All the Skills 3: A Deck-Building LitRPG

All the Skills, Book 3

By: Honour Rae

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Where power is measured in cards, Arthur stands among the elite as a Legendary card wielder now forever linked to a frighteningly powerful dragon.

Or Brixaby will be once he grows from the size of a parrot.

Before that can happen, a chance encounter whisks Arthur and Brixaby away to a place they never thought possible: A new dragon hive outside the kingdom. This Free Hive doesn't suffer from the scourge that's infected the rest of the planet. It's a place where crafting using card powers is king.

But even here, an old enemy sings threats from the shadows. The Free Hive cannot defend itself; it needs the strength of Legendary card wielders.

To protect the Free Hive, Arthur and Brixaby must become stronger. That means more skills and, most importantly, more cards to add to their decks.

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Critic reviews

“Honour Rae’s All the Skills has everything I love: great writing, an intriguing mystery, and badass dragons. Well, some of them are badass. Some are dweebs, and that makes it even more awesome. And the audio is some of Luke Daniels’s finest work.” —Matt Dinniman, bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

coming of age

nicely structured repetitive at some points seams to slow the story or fill space over all entertaining.

Legendary Rank Awesomeness

This is by far the best card-based LitRPG series out there. Seriously though fantastic

Great story—nice curves

I enjoyed the way this book kept surprising me. I like all the interesting characters, and I especially appreciate that the focus always remains on the main character and his dragon. As someone who loves lit RPG, my one wish is that there be more skill growth.

A mix of all the traits

This book uses all the different aspects of a dragon lore and mixes it with earth, water, wind and fire lore. I loved every minute of it.

Great story

Love this story! Can’t wait to see where it goes next! I was invested from the start of the first book but it just gets better and better

great writing and engrossing story kine

great series so far not what i expected after the the second book. book three is moving the story line in intresting directions.

Good story, too many problems

I want to preface this by saying I still enjoyed this book, but I found it to be a weak addition to a series I enjoy. I, as a person that is willing to overlook many problems with stories, seriously struggled to stay immersed in this book, and the worst part is that no single large problem was responsible for this. Instead it was the culmination of many small problems and plot holes that could have easily been fixed with proofreading and minimal editing.

The most aggregious of these plot holes is the main cast being unable to leave the place they are held captive im because the return to start card not being able to bring their allies with them. This could have trivially been resolved by storing them in the main character's personal space, a solution which was in fact used in this book to bypass a door only one person could enter.

This wouldn't have even been an issue if the main character just actively decided to stay for a while, something that wouldn't even be out of character for him to do, but instead this "impossibility" is repeatedly thrown out as an obstacle. This same problem repeats in the end when the main character splits up from his friends because they didn't want to bring them back to the hive before traveling using portals. They split up and used their return to start card to go somewhere else before traveling by portal when there was no reason whatsoever for them to not set their teleport point to where their friends are first.

There could have also been any number of reasons for them to temporarily split up, but there wasn't even an attempt to disguise the fact it was solely to leave them out of part of the next book. The fact that the main character is supposed to be creative and resourceful exacerbates this issue.

Additionally, there were many smaller problems like characters seemingly having been forgotten about in scenes they are present in and world-changing new plot devices that feel like thinly veiled ret-cons (dungeons, easy weapon enchanting, etc.). Once again, I really like this series. I just hope the author gets someone else to read over their next book and spends an extra weak editing it before releasing it. That's all it would have taken to make this book a great addition to the series rather than a passable one.

A good balanced ending.

The story and the narration was good, but I think I’m gonna leave the series here. Enjoy.

Loving this series!

Great story and fabulous narration! Unique storyline based on deck-building RPGs. Fun to read esp if you’ve played RPGs.

yup

if you're a fan more of the goodness. Now more character driven. God parent of card based lit. no poo...