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vailynst's review
3.0
Mini-Review:
4 Stars for Narration by Matthew Broadhead
3.5 Stars for Game Concepts
2.5 Stars for Uneven Story Progression
3.5 Stars for Chess
The title & idea behind Chess is cool. The LitRPG story has potential. It has an interesting setting and just enough to give you a vague outline of what's going on. Light game mechanics and cool spins on how to work with a interactive game world that is driven by the choices that all players make within the game. The author lost me with the multiple tangents thrown into the story. I would recommend on revamping the first book to focus on Chess because I liked seeing his POV of the real & game worlds. Small side jaunts to show the game company involvement was okay but the other stuff was just extra fluff that could have been shown from Chess' side and the extra info could have been turned into a nice short story or spin off series.
The story lost steam about halfway and tried to juggle too many "important" strings. The book ends on a terrible cliffhanger, and you get a note about signing onto the author's mailing list to get more information at some unknown date. Yay?
Until the story lost focus, I was very optimistic about the story and thinking I had a new author to keep an eye on. I will most likely pick up the sequel as long as I have Kindle Unlimited. I won't be as willing to spend money on an audiobook unless I'm confident the story is worth the money.
4 Stars for Narration by Matthew Broadhead
3.5 Stars for Game Concepts
2.5 Stars for Uneven Story Progression
3.5 Stars for Chess
The title & idea behind Chess is cool. The LitRPG story has potential. It has an interesting setting and just enough to give you a vague outline of what's going on. Light game mechanics and cool spins on how to work with a interactive game world that is driven by the choices that all players make within the game. The author lost me with the multiple tangents thrown into the story. I would recommend on revamping the first book to focus on Chess because I liked seeing his POV of the real & game worlds. Small side jaunts to show the game company involvement was okay but the other stuff was just extra fluff that could have been shown from Chess' side and the extra info could have been turned into a nice short story or spin off series.
The story lost steam about halfway and tried to juggle too many "important" strings. The book ends on a terrible cliffhanger, and you get a note about signing onto the author's mailing list to get more information at some unknown date. Yay?
Until the story lost focus, I was very optimistic about the story and thinking I had a new author to keep an eye on. I will most likely pick up the sequel as long as I have Kindle Unlimited. I won't be as willing to spend money on an audiobook unless I'm confident the story is worth the money.
vailynst's review against another edition
3.0
Mini-Review:
4 Stars for Narration by Matthew Broadhead
3.5 Stars for Game Concepts
2.5 Stars for Uneven Story Progression
3.5 Stars for Chess
The title & idea behind Chess is cool. The LitRPG story has potential. It has an interesting setting and just enough to give you a vague outline of what's going on. Light game mechanics and cool spins on how to work with a interactive game world that is driven by the choices that all players make within the game. The author lost me with the multiple tangents thrown into the story. I would recommend on revamping the first book to focus on Chess because I liked seeing his POV of the real & game worlds. Small side jaunts to show the game company involvement was okay but the other stuff was just extra fluff that could have been shown from Chess' side and the extra info could have been turned into a nice short story or spin off series.
The story lost steam about halfway and tried to juggle too many "important" strings. The book ends on a terrible cliffhanger, and you get a note about signing onto the author's mailing list to get more information at some unknown date. Yay?
Until the story lost focus, I was very optimistic about the story and thinking I had a new author to keep an eye on. I will most likely pick up the sequel as long as I have Kindle Unlimited. I won't be as willing to spend money on an audiobook unless I'm confident the story is worth the money.
4 Stars for Narration by Matthew Broadhead
3.5 Stars for Game Concepts
2.5 Stars for Uneven Story Progression
3.5 Stars for Chess
The title & idea behind Chess is cool. The LitRPG story has potential. It has an interesting setting and just enough to give you a vague outline of what's going on. Light game mechanics and cool spins on how to work with a interactive game world that is driven by the choices that all players make within the game. The author lost me with the multiple tangents thrown into the story. I would recommend on revamping the first book to focus on Chess because I liked seeing his POV of the real & game worlds. Small side jaunts to show the game company involvement was okay but the other stuff was just extra fluff that could have been shown from Chess' side and the extra info could have been turned into a nice short story or spin off series.
The story lost steam about halfway and tried to juggle too many "important" strings. The book ends on a terrible cliffhanger, and you get a note about signing onto the author's mailing list to get more information at some unknown date. Yay?
Until the story lost focus, I was very optimistic about the story and thinking I had a new author to keep an eye on. I will most likely pick up the sequel as long as I have Kindle Unlimited. I won't be as willing to spend money on an audiobook unless I'm confident the story is worth the money.
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