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Returner's Defiance

By: Bruce Sentar
Narrated by: Christopher Boucher, Jessica Threet
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Five hundred years of fighting demons and humanity has been pushed to the brink of extinction. As the last bastion of the remaining humans is shattered, Bran Heros, the Wandering King, decides to enact a last ditch effort.

He’s going to send his soul back in time to two years before the demon invasion comes to earth.

This time when the demons first come he’s going to be waiting. He might not be as strong as he was in his past life, but he has something far more important. He has time to get ready for what’s to come and the knowledge to take advantage of every second.

Bran is going to use his second chance to gobble up resources and make himself as well as those he chooses a force to be reckoned with.

For now, that means starting all over at level one again.

©2024 Bruce Sentar (P)2024 Bruce Sentar

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Gloria was glorious

excellent naration, intriguing story, and qell written characters. Bruce did it again with this banger!

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Back to his roots. Very good book IMO.

This book is with the time of your liked Sentars other works. Specifically saving supervillains ..

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get book

It was a great start to what I bet will be a great series can't wait for book 2

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Not bad for a time travel story, the magic is while good has a flaw.

I am a bit of a head case with huge jumps into the past type of stories. In my experience most stories that start with this, are a bit of a mess until, after a major shift and everything has changed to where the MC can no longer use any knowledge of his old time-line to guide him. This story isn't immune to that, but it isn't horrible. it's good enough that I do remember there being weird bits, but good enough that they were minor. Smaller leaps into the past have less oddities.

Firearms losing their effectiveness when it seems like an inscription and some materials from a dungeon for projectiles might be enough to bring them back up to par to fight monsters and such. just something I though was weird, with the rules.

the narrators are amazing, I love these two in anything really.

That twist at the end was quite good. I was a bit floored with that implication. looking forward to where this huge change takes the story.

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Fantastic story

Entertaining from start to finish. The story had me from the first chapter and did t let go. As always, the Actors Everywhere folks do a smashing job. I am so incredibly sad I have to wait for the next in the series.

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love the story here

after going through a few flop stories this really brought me back to the harem slice of life style and I'll be eagerly waiting for the next book

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This is incredible

I love progression fantasy, but lately I find myself wanting more character development and deeper plotlines.
Normally, I steer clear of the cover art with sexy ladies ...cuz the sexy time is too much, n its not what I'm interested in getting out of reading these books.
But I love stories where the MC goes back in time n leverages future knowledge, so I took a chance on this one.
OMG ...Bruce Sentar where have u been all my life?!?!?!

This book was awesome ...I'm gonna have to check out some more of his stuff
100% worth the credit.

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The amount of stats

Most of his books I enjoy very much this is no surprise as a riveting story line just feels like whenever the mc was doing something or even fighting there would be stats put in overdone with stats in my opinion still great story

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amazing

as usual Bruce knocks it out of the park. Great story and great characters. it was fun, exciting, and spicey in perfect harmony.

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Pretty decent start

First, Bouchet pulling out his Christopher Walken impression for Carmine was *chef's kiss*. I bet he really enjoyed that.

In reality, I wanted to rate this story a 3.5, but I rounded up instead of down given how I felt at the end. I generally really like the content in these kinds of harem fantasies...except for the harem parts. The 'romance,' as it were, is always way too cringe and overbearing for my liking, and I typically end up skipping it.

So I end up skipping a lot.

The story ended before any real cool progression happened with the main character, but it was interesting and I'm curious to see how he grows.

Unfortunately, I expect to fall off in a book or two as the harem grows too large and completely overshadowed the rest of the book, as is always the case in these haremlit fantasies.

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