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Sufficiently Advanced Magic
- Arcane Ascension, Book 1
- By: Andrew Rowe
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,995
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 30,503
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30,429
Five years ago Corin Cadence's brother entered the Serpent Spire - a colossal tower with ever-shifting rooms, traps, and monsters. Those who survive the spire's trials return home with an attunement: a mark granting the bearer magical powers. According to legend, those few who reach the top of the tower will be granted a boon by the spire's goddess. He never returned. Now it's Corin's turn. He's headed to the top floor, on a mission to meet the goddess.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good book
- By Jason N. on 07-20-17
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic
- Arcane Ascension, Book 1
- By: Andrew Rowe
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Overall a good read
Reviewed: 10-04-23
The first 2/3rd of the book were hard to get through, but it is overall worth the slog. Your mileage may vary.
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Apocalypse Core: The Complete Trilogy
- By: Jack Porter
- Narrated by: TJ McKenzie, Melanie Hastings
- Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 267
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Story4 out of 5 stars 222
One moment, everything was normal. Then the World Core woke up and slaughtered almost everything alive so it could harvest their Chi. After that, it rebuilt everything and put the survivors in a game-like environment, pitting them against monsters and each other. The rules are different now. Chi power is as important as being able to fight.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ummm this is damn near a smut novel
- By C. Curtis on 04-08-23
- Apocalypse Core: The Complete Trilogy
- By: Jack Porter
- Narrated by: TJ McKenzie, Melanie Hastings
Worth sticking with
Reviewed: 07-26-23
The story has some unique twists for this type of story. Overall a good use of a credit.
The harem bits just didn't work for me and overall detracted from the story. I would have preferred it if they had distinct chapters that I could skip past, but I just played 2x speed through many of those scenes.
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Bibliomancer
- Wolfman Warlock, Book 1
- By: James Hunter, Dakota Krout
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,793
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,529
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,520
Recent college grad Sam King was hoping for a backpacking trip across Europe as a graduation present. Instead, he’s going to get a different kind of trip: a three-month stint in the ultimate immersive gaming experience. As a lifelong geek, gamer, and outsider, it’s a better gift then he’d ever dreamed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Skips at 1 hour and 30 min remaining...
- By Amazon Customer on 03-03-20
- Bibliomancer
- Wolfman Warlock, Book 1
- By: James Hunter, Dakota Krout
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Good by the end, but difficult for the first half
Reviewed: 04-22-20
As others have commented the first half of the book is difficult if you have already read the completionist chronicles.(CC hereafter) The writing is done well enough, but it rehashes the start of the game, and the first CC book to the point that it feels like a clone. Once Sam achieves the title class it picks up and takes off as a story in it's own right. While a major point, the book itself is worth hearing if you can get past that. It adds in some interesting ties to the main CC story that could bring interesting perspectives if developed properly.
Additionally the story has diverged enough from the main CC story at this point that subsiquent books should easily avoid the problem above. I will pick up book two when it comes out.
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