Collisa

By: Aiden Phoenix

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

Dying might just be the best thing that ever happened to Dare.

Not the dying itself, of course, although thankfully he doesn't remember it. He finds himself in a gray void, where a mysterious voice offers him a choice: Continue on to whatever awaits him in the afterlife, or be reborn on a world with video game-like mechanics. Which as far as he's concerned isn't a tough choice at all.

Just that quickly Dare begins a new life full of possibilities, eagerly venturing out to explore a breathtaking world, level up and become powerful, and romance and fall in love with beautiful women of an incredible variety of fantasy races.

Be aware: This is a harem series and features explicit romantic scenes with numerous partners.

meh to okay

it's free background noise and that's what I wanted it for until I found something actually worth the time

World building

The beginning was boring, but then it got so good I kept listening and enjoyed it

a good story

this was a good story, and the virtual voice was not bad either. there were decent inflections of the virtual voice to make it almost seem like a real person at times. as for the story itself, I have already downloaded book to to start on it.

A bit immature

Die go to another world, typical isakai plot with a bit of RPG game thrown in. The plot and characters are serviceable as is with writing.

The story’s weakness lies in the main character’s emotional immaturity. He uses is feelings rather than logic or reason. All characters suffer from this making the world seem like a hormonally charged high school.

The AI voice is ok with problems dealing with emotion and niche words.

surprisingly good even with narration lacking a lot

the story was surprisingly good even that I do not enjoy virtual voice narraction... yet still I have tried some other narrated this way and this one is ok.

Great book and the auto voice wasn't bad.

This was really a pretty great book and the auto voice wasn't bad to listen too either. Definitely going to be listening to the others.

Mix bag

First of all 4 stars because I'm interested enough to check out the next book.
This was a enjoyable/frustrating listen for me. I was enjoying, then the MC starts annoying me, then I go back to being able to enjoy, back to being annoyed, enjoy again and finally in what was probably the last paragraph or 2 I get annoyed.

It is incredibly difficult to word my complaints or suggestions without either spoiling, or having my review be incredibly misleading, making the issues I had sound much more than they actually were.

The character is called out as being an A-hole a number of the times he is in fact being one. But it does kind of read like the person calling him that is being petty to him. Yes he is right most of these times but he is also being quite a little turd to the person.

The haggling, I don't mind a bit of haggling, but the way he argues tooth and nail with every vendor is irritating, at least give him a haggling skill that he is being nudged that he can go a bit lower or whatever, the fight every time is already not worth the discount he gets, or at least fade to black for the haggling once in a while. That combined with the fact he isn't from a culture that haggles... anyways it ends up just rubbing me the wrong way.

Please adjust the MC's fear a bit, a lot of times it is like he is looking for something to worry excessively about. It is fine with the life and death stuff, but he seems much more relaxed about that than communicating what he wants with his partner.. If he didn't trust them it would be fine, but he claims he does but doesn't really show it. I guess it is something that can show character growth.

None of these were done too excessively, but I mainly listed them to vent and let the people that may easily be triggered by these know.

That said it is an enjoyable story to go along with the ride for. No real overarching goal or anything, just dropped in a world to explore.

A.I. Voice better than some narrators…

This story is very slow in some parts but it paces well and the character development is good. I’m interested to see what the MC’s benefactors motivations are. I have several theories and I’m sure they are all wrong.

slight emotion

the narration lacked inflections for extreme emotion range, but I enjoyed the storyline and character development.

Loved it so far...wish the AI voice was more full and lively

the book and audible itself is fun, sexy, packed with action and character development. can't wait to jump back into the world of Collisa. Just need to find a more lively, not so serious AI voice actor or hire a real one. certain parts as a listener missed the in depth maps. i see why now