Transformation

LitRPG series. Book I

By: Valery Starsky

Narrated by: Justin Thomas James, Jeff Hays, Aurelia Vazquez, Dalton Lynne

If you like fire-breathing giant creatures, dark elves reigning absolute and unchallenged, money-grubbing dwarves, and powerful dragons - you can find them in Transformation.

The familiar world collapsed overnight. As the Transformation progressed, disasters occurred throughout the Earth. Materials changed their properties, new species of flora and fauna appeared. The Game converted our world into a huge dungeon, completely replacing the previous civilization.

However, the alien plans for Earth began to go awry from the very beginning. The conversion was less successful than expected. An ordinary young man stole the bonus for the first gaming action, depriving the invaders of their perk.

How can Yaroslav manage this situation? Which aliens will become his ally? Which ones are his enemy? Dare they rebel against the all-powerful invaders, regain their land, and even create a new world?

The Soundbooth Theater team for this production:

Justin Thomas James - Narration, editing, mastering
Jeff Hays - Ollie, Ellir, and Dar Kroo
Aurelia Vazquez - Eva, Heiro Kamir and the rest of the female cast
Dalton Lynne - Proofing, Guest Voice
Ahmed Mahmoud - Music

©2019 Valery Starsky (P)2019 Valery Starsky

Love this book!!!

I started reading this book on a web sight and loved it then it hit amazon as a fully published book witch was amazing! And now it’s an audio book!!!!! If your reading this and not sure if your going to bye the book do your self a favor scroll up the screen and bye this book! You won’t regret it! I refuse to spoil anything so just bye the book it’s well worth it!

I’m conflicted…

Edit: I think a large part of the dialogue issues I complained about are due to poor translation from Russian. As I just realized this author is from Russia. I mean, I still stand by everything I said, but some of it makes a bit more sense now.

In some ways it’s a good book. In others it’s not. The story telling is decent and the concept is good. The pacing is well executed as well. Except the first few chapters which feel like you’re on a roller coster ride in the dark. One second everything is normal and then nothing really makes sense for about a chapter. I don’t know if it was deliberate, or merely that the author had never written a book before this.

But the main issue I have lies in the dialogue. It’s like the author has never held a conversation sometimes. Especially when it comes to his female characters, which come across as completely unbelievable.

Then there is the narrator, who is actually a decent narrator 90% of the time. But the other ten percent it’s like he just stopped taking the story serious. The vocal inflections in some scenes are just out of place and I almost feel like he is trying to cover up how badly a scene is written by over compensating with vocal tone. It’s extremely off putting when he shifts from a normal conversational tone to sounding like a character on SNL. I have been tempted repeatedly to pull up the book on kindle and see if the author just added a bunch of exclamation points that didn’t need to be there and this was how the narrator decided to interpreted the scene.

I gave it 4/5 stars because it’s really not a bad book. It’s just a book that could have been better if a bit more work was put into it.

love the book

If you like to read books about fire-breathing giant creatures, dark elves reigned absolute and unchallenged, the money-grubbing dwarfs and powerful dragons–all of them you will meet at the pages of Transformation.

The familiar world collapsed overnight. As the Transformation progressed, disasters occurred throughout the Earth. Materials changed their properties, new species of flora and fauna appeared. The Game converted our world into a huge dungeon, completely replacing the previous civilization.
However, the alien plans for Earth began to go awry from the very beginning. The conversion was less successful than expected. An ordinary young man stole the bonus for the first gaming action, depriving the invaders of their perk.
How can he manage the situation? Which of the aliens will become his ally? Which ones are his enemy? Dare they rebel against the all-powerful invaders, regain their land and even create a new world?

Pretty disappointing

Basically nothing in this story makes any sense. Locations seem to be fluid. MC doesn't ask obvious questions like "what are stay points", And for some reason he has thousands of stat points, that he doesn't (or can't? It's not really clear) use.

it's almost good... but none of it really makes any sense. and the MC doesn't make sense either.

story was bad

narration was great.

the story never explained anything fully and there was no tension. every inconvenience he had just awarded him rediculous rewards.