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Meet Your Maker: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG

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Meet Your Maker: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG

By: Seth McDuffee, Johnathan McClain
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
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From the imaginations of Seth McDuffee, author of the bestselling Big Sneaky Barbarian books, and award-winning screenwriter and audiobook narrator Johnathan McClain comes a new series that answers the question . . .

"What would happen if you crossed the high fantasy of Wheel of Time with the irreverent comedy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?"

Bruce Silver is the author of the Riftbreaker novels, one of the most popular, beloved fantasy book series of all time. He's got everything he's ever dreamed of having: freedom to tell the stories he wants to tell, legions of enthusiastic fans who wait eagerly to see what he'll write next, and a really nice car.

But despite all that, Bruce finds himself dissatisfied, battling an ennui he can't quite put his finger on. So he decides to do what anyone would do in his situation: burn it all down by unexpectedly killing off Carpathian Einzgear, Riftbreaker's cherished hero. A solid plan with absolutely no downside whatsoever.

Until . . .

Bruce wakes up to find himself suddenly transported inside the world of the novels he's written. And . . . seen by everyone he encounters as Carpathian Einzgear himself. Which is problematic for a variety of reasons, not least of which being that, when Carpathian died, he left behind a sea of destruction, broken promises, and shattered lives that Bruce is now responsible for repairing—only, without access to all the powers and skills Carpathian built up through the course of ten books. Bruce is going to have to start over at the beginning.

Meet Your Maker is a comedic, epic fantasy series that asks the questions: What is fiction? What is reality? And does it make a difference, when everyone and everything is trying to kill you?

Bruce created this world. Now he has to survive it.

©2024 Seth McDuffee and Johnathan McClain (P)2024 Podium Audio
Contemporary Epic Humorous Fiction Fantasy Witty Funny

Critic reviews

“Everything I wanted and more. So much more. . . . [Meet Your Maker] will stay with you long after the final page.” —Amie Kaufman, New York Times–bestselling author the Isles of the Gods

“F***ing incredible. Wild to see two talented voices come together and produce something so seamless. Truly next level.” —Kyle Kirrin, author of the Ripple System

“A rare book that makes you laugh, draws you in with intrigue, then holds up a mirror to your own subconscious. I wish I’d written it.” —Haylock Jobson, author of Heretical Fishing

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can't finish

such a great concept ruined by constant internal monologue of someone who has the attention span of a ferret. the narration and jokes are great but the story would be much better without the contact iner monologue.

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A great new entry

I was familar with both authors, although just as a narrator for Johnathan McClain with his work from Noobtown series. His work here is even better if that's possible. Our MC is quickly thrown into the world he created or at least he thinks he created it, there's some debate on whether he did or if he was just the writer of their history. There's the expected pop culture references, an on-going internal dialogue with himself and of course lots of adventures. I can't wait to see where things go from here since it left on a minor cliffhanger.

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What I’m here for, what you are here for

So, you reading the review. Great!
No doubt this came up because of a combination your search history (not commenting on that), media intake, and purchase history, all culminating to leading you to this book, which you are trying to figure out if it’s worth the credit.

The description fits it well, pop culture references, humor, Litrpg, meta as all get out.

If you are not familiar with the narration of Johnathan McClain or Seth McDuffee’s writing style, then I’m almost envious about the decision and subsequent experience you are about to have.

They are both, and I cannot stress this enough, amazing. Diverse in character construction and representation, this is my favorite series to listen too since Noobtown, or He Who Fights with Monsters. I wasn’t absorb it all in one go, I’m going to be re-istening to this when I’m able to focus on it completely because the some of the dialogue and narration hits different parts of my appreciation in different ways, but so close together that I know I missed something.

This is worth the credit

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Delightfully creative and so funny it’ll make you leak

Meet Your Maker is one of the best books I’ve ever enjoyed. I came having loved big sneaky barbarian, which was written by Seth, narrated by Jonathan and which led to them forming this writing duo for this project. Well, it’s hard to imagine an improvement of BSS as possible for Seth‘s next book, I think the input of Jonathan in writing had to have impacted not only the dialogue but also no doubt it helped to have two people working on the book’s somewhat complex made simple for our enjoyment worldbuilding system, and two toned narrative between Bruce in the present and the fantasy novel he wrote, which subtly informs our mystery and the hunt for the nexus core.

If you have one credit to spend on LitRPG this year, it should be on this book !

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Very animated, a little loud and annoying at brief moments, but gooood.

Story was good, the voices were fantastic.
The moments were done well enough to inspire my own creativity

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I liked the audio artists voice and impressions

I think the story moves too slow. I don't think it is interesting. it seemed like the story was building, but never delivered.

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Legendary

This was an absolute dream to see the author and narrator from my favorite series, Big Sneaky Barbarian, team up to write a book together. Expectations were very high, and this book did not disappoint. Can’t wait for more!

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The comedy lands, characterization is brilliant

tl;dr Definitely worth the money/credit, you should buy it.

I don't remember the last time a book made me actually laugh out loud, especially not repeatedly, but this one does. I've been to stand-up comedy that wasn't this funny, and it still manages to tell a story around it. It's not perfect -- the story-within-a-story chapters are (intentionally) more purple than I like and tend to drag, for instance -- but it's well worth the listen. The lead characters are excellently drawn, very believable and McClain does a brilliant job with the voices and tones.

Two thumbs up, will undoubtedly listen again.

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Its pretty ok. Far from great

There is a story somewhere in all the fluff and pauses for effect. I like the premise but after 20 hours of the main character refusing to believe the reality he is facing it stops being a plot point or foible of the main and becomes an annoyance, displeasure, exasperation, irritation. Which brings me to my second point. I congratulate the author on finding thesarus.com but enough is enough. Using multiple words to describe, define, depict, detail, portray became tedious and transitions into annoying, aggravating, irritating. I really wanted to love this book. It brings an interesting and unique spin on the genre but between my previous points and the overdone narration by the end all I could muster was tolerance. I had invested enough time I had to find out what cliff hanger this was going to end on. If you want a time killer, this book will do. If you want and engaging story look elsewhere.

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I can't do the overacted screaming in this

An action novel I wanted to love. reminds me a lot of Ready Player One but the screaming in it is like nails on a chalkboard.

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