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Time Chaser

A LitRPG Game of Death

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Time Chaser

By: Rick Gualtieri
Narrated by: David Winter
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TIME IS NOT ON HIS SIDE.

My name’s Tim McAvoy. I was a mid-level software manager from suburbia until the day I caught my wife with another man. I thought our divorce was the worst fate imaginable. But then I met my end at the grill of a speeding bus, only to realize I didn’t have a clue.

Whisked away at the moment of my death to a dimension beyond time and space, I now find myself an unwilling contestant in a multiversal game where brutal bloodshed is considered entertainment. My only chance to get my life back is to win. But if I lose, not only will I die for real this time, but my entire world, including my son, could be erased from existence.

With a jaded AI by my side and a juiced-up squash racket in hand, I'll have to face off against the worst horrors history has to offer as I race to complete the first of twelve increasingly deadly levels.

The rules of this game are simple: I need to survive and grow stronger while always keeping one eye on the clock – because once time runs out, there won’t be any more second chances.

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From Rick Gualtieri, the twisted mind behind Bill The Vampire and Bigfoot Hunters, comes a brand new GameLit adventure. Time Chaser is the pulse-pounding tale of an average guy trapped in a game of danger, nonstop terror, and the bloodthirsty howls of an audience with an insatiable appetite for destruction.

Fans of Matt Dinniman and James Hunter won't want to miss this time-spanning thrill ride full of action, suspense, and heavy amounts of snark.

Content Warning: This book contains violence, gore, swearing, and disturbing scenarios.

©2024 Rick Gualtieri (P)2025 Rick Gualtieri
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I am only a third of the way through the book, and I love the author and his work. this book is good, but the narrator is really throwing me off. it seems like they have a British accent but they are trying to do an American accent. The words are slow like the character is drunk and he is slowly trying to articulate his words. but then random words have a British accent and it sounds weird. The only good voices are the AI voice and other characters voices. The main character is hard to listen to because it throws me out of the story. it really makes me lose my suspension of disbelief when it comes to the story.

The narrator is about to ruin it for me.

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Love the new take on the litrpg genre. The chosen one trope is played out but you find yourself cheering on Tim. Wasn’t a huge fan of the narrator’s pronunciations of certain words. Maybe American English pronounces things different from whatever his native language is but I was able to figure out things through context so no biggie. Wasn’t horrible to listen to, just difficult at times.

This note is just for Rick: May your soul burn eternally in everlasting torment with the sentence “Tim, just f***ing Tim” playing on loop while Satan penetrates your sphincter.

Great start to another series

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Everybody loves an underdog. I also like the snappy quips between the MC and the FAST. I also appreciate how the MC has actual struggles. Great entertainment value

Hilarious and fun book

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I look forward to many more adventures of the gang. fantastic when is the pre order for the next 5 books.

perfect voice for our MC

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Just finished up listening to the book and I had a great ride through.

While it did take a bit for the narrator to really warm up once he hit his stride it was really smooth sailing and his voice for the main character tonally was quite solid. I especially liked his voices for Boog, Pixel, and Dreyger as well which I feel allowed him to be a bit more natural in his intonations. A few pronunciation hiccups did not spoil anything.

On the story end, my only critique is it felt a touch longer than the story needed to be, or that maybe I just wanted a little more variety to the location or stage as a whole that the first stage was. The characters held up to the level and quality I expect from Rick's work and soon entered the same cherished place in my mind that the rest of his works hold. I full expect as he continues to work on this series he will bring more to this particular genre and I'm looking forward to the next installment!

Achievement Unlocked!

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I really enjoyed reading about the LitRPG adventures of Tim, Pixel and Boog. The story had a great balance of humor, real life issues, danger, machinations, supernatural elements, fighting, and morality. Tim is a middle manager at a software company whose life recently imploded - cheating spouse, work trouble and living in a motel. Just as he’s about to be hit by a bus, he is yanked into the reality show “Time Chaser” run by superior alien entities and broadcast to the universe. This season the contestants are pulled from multiple versions of earth and throughout the human timeline at the moment right before their death. Now the chasers have to compete LitRPG style against bosses, other chasers, and the environment. They can obtain achievements and penalties etc all with the help of an AI FAST unit. All for the chance to maybe, maybe not die in real life and potentially fix an issue in that life or potentially destroy their version of earth. Tim just wants to get back for his 5 yo son Jeremy and try to stay a decent person in the process. I loved the interplay between Tim, Pixel and Boog and that Tim’s character is a sarcastic, naive, messy, lucky, kind of dumb, and awkward man who regularly screws up which makes him a very likeable and relatable hero. The story includes what you’d expect from this genre - fighting, dangerous situations, supernatural creatures, evil entities, henchmen, loyal friends, tragic back stories, mystical coincidences, snark, and laughs. I will definitely keep reading the series to see what happens next with Tim and his friends. 4.25 stars.

David Winter did a phenomenal job narrating the story and characters into life with enough change of inflection, tone and cadence to voice multiple characters quite convincingly.

Time and a second chance

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I rather enjoyed this book. I usually don't care for LitRPG but this one is absolutely the exception. The characters are snarky and interesting. If you like modern novels with a touch of crude snark, you'll enjoy this book.

Fast paced and fun!

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Well, I’m a fan of the author’s work, but this is different than a lot of his other stories. The humor was different, the action was different in a really good way. I really appreciated a few throwbacks to other books, While I prefer audible books at this time, I think I’m gonna have to read the next one of the series because I won’t be able to wait.

I can’t wait for the next one!

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Having a British narrator that kept reverting from doing an American accent was distracting everytime hus pronunciation slipped back to British.

a bit slow to get going. The second half was much tighter and had better flow

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Good story. Narrator accent takes a minute to get used to, but afterwords it’s cool.

Pretty good

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