Imperial Wizard

By: J Parsons

Narrated by: Matt Hicks, Melissa Green

Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

An age has passed, a blight curses the land, and one hero stands above the rest to restore the balance.

Verdan Blacke is an Imperial Wizard, a researcher by preference but soldier by necessity. Surviving an intense battle, Verdan is cursed by a hex witch in her final moments. Without any good options, Verdan escapes the ever-increasing pain the curse inflicts by performing a self-made stasis ritual.

When the spell fades, and he has awoken, Verdan finds a world completely different from the one he left behind. Dark things work in daylight with impunity, once common knowledge is a mystery, and even the nature of magic that humans use has changed.

One wizard, a million problems, and the wrath of profound magic.

©2023 J Parsons (P)2023 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Amazing

I decided to give this book a chance and honestly, I was not disappointed. It sounded like a cultivation story it has elements of it in it for sure,

I tried...

The story itself is fairly decently written. it has some OP character traits without it seeming boring, the world building is interesting, the characters actually have personalities. I wanted so badly to enjoy this, but from the second I turned it on, the narration frustrated, if not completely angered me. I have no clue what accents the male narrator was trying to do, but they were inconsistent and often came off as cartoon-y. When there was a conversation between the male and female narrators, the sound was so off it was jarring. Being completely honest, I returned this and read on Kindle so I could at least get the story. If narration is a killer for you, I highly recommend skipping this book

A great first book

I received a free copy to give my honest opinion, I will try to avoid spoilers. In Arthurian legend, it was said that the great king will one day return to save the land. However in this case, instead of Arthur, it's Merlin. That should give you a hint of the kind of culture shock and shenanigans our MC will go through. Overall, this was an entertaining story.

OK story with a frustrating MC

The story was alright at the start, but I found it increasingly frustrating moving forward. The MC has lost knowledge from his past that he refuses to teach/show because it is too dangerous or might cause wars. He doesn't seem to realize the crappy situation he and the whole of humanity is in though. Monsters roam around and it gets worse year after year, corrupting magic has has turned powerful magic users and people into some kind zombie like creatures left unchecked, but yeah lets not share information because it might cause a war. It is actually more surprising that humanity isn't dead with how bad and corrupt they are.

Great Book One

I'll be honest, I was a bit unsure what to expect from just a plain fantasy story when I have been listening to LITRPG's for so long. But i was blown away with the story and characters of this book. The MC, Verdan, is trying to hold fast to his beliefs and morale's, while trying to help those around him and live a simple life, while discovering what he has missed in his self induced slumber. Fans of the genre will undoubtably see similarities in this story to others they are familiar with, but for listeners like me this story is a fresh break from the normal and I honestly can't wait to see what else this story holds.

5 stars

Another great book by J Parsons. You will not be disappointed. Also the dual narration really brings the story to life.

I think I overslept.

Verden wakes up centuries, if not millenia, after casting a spell on himself.
Now everything is way different and he has to start over at level 0. But luckily he has his memories and knows what to do to level up.
He saves people from slavers and a few of them decide to follow him and help him out.
Lots of great characters and adventure.
Looking forward to book 2.
I give this book 7.5 out of 5 stars.

The ending was just bad.

Overall the story started off pretty good, but became pretty scattered and then just ended on a bad note. The whole story just seemed like it was just rushed. I’m honestly not sure whether I want to go on to read the next book in the series or not. The lame ending just kind of stupid.

happy surprise

well I can honestly say I was surprised with how good this book was the only worry I have if in future books they spend large amounts of time with the mc having self-doubt. that could be the only draw back but over a great book with out the normal angry or horny teenager type characters that thus genre has annoyingly become

Something new, and good!

The story was good, but not great. The neat thing was, it was different, and brought together some cool ideas. The narration was a little over the top, and the voices distracted from the story a bit, because there was so much focus on them.