Master and Apprentices

Rise of the Cheat Potion Maker, Book 2

By: Alvin Atwater

Narrated by: Matt Hicks, Allie Piper

The story of Nate the potion maker continues!

Well, did you know that Kyushu is an F-ranked town? Neither did I, but had I known about this tidbit information, all of the unfortunate attacks would’ve made sense. I think. But the Lord Ruler truly is a douche canoe for leaving his people to fend for themselves.

That’s not all. My shop’s ranking is E, embarrassing really, despite all of the hard work put into building it.

There’s a lot of work to do to be competitive with the other shops out there. But the most important things are training my apprentices, getting to know my betrothed, understanding my pets, and welcoming our new farmhand.

Will I ever be confident enough to truly feel like a master of apprentices? Who knows?

The story begins with picking up my third apprentice from a mother who may have too much ambition and enough anger issues to give even Meredith Blake a run for her money.

Novel contains: Strong MC in a slice of life environment, dungeon diving, boss battles, cultivation and elements, mana/magic, mc exclusive system but it doesn't do the work for him, treasures, adventurers, slow world building, build-up, features that will not be introduced all at once (upgrades so on), actual good loot at the end of very powerful bosses, romance (no harem). As characters develop throughout the series, issues and emotions and even the mc may find himself in a corner or two. A story of an upcoming potion shopkeeper and his apprentices.

Building an S-ranked Potion Shop is easier said than done...

©2022 Alvin Atwater (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Love it

this is an incredible and enjoyable listen. yes the story remains with most gamelit tropes in the sense of an individual with over the top power who always achieves victory because of some convenient plot device or whatever. Yet that isn't the driving point in this adventure. Nate continues to resist the "hero's call" and aims to advance his own skills and desires. I'm constantly looking forward to how he will avoid revealing his strengths each time. the fact that his chosen goal is almost actively restrained by the system makes his progress, even the slightest, something very interesting and never feels like guarantee. Honestly his struggles to achieve his personal goals is as exciting as most boss fights I've watched. maybe there is even a lesson buried inside this story, something about not letting the world dictate your outcomes... or maybe I'm childish.

Just keeps getting better!!!

I am seriously hooked on this series! It has the awesome feel of an anime but with more details and not an over abundance of too many tropes. I also like the slightly more laid back approach of the narrative but still giving us progress and development. I’m seriously looking forward to where this series goes next!

Hicks and Piper both do an amazing job with their character voices! Especially Hicks with the job to narrate the overall story. Looking forward to the next book on audible!

Just amazing!

If you haven’t read/listened to the first book, I recommend starting there first. The readers of this book are amazing!

Awesome sequel

The audio for book two is now out obviously and I am blazing my way through it. The narration team is still relatively new to me, but I think they have delivered a phenomenal performance. I actually left a review on the eBook version of this volume. I'm just going to go ahead and copy and paste it below so that you've got my unfiltered feelings from when I finished the story the first time around. As of the time of this review book three is available in eBook form and I'm about 60% of the way through. I kind of put that on pause because I wanted to go back and enjoy the audio book. Also what I found out is that the gentleman author has a Patreon and already has several chapters of book four up and available. With that I hope you help make this series a success and enjoy it as much as I do.

Right up front I'm going to say that I recommend this series to anybody reading this review. When it comes to a sequel, I'm looking for everything that made the first book worth reading and then some. I'm glad to say that this the second volume was exactly that. I am not an anime fan. There are some important people in my life who enjoy it and have tried to get me interested in it but with literally only four successes I am happy to announce a fifth one. That would be this one. I really did enjoy the story and it's over the top humorous nature. Our hero is still reluctant to become a hero and despite his best-efforts excitement continues to find him. He is still endeavoring to raise the letter rank of his shop at the beginning of this book and the rank of the town at the end of this book. This is the first series that I have read by this author. Volume one I actually listen to the newly released audiobook and could not wait for the sequel to get the same treatment. After binging the two volumes in 3 days I find myself dying of anticipation for volume three. While I waste away waiting, I will simply say Well done to everybody who's had a hand in bringing this book to us, the Amazon readers and I can't wait for what comes next.

good ideas

it's nice seeing the difference between people looking for power and those trying for peace (without being pushovers). rarely is the person wanting peace able to overcome those after power. most peaceful people are sheep unwilling to stand up for themselves. it's cool seeing the protagonist not be the cocky hero. it's also nice to see jerks learn humility... and evil doers get comeuppance mostly

enjoyed

Loved the storyline. There's enough adventure to keep you interested and enough comic relief to add to the enjoyment of the store. Both the author and the voice performers did a wonderful job.

Loved it

Loved it it was fun and easy to listen to forsure recommend it’s akin to my favorite light novels

Easy going story

This is a great listen and just fun to follow along. Can't wait for more!

Book 2 full of fantastic fairies

Alvin Atwater did a great job on book two. Narrators Matt Hicks and Allie Piper do an awesome job

loved it

my original review is missing so you'll just get a generic this is a good story and you should listen to it one.