Beginnings

Adventures on Terra, Book 1

De: R.A. Mejia

Narrado por: Jill Smith

Armon Ellington is 19 year old kid that always felt out of place. He's an orphan, a gamer, and a role playing game geek. When he dies after a 72 hour gaming marathon, instead of going to an afterlife he's transported to a new world governed by rules that are eerily similar to the RPG games he loves. On this new world, Terra, he can be anything he wants, a warrior, mage, or even a crafter. Only, Armon wants more than that, he also wants friends and family.

Join Armon on his journey through this amazing new world where he'll go on adventures, explore dungeons, slay monsters and hopefully find the friends and family he never had on Earth.

©2016 Ramon Mejia (P)2017 Ramon Mejia

excellent!

This could easily be classified as a young adult book, but I am over 50 years old and very much enjoyed it! Unique plot, action packed, and with universal themes most can relate to. I highly recommend!

amazing book! one of the best immersion narrations

By far one of the best immersion narrations I have ever heard. the book ended with me wanting more and I can't wait for book two. I hope it's narrated by the same person.

well that's one way to end up in a new world

our main character ends up in the New World on the different planet and has the benefit of game mechanics to make his life easy ish

Better than when I read, Series of Harry Potter

The book was exquisite! It had himor, you could relate, friendship, love, bonds, sarcasm, and a wonderful story line, plus gaming features. It threw me off in the beginning, but it was used and reflected well in the story line of the story of how their world became! I would recommend this book to any and everyone! 5 stars and thumbs up, plus, "Waiting for Book 2" ^_^

Amazing

Such a great read. Fans of Anime series SOA would love it. Fans of the any Video game RPG will appreciate the leveling up & strategy Armon has to do. Can't recommend this book enough!!

Bad Writing

So first, the voice performance is perfectly fine and has little to complain about. (reasonable mic / multiple voices for diff. characters)

Second story, an ok start and mid but gets dry mid to end. Last 30 mins sounds like something that needs to start sooner or could be more with more detail as it feels like it just ends when an interesting plot finally starts. MC seems ok but too mindless with sex on the mind when talking to women too often.

Third the writing needs rewording in a lot of places. Far, far too many places does the writer "tells and not shows" what is. Far too many locations feel like "dark lord is evil, and dark lord hates light lord because light lord is good." when it should be more "A man stands in impossible shadows hiding his link to the evil god. With a distance not far enough for his liking, the lord of dark leers to the man that is his inverse."

Also, the MC's magic teacher is written very oddly... half elf that is very old, mc hits on her, but then she.. becomes his mother for some reason...? All of that character's interactions are very odd.

meh.

while there are interesting points in the book. There are too many things that takes me out of my immersion; he is a gamer that plays rpg's, but fail to grasp common knowledge among rpg's. he acts like a pro, but keeps being a noob.
Jill Smith does a good job of bring some semblance of life to the characters, but falls short at times when it comes to reacting to certain situasions

Need to escape from reality for a while

Join us in Terra a great escape from reality as you follow along as Armon discovers a new life.

Very well read and just enough "acting" to fill in the edges making it one of the most enjoyable audible books in my collection.

The math of this book doesn't add up.

Not the worst story out there, but it certainly has plot problems. Even as a fantasy story, there are things that are just unbelievable. Like, what's the minimum level you'd expect a century old elf to be? Certainly not level 7. Or how could an undergeared MC solo a dungeon boss? He shouldn't, especially with the strategy described.

Those are just glaring examples, but there are a few other times where things just didn't sound right.

I don't return books unless there's something I absolutely hate about them... so I won't be returning this one. I won't be continuing the series however.

I love this book.

The first book in particular I listen to over and over. Which I know sounds crazy but it’s funny and I love the narrator.