Heretical Fishing 4: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself

Heretical Fishing, Book 4

De: Haylock Jobson

Narrado por: Heath Miller

An empire has fallen, another blooms in its wake, and one man—who would rather be fishing, thank you very much—has finally accepted his role as its leader.

Thanks to overwhelming might, a cadre of violent animals, and a weaponized fish or two, Tropica has wiped Gormona's royal forces from the map. Now at the helm of his own Church, Fischer finally has some time to relax. But life in Tropica is much like fishing from a rocky shore: it's only a matter of time before you hook a snag.

It seems chi has returned to the area, the Church of Fischer and the village of Tropica have grown, and at least one of Fischer's animal pals has experienced a breakthrough that defies metaphysical understanding. Furthermore, these developments send out waves of essence, their echoes spanning oceans and reaching distant shores.

And unfortunately for everyone involved, they haven't gone unnoticed . . .

The fourth volume of the laugh-out-loud LitRPG adventure series—a #1 Rising Star on Royal Road with more than three million views—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

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Great story, could do with less intense food descriptions

I like this series overall. The lines and lines of almost erotic food descriptions though loose me. I imagine if you're really into food or coffee this kind of thing might keep your interest, but I find myself fast forwarding through those bits, and there are a lot of those bits.

best book so far

What a great way to start this book we get a little bit a of recap but it is told to us by corporal claws! With stories on how claws was the one to save everyone and beat the king. Intill the other animal companions chime in. After this we get to see how Fischer and his cult are progressing forward. With maria having a bun in the oven and everyone is starting to awaken to their true talents there is never a boring day in tropica. We are also introduced into two new companions a little baby racoon with bonded with claws of all people. Also a slime named specialist slime who is the sentient form of the healing pond!? There are also so many great references from dragon ball, one piece, dungeon crawler carl, and naruto each just as good as the last!. Lastly we get to meet a ancient earth elemental and a ancient godly kraken. What is the world coming to! The cult of Fischer is officially growing beyond what we ever thought.

Next book please.

What’s the quest that unlocks the next book?!?!? Ellis’s core has taken root in my soul.

Great story

Seemed a little slower than the earlier titles, full of wonderful animal pals, and great story telling

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

This is easily the most heart warming series Ive ever stumbled across. Had it never been for Jason Asano Id never have followed Heaths readings. I loved the He who Fights with Monsters but this is exactly the light hearted warmth I was looking for after so many fantasies and litrpgs.

Holy hidden Easter eggs Batman!

Donut: Carl, did you catch all of these Easter Eggs?
Carl: Gwad dammit Donut! No spoilers
Jason: to be fair, all these Easter eggs, are kind of Haylock Jobson’s thing

Oh my god LOOOOOORE!

The best lore dump in the series so far. So much of this makes since now.

story heretical at lowest, feel goods all around at best

really enjoy this story so much. very anime esk with the constant tricking of each other. Rum song is the best song

Meh…

Not a lot of forward progression, not complete let down, sorta left feeling… meh, will continue but not as enthusiastic as previous. ❤️ Health Miller as usual

One of my favorite character collections ever.

Honestly one of the best stories I’ve had the pleasure of partaking of. Character development is above and beyond what I could have expected from a fishing book.