Incursion III: A LitRPG Adventure

De: Dennis Vanderkerken

Narrado por: John Pirhalla

Humans, given enough time and resources, are unstoppable forces of nature.

As a Titan of a human being, Dii Van Damme embodies this idea. Having mastered the fundamentals of his Stolen Cosmic Power, his expanding arsenal now enables him to transition seamlessly from defense to offense. If enemies from other Realms attack him where he lives, then he can do the same.

Thanks to his core ability of Wrong Warp, he has that power, but even so… he lacks crucial armor, weapons, a base of operations, and—most important of all—a Loot Goblin of Ferret-sized proportions with a bottomless bag who knows how to Strategically Transport Equipment to an Alternate Location.

Locate a Rapturous Space Station.

Proceed to S.T.E.A.L. anything not bolted down.

©2025 Dennis Vanderkerken (P)2025 Dennis Vanderkerken

An adventure!

Definitely tickles the adhd, if you're not wired like that, it may not be for you. It's a great series!

Too many unneeded details

I gave the first two books five stars because I really enjoyed them. I really tried to give this one a three, but decided I did actively dislike both the book and the narration and two stars is more accurate.

I feel bad writing this because I want more books in the series.Yet, I feel like I could have skipped this book and just been informed "the MC got more powerful from some adventuring". There were three things revealed in the last chapter/epilogue that I would want explained in a few sentences of the prologue of the next book. But that's it. Actually because of those I enjoyed reading the end of the book. Those sections are what made me want to improve this rating to a three star review, but I just can't.

* The sound effects made by the narrator through out were distracting and annoying and provided no value. I've blocked the memory of the actual examples. However, in books if the book says "he farted", I don't need the narrator's imitation of that sound to follow, even if fart sounds sometimes pass as humor.

* The book included long lists of possible options being described that would never be chosen and so added no value to the book. It may be fun in a DND game to roll and see all the possible configurations the dice give you. It might even be okay in a kindle or printed book to include a long list and then name at the end what you chose because the reader can skim back up and see the details of a choice. In a narrated book where skimming through long lists is not really possible and skipping large sections of a chapter seems to invalidate the idea that you've actually read the book and going back to find the details of only what was chosen is not possible, it's not reader friendly. In the end, I skipped multiple sections of this book till the rambling seemed to have ended.

* The other books were a mixture of two plot lines. I was eager to hear how the one on earth developed, there was none of this. So the book was completely unbalanced from that aspect as well.

I guess I would describe this as Cl4pTrap narrating a Borderlands adventure on a space station, including sections of him enumerating each and every weapon found in the machine, even if the character just walked away not buying anything till later. And after that Cl4pTrap might go into a large monologue about the materials each arms manufacturer used to produce the unique types of weapons they make and why they have certain properties. Cl4pTrap is an amazing character, but there's a limit.

Again, I love this series and the ADHD driven frenetics of Dii's mind. There were less than 5 minutes gone by between my finishing book 1 and buying book 2. I was sad that book 3 was not out, when I had blazed through book 2. I really hope book 4 goes back to the cadence of the first two. Two of book 3 in a row would not bode well for the rest of the series. The book ended well.

Now, if you read litrpg books only for the system used in the book, and you want to know how it works deep in the core of your existence, this is the book for you.