A pretty good horrible LitRPG

I'm really liking this so far. Pretty much any one-minute section is thrilling.

What this doesn't have is a good plot sense or arc. Creatures of various sorts are killed every minute at a breakneck pace. There is little rhyme or reason to the sudden appearance of the towers on the world and forcing everyone on the planet into the tower climb industry. It has all the bad LitRPG tropes: randomness, sudden advancements, an unsustainable world, everyone killing hundreds of creatures a day. The constant repetition of the importance of getting stronger.

However, it's constantly thrilling with lots of combat, and never lingers too long on the bad stuff. The worst sin is too be boring, and it's not that. The second worst sin is cringe, and it's not that either. The third unforgivable sin is bad narration, but Adam Stubbs is great. I'll have to look for more by him.

So, it's pretty bad, but not embarrassingly so, and it's also fun to listen to. So it tilts back to pretty good.

I'll even go so far as to recommend this audiobook. However, you've been warned.

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This should have never gotten past the premise

A part of me thought the premise of this book had to be misleading - because surely an amnesiatic time traveller has got to be one of the stupidest, pointless plot bunnies I've ever heard of.

Maybe going back, if he can't keep his memories, he gets something else? I don't know, but a few hours in and I can't believe I didn't just trust my gut.

I've also apparently listened to a few hours of this, but I honestly couldn't tell you anything that's happened other than his amnesia conveniently, briefly disappearing for absolutely pointless effect, only for everyone to shrug it off and move on with their day.

This... this shouldn't have gotten past the idea phase.

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started great but has slowly unraveled

the leveling system is so inconsistent it's basically pointless. for example... John at level 25 and on floor 11 returns to floor four to help gather vegetables from a dungeon greenhouse for the starving people of beggars end. then almost gets snuffed by a low level watermelon plant monster. he would have died without the female saving him.
then he goes through all this super hard fights and grinds through to floor 20 where no one has ever been strong enough to reach and low and behold a couple people have just been following him and keeping pace the whole time. so it makes the accomplishments seem trivial. he passes up almost all looting opportunities which is super annoying. his level takes for freaking ever to increase like he will pass through two or three floors and it stay the same then out of left field he jumps up 2-3 levels are one time it's very frustrating. then the plot armor is freaking crazy. everytime the author writes himself into an unwinnable situation John gets divine help or he skips writing about an entire couple floors and just adds levels like it's no big deal like "don't worry folks there's nothing to see here" then there is the diamond dragon. from everything written that boss is completely unbeatable and I'm not going to sit here and listen to how this mc is going to pull a win straight out of his ass. complete bunk I'm over it

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Good read

I look forward to the next book. OP MC but it is an enjoyable fast pace book.

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Was an enjoyable listen

I enjoyed the book and will buy the next one when I comes out, the pace of the book was good, characters were good.

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Awesome book one!!

Wolfe Locke and Aethon combining equals freaking epic! I loved everything about this book. The story and narration were top notch. It was a huge bang for your book as well at almost 20 hours of fun. Get it now!

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fun new tower climber series!

Good story and narration!

Awakening with a strong sense of deja vu our main character must fight his way through the tower to gain strength and save humanity. Collecting friends and allies along the way he will have to work hard to save humanity from the calamity of the crystal dragon set to destroy it!

Adam does a wonderful job with the narration and really brings the story to life!

I enjoyed this story and can't wait to find out what happens next!

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so sad

book is lame. leveling system makes no sense. I feel it's for kids. the end

Good premise bad writting

I don't hate this book. It is just that the premise of past actions in the tower staying with you after you die in a reset moment is great. How it was handled with the main character being a 1 track single liner no depth meat head is a problem. While Ultimate Muscle is cool we could have seen more power depth to this character. The crystal dragon was more of a waste of plot development than a plot motivator.

Also never have the narrator indicate that the mc looked back at a moment when the story sequence is not done. It ruins all sense of stakes.

Only get. this book if you have a credit to burn.

Started off great

MC is super nice and supportive to all. Everyone likes him and then poof, for no reason they start treating him like crap, lie to him, sneak behind his back all while still loving him??? it's really makes zero sense and feels completely forced. then as the MC starts surpassing everyone and should be much stronger he seems to get weaker because everyone starts almost kicking his tail? Books overall story has such potential and the narrator was great but author just seems to want to force drama where it's not needed nor makes any sense. shame.