Oathbreaker: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG

Realm Online, Book 1

De: Stuart Thaman

Narrado por: J. Scott Bennett

From the international best-selling author of Killstreak, The Goblin Wars, The Umbral Blade, and many others...

Steve's just an accountant with a serious MMO addiction.

In the game, the people of Tamernil live under the harsh rule of a vile bureaucrat, and Bokta - an outcast blood witch practicing forbidden magic - has a bold plan to save them all. She'll need to summon a powerful demon, one she's been watching through a scrying mirror for years.

There's just one hitch: the mighty demon she's been watching isn't real. He's a character in Realm of Crafted War, and the man behind the keyboard is a far cry from a savior.

Violently dragged into the world of Realm Online, Steve will have to learn how the hell he's going to survive, all while masquerading as Maxkrannar, the demon Oathbreaker he's supposed to be.

Stuart Thaman writes best-selling epic fantasy and LitRPG with plenty of adventure, lots of action, and characters you'll love. Check out more at stuartthamanbooks.com.

©2019 Stuart Thaman (P)2019 Stuart Thaman

its an ok book not really litrpg just fantasy

its ok but one thing that bugs me is how the author tries to explain the same spoken language written 2 different ways ... sorry you need every sound to speak it properly so how can you omit characters as you stated in the book? just wondering it’s kind of offensive that you would try to pass that off as something intelligent

Painful

I think this was written by an individual who is sexually delayed. The profanity took away from the reading/listening. I served 40 years in the military and thought the amount was ridiculous.
The protagonist is supposedly graduated from college/university and working. Yet the reasoning and general thought processes belong to a child.
I stopped listening to the book as it became too much of the same fixation on a woman’s body, too many expletives with no reason, and the story line was not progressing.
Unfortunately, a credit with Audible gone and unrecoverable.
Two stars because it could be a decent book if an editor cleaned it up, removed the gratuitous and ridiculous fixations on sex, and moved the story.

meh

the writing and performance are good. the main characters very douchy. It's a villain story.

Fun and entertaining!

I like LitRPG books, and this one was very entertaining! Cheeky and fun. The story flows nicely and the narration is well done. I look forward to listening to the rest of the series to see where the story goes from here.


I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

An Good LitRPG That Avoids Many LitRPG Clichés.

Oathbreaker is a LitRPG story about a serious gamer named Steve, who is summoned into an online game by Bakta, a blood witch from the game. Using her magical abilities, Bakta had, somehow, been watching Steve's adventures while he was online in his gaming persona. Through her observations, she had determined Steve was a demon she could subjugate. Her goal was to have Steve help defeat a tyrannical ruler. Bakta performed a summoning ritual that somehow sucked Steve from actual reality and landed him in the online game. Only, Steve comes through as himself and not as his super powered, highly leveled up, player persona. Because of this, Steve is just an ordinary guy trying to survive in a world filled with fantasy characters that wield great power.

Oathbreaker does suffer from its pace in my opinion. After the summoning, the story spends a little too much time doing nothing exciting. On the other hand, Oathbreaker also avoids the harem cliché even though the story quickly presents us with two beautiful, sexy female characters. Instead, author, Stuart Thaman decides to add some depth to what could have been a more simplistic story. He really does a good job of not taking the easy way out. Also, narrator, J. Scott Bennett does his usual excellent job. In all honesty, I don't particularly like Mr. Bennett's voice, but I have to admit he is such a good narrator that I eventually get past my dislike.

The bottom line. "Oathbreaker" is a good story that manages to tell its tale without some of the usual LitRPG tropes we have come to expect from the genre. Finally, this free, review copy audiobook was given to me at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.