Unabridged Audiobook
I love this series. The care Adams takes to try to dispel a lot of the misogyny and bigotry so often found in the litRPG and GameLit sub genres (and if we’re being honest, fantasy lit as a whole) like the typical harem builder stories has impressed be from book one. Gemini Fowler is a great protagonist and the characters in his party are so well written and developed (comparatively) it puts Enora Online in a different class than the vast majority of similar titles. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Arlo Adams is actually a talented writer and not just some encel fanboy spouting juvenile MMORPG fanfic. With all that being said, I only have one criticism and it is specific to this book, not the previous titles in the series. I question Brian Meslar’s decision to narrate the chapters written from the perspective of one of Gemini’s companions in that companion’s voice when the chapters are written in the third person. I found it a bit off putting. Not so much that it negatively affected the story, but enough that it irked me. Additionally, while Meslar’s accents have been pretty solid up until this point, this book is much more dialogue heavy than the previous titles and often, when narrating the many conversations between Desini (sp?) and Pulo (sp?) for example, his accents slip and let the female character’s Russian accent bleed over into the dwarf’s Scottish accent and vice versa. Otherwise a very solid entry in a very entertaining series in a massively underrated sub genre filled with shit that reads like it was written by a ninth grader currently holding a D average in English.
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