Last Bastion

Forever Fantasy Online, Book 2

De: Rachel Aaron, Travis Bach

Narrado por: Josh Hurley

Bastion was supposed to mean safety. It was supposed to mean a break from fighting for their lives and a chance to talk to someone who might actually know what’s going on. Access to their gold and some beer would have been nice, too.

They got none of those things. When they arrive in the capital, Tina and James find a city on fire in more ways than one. Players and non-players hunt each other in the streets, while the king who controls the city’s all-powerful artifact cowers from the chaos in his castle. Desperate to warn somebody about the Once King’s coming invasion, James wants to try to talk to the king anyway, while Tina just wants to meet the royal portal keepers who might be able to send them home.

It shouldn’t be hard to get an army of the world’s best-geared players through one city, but when they discover that the captain of the Royal Knights has been massacring low-level players in revenge disguised as justice, James and Tina will have to decide which is more important: the lives of their fellow gamers, or the stability of their new world’s last great city. Both choices deserve a champion, but with the Once King’s armies closing in, taking the wrong side may doom everyone to an eternity as slaves to the Ghostfire.

©2019 Rachel Aaron and Travis Bach (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Great story and a incredible narrator.

Great story and a incredible narrator. The narrator is one of the best I’ve ever heard.

Really Loved This Book

If you know anything at all about gaming, you will really love this book. I recommend that you read the first book in the series, Forever Fantasy oOnline. Then reading this book would flow a lot better for you. The world building, character development and story line are all amazing.

WOKE, but has good storyline.

Lots of good action and nice story plot but far too much teenage drama. But the biggest problem is it's too woke

Top 10

This is easily in my top ten favorites. The story is great , and riveting. I cannot wait until the next book is out . The first book the narration was a bit over the top but in this book it was much better and very enjoyable.

World to live in..

Just like we actually live in Forever Fantasy Online you can live in the book until it ends.

Better than the first.

The first book started off a little slow. Last Bastion picks up the speed.
The only issue I see is that perhaps the siblings are too stubborn towards each other to be believable. That or the family is broken beyond hope.

Maintains the quality of the first

If you liked the first one this one won't disappoint. Quality is maintained, characters see some growth, I constantly go back and forth deciding which one of the siblings is the one that's wrong and felt relieved at the end of the book to see them come together.

Gack, how do I review this one?

How do I review this one? 2hrs into the book, I put it down... and almost didn't pick it up again, due in part to the fact that I was having trouble reconnecting with the characters, but mostly because of Josh Hurley's over the top narration. At the time, it just seemed like too much to take! To be fair, I quite enjoy these authors, and I had enjoyed their first book in the series, so I put "Bastion" away, thinking that maybe I'd just listened to too many LitRPG's recently, and needed a break from the genre... Finally, a month later, I was ready to tackle it again, so I girded my loins, and  picked up the book again (Josh's narration now being a known consequence). I discovered that within just a few minutes, I'd been sucked into the action packed adventure.
The story picked up exactly where book no. one left off, and again follows Roxxy (aka Tina) and her brother James... but surprisingly they're not together as I'd expected. A difference of opinion created a rift between them as they each had separate goals. I really enjoyed seeing the character development of the other members of Roxxy's raiding party, but boy there was times when all I wanted to do was to slap some sense into Roxxy! She's just so damn stubborn and pigheaded! My son (who's an avid gamer) pointed out that her rock-headedness was built into her nature as she's both a Tank, and she's wearing her character's Stonekin persona...
  ... And yeah, the ending is sorta a cliffhanger, but as with the first tale, I'm not too angry, as the main story's ARC finished on a high note...
Will I pick up the next audiobook? Yeah, especially as my son is enjoying the heck out of the series, and I've proved that I can put up with the narrator (while my husband makes fun of the narration, from his lofty position in the peanut gallery! ).

good book!

very good sequel. the ending made me curious about the next book. if you liked the first one, you will like this one as well

A great story and startling improvement.

For the review I wrote on the last book I mentioned the weak preformance of the male reader and time inconsistencies in the story, but I was thrilled to see a dramatic improvement in his ability to adjust his tone, AND the time inconsistencies became part of the story and were actually acknowledged by the characters. My only other complaint is how much less the oyher voice actor was involved, but otherwise i greatly enjoyed the story.