Great!! I read book 1 and listened to book 2

another great production from soundbooth, you guys are doing amazing work, I also loved your musical version of the Ant series by RinoZ (chrysalis). the book itself is amazing too, but since I read the first, the voice(s) is for me the more impactful aspect of this audiobook

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Underrated, underlistened

I think the initial missing success somewhat dampened the motivation of the author and the soundbooth theatre.
The story is still great but quite short and less dense as in the first book. The production is less though through and using a second female narrator for the female characters disrupts the immersion somewhat - while you have Jeff who's one of the best narrators out there! I hope the series goes on finally gets the attention it deserves. It IS a great story!

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Really should have been longer

The Author should have added a few more chapters to this book so it doesn’t end where it does.
In general I love the story and worldbuilding, narrators are great, even if the two female main characters are not distinctive enough in my opinion.

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how Long until the 3rd book arrives?

this Story fits my tastes quite nicely. I hope it continues fast and in longer volumes. the Card system is good and i Like the pacing of the Story with all the Elements it touches. minor deductions in rating would be the short books and that you have hear through chapter 25.2-25.4 because there are thoughts included and Not Just the stats.

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Good Second Book

While you had to fear that the MC would get OP in the next books the author found a good way to make him more lacking in some ways. I cannot agree on other comments about the progress. For me the progress and side story’s have been perfectly fine. Really looking forward to book 3.

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still amazing!!!

I still think the story is outstanding! The world that was created is special, coherent and new in contrast to so many other worlds in the LitRPG genre. I find the deck system totally interesting. I also really like the pase of the plot. It's well structured and there are so many ways the story can continue! I'm really looking forward to the third part and I'm excited to see how the story continues.
You can follow not only the growth of the MC but also his party.
A request to the author: just keep writing and don't let yourself be influenced by a few people who want to make such an outstanding story look bad.

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Useless book

cotarary to awsome book 1 this is really bad. almost 0 story and caracter progress.
spoiler!:
the party rushes to floor 5 pick up one of the priests and meet a "rogue" heir from another nobel family. they find some new summons mc dosnt keep any of those. thats it! basicly 0 progress with the order or his family. and they had to put 1,5 hours of deck and stats readouts as one piece and then introduce a new character ..... its worse than some of those training montage books from long book series. feels rushed and unessery

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I wanted to like it

The first book set a nice foundation. Interesting world, system, protagonists and so on.

And now I am disappointed,

The quirks of the people get stronger to set a szene and to drive the dynamics, but they don´t feel like real people, more like conzepts to help set a scene.
I LOVE Jeff Hays in Dungeon Crawler Carl, but here his power to give more identity to the protagonists, amplifies the quirks. Yes, I know, the MC is supposed to be an old man in a young body, but with the lines, the self-satisfied way to speak and act and Jeffs voice to amplify it all, Rowan feels like a smug, exzentric now-it-all, who pretends to be an old man and not like the nice and mysterious MC, the other partymembers make him out to be.
After the 20th time, he calls people of the same age "young lad" or taps the head of a girl, supposed to be a young grown up woman and not a todler and does not care, that he is irritating them, it just feels off.
And the others shrug it off, accept everything and follow him without any doubt up the tower.
The motivations of all the partymembers feel off. Not one feels relatable in there motivations and like a real person.

Then there is the contrast between Jeffs wide voice spektrum and the female narrator. Lucky Byfleet has a nice voice and I recognize a few different accents, but I am not able do tell Aurorra and Kasimira appart. You should be able to easy differentiate the different main-protagonists.

My next point is, that there is next to no progression.
The book is unter 10 hours and about 2 (TWO!) hours are status-sheets / card-descriptions!
Additional all the parts, where Rowan explains the cards and the way the tower-system works to the other people. Nice to know, but not instead of actually telling the story.

And after some time and a view little things happening, tho book is suddenly, unexpected over.

I really wanted to like it.
But it could not meet the expectations, the first book promised.

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tooo short and a bit odd

i really love the Story and liked the first book, and i still hope for more books.

but... this book isnt that good. barely Progress, way tooo many sidestories and added characters.
they feel a bit empty.. i recommend to focus more on the quality than the quantity of the characters.

the next book should also have less repeating card descriptions and more flow in the Story.
the 2nd narrator is not necessary.
and last but not least... more hours.. it just feels wrong to have a book 1 with 16h and good building and a 2nd book with barely Progress and only 9h. and off those 9h are barely 5h mainstory focused.


Still looking forward to the next book in hope for more.

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