Not a bad tale but doesn't live up to it's promise

It was a novel storyline (for me, at least), I'll give it that. I found that the beginning was a bit slow and stilted, and some of the roleplaying-game language used seemed to be very cliched, but I did get invested in it reasonably quickly.

My main reason for the lower rating is that I found the ending strangely unsatisfying.

That is not to say that it was a bad ending - it was actually quite gripping - but, *spoiler alert*, having spent the majority of the book building up to one supposed climax, he suddenly took the ending off to quite a tangent. And, whilst the tangent was interesting in itself, I felt rather cheated by the loss of the end of the "proper" story. I wanted to know what would have happened if this other thing had not happened.

I was also not taken by the premise that the main characters were a prize-winning role-playing team. Their role-play came over as rather average to me. There is also, perhaps, a certain hubris in writing a story in which a story-teller tells a prize-winning story...

No particular complaints about the narration. I'd listen to more of his narration, but I won't be actively seeking it out.

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