• Challenge

  • Unbound Deathlord, Book 1
  • By: Edward Castle
  • Narrated by: Jeff Hays
  • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (4,548 ratings)

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Challenge

By: Edward Castle
Narrated by: Jeff Hays
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Publisher's summary

When virtual reality becomes real enough that people feel as if they're being transported to another world, Valia Online arrives.

A man running from his past joins the game to forget it all. Calling himself Jack Thorn, he chooses an undead race, Deathlord.

A mage by choice, and a swordsman by necessity, he soon finds out that he'll need to use much more than magic and steel to survive; strategy, creativity, and carefully chosen words can often accomplish what simple attacks can't.

As the game becomes too real and touches a part of him that he'd rather leave buried, he is faced with two questions: Who is he, really? And who should he become?

Challenge is book one of the Unbound Deathlord series, a LitRPG saga.

©2016 Edward Castle (P)2017 Podium Publishing

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We don't need to see the MC stats every 30 minutes

holy s*** I don't need to know his stats that haven't changed every 30 minutes

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Too Ambitious

Ok I liked to book for a while. It's humor is mediocre at best but the game system and character progression is cool and there were a number of well written funny moments. The main characters life however comes into play a lot and made the ending feel strained. I can see the build up and they hinted at it a lot but it made the whole plot feel stretched. In fact spoiler alert it pretty invalids any reason for the MC to play the game at all and throws out all his hard work for nothing. Just an emotional scene that I didn't really feel any connection to because everything is backstory. Not sure if I am going to buy the sequel yet because of that.

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I love it it is the most exacting book ever

I love the book and the story.
their is so much exciting plots and the characters are so fun

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Good listen but too much stats

Why is there a need to put stats at every end of each chapter?? Everything else was great .

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Good fun!

I enjoyed the ostensible very much. The protagonist was quite fun to play the game along with and he kept the surprises coming. Excellent idea to use stat points instead of EXP, very original! This was a great story I would recommend to any fan of Lit RPG. I’ll definitely pick up #2.

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Amazing Story & world to go with it

Most books you can guess what happens next, this one threw in a couple of surprises at me that left me wanting more. My only gripe is that the next one is not available yet. Keep them coming Castle! Great narration by Hays too!!

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Fun but for one thing

And that is the reading of the character sheet at the end of each chapter probably great to have in the printed book but just annoying in an audio book

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FREE Vacation

totally freaking amazing. challenge is my favorite lit rpg book everrr
possibly my number one book ever!!! , holy holy crapola he nailed it! the flux between real world and Virtual reality blow my mind!!! true depth to both, usually the real world is Just garbage in other little rpg novels!! score?! can't wait for book 2 I'm in for the long haul on this series
wooooooootintootin good book!

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Great!

I loved it, even if yout not into fantasy I'd say it's worth the listen.

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OMFG The plot twist!

The main in game story is a great story but the true tale is what happened and will happen in the real world. The end of this book left me wanting to know what comes next more than any of the hundreds of other books I've read ten fold. Funny, twisted, intriguing and ingenious. Well played.

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