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Brightblade (2nd Edition)

UnderVerse, Book 1

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Brightblade (2nd Edition)

Written by: Jez Cajiao
Narrated by: Wayne Mitchell
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A realm aside from our own. The center of the realities. Home to every spectrum of magic.

From the beautiful to the terrible, it was all held in delicate balance by the Eternal Emperor and his immortal children. For 10,000 years, the empire was the bastion that protected the sentient races from the darkness, but the revolution, and the War of the Gods has changed all that . . .

Jax seems like a regular guy, except that he fights creatures from a strange place called the UnderVerse in his sleep, leaving him covered in horrific scars when he wakes up. The mysterious disappearance of his brother five years prior has forced Jax into a holding pattern, with a job he tolerates, a girl he kinda, sorta loves . . . until he's kidnapped and given a stark choice by his asshat of a father: Go to the UnderVerse in reality, travel to the capitol of that ruined realm at the center of reality, and open a portal for the Noble Houses to return home . . .

Or die, slowly.

That's the good news. The bad is that he has to survive the arena first, to prove his right to go. Twelve will enter, only one can leave . . .

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The story is good but the authors need to make the main a "good guy" along with the narrator ruined it for me

First and foremost, this is basically a dramatized version just without the tag. The narrator over acts to a ridiculous degree and it FEELS like he TALKS like this with EVERY fifth word EMPHASIZED. The fight scenes are even worse.

second, the authors need to make the main character balance the line between being a "good guy" with a hero complex and an bad ass who doesn't give a shit just is laughable at best. The whole first 2/3rds of the book the main charactor is a guy with lower morals but still a decent guy but just with some anger issues. That's great, that's a likeable character, but then to seemingly randomly throw in a "I want to protect and save as many people as possible" complex just feels cheap and makes the whole character unlikeable. This is the second series this author has done this for and seems to be a pattern.

all in all, the story seemed good and as long as you don't mind dramatized naration or tropeish characters then you may enjoy this book.

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