The Elder Lands: A Kingdom Building LitRPG

The Elder Lands, Book 1

De: B. Salem

Narrado por: Raphael Corkhill

The cost of ambition is often less flowery than the dreams that gave birth to it.

Lucan is the son of a landed knight in a kingdom that is surrounded by diverse threats. As he comes of age, he must make peace with both the tasteful and distasteful of his responsibilities. Most important of all, he must find a way to either tame or accept his own ambitions.

In a realm where an underground labyrinth births monsters that hunger to climb into the world of man, it's difficult to be a noble and dangerous to be a warrior. Lucan must navigate a maze of mortal peril and political intrigue if he is to survive and, perhaps someday, thrive.

Enjoy this smooth LitRPG taking place in a gritty medieval setting, featuring allies and enemies that fight with the sword, the word, and, sometimes, the arcane. The people of this realm are no strangers to monsters that prowl the night.

©2024 B. Salem (P)2024 Podium Audio

The realism that I've been looking for

Overall a great story with elements of litrpg in a realistic medieval setting. Adding the intrigue of Court with a extensive emphasis on trading and realm building.

Cant wait for book 2

It’s so hard to find a good kingdom building story, this one is perfectly balanced you can enjoy the world, there is no wild power rush and you actually see how the MC gets to the place he is

I felt the MC should be smarter given...

I felt the MC should be smarter given that he reads a lot. He comes across as a person who takes in knowledge but can't apply it properly. Then still thinks hes smarter than he is. Doesn't really think things threw fully.

fairly decent will buy book 2

the narrating and story telling got better as the book progressed. the coming of age aspect has me hooked easy 8/9-10

Slow but interesting

Not epic fantasy but follows the realistic development of a realistic kingdom. Good narration and interesting problems throughout.

a great start

i could not stop listening wile not the best book it is easly in my top 20 for the year I look forward to the second book

Highly under-rated. You should buy this audiobook.

I’m only being slightly hyperbolic when I say that it’s a travesty that this audiobook has a lower rating than many of the worst LitRPG offerings on Audible. Not only is the writing intelligent and the story extremely engaging, but even the narration is leagues above the standard for the genre.

I can only assume that this book fell victim to reviewers who lack the attention span for stories that go more than ten pages without the MC adding a new, “totally, super-hot babe” to their harem or 17 pointless fight scenes… but more likely all of the above.

If you’re even interested enough in this book to be reading this far into the reviews then I can guarantee you won’t regret spending your credit on this audiobook.

-Review ends here, below is just me hating on audible’s stupid 5-point system:

I don’t give effusive reviews to audiobooks that don’t truly deserve them. I also try to make my reviews, first and foremost, helpful for potential listeners so they can trust that I’m not the author’s family member trying to hype up a POS. However I find it infuriating that audible’s review system is so useless almost all of the time. Having to dig through several thousand 4.4-4.6 star books just to find the few needles in the overwhelming sh*t-stack makes me want to send angry letters to all the reviewers who treat Audible like Yelp and review books on a binary system of 5 stars or 1 star. With five stars meaning that they finished the audiobook and 1 star meaning the author had one sentence in the third chapter that was:
-too “Woke”
-too conservative
-too religious
-not religious enough
-not the right kind of religious
-has too many swear words
-doesn’t have enough T&A
-Too gay
-Not gay enough
-boooooooring
-or had a plot that was too complicated for them to follow while they were simultaneously driving a vehicle, talking on the phone, parenting, writing reviews on stuff they never bought on Amazon, sexually harassing someone on TikTok… and sexting their side-piece, while holding up the drive-thru line at McDonald’s, because they have unreasonable expectations of minimum wage employees who probably deserve bonuses just for actually showing up to work and dealing with the BS that a job like that requires them to endure every day.

Thanks for coming on that journey with me… Feel free to flag this review for not being concise enough to deserve more than 1 star.

Excellent read

Really good story, should make for a great series, created a very likable and intelligent protagonist.

Excited for more

Natural blended elements of typical fantasy lit RPG and a compelling zero to hero story I’m gonna be keeping an eye out for this one

good boook..narrator needs to hydrate

book is a great listen and love the world building...however, this was first book where the narrator kept taking swigs of water..it got annoying