Weaponsmith

Weaponsmith, Book 1

By: D.M. Rhodes, Razzmatazz

Narrated by: Hollie Jackson

[I accidentally got engaged to the evil owl-goddess who is obsessed with the number-three and now I have to make weapons for our new adventuring guild].

In an era in which ancient gods live in the world’s cities together with their mortal followers, forming tight-knit guilds and powerful temples, the disfigured ash-caster and blacksmith Hineni has lived his entire life as a reclusive outcast. Hidden away behind layers of clothing and just as many walls and doors, he only ever leaves the house in the dead of night, so that neither the gods or anyone else can ever see him.

However, on one of these night-tide outings, he finds that has gained the unwanted attention of what is seemingly a perfectly normal owl, and through his unwitting efforts at simply filling his nights with acts of personal meaning, he ends up promising himself to a creature that is perhaps even less versed in human ways than he himself is. He is a mysterious, odd owl-goddess that nobody seems to have ever heard of, Obscura.

Hineni, having had no greater purpose in life until now, finds himself willing to accept this turn of events and dedicates himself to creating a brand new adventuring guild, under the watchful eyes of the ancient entity Obscura, who has only one, clear, proclaimed goal—

To hunt the BIG FROG! BIG FROG! BIG!

Weaponsmith is a slice-of-life litRPG [soft romance] with base/guild-building.

©2022 D.M. Rhodes and Razzmatazz (P)2022 Podium Audio

interesting story

it's a very interesting litrpgs and was an interesting story once you get into it. It has some decent character building. I'll most likely buy the other books.

Great performance!

The performer was really good at putting emphasis of things in threes, which is pretty important to this book.

Interesting, not a lot going on.

This is a tough story to review. It doesn’t seem to fit very well in the Lit/rpg genre. It was recommended by Audible as such. It has a very ethereal feel to it. The mc, Hininee, could be a poster child for ptsd. He is introverted and withdrawn from the city he watches out the window of his house. He does just enough to survive. A chance encounter in the woods forces him reconnect with the world and start dealing with the trauma of his past. He meets a few other misfits and they all form an advocate family together. There are hints of a threat and the possibility of a war, but we never see them. This story is much more about the psychology of the characters than the events we see in the story.
The voice acting is good and helped keep me interested enough to finish the book.

Was really good

honestly can't wait for the next one I was a little weary of it at first but it got way better and obscura cracks me up.

slightly new twist on my favorite genre

I've always liked the lit RPG genres since it came out, there have been gods there have been cultivation stories etc but I like how this one incorporates how God's interact directly with the characters and how obscura is a mean character

A solid LitRPG

It was a nice story, the author did a good job of breathing extra life into a good story.

Mostly romance

This story is roughly half romance and 2/5 slice of life with all the fantasy stuff being almost entirely limited to setting, slightly misleading but not terrible. I enjoyed listening to the recluse and the anthropophobic help each other deal with the outside world

Very Interesting and u usual!

Was expecting a war story buy was very surprised and happy with the story. Tired of same old stuff and I found this fefreshing. Good characters and although the detail on each weapon type is a bit over the top, it actually adds to the odd story in a way. Narration is outstanding. Will start the next one asap.

the entire cast is insufferable

I really had zero empathy for every character we see in this book. every single one was annoying or unpleasant or whiney. the voice acting was honestly fine except that all the birds lines sounded like questions.

it's mid

book was freely given. I didn't buy into this series. 3 of 5, it's mid. written like an anime.

voice actress is... ok. though I personally don't support union members. Soundbooth studio are better because of ability and not union black listing

if you like mental health issues for a main character. then you'll fit right in with this book. you have depression, anxiety, antisociallness, Stockholm syndrome to name a few.

at one point the story was written parallel to real life instances of people becoming emotionally attached to AI as lovers.

it's cringe to hear this in a fantasy world.

all that said the book was written well enough to hold my attention to the end. even though I never felt invested in the plot and characters