
Lord January
A LitRPG Cultivation Saga (Year of the Sword, Book 1)
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Narrated by:
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Travis Baldree
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By:
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Dakota Krout
About this listen
Time is money. Time is a weapon. Time is running out.
Grant Leap is an orphaned, mortal farmhand in a world where cultivation methods and Weapons of Power are jealously guarded and only passed down among family. He’s not content with his lot; as a Januarian, someone living in District January, he should be living the good life just like everyone else. Food, parties, food, entertainment, and food are the minimum requirement. As an orphan, specifically a reviled Leap, there’s not even a chance of being treated as a human.
When a celestial event pours time magic into his field, coalescing into a lost Weapon of Power, Grant leaps at the opportunity to advance beyond even the scope of standard cultivation. At the first touch of the weapon, the orphan gains everything he’s ever wanted: a Sword and a Name. Also, a pesky mandatory quest with his life as the price of failure. It doesn’t take him long to realize that the best thing for him to do is to sell it and live on borrowed Time.
Yet, that would never happen. The blade offers him the first major choice he’s ever had to make: surrender to his desires...or live like a king.
©2022 Dakota Krout (P)2022 Mountaindale PressGreat storyline
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A good book with a decent mc
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Wonderful first instalment
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Cultivation for fat people
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Great series
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It's such a shame Travis is wasted on this book because his performance is as usual amazing
stupid main character
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I've read a few other Dakota Krouts books, (The Completionist Chronicles, Divine Dungeon, Full Murderhobo, Wolfman Warlock) but Lord January just felt lazily written in comparison.
The book is essentially a series of extremely unlikely events cobbled together to give the dimwitted protagonist a path ahead as he's too stupid to make any plans to complete the quest himself.
The naming convention is lazy, the characters are two-dimensional, I literally cringed at the pop-culture references and overused jokes that felt shoehorned in and broke the immersion. The world itself, or at least the part we see in this first book is reminiscent of the most gluttonous parts of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, without the originality.
It reads like something the author wrote before he'd published anything else. A project he discarded and only now got around to finish. But published hurriedly without fixing all the tropes and clichés.
Disappointing...
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