Quantum Conjurations

Eldrich Engineer, Book 1

By: Kevin McLaughlin, Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep

His experiment shouldn't have wrecked his lab, created a portal to another dimension, or sucked him through said portal.

Despite all that, Charles Smith found himself landing atop the emissary of an evil group of mages called the Shadow Council.

Literally on top of him, along with half the gear from his lab, which had the fortunate side-effect of turning the evil sorcerer into paste.

This won Charles the gratitude of King Alfred, ruler of the Kingdom of Kortall and the man who said sorcerer had been threatening moments before Smith's arrival.

But the reward for a job well done is always more work!

Alfred quickly recruits Charles to help defend his kingdom against the invading army. Wildly outmatched, Alfred's forces are on the verge of being crushed. If he falls, there will be little to stop the Shadow Council from taking over the entire world.

Charles will need every trick he knows, including a lot of science, some engineering-and maybe even a little bit of magic-if Kortall is to have any hope of surviving!

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TERRIBLE plot, BRILLIANT narration

it reads like a 7th grader once heard about the “Guardians of the Flame” series by Joel Rosenberg, but then decided to attempt to ruin it in only the way a prepubescent boy could

Very Disappointing

MC is a college professor with a PHD. To find out if he's "really smart", the head engineer of a neighboring kingdom, post-isekai, asks him to multiply 3 by 400...and is genuinely impressed when the MC can do the math easily in his head. That's the only question needed to be satisfied that he is "the kongdom's foremost engineer" and get excited to work with him. Yeah. 4 x 300 = 1200 is crazy smart as far as the characters in this story are concerned. That should tell you everything you need to know about the quality of the story/writing. Very difficult to finish. Or rather, difficult to want to finish.