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Fateseal
- Deck of Souls, Book 1
- Narrated by: Annie Ellicott, Laurie Catherine Winkel, Jeff Hays, Justin Thomas James
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
Gods, demons, and heroes. Standard MMO fare - or so Cerys Collins thought.
As a long-time gamer and guild leader, Cerys has always wondered what it would be like to live in virtual reality. When her guild members convince her to try a new VRMMO, she discovers reality is far more complex than she knew. Chosen by the gods of another world, Cerys finds herself trapped between warring factions: a tyrannical human empire and an oppressed kingdom of demons.
When she discovers her best friend has been dragged into this new world as well, Cerys is forced to choose between saving her friend or looking at the bigger picture. If Cerys is to be anything more than a pawn in the gods' game, she'll have to leverage everything she's learned on her home world and in past games, before it's too late. With a cocky incubus king vying for more than her loyalty, her quest won’t be an easy one.
The Deck of Souls series contains some dark themes, profanity, violence, and adult relationships.
The Soundbooth Theater Crew for this production:
- Annie Ellicott - Narration
- Jeff Hays - Idris Bloodsong
- Justin Thomas James - Emrys, Meical, and the rest of the male cast
- Laurie Catherine Winkel - Corlyotir, Drysi, and the rest of the female cast
- Griffin Malnar - Editing, Mastering, Sound Design
- Ahmed Mahmoud - Music
- Dalton Lynne - Project Manager, Proofing
- Bonnie L. Price - Proofing
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- Nighteyes
- 15-08-19
Why did it take me this long to pick this up??!!??
This is a masterpiece of a Audio book!
Bonnie have written an absolutely thrilling and engaging story dragging you in with great characters and a better world, but the Audio Cast drags this great story kicking and screaming into the real of absolute masterpiece!
I cannot recommend this audio book enough!
So stop reading and get to listening
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- O. J-kahn
- 26-06-19
DNF
Starting with the positive. I really enjoyed the production by sound booth theater. They sometimes undermine their voice work with annoying sound effects and out of place music, but I didn't feel that way here.
I also like the premise for the story and appreciate that the author didn't waste time pretending the game was just a game and made the MC an actual character with a backstory and personality instead of just a generic self insert gamer.
The final positive was that the reveal of what the villains were up to was suitably shocking, unfortunately that is also where the criticisms start. It didn't really make much sense as an evil plan. It's the kind of plan that only makes sense if you're prioritizing dastardliness over practicality. I was willing to suspend disbelief and just accept it as a way of setting tone and character, but there are a lot of instances of characters not behaving logically* and the story didn't even seem willing to follow through with the tone it had set.
After making the choice mentioned in the blurb Cerys is quickly told that it may not come to that after all, and no one holds anything against her. Multiple characters comment on how ridiculous this is but that doesn't make it any less so. It really felt like the author didn't want to write about Cerys coming to terms with the fallout of her decision. It still seems like the bad stuff may happen, but our hero gets to continue her adventure without worrying about it for now. I honestly don't understand why there was such a horrible set up if the story wasn't going to follow through with it.
The behaviour of Idris Bloodsong was also so insufferable it was immersion breaking. There's really serious things happening but he can't stay focused on anything for more than a few seconds without switching to hitting on Cerys. Maybe I'm not giving the fact that he's an incubus enough weight, but how does this guy run a kingdom?
Maybe it's not Idris's fault because everyone thinks only about Cerys. Even a reunion between a son and the father he thought was dead ends up being about her.
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* E.g. Cerys's family are crazy cultists hell bent on bringing her back by any means necessary. More importantly though, Cerys wants a nice spot to watch the stars so goes and parks her car on the edge of their land.
"It's safe because it's night time and they'll all be asleep", she says.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-09-19
Twilight, the litrpg demon version
The book is basically Twilight crammed into one volume.
The litrpg part is really light although it is the main motor of the story. They get trapped in another (game like) world and have to get escape. no detailed stats pages or fleshed out mechanics. The book is more about the relationship between the MC and the demon king.
It's not a badly written book but if you don't like Twiligth or are expecting some heavy litrpg elements you probably won't like this one.
Soundbooth theatre delivers great work as always. As a note, they have not added a ton of music and sound effects to this volume. Which may be good or bad depending on your preference.
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