Minute Mage III

By: Reg Rome

Narrated by: Brian Wiggins

The land of opportunity awaits.

For the first time since the start of the invasion, Arlan has found safety within the walls of the Empire. Others may use this opportunity to sleep in, eat good food, and get some rest. But Arlan has other ideas.

Because within the same walls that have comfortable beds and expensive restaurants, one can also find magical items, powerful allies, and plenty of high-level monsters to slay.

He may have found a moment of safety, but Arlan knows the Demons have not yet been defeated—not by a long shot. And he intends to make their next attack the worst mistake they'll ever make.

Book three of a new LitRPG adventure filled with time magic, three-dimensional characters, a crunchy LitRPG system, tactical combat, and power progression where level-ups are hard-earned and bring with them meaningful change in characters’ abilities.

©2024 Reg Rome (P)2024 Recorded Books

Too much F words

Basic concept is very interesting, but the constant use of the F word is just too much. The listing of the character's magical attributes at first is interesting, but after a while it gets a bit tedious. The idea of demons having really long names being an indication of their rank or importance is cute, but repeatedly listing them gets irritating. However, if book 4 is released, I will probably get it.

Bad. Like BAD bad

normally I'm pretty lenient on books. Even books I don't love are listened to multiple times. This book is BAD. One listen was honestly too many listens. if I'm being totally honest I was a bit iffy on this series coming out of book two. it was kinda cringe but there was enough going on that I picked up book three. Book three is somehow way WAY emptier and lackluster compared to book two. the premise is neat I guess but clearly writing about it for this long is proving to be a challenge. The characters are mid and kind of nothing keeps you reading. I want to like the party and in some sections I do but it's just not enough.

the narration and voice acting is the okayest. the characters are fine enough but there are long awkward pauses that only highlight how bad this story is at times. this book has me questioning how I even made it this far into the series.

Overall, save your credit. save your money. don't fall into the "well I'm already two books in let's see how it is" trap that I did. Just move on to a different series. I don't want to say this series is going nowhere since maybe Rome will find a muse and the series will kick ass in a couple books but that is not the path it is on now.

Skip This: Should Not Have Been Published

Rome had a decent premise and strong character potential. There were steady challenges and growth in the first two books.
This time around Rome decided to hit his protagonists with stupid sticks. This is on top of a meandering, pointless plot that went nowhere. Frankly it was obvious that Rome just stopped caring.
As for Wiggins, please work on the your timing. The listening experience was jerky with endless pauses and stops that were not warranted.
I understand this is a new author and narrator, but there is only so much suffering an audience should be asked to take.

The book that broke the series

In this book we are introduced to a common cleric and paladin spell that deals damage based on amount of humans killed. Obviously the author does not realize this, but this spell broke the system itself, the worldbuilding and the premise of the books. It changes everything from the very premise of war, and thus nation building and politics to the very fact that demons can invade at all. Thus the author has invalidated everything in their universe, the world can literally not exist in the way it has been described and with that the point of listening to these books has disappeared. Good job my dude...