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The Renegades

Bard from Barliona, Book 1

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The Renegades

By: Vasily Mahanenko, Eugenia Dmitrieva, Boris Smirnov - translator
Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
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Barliona is back! Old world, new heroes!

What would happen if a professional rock musician joined a virtual MMO in search of inspiration among its game world? What would happen if she decided to play as a biota bard, a brand-new race of humanoid flora as well as a new class?

Whatever would happen, it would surely be fun....

©2018 Eugenia Dmitrieva and Vasily Mahanenko; English translation copyright 2018 by Boris Smirnov (P)2018 Tantor Classics Cyberpunk Epic Fantasy Science Fiction
Interesting Conversations • Different Perspective • Pleasant Voice • Creative Premise • Immersive World • Good Writing
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This is an excellent continuation of a series. I've only ever enjoyed. I'm thrilled to get to see more of the story from a different perspective.

love Barliona

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Between the butchering of names and other things the narrator kinda made this hard listing i almost ended it several times gonna hot the seeing one up just because i like the world created by the author hopefully she gets better

Could’ve made her listen to the main story first

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I loved the book.

it has some awesome stuff that really got me like hooked.

it was a awesome book and I was trapped in a positive experience.

keep up the awesome work, your doing a great job 👏 👍

I really loved this one

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If you are going to have a spinoff series with a different narrator you should have the sound editor check to make sure that the main characters names from the main series arent butchered. *Face Plant*

Good Story, but bad name pronunciation

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cliff hangers needed another hour to finish out the story. over all a well written story

ending

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I loved the idea of a band going into virtual reality to get ideas for songs for that game. My favorite part was the meeting of the main character and the military man, one is a gamer, the other is not. This duo makes this book easy to understand from two points of view.

To band together with music

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Awesome book grate continue to the shaman series. I different perspective of the shadow kingdoms created. Can’t wait to see what happens.

I likes this book a lot.

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She keeps saying Jaranika not Garanika. When she said melon for Mayen I was very upset and when she miss pronounce their names it through all amersion out the window. Other than that the book is really good.

Name changes?

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It feels like a very slow start with a rushed ending to me. Going to need to relisten to The Way of the Shaman to remember what was going on. I understand why I kept seeing unfavorable reviews for this book. If you haven’t read and liked Way of the Shaman don’t bother with this one. I think this is just an intro to this new spinoff from that series.

Slow start to series

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The book reads like an unbroken string of one-liners connected together to try and narrate a story. It loosely feels like the Shaman series, but the constant barrage of one-liners seems like the author's attempt at creating witty, well-read characters. Instead, however, it's just incredibly distracting and makes the narrative hard to follow. If you filter that out, though, the characters are still likeable and the plot arc is interesting (if less so than the Shaman series). Thus, I have hope for the rest of the series.

I have hope...

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