The Eldritch Artisan

Father of Constructs, Book 3

By: Aaron Renfroe

Narrated by: Michael Hopfer, Christin Woods

Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

#1 Best Seller and #1 New Release - LitRPG with heart!

At level five, Harvey has been rejuvenated. No longer hindered by his age, he and his adopted family will journey to Saito, to find their kidnapped allies.

The Eldritch Artisan isn’t just any adventure; it's a thrilling mix of dungeon crawling, base-building, and intense tower defense that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Join Harvey and Reacher as they navigate through uncharted territories, confront armies, and craft magical items that defy imagination. With ancient secrets waiting to be discovered and battles that test their limits, they might just achieve the impossible - reaching level six.

This is a LitRPG story.

©2024 Aaron Renfroe (P)2024 Aaron Renfroe

its an okay addition to the series

Harvey is Harvey so no real change there. I already have a few issues with the start of this book first and foremost the author intentionally skipping over the Skrew level up at the start. he gets "imprisoned" 2 times and attempts at exploitation another 4. I just want to see and old man build shit and have fun making the world a better place. this 2 dimensional mustache twirling is a just making me frustrated.

Great addition.

I love the expansion of Harvey’s character in this book, and the last third had me scrambling for more time to read, to figure out what was happening next! Keep up the great work!

I love Harvey more and more with each book

This book is a really interesting and fun addition to the series! (I'll try not to ruin the book, but slight spoilers follow). We get to see that, while Harvey's hope for humanity and the future is great, there are RAMIFICATIONS to dismantling a capitalist hellscape all willy nilly! Like, maybe the populace will FREAK OUT when they realize that the billionaires could've helped all along. And maybe the billionaires will take offense to an old man inspiring a revolt and undermining their profits! Maybe even evil squid people in robot suits will kidnap you - who knew?!

And, if Harvey could somehow escape the evil squid people, maybe he would fall into a classic dungeon crawl where he spends months upon months base building over and over again to fight off waves of beasties sent by a dungeon master with a grudge... WITH ALL OF HIS FRIENDS WHO HE SPRUNG FROM JAIL OF COURSE!! Like those ponies on TV say, friendship is magic.

If this review seems random, I'm desperately trying to tell you the main themes without completely spoiling the book. Seriously, I had so much fun reading this, and dang it, those narrators are super nifty too.

BTW, this is the 3rd book in a series, so I think that's where the confusion in another review came from about the characters - we are reuniting with and building on relationships from books 1 and 2. I don't actually think any new characters are introduced this book. But if you hadn't read any of this before, yeah, you won't have the best time, lol.

So much wrong

only about 7 chapters in and I'm about to walk way. such lazy story telling. one dimension characters. sophomoric character interaction. the performance was ok but in no way saves the book. if am able to finish I will update it.