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A LitRPG Adventure

By: Kos Play

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Complete Quests. Earn Renown. Win.

Meet Alexander Krup, your average high school graduate turned video game beta tester. Working for a strange company nobody has ever heard of, he earns his pay by the achievement.

After a string of bad luck, including his girlfriend dumping him, he wakes up one seemingly average day and is suddenly faced with blue boxes of text that float in the air. While coming to grips with the fact that he might by hallucinating, a representative of his mysterious employer communicates through the menu boxes to offer a fresh life in another world.

With nothing left to lose, Alexander takes the offer and is sent hurtling into a fantasy world both like and unlike any game he's played before.

Now, he must choose an alignment.

Will he seek Renown or Infamy? One way or another, Alex will leave a mark… or will it be a stain?

Don't miss this exciting new LitRPG Adventure from Kos Play, author of the System School Series. Join Alex as he rises from zero-to-hero in a new world filled with monsters, a detailed system, magic, power progression, and so much more!

©2024 Aethon Books (P)2024 Aethon Audio

Worth a credit

give it a shot, really enjoyed it, good pacing, and simple world building without slamming stats constantly in our face

half way through, then trash

half way through and ran into block. writer has no clue what a man would do if forced to wear cursed underwear that removes his ability to have sex. young 18 year Olds would rather burn the world Than meekly move on to next piece of loot. completely broke immersion.

Entertaining at times, irritating at others

I liked the hook. The MC wasnt bad at first, but did start to get whiney when things got hard. It made sense for his character, but that doesn't mean it wasnt annoying. As expected he got a little better as the story progressed, and then he got over confident and bad things happen. Fairly typical, and that's fine, but the problem I have with this book is that the characters intelligence is inconsistent. Forgetting things, or making dumb choices at convenient plot points, or keeping a cool head in most situations, then letting their temper control them in convenient plot moving places. It's a little shoddy story telling. It's not just the MC either.

I enjoyed it enough that, I'll probably get the next book, but I'm not eagerly anticipating it or anything.

Great story

I really enjoyed this story it was silly exciting and fun. I really hope there's going to be more.

okish but not original

The story started like many do. But the issue I had almost from the start was it was as if someone was narrating a video game. like every part of the game. To much game mechanics to the point of irritation.

freaking awesome

what's better than getting to go to another world for a game show? having an ai to give you the ability to cheat of course. can't wait until book 2. you should love this book as well

Very entertaining

Great story and characters. the narration was perfect. can't wait for more in the story.

Great listen!

I really enjoyed this story. I was so wrapped up in it I couldn’t wait to get back to it anytime I had to take a break from listening.

2.5 Stars

This book was all over the place. Just pure chaos that makes very little sense. I really wanted to like the MC, but he made it very difficult. I spent most of the book calling him an idiot who was either missing or deliberately ignoring the obvious solutions.

The MC gains an internal companion that he names “Pi,” but should have been called DEM for Deus Ex Machina. “I need a new power.” “Here you go.” “I want to find treasure.” “Here you go.” The magic system makes no sense and everything just works because he wants it to. Except when it doesn’t because the plot needs to add drama.

Then the book turns into a semi-harem. I don’t mind a good harem story, but this wasn’t one of those. The author very nearly put the NTR into the “Non-traditional Relationships” Jealousy and hurt feelings abound.

Finally, the way the book ended was just annoying. I was ready to give the book 2 stars, but there is a small chance that I might read the second one. Very small. After I’ve read everything else in my backlog and have forgotten how annoyed I was by this one.

I don't like it

It seems like he's making too many friends but.
But not trying to conquer current or build just making weird friends