Azarinth Healer: Book Two

By: Rhaegar

Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau

Still haunted by her encounter with the Taleen Praetorians, Ilea makes her way south to join the Shadow’s Hand and hone her skills. Having fought alongside members of the infamous mercenary order, she hopes to meet kindred spirits who share her completely reasonable passion for battle, adrenaline, and near-death experiences.

She is looking for a team to rely on, to punch, and get punched by. Because every "friendly yet bloody" sparring match levels her resistances and makes her a little bit harder to kill. She might even stick around for a while. So long as the food is good.

This guild of high-level warriors is the perfect place to grow and recuperate. To take a breath after the nonstop elven attacks, dungeons, necromancers, and Taleen murder machines. Ilea jumps headfirst into her newfound challenge, unaware of the fresh dangers already beginning to stir throughout Elos. Even their Shadow’s Hand training will not prepare Ilea and her new team for what’s to come.

After all, there’s always another Drake.

About the series: Join Ilea as she is transported to a world full of monsters and magic, where power is measured by one's class, level, and skills. Watch her grow in power, and recklessness, as she wields ancient hand-to-hand combat magic that can both heal and destroy. This Isekai story has a dual-class LitRPG system where every skill, class, and ability can evolve. Ilea’s tale is equal parts comfy slice-of-life wanderings, goofy jokes, and brutal, blood-pumping battles with nightmarish monsters. Join her as she delves into forgotten dungeons, hoards snacks, and generally does whatever she feels like.

©2023 Rhaegar (P)2023 Portal Books

stop chuckling ffs

I like the story alot, and in general the narration is pretty good. But the constant chuckling after and during every other line is just annoying. I was hoping the narrator would have cut it out after the first one, but sadly no. unless the text for these reads HAHAHA every third word, there is no reason to be injecting that much really fake chuckling into the narration just to punctuate the space. like, its ok, just read the words.

Overall enjoyable but also frustrating

The Mc is frustrating...and the growth and development from the last book have little impact on her through this one even though she is still consciously aware of how bad it was. I found the story amusing enough. i wish the author was more consistent about the MCs strength. apparently, she is very strong and has amazing armor... yet she and it are getting cut to ribbons by enemies at and over 40 levels lower than her. I suppose that makes sense seeing as she can kill enemies over 100 levels above her, but it seems like she struggles more at times than she actually should. Maybe it's to keep the book some level of tension and stakes, but it makes it hard to conceptualize the strength scale of the world. Around the end I finally started to be frustrated by the rapid fire Dings but only when they come in huge chunks and I have to listen to them to listen to the MCs abilities and changes.

Andrea is very good at what she does.

All in all, I'll pick up the next one. Even if it's only to see a certain new teammate introduced to a group of slightly odd necromancers.

Can’t miss this one

This has become one of my top 10 series ever. Narrator does an awesome job

Two books compressed into one? Spoilers

Although this book tries to expand on the world and its mechanics, it mostly fails to live up to the expectations set by the first book.

Mc feels nerfed

Added more characters which is somewhat necessary, but it takes away from the MC more than other works I’ve read/listened to.

Most of the world isn’t really explored because half the book takes place around the school, while the other half has the MC, two side characters, and Aki stranded in another dimension.

There is also a six month time skip which felt needed, but took away from the pacing.

excellent book 2!

love the story, love the progression, love that the MC isn't (too) OP.
can't wait for book three to come out!