The Abduction Cycles Box Set: Books 1-3

By: John Cressman

Narrated by: J. S. Arquin

Length: 31 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

Imagine waking up in a world where magic is real—and everything's out to kill you!

The first three books of the Abduction Cycles series, now together in one package!

One minute Ethan Gower was an average computer technician, playing online games with his friends. Now he’s been abducted and dropped into a strange world with others who have been taken from their homes. And magic and monsters are real.

Now Ethan is a wizard and must convince his new companions to band together in order to survive in this strange new world as they level up, gain abilities, and try to unravel the mystery of why they were abducted and how to find a way home. But things are never easy, and soon he and his friends find themselves in the middle of a conflict that could spell disaster to their new home.

Oh, and there might be something murdering wizards and sucking out their brains. Could things get any worse?

©2021, 2022 John Elijah Cressman (P)2022 J. S. Arquin

surprisingly entertaining

I liked these books. I didn't think I would but the characters grew on me and I now want to find out what happens next

started out alright

I imagine this series will further devolve into a harem fantasy so I'll stop here.

great action and character development

Definitely pick this one up! Has a bit if D&D, litrpg, dungeon crawling and town building but actually done well

good series until book 3

the first 2 books were okay,and then book 3 came and the author took a nose dive in direction of the story.

Pretty good story

Not as good as some other litrpgs but it's good enough for me to pick up book 4.

Rape fantasy dressed up as LitRPG

first book, had some questionable, writing. MC's Companions at the start are all female, and everyone assumes he is using them as a harem. by the middle of the third book, the fox girl begs him to rape her, so of course he does...what is wrong with people, that they think "oh a group where all the females get raped, to enter a marriage" is a good thing
then turn that into..mana regen increased during sex, has him running down the hall in a dungeon, to regen, or getting under the blankets....
also, he literally burns hundreds of spider to death...then when he traps them behind some rock..they run away, rather than just send fire down the tunnel the spiders are trapped in...just to have them pop back into the plot five mana regens later

Another boring LitRPG that becomes a harem sex fantasy

The MC is abducted to a LitRPG world with three women from differing fantasy planets. MC becomes a wizard with no effort and can easily surmount any task considered impossible.

The first book is a little clunky, but things go really downhill in the second book when one of the girls demands to have sex with the MC and finds out that’s how you can instantly refill the wizards mana.

The rest of the book is basically just the MC boning his way through problems.

I’m not continuing the series.

as the books go on the MC gets more pathetic

Pros: there are none
Cons: extremely slow level by end of book 3 he's level 7.
-the litRPG elements are half ass.
-his party and everyone in this world want the MC to solve every problem.
-book 1 and 2 theres no sex book 3 1/3 of the book is about sex at one point every 5 minutes he's having sex but its not told in detail its just he the fox go under the blanket 20 minutes later he done No nipple talk No penis entering pussy just them saying that there going to have sex
- the word SEX is used over 50 times in book 3
-he fails to take advantage of power level his skills.
-theres no character development.
-the amount of times where told his out of mana and stamina(level up and you would have more)
- i hate the female dwarfs character theres nothing to like.
-the MC blushes more times then a bus full of 12 year old girls meeting Justin Bieber
- the constant complaint that theres no food
- at end of book 3 we still don't know who abducted them
-the prolongs at the end of each book are practically another story

Fluff

Not a bad story and the narration was solid. but seriously there is no need to bring up every hunting trip, meal, and “mana refill”, it adds nothing to the story and yes we get it there isn’t enough food or booze.