
The Tower of Aetherius: A Progression Fantasy
Odyssey of the Ethereal, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Diana Richardson
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By:
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Jamie Kojola
Waking up as one's video game avatar is no walk in the park—in fact, it's a harrowing tower climb—in this witty isekai for fans of geeky, badass women.
When Aesca Lampi wakes up in the form of her character from Eldest Fantasy Wars Online, she's annoyed by the historical inaccuracies. (Video-game-style scrolls? Really?) That is, until a building collapses on top of her, revealing she's on a fantastical island centered around the impossibly tall, glowing Tower of Aetherius . . . with an array of dangerous creatures—including jaguar hybrids, velociraptors, and giant, flesh-eating lizards—in the way. (Oh, joy.)
OK, so she's dead. Now what? In order to become a true Aetherian, Aesca is challenged by the god Aetherius himself to make her way through all one hundred levels of the tower and free the world from the tyranny of Oizys, Goddess of Misery. Aesca's mission seems relatively simple: solve the puzzles, forge alliances, regenerate when killed, move on. But soon she's involving herself in elf-human border negotiations and running from black vipers.
As the climb gets ever more harrowing and a host of deities begins to interfere, Aesca will need all her strength, cleverness, and wit—plus her trusty dragon-cat, Arkaziel—to ascend the levels and fight Oizys before it's too late. And she doesn't even have a help menu to assist her . . .
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An excellent start to an Epic Journey
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Two Thumbs way Up!!
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fun
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I found the book to be interesting on the whole and I liked the wide variety of levels/floors/worlds that were in it. I also liked the general concept of the book and the main characters were both likeable and had good chemistry together. The book kept up a fast pace throughout, which was both good and bad. It kept things new and fresh and made sure that if the reader didn't happen to like a particular level, it was over pretty quickly, but also made all the characters that the MC meets seem paper thin. This was especially true of the love interest in the book, which weirdly gets developed mostly after the fact in a flashback for no reason. That was odd. Anyway, I just didn't feel any connection to any of the secondary characters at all. None.
Another issue I had with the book was the lack of good descriptions on what was going on in the scene. Since pretty much the entire book is about new locations and fighting, a lack of a good picture of what was happening just kind of cripples the book. The author has a good imagination, but hasn't really learned how to share it well, unfortunately. It isn't horribly done by any means, but it could have been a great book instead of just a good one with better imagery.
Overall, my recommendation is to give it a go. It's a pretty good time and mostly quite enjoyable. I will probably read the sequel to this when released, but I'm not super confident it will be any good. This book covers half a tower, and the author has set up the goal for MC to beat ten. There is no way the author has the ability to make so much more of the same soup into something tasty, so I'm skeptical where things will go from here.
Pretty Solid
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fantastic start
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Differently Good
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I enjoyed it
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Fun!
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Boring and useless padding
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The MC is really stupid in one chapter then has a sudden infusion of brilliance in the next. The hypocrisy of the MC is so obvious but I dont think the author saw it. At one point the MC tells her companion that he should not punch down and attack those that he knows are weaker than him. Then in the very next chapter she does exactly that.
I can say that the companion of the MC is my favorite part as that character seems to be thought out. I was tempted to stop listening around chapter 25 but I had a morbid curiosity as to how bad the book could get. It was bad.
The person that is narrator did a very good job.
One of the worst Litrpg I have heard
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