Interesting, with flaws.

Overall: This book is a can-do, but definitely not a must-have. Worth keeping an eye out on the future development of the author and narrator, though; there's potential for big stuff.
Regarding this book ->
Interesting: Pretty good ideas storywise, be it the overall story or arcs or details. Long book.
Flaws: Author tends to a drastic change of paste from time to time. Like having one chapter that could(should) have been a book, followed by a chapter that could(should) have been a few sentences
Narrator tends towards a quite repetitive speech pattern, rhythm and melody, which can become pretty annoying if one is sensitive to it.
Good luck to both of them.

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Solid Book

There is nothing really to complain about. It's exactly as advertised. I enjoyed the story and the narrator. The premise is interesting and somewhat unique for a litrpg book with an AI that made itself human as main character.

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The plot line was good

The constant recounting of attributes were disrupting the flow which destroies the story as a whole

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Good solid game-like fantasy setup.

I got this recommended by someone else.
And luckily this time the recommendator wasn't fucking me over xD... like with the last one.

Let's go trough the reason why i like Nova Roma, but still giving it a 4 Star.
Pros:
1. I really like the voice actor, he's doing a god like impression of different personalities. + Really makes them feel alive.
2. The world is dangerous and mysterious. Lots of things to find and riddle out.
3. The characters are likeable , humanlike and not just walking hormone bags that want a harem, Or get a fling each 5 minutes.
4. The System Stuff is done nicely. It felt like there's only two or three status screen overloads here. Mostly to remind us of things and not by every small upgrade ... which is nice. Nothing is more boring then snoozefeast status screen messages for days.
5. People are People. They're not just pinatas made of papermache for the MC to harvest, mostly. The only character i don't really get is the emperor. But well ... he had no real impact to date.

Cons:
1. A few skills a waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy to broken if misused. The author himself cheats a bit with some of these, so the MC can get a fast power up. With a bit of a negative side, but way too much positive. If that A.I Brain would actually thing about usefull use cases .... I'm not gonna spoil it, but two skills he gotten that are openended are so broken. If he just sat down still with an "enemy", while fighting... he would become omnipotent enough to craft godlike weapons. Throw a rock to kill a god dragon or just sneeze and wipe out an enemy army. 60*24 ... 1440 free statpoints in 24hours, HAHAHA. Yeah. If that world was a game, people would abuse the shit out of skills that are openeded like that ...
2. After the first few days/ weeks. Nothing really is gonna hurt the MC. He might get trapped or needs to run away. But the plot armor is so thick, that there's not much pressure to thing of smart ways to get around stuff. Just go full futureistic weapons in a medieaval mage world. For the win ^^.

So who would i recommend this too?
Anyone that like a good rpg like story, where the MC handles situations not with his dick.
People that like to think about the deeper plot and scour the story for nice tidbits.
Well mostly everyone that wants to see an mega brain A.I slowly but steadily become a leader ... possibly a god?

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Nice one!

Endlich mal wieder eine neue Serie in der der MC kein totaler Trottel ist. Der Progress des MC ist gut und nicht total OP. Außerdem hilft er auch anderen dabei über sich hinauszuwachsen. Freue mich auf den nächsten Teil mit Alexander und der Entdeckung einer für ihn neuen Welt. Wer "He who fights with monsters" mag, wird auch hier seinen Spaß haben.

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good Story but with some major flaws

This is an underated book it got a good promise and actually a lot of potential the narrators Performance while not on a Travis baldree level, was good.

But like i said there are some major flaws with the book. First of all he downloaded all of human history and knowledge into his brain?

This seeting is my major point of contension with the book. During the first part of the book his restraint with showing his knowledge and skills makes sense but later on where the stakes grow larger it makes no sense at all for him to not introduce more technology to the world. Don't get me started on the nano bots those are not used extensively either. All in all with the stakes getting higher and the capabilities of the MC it makes no sense what he does.

It seems the author did realize that aswell rather quickly and simply ignored the problem.

All in all i found it still enjoyable and if you can overlook some nonsensical stuff you should aswell since other than this it actually has the making of a good litrpg.

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Very enjoyable

The world building can be a bit fuzzy at times but overall it's a good book.

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Great world, good characters, terrible pacing

This…was an odd one!
I got this as an audiobook and I think I checked twice if I picked up the second book.
Turns out it was the first book and the author didn’t want to or didn’t know how to set up the world change that happens at the beginning of the book.

In the end I think Portal to Nova Roma can only be explained with „The ultimate power fantasy“ but also should have been a Dungeons and Dragons campaign!.
Alexander is a Garry Stue by design (an all-knowing, almighty almost unstoppable robot who will not get killed by time…..yeay….)….and the book suffers from a serious case of please get out of your own head and talk to someone. Because somehow, this book managed to go crippling slow and skip whole weeks ahead at the same time.
Halfway through i started thinking that he desperately needed companions, so he…and I could get out of his head.
Non the less I kept coming back to it without being able to explain why. I complained plenty about the book to friends.
In the end, I think it’s a very intriguing world. I kept thinking man do I want to run a DnD campaign in this setting. (Later in the book the fact that all of that is very heavily based in DnD lore shines through in my opinion.)
A world inhabited with fantastic monsters, a very interesting magic system, hinting of gods that actually throw their dice and heighten the stakes for everyone……count me in!

Eventually, Alexander seems to realize that a good adventurer needs people and the moment he starts making friends and actually talking this got really fun real quick.
The cast of people he bands together is interesting, so if you can stand way to much internal dialogue for the fun pats, this is one for you!

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Uninspired other world

While the story could have been interesting, it is just another uninspired other world fantasy that seems to be the norm these days in the fantasy genre.
Our protagonist is your typical Mary Sue most of the time with an op skill set and plot armor for days. He sometimes makes mistakes to give the illusion of risks, but it rarely has any consequences except more power for our protagonist. The other characters are your typical support cast, nothing special here.
If you have read any other world fantasy you can safely skip this one.

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Bad magic system/worldbuilding

I enjoyed the beginning, where every small item obtained/progress made felt like a real gain. But at some point the mc should have seen what probably 90% of the readers/listeners thought about when he got some of his new abilities/items. There are obvious ways to abuse them, but the supossedly smart Mc doesn't even mention them, let alone gives us a reason as to why he chose to not use them. It sadly really broke the immersion for me. Small gains don't mean anything when you ignore the huge potential at your disposal. So for me there was no point in listening from that point onwards.

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