Elf Empire: A LitRPG Kingdom-Building Adventure

Elf Empire, Book 1

De: John Stovall

Narrado por: Todd Haberkorn

Leo wanted to make something out of himself—and build dams.

However, the world doesn't want dams. And it mostly doesn't want civil engineers. It doesn't want men who do any sort of building or fighting or grand design, it seems.

So, when Leo finds his current girlfriend and boss being threatened by a brutal loan shark and all three of them get dragged through a portal to another world, it doesn't take long for him to decide this is the place for him. Plus, everyone has magic, and who wouldn't want that?

Leo appears in the realm of a fallen kingdom, one that desperately needs someone who will both fight for what's right and build a grand civilization.

Along with his new coterie of friends—a not-quite-a-princess elf and a crippled dragon—Leo must race to build his kingdom before the loan shark Kruegar can finish Leo off with a legion of orcs.

[A litRPG adventure with kingdom-building, base-building, some slice of life, and a whole lot of quipping. Also, an in-depth magic system, leveling options, and an empire chart system. Check out the audiobook that has received over half a million views on RoyalRoad!]

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Really fun Kingdom Builder

This book took me back to some of the earlier in the genre, lots of details on kingdom building, delegation, navigating difficult adversaries and nobles. Very well written and excellent performance.

If your willing to wait for 16 chapters before anything good happens go for it.

The Story is so slow. I kept thinking I would wait till something good happens and it didn't until the second half and most of all in the last quarter. the best parts were not worth the pain of the continual yammering.

to make it worse, the reader's version of voices just grated on me over and over until I almost quit just because of the tone of voice and the author wouldn't stop making them talk and start doing something.

all in all, not my favorite and barely a lot RPG. disappointing.

Loved it.

I like the direction the story is heading in and how the Leo helps people grow. My only concern was that this might have been a harem story but the sensibility of the people and the importance on feelings makes me think that the author would not go in that direction.

Glad I didn't listen to the naysayers

Ilk to The Hobbit with lots of humor and flavor.

After reading a few reviews I put this treasure on my wait list. Some people just don't know what a great book really feels like these days. This author's planning and character creation is top tier. Each character has a uniquely solid build from strength to flaw. e.g. MC is an engineer but has a SIMP complex for women; the dragon is a power house tank with a self-esteem problem ect ect

Go with my gut, enough with these negative Nancys comments.

Great Start

I really enjoyed this universe especially the kingdom building. The MC has a very interesting path.

Great new series

Really like the character building and the relationship development, particularly the dragons! Decent magic system, can get a bit crunchy at times

Straight no chaser

I like the mc voice. Story was simple direct and entertaining. The magic system could have been more dynamic, but I won’t split hairs. Worth the listen. I may circle back for book 2.

Great Narration Good Story

The narration of the story was fantastic, and the book was good enough to keep me interested. The only thing that I took issue with was the insanely long stat readouts. I understand that litRPGs will have many stat information portions along the story line, but I felt the stats in this book were distractingly long. However, the story was good enough to keep me listening.

I loved the pace

I loved the pace of the story and live for the quips. minus one star because I think it's unrealistic for the average person to be level one when the MC is burning through levels. It just feels like the author decided to create a world and nobody existed until the MC came along and suddenly now people can level. Zir's dad (RIP) was an assassin type but we're expected to believe he didn't gain enough XP to get beyond level 2?

Aubrey Audream Aubrey whoever

The book is pretty solid for the first book in the series. So we could do less pining over a woman that literally only had a couple lines at the beginning of the book and absolutely no other background on her. she basically ratted him out to the bad guys.