NPCs as real as Players; great fun and narration!

As required by U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations and Audible requirements, I am disclosing that I was given a free review copy of this audiobook at my request. I have listened to the audiobook, and I have voluntarily left an honest review. Receiving a review copy did not influence my rating nor my review.

“Phylomancer: The Complete Series” succeeded at what many LitRPG books fail to do: entertain me and make me glad that I listened to it! Basically, I’m generally bored by recitations of classes, quests, stats and leveling up; I find it repetitive, and distracting from character development and plotlines. Phylomancer somehow made it work, though. Perhaps, to some degree, because it was occasionally a bit tongue-in-cheek, such as when the MC referenced classes only attainable to early Kickstarter backers.

The NPCs in Phylomancer are as real to the MC as are the other Players, and to the reader/listener they certainly are fully-developed characters with rich, distinctive personalities.

There’s plenty of intrigue in the story, along with plenty of action (and, errr “action”). Lots of humor keeps things moving along quickly without getting too dark.

Erin Bateman delivers, as usual, a fantastic performance. I recently listened to her as part of a duet narration; while I did enjoy that, she is one of the female VA’s who is excellent on her own, delivering a range of male and female voices. I recommend the audiobook over the Kindle version.

And recommend, I do! 5* for Phylomancer. It’s billed as “The Complete Series”, and so far it is. But…while satisfying, the ending was a bit of a “soft ending”, definitely leaving things open for further adventures. One can hope!

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mc ruins the potential of the story

the story was pretty good with a lot of potential, but the MC absolutely ruins it. what kind of weekend gaming partier comes into a new world and tries so hard to talk like everything they say is an important triumphant speech?

we shall not fail so long as we remain together!
nope.

and the fact that he's just ridiculous. how's a lawyer "rushing into it without considering our actions" over and over and over and over. then when he screws up Again acts all sad about having to take the life of "some guy just doing his job" awe shucks. let's all mourne this dude and try to contemplate all the various people who may have been waiting for him to come home when the entire universe is at steak. dude is straight up working in a situation that's obviously evil. it's his own fault he's dead. just one example.

sorry, needed to vent. but that's the type of frustration the mc makes you feel non stop. never seen one person who was such a wuss end up with a harem. this series could have been so good.

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crap

I would rather play a tactical rpg than listen to one. Wouldn't recommend this book

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I enjoyed the series!

Good story, good character development, and suspicious ending! Really a pleasant listen. I really loved to follow the main character as he deals and learns.

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no true pace.

the story as a whole seemed to soundwave back and forth a bit much for my liking. the narration was well done, though the difference in the voices I found lacking from one accent to another.
an experience worth the trilogy, would advise kindly away from as single titles

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Horrible with a bad narrator

The narrator makes every person a young girl man woman beast doesn’t matter. Stories infantile seems that he cared more about the sex in the story. And if I known it was about some guy wanting to create a harem of women to do his bidding, I would not have gotten us. Character get so strong so quickly defeat stronger people, so easily totally unbelievable. Don’t waste a credit like I did.

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Was Good, but could have been better.

liked the characters, the game system was meh. The whole progression seemed off, and hurried especially in book three. it was almost like the author got bored and hurried to wrap things up. If there any follow-up books, I ho0e the author takes a deep breath and takes his time in his storytelling.

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Fantasy

Loved it, I found myself lost in the series and. was sad to see it end. I've been watching for more of this author s books.

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Decent concept ruined

Decent concept ruined by puberty level lusting and terrible forced left wing talking points. Neither seem to have any real impact on to overarching concept. I usually just skip those scenes in these books, if i did that here id be skipping half the book. On top of all that he contradicts himself constantly. Doesn't want to be a class cannon IRL, continues glass cannon build. Loves summoning, ignores it.

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Quite Bad

At best this book was bad. The author was an obvious WOKE liberal with an improper education and even worse understanding of life. His word usage indicates he probably spent too much time in front of his computer or playing Dungeons and Dragons and not enough in the real world. I used to be like that, but then I got a life. I think it would do him good if he did the same. If he broadened his experience he might get a better understanding of good and evil. but as it is he has trouble telling them apart and it comes out in his characters. The narrator may be from another country because she pronounced a few of the words differently.

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