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You Are Summoned

A LitRPG Adventure

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You Are Summoned

By: Dean Henegar
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
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Ever wonder what it's like be a disposable Minion forced onto Quests by Summoners?

It was supposed to be another boring day at the insurance office for Rico Kline, but powerful forces had other plans for him.

Finding himself repeatedly summoned to other worlds as a disposable minion, Rico must face deadly foes, disarm insidious traps, become a test subject, and run the occasional errand for his various summoners.

At least when each summoning is over, he’s rewarded and sent back home. But being back home has its own set of problems, and he'll need to grow stronger to face it all.

Bestseller Dean Henegar returns with this unique spin on isekai LitRPG, about a MC turned into a summon minion who has to complete tasks for random summoners, allowing for a variety of adventures, foes, and missions as he progresses in power each time... But is any of it random?

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so freaking awesome will get you summon.

from start to finish actions. when some one summons what is it. just someone made of magic or are they more. here we find an answer. they are summoned from worlds who can only stay as long as the magic holds and/or would be death. as we follow along with the mc as he tries to balance his life.

i would definitely recommend and cant wait for the second book

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Worth it!

A well written fun story with a creative new take. Looking forward to the next one!!

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Really interesting twist on LitRPG

I really enjoyed this story, it had an interesting and fun story to explain the LitRPG premise. Would recommend.

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Interesting Episodic Story, But Badly Written

This book is a bit of an odd case. Generally, I'm of the opinion that a concept is worth very little - it's the execution that matters. And yet, for the most part, this book proves me wrong.

The execution is mid a best. Dialogue is clunky, side-characters are two-dimensional at best, and the worldbuilding is pretty shallow. If you've seen anything Tolkien derivative from the past two decades, you already know this setting. As far as I can tell, nothing original is done with the world, although admittedly I didn't get much farther that half-way into this book.

And yet despite that, the premise is still very interesting for most of what I managed to read. Getting quick, clearly biased glimpses into the lives of various fantasy folk is quite interesting, and the protagonist's reactions to them were both believable and fun. Of particular note was how he handled the changes to his situation in the normal world, which weren't a drag on the story at all.

Eventually, though, the novelty wore out. The plot progressed in ways that gave us longer spans of times with each character, and the book suffered for it. When we were popping in and out in 5 min, dialog that explained a character's history, station, and motivation in twenty words or less is excusable by appealing to the shortness of the scene. When we spend more than a chapter with these characters, though, it becomes apparent just how painfully shallow they are. That, combined with the most cookie-cutter fantasy setting I’ve seen in a while, led me to put down this story with five hours to go.

Overall, it had a lot of potential. The System wasn't as omniscient as others (giving the protagonist more wiggle room), and the situation on Earth was kinda interesting. But with so little to enjoy on the fantasy side of the question (beyond the introduction of each shallowly interesting scenario), I can't really find it in myself to recommend. This book is on the low end of average, and your ability to enjoy it to the end will depend largely on your tolerance for dialog that more often than not is phrased something like "I, [fullname] from [background] with [motivation], am sure glad you’re here to help with [current situation]."

For reference, in most of those situations, appropriate dialog would be something close to “Summon, go kill.” and a finger pointed in a relevant direction.


I do not recommend.

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Spoiler alert

Why didn’t he print blueprints on his phone and then make the gnomes more powerful with years of human engineering and technology

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Early days and moronic decision

he gives away his coins and cash, he is very layed back about everything. doesn't really take warnings seriously. he is very kind which is a boon but it gets him in more trouble than you would normally expect. it seems the author wanted to make everything about summoning inconvenient to the extreme. he's weak but that's early days, I picked this book on a whim, the idea behind it was new and I thought it would be cool and interesting. the execution needed work I think

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Great new idea!!

Great premise and great book. Must read!!! I was intrigued but the book delivered in spades!

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Great idea. MC complains way too much

Definitely a different take on Litrpg. Well written. Good story. The MC is ok but he complaints and whines so much I had to skip over parts. There is no value add to him thinking he is owed answers and constantly complaining about the game guide. It adds nothing. Overall good. 50/50'on if I will read the next one.

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The longest primer textbook yet

Dean Henegar series concept is interesting, where humans are summoned to another realm to assist others on tasks, be they, self defense, bait or mundane. The difference is that, once summoned, they can and will be summoned repeatedly from then on.

Where this book falls apart is that it is almost all about 21 hundred questions and interminable responses sprinkled with some action in between. If that weren't enough to be a buzz-kill, there is repeated cut and past descriptions of his stats. All of which slows the pace of the story to such a degree that I almost stopped listening and would have except for Eric Jason Martin's performance.

I'll not be continuing this series,

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What a top-notch start to a new litRPG series by Dean Henegar!!!

I love this book so much!!! Totally worth getting the audiobook too 'cause the narrator's top notch. And the book is absodamnlutely one of my favorites... But really picking up this one was a no-brainer since it's written by the man who wrote Cat Core, and I know you loved that trilogy, didn't cha'. Also as a side-note I really enjoy deck-building litRPG's and I feel like this is kinda sorta like the reverse of that, as Rico is kinda like what a card (the entity) in the deck might feel, to be Summoned only as a tool and then discarded when the summons was over... Only sometimes a bond is created between the summoner and his tool, and they can form a pact... and yes that's the best way for Rico to level getting both experience points and loot! And wow the Gnomes names are soooooooo funny, like these for starters Lumpleniz, Fazzlemore, and Fitzfazzle... Glumbleflump, Nobbleyzip... I ask you, how can you not laugh out loud when you hear the narrator pronounce those?!? Huh!?!
And well life on earth has been rather rocky for Rico since this all started. To find out how rocky, grab this action-driven litRPG adventure.

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