The Chosen Free

A LitRPG NPC Adventure (Prophecy Approved Companion, Book 3)

De: Tevagah

Narrado por: Annie Ellicott, Jeff Hays, Gary Furlong

The hilarious and thought-provoking conclusion to the saga of a glitched NPC and her friends.

As Qube and her companions reach the end of the now thoroughly broken game, they must come to grips with the nature of their reality, and the world beyond.

Interested parties from the real world clash with our heroes as they scramble to defeat the Evil Emperor in time and reveal the secrets they’ve been keeping from one another.

In an increasingly relevant dilemma, these video game characters, born of AI, must decide what it means to be free.

The 3rd and final installment of a LitRPG/GameLit adventure about an NPC freed of its programming loop and brought along on a player's journey of adventure and power progression.

About the series: Prophecy Approved Companion is a fun an often hilarious parody of old school games, Dungeons and Dragons, and every player who has ever thought “what happens if I do this...”. An original take on life inside an RPG, from the perspective of a glitched NPC.

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Story was best in this one.

Uncommonly, the last book in the trilogy is the best book. Engages with Jung, AI ethics, and “human” rights without loosing any of the charm and fun of the first two.

The Better The Story, The Harder It Is To Say Goodbye.

This was a such a unique story that I throughly enjoyed from start to finish. All the adventures and ensuing hilarity from this trilogy will stick with me for years to come. But like all great stories they all have to end and the ending of Qube’s story left me a little sad.

The ending was somewhat abrupt and the burgeoning platonic relationship between Qube and The Chosen One was never really explored after ascension. Other than those gripes I loved these books and will have to be satisfied however unlikely that maybe one day we will get another story with Qube and friends going on another adventure.

Fantastic ending to a great series

The characters have grown and developed, some in obvious ways, some in completely unexpected ways. The humor and silliness present in the first two books continues, but the stakes are higher and so it does get tuned down a bit.

As always, the voice performances were excellent.

awesome!

book 3 really brought all the chaos together, and I'm glad I stuck with the series. Fantastic narration, and unique storyline, I loved it!

What constitutes intelligence?

very insightful story about the the probable rise of artificial intelligence and how it might react as it becomes aware.

Didn't quite stick the landing

It's still fun to see Qube and friends, but the bloated runtime and not-quite-satisfactory resolution leave me a tad disappointed in the experience.

Excellent wrap-up

Loved the whole series and Soundbooth excelled again.. Found myself laughing many times. The character development I was not expecting which was great.. On my picky re-listen list

A Nice closer

The book dos not really pull to many more twists, It ends in about how you might imagine a book written based on emergent AI, I do feel that the Human lead is sidelined a little too hard, He seems to suffer a LOT and its only a footnote, like we have no idea WHY he is suffering using the machine other then maybe the time being so heavily condensed?

Overall Its a sweet ending with some cool ideas about the growth of a artificial mind, I do have to say i feel the "meeting" is written rather poorly, These AI are basically toddlers with high intellect but no wisdom, And i feel like a LOT of writers fall into that pitfall.. Any human who interacts with AI currently understand there insanely basic, If you suddenly were dealing with a AI asking questions and not having context other then the Internet u would get very worried, BUT if you were interacting with something asking questions and it only understood basic social graces you would quickly understand you were dealing with a child.

Excellent

I've been waiting and waiting for this to finally be released and it was worth the wait. What a wonderful series! It had the perfect mix of humor, action, and genuine emotional impact. Despite this series basically being a joke, it was expertly executed and will remain one of my favorites of all time. I will say that I was hoping for a fourth book detailing the exploits of the gang in the real world, so the rushed summary in the last chapter left a bit to be desired despite at least ending on a happy note. All the same, my thanks to the author for three books of joy.