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Ruinous Return, Book 1

By: SerasStreams
Narrated by: Hannah Trusty
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The price for saving the world is the right to rule it.

After saving a faraway world, Lyn Rivers was cast back to Earth. Wanting the admiration, prestige, and glory of saving that world, she forced her way back.

But she was forgotten, and someone else claimed credit for her deeds.

Now, with the power of a deity of destruction, she desires nothing more than to claim her place in history. To do that she will conquer dungeons, make alliances, destroy kingdoms, and build an empire.

After all, why ruin the world when you can bend it to your will?

©2025 SerasStreams (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Action & Adventure Epic Fantasy Royalty
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the world building and some of the other characters aren't bad but the main character is just annoying and cringey

the main character is insufferable and intensely unlikeable

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get rid off the ptsd and the staker it's not at all fun to listen to

not fun to listen to

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I really enjoyed the prose and the plot! The characters feel fully developed and their voices fit.

I would just note that there are some descriptions of abuse and recollections of the same that could be pretty triggering for some. Not a criticism, just an fyi.

Fun read - a few content warnings

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book ends mid conversation. if you hate mild cliff hangers this will piss you smooth the hell off

wtf

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Japan is coming out with a lot more lit RPG genre where a person becomes issakide.
this one is a more United States version. I do feel that the ones that come from Japan can go around in circles and sometimes become too long. this book is exciting and gets to the point a lot faster.
it's annoying. how traditional isakai ones were the main character becomes so undecisive or timid. this main character is not that. it's a refreshing change of pace.

Fun Shorter Anime

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So it is definitely worth the credit, but it has some major issues. Namely, ALL the hero's that aren't evil incarnate have CRIPPLING ptsd, and aside from that nit being how people work it also give me the vibe that the author thinks that extremely bad ptsd is a requirement for someone who has seen a lot of violence.
ps: that cliffhanger was cruel

Overall great but...

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This could have been great, but fell short. Mostly because every single "hero" is messed up. Only two are somewhat normal, but talk about having PTSD. and having to work hard to get better. No matter the amount of crap they went through, or how many of them had preexisting conditions, there would be some that make it through without crippling mental trauma. It's just too extreme in the, everyone's messed up, direction to make sense to me. I get it your trying to be more "real", but you went too far the other way.

Ok

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Love the story just wish they would shorten the spoken spells. But otherwise this is a fantastic story

The battle scenes are awesome

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I love going to fantasy books, and there was a lot of fun story and magic system going on, but I had a huge problem with the idea that every character is completely messed up and either completely evil or borderline evil in at least some way. I did not finish the book, just about halfway through it, so maybe there is great character growth, but this seems more for people that want to explore psychopaths in a fantasy world. even the most 'honorable' or 'good' characters were messed up. I completely love it when the protagonist has flaws. I despise this type of story though.

I know there are those that will enjoy this type of story, but for me it was too frustrating that everybody just seemed to get more evil instead of better...

Psychotic Characters

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the story is incredibly boring. lies and secrets to keep their power as heroes, sex and drugs to avoid dealing with trauma.

I'm half way through and can't finish. save the credit.

can't tolerate the "heroes" constantly crying about their memories.

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