
The Elder Lands: A Kingdom Building LitRPG
The Elder Lands, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Raphael Corkhill
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By:
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B. Salem
The cost of ambition is often less flowery than the dreams that gave birth to it.
Lucan is the son of a landed knight in a kingdom that is surrounded by diverse threats. As he comes of age, he must make peace with both the tasteful and distasteful of his responsibilities. Most important of all, he must find a way to either tame or accept his own ambitions.
In a realm where an underground labyrinth births monsters that hunger to climb into the world of man, it's difficult to be a noble and dangerous to be a warrior. Lucan must navigate a maze of mortal peril and political intrigue if he is to survive and, perhaps someday, thrive.
Enjoy this smooth LitRPG taking place in a gritty medieval setting, featuring allies and enemies that fight with the sword, the word, and, sometimes, the arcane. The people of this realm are no strangers to monsters that prowl the night.
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Cant wait for book 2
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The paragraph-level writing is weak, with dialogue that doesn't ring true and clunky exposition throughout. This problem is not crippling, but it's occasionally intrusive. That said, the writing in the action scenes is better, with the action easy to follow and believable.
Though there are some passing mentions of more unusual setting elements, the setting is mostly a standard faux-medieval-European world. While there isn't an explicit game world and there is no isekai element, there is explicit mechanical character progression and the occasional character sheet. This "game" element is better integrated in the world than it is in many LitRPG/Progression Fantasy books. (And the character sheets are short.)
The protagonist is the only son of a border lord given his land by the king for his previous service. The protagonist's mother died when he was younger; his only relative is his rather gruff father, who is not especially sympathetic to the boy's desire to spend time studying. Through the course of the book, we get significant character growth from the protagonist caused by his various experiences.
The series is billed as "Kingdom Building", and the plot supports that well. The studious protagonist is being trained by his father to take over his fief, and he is allowed to make decisions about how to advance the fief's economy. In addition to the fief-level story, there are a couple of character quests (very different from each other) that are used for both mechanical and personality character development.
The story is well-paced, the protagonist is sympathetic and interesting, and the world development is well handled. In spite of the flaws in this book, I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
Weak writing, but good story
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Good Book
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Slow but interesting
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a great start
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I felt the MC should be smarter given...
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fairly decent will buy book 2
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The realism that I've been looking for
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A Really enjoyable listen
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