Dragon Collector

By: Simon Archer

Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Melissa Moran

Journey to a new world. Check. Tame a dragon. Check. Gain incredible magic power. Check. Save the Kingdom. Check. Acquire more dragons. Check. Repeat as needed.

DISCLAIMER: This book contains a harem and adult situations. Trust me, it's awesome.

©2020 Simon Archer (P)2020 Simon Archer

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FUCKING KAREN'S! Even in awesome audiobooks. ruining shit even in fiction. well here's a metaphysical middle finger KAREN!

Great Book

This book was awesome! Moving in some places, but otherwise made me want to dive in. Only lasted me a day so I hope there's a book 2 soon!

Decent but not great

The main problem with this book is how the MC is written. He is hard to like. Too bad because the concept is awesome but just poorly realized. It had promise.

Good, but fast

An overall good book, struggles with the pace. Felt like the characters grew attached to each other faster then I was able to keep up, and the speed at which the MC grew in power seemed off. Otherwise a great book.

not this again

The one thing I hate more than anything is starting things off in the middle. don't do that start your story at the beginning. also telling us in chapter one that the mc is a total chad and super sexy and has all the money and a stone cold bad ass doesn't make me want keep reading its boring and mad it a chore to keep grinding through this.

Don’t waste your time on this series

Massive emotional overreactions, shallow character development, including shallow interpersonal relationships (even for a harem series) are just some of the problems you’ll run into with this series.

The characters and main premise seemed interesting enough for me to stick with it for a few books. It has the usual forced plot goals including the usual political preaching (because we can never hear those same political preached at us enough, right?).

Seriously, I’m not sure if maybe this was one of the authors first books, or if perhaps all those english/writing teachers prompts forcing students to constantly write about specific political directives have irrevocably corrupted students to be unable to imagine anything not tying in politically motivated plot lines.

You can see these same steps over and over: 1) The base political idea is laid forth in the form of a parable or allegory in the plot. 2) an overly emotional response is gushed out over how anyone could possibly not choose the “correct” choice, followed by 3) shallow acceptance, followed by story progression.

All of the other shortcomings would have been acceptable if not for the regular preaching. Like I mentioned, the premise itself seemed pretty interesting. It would also help if the MC were more mature.

Most of the audio work was great, except that the voice actress seems to try to pronounce everything as separate single syllables... no idea on that one…

MC is annoyingly slow

Almost a whole chapter is spent convincing him that he's the Dragon King. Which is just stupid, how many more hints did the guy need. It just made the mc look naive and incrediblyslow on the uptake.
I also agree with his dragon that he was a coward for putting up with the king. If things are as dire as they say he definitely cost more lives by letting the King and Nobles continue like nothing's happening.

Disappointing

I have very much enjoyed a couple of Mr. Archer's other titles greatly so I looked forward to listening to this series as well. Unfortunately I was severely disappointed. The protagonist is shallow, extremely self centered, immature and self righteous to name the most glaring of his many distasteful characteristics. I managed to choke down this book and get partially through the next book before I had to stop and return them. While the main character is terrible the remainder aren't quite as bad but even they aren't up to the standard of his other characters in the titles I've listened to thus far. Hopefully I'll find it's the only case I come across.

mc is trash

i normally like the books from this arthor but this mc is the biggest wimp I've ever read about.

This one is not for me

I couldn't finish this. There is very little I liked about this book. First off it's slow. Even when he meets a dragon it's uninteresting. The characters feel flat and there are weird political references. The narration style of this book is weird, it has two narrators but they switch off when the perspective changes. Just have them have designated characters. They're good narrators but they are wasted on this.