Soulcatcher
Universe ICS Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Thomas May
About this listen
What happens when you suddenly find yourself in a reality of untold possibilities, in a place where technology and magic are indistinguishable? Every game location is a transformed physical world connected to others through an interstellar network of portals. Every player "avatar" is a living physical body with incredible survival traits. Once in this dreamscape, it would be unwise to not seize the moment! There are, however, a couple of catches.
First of all, you don't remember your identity. Second, the "sandbox" of this inter-civilization game, Universe ICS, is a dangerous place for beginners. Finally, character restoration is finite. Death in ICS may be irreversible.
©2019 Sergey Zaytsev (P)2019 TantorWhat listeners say about Soulcatcher
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
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- 2024-11-18
Exemplary Cyrillic GameLit
Russian fantasy author Sergey Zaytsev offers the first installment in a series introducing a familiar game-rule-structured scenario - introducing a never-explored 15-year-old kid awakened as a twentysomething character nicknamed "Wisecracker" immersed into a starting level world known as "The Sandbox"
with a pair of fellow newbies. From there, the MC learns game rules and embarks on quest-based adventures. There's nothing particularly distinguishing in Zaytsev's vision except:
•He introduces a mentor character named "Grant" who accompanies and schools Wise on mechanics and strategy. It's a great way to guide readers/listeners in worldbuilding
•"Player" characters only have two respawns - if you're killed three times in this reality, you're permanently dead.
•The ICS reality is a universe-spanning interstellar multiverse of Civilizations connected by magical portals.. meaning that Zaytsev can create new worlds at will as he progresses in the series.
I enjoyed the book very much - and I assume that the translation by Evgeni Giga is accurate (vocabulary is spot-on, description is vivid, and flow is intuitive) - but it has its share of deficiencies, too:
•Zaytsev introduces enough female nudity to make me concerned that this series will turn into HaremLit at some point (it doesn't here, thankfully)
•The combat is unspectacular
•There isn't as much metagame plotting as in most LitRPG, but an obvious game structure. It's hard to set aside logical reservations and maintain the illusion of reality at times
Fortuitously for audiobook consumers: Daniel Thomas May is an outstanding narrator. A couple of character voices are disappointingly cartoonish, but the presentation is otherwise impeccable.
In toto, this recording of 'Soulcatcher' rates 9/10-stars. I feel fortunate to have found it in the 'Plus' catalog. I won't be continuing with the 'Universe ICS' series - my reading list is far too extensive - but I could easily see myself coming back to it someday.
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