Returner's Defiance 3

De: Bruce Sentar

Narrado por: Christopher Boucher, Jessica Threet

Bran returns to Vein City to find Gloria jealous that he came back with Nyx and Circe. While trying to solve that, Vincent becomes even pushier about entering the Vault.
When going to open it, Bran discovers that this life has changed yet again. For whatever reason, they had gotten perilously close to cracking the Vault on their own and drawing all the future heroes of the First Demon War in a demonic trap.
It's up to Bran to make sure they all make it out alive while reaping as much reward as he can from the Vault.

©2025 Bruce Sentar (P)2025 Bruce Sentar

epic

bruce never let's u down! great story! love the characters and the action! salivating for the next one.

One of the best!

Easily one of Bruce’s best if not THE best series he’s made! This series great progression in the liteRPG format, can’t wait for the second book!!!

A missed opportunity.

I like anti-heros, but it's like Bran isn't really being changed ethically, mentality or morally. This time around he's not wondering the globe and fighting where he's needed, and being a wondering king, but trying to build a kingdom of sorts, and preserve humanities strength before the 1st demon war, and beyond. Gloria had a moment where she could have learned patience, timing and delayed gratification, and as someone who's had power her whole life, I find it intentionally dumb to make her create the issue she did because power went to her head. and that Bran basically shrugged, and didn't chastise her for creating the problem, a problem she couldn't get out of without him. if you want to portray her as a "strong woman" you're doing a great job of that. But if you want to portray her as a capable woman, and a great character, you're falling short of it, you got to make her bail herself out of the issues she's created, and learn something from it, or chastise her when she can't bail herself out, and creates problems that effects everyone. I've noticed that a lot of your stories have your characters be intentionally dumb in many instances for the plot. silly things like forgetting they have an item that could help them avoid an issue entirely, a unique item at that. you had a chance for Gloria to have to bail herself and Salone out of a problem she created, by the skin of her teeth, and grow as a character, but just had Bran fix it.

Very mild.

The story was great, I enjoyed the new characters, and the environment that we spend the bulk of the book in. The voice actors where great as always, even though Jessica got mixed up a time or two. But I was very disappointed in the glaring lack of spicey content.

Don't get me wrong I am here for the over arching plot. But over the five series of Bruces' that I have enjoyed i've come to expect a certain level of "heat" in his works and this one just didn't bring it. That being said I am looking forward to the next book becuase I really enjoy the universe Bruce has created in this series and can hardly wait to listen to what happens next.

awesome characters

i love this whole series it really is top knotch story telling. 10 out of 10

Hints at future enemies

It feels like connective tissue and sets up for the next book to have some more exciting events, but overall is good.

Amazing story.

Been following this series since the beginning. Chomping at the bit for the next addition in the series

awesome

I can't even describe how happy I am with where this story is going, I'm kinda bummed nearly the whole book took place in the vault, I feel like that could've ended earlier and more could've been done with the story and other characters BUT it came together in my personal opinion in the end, set alot of things up for the future books I hope will keep coming. as always Bruce's range with story telling within the fiction genre continues to impress me while adding that bit of spice just enough to balance the story with those moments to take a break. this book probably has the least amount of spice I've listened to in one of Bruce's books. honestly just wish these books were longer, but Bruce has his methods and he churns out books at an incredible rate for multiple series so bravo 👏🏽 another banger man.

it's a must

all of Bruce's books are top notch rd3 is no exception to that can't wait to see how this continues

One of the best series by this author

Loved the storyline and the characters, the world building and the system integration! The audible version is fantastic all the way through.
I did have 3 instances where the audio just stopped and was able to just hit play and continue, other than that it was perfect!