and Coming-Of-Age sentiments. 'City Of The Dead' rates 7 stars out of 10. It's not the best of these books that I have read, but it's definitely serviceable - particularly if you're listening with future Fantasy fans on a long car ride or something. Save your Credit for something else if they ask for one.. but this audiobook is a reasonable distraction if you find it available on the 'Plus' menu.
[Incidentally: I didn't find the sexual tension between pre-teen characters disturbing. Yes, it's sometimes a little bit uncomfortable.. but never gets explicit]
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- Neil Douglas Schaler
- 2021-12-15
fifty/fifty
the narrator did a reasonable and the story overall was pretty good but the romance was to sudden and seemed forced.
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