
The Greystone Chronicles: Book One: Io Online
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Narrated by:
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Laurie Catherine Winkel
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Jeff Hays
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By:
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Dave Willmarth
In the latter half of the 21st century, Alexander and his guild mates play Io Online for fun and to earn a living. It's the largest VRMMORPG on the planet, and the source of income that supports families around the globe. While completing a rare First Kill dungeon in hopes of epic loot, they discover that demons have once again invaded Io.
Given the chance to test a new experimental immersion system, the veteran players must give up their high-level characters and begin again at level one. As they work through the noob zone quests, they discover that the new immersion system allows them to play in ways that hadn't been possible before. Casting is faster. Movement more fluid. Even magic itself behaves differently. They quickly run afoul of a party of player killers and become the targets of an entire PK guild bent on spawn-camping them until they leave the game. War has been declared.
The fight expands into populated areas, where innocent citizens are murdered, and player accounts are terminated. The guild works to help citizens rebuild what has been destroyed, but are repeatedly forced to stop and defend against enemy attacks. After the gods of Io and a powerful being of darkness get involved, Alexander and his friends learn the hard way that their in-game actions have consequences, both in the game and in the real world.
Soundbooth Theater has had the honor of working with Laurie Catherine Winkel once more, in the first installment of the epic Greystone Chronicles. Her bright and light performance matches the tone of this Gamelit romp about friendship and community, while perfectly framing Jeff Hays' performance as the male cast.
The Soundbooth Theater team for this production:
- Laurie Catherine Winkel - narration, female characters, and Fibble!
- Jeff Hays - male characters
- Dalton Lynne - proofing, editing
- Justin Thomas James - production, editing, mastering
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Next, the writing! Well Doggies this too is top notch, grade A stuff. The characters are all fun, and I would have a hard time narrowing out a favorite. Alexander has a cool side story about his being healed via his immersion in the game, but that plot line isn't resolved by the end of the book; so I guess that will be looked at in another book! Yeah!! Another one!!!! The action is really great and the book speeds along. You know it is good when it is three AM and you don't want to stop listening even though you have to get up a six. Yeah, it pulls you in deep.
I can see some people complaining that the characters are too overpowered, and while that might actually be the case I have found it to be the norm for a book in this genre. Just look at the uberleveling in Awaken Online and you will see my point. So, I do not hold that against the storyline at all. In fact, I've pretty much come to expect it. Willmarth knows how to hold your attention and make things exciting. I'll certainly be anticipating book 2!!! Even though I did receive a promo code for this review it in no way influenced my considerations of the material, and in fact, inspired me to be more honest. In fact, getting a code generally makes me harsher as a reviewer as I am more often concerned what someone like Me will decide based on my review.
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Io, Io, it's off to the VRMMORPG I go!
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superb story even better performance
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This was my first LitRPG audiobook and I will certainly be looking for more.
This has all the elements of a good MMORPG and took me back to my World of Warcraft days, almost makes me want to start playing again.
The fact that the main character, Alexander, has a medical condition that made his dad develop the game for him was an interesting aspect.
It hit a little bit of a lull about 3/4 of the way through where it seemed a bit repetitive but anyone who has played a MMORPG knows that they do tend to be very repetitive to leveling.
The narration done by Laurie Catherine Winkel & Jeff Hays was highly enjoyable and I will be looking for more by these 2 narrators and SoundBooth Theater.
I received a copy of this audiobook at my request and this is my honest unbiased review.
Excellent!
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Great, but...
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Dave writes different stories with a comfortable familiarity. Being part of a FB group in which he is quite active, I was encouraged to check out this series...and when the Fibble hit, the party really got started! Y'all just give it a go, you're gonna like it a whole lot.
Dang Mr. Willmarth!
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loved it!
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the narrator isn't very talented maybe just green
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Awesome to have a male and female cast
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FIBBLE!!
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Laurie Catherine Winkel is the Princess Leia of ..
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