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mellhay's review
3.0
The story starts right in with Lucian and how he gets to the LitRPG world. No delay in learning, we get there ASAP. There were moments I wasn't sure where the story was going as we see Lucian visit his family and go through moments with them as he's in his new position. I know he's worried about his brother, Connor, and wants to help him. But I feel as though we are living through life's moments and not in a story. We then get direction, to help Connor and to find Old Death and bring him home.
****FULL REVIEW TO FOLLOW****
****FULL REVIEW TO FOLLOW****
aechpea's review
adventurous
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, and Body horror
sometimesleelynnreads's review
4.0
Disclaimer: I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Podium Publishing. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
The first thing that I have to say about this audiobook is that I AM IN LOVE WITH THE NARRATOR! I have personally never heard Parsneau before and I’m so glad that the decision was made to have her narrate this book. I feel like her Boston accent was freaking amazing, and her imitation on male characters was so good, sometimes I forgot that she was voicing them. I love narrators that can do that, and I was just very into this book thanks to Parsneau. I hope to find more books narrated by her because she has become one of my favorite audiobook narrators from this point forward!
Okay now that that is out of the way, although I really could talk about that the entire time because that’s really what got me into this book from the very beginning…
I have never read a “GameLit” novel before, and this is what this book falls under genre wise. Despite never reading GameLit before, and despite not being a huge video game player or master or anything, I personally thought that this book was super interesting and I totally liked that Lucian ended up coming up with the HUD system for being a Grim Reaper. This book pretty much reminded me that the newer generations of this world – Lucian is a “millennial” like me from what I remember hearing – are the ones that are going to come up with creative ways to do jobs that have been in the world for years. He was even able to learn some rules that took “Old Death” a little bit longer to figure out, and honestly that wasn’t Old Death’s fault. He was born in the 1600’s after all.
I think Old Death was one of my favorite characters, as well as Lucian. But I think Old Death just reminded me of an old butler type figure… maybe like Alfred but if he was like SUPER old and wasn’t as quick as he usually is. And the way that Parsneau did his voice really gave me that impression.
All in all, I just really liked this book and I’m curious to see how the rest of the trilogy is going to be. I seriously hope that Parsneau is the one that gets to narrate the rest of the trilogy too. The one thing that absolutely kills me is when they end up changing the narrator after the first book. I mean I get if the POV ends up changing but like, why though?
Anyway.
The first thing that I have to say about this audiobook is that I AM IN LOVE WITH THE NARRATOR! I have personally never heard Parsneau before and I’m so glad that the decision was made to have her narrate this book. I feel like her Boston accent was freaking amazing, and her imitation on male characters was so good, sometimes I forgot that she was voicing them. I love narrators that can do that, and I was just very into this book thanks to Parsneau. I hope to find more books narrated by her because she has become one of my favorite audiobook narrators from this point forward!
Okay now that that is out of the way, although I really could talk about that the entire time because that’s really what got me into this book from the very beginning…
I have never read a “GameLit” novel before, and this is what this book falls under genre wise. Despite never reading GameLit before, and despite not being a huge video game player or master or anything, I personally thought that this book was super interesting and I totally liked that Lucian ended up coming up with the HUD system for being a Grim Reaper. This book pretty much reminded me that the newer generations of this world – Lucian is a “millennial” like me from what I remember hearing – are the ones that are going to come up with creative ways to do jobs that have been in the world for years. He was even able to learn some rules that took “Old Death” a little bit longer to figure out, and honestly that wasn’t Old Death’s fault. He was born in the 1600’s after all.
I think Old Death was one of my favorite characters, as well as Lucian. But I think Old Death just reminded me of an old butler type figure… maybe like Alfred but if he was like SUPER old and wasn’t as quick as he usually is. And the way that Parsneau did his voice really gave me that impression.
All in all, I just really liked this book and I’m curious to see how the rest of the trilogy is going to be. I seriously hope that Parsneau is the one that gets to narrate the rest of the trilogy too. The one thing that absolutely kills me is when they end up changing the narrator after the first book. I mean I get if the POV ends up changing but like, why though?
Anyway.
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