The Undying 1: The Warrior Republic

The Undying, Book 1

De: Bainin

Narrado por: Jonathan Waters, Amber Hartt

In a dying world, heroes aren't born—they're forged or they're buried.

The light is fading. Shadows creep across Elystria and the Warrior Republic stands as one of the last strongholds holding back the void's desire to extinguish Elystria and its people for good.

As a gifted spatial mage of House Lysandor, Asterion carries the weight of everyone's expectations. While others see future leadership in him, he knows the truth—he'll either prove himself worthy of joining the Undying or get himself along with his friends killed trying.

Faced with a post-apocalyptic world beyond the protective wards, Asterion and his family must live up to their creed: To claim the sun—or be swallowed by shadow.

©2025 Bainin (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Haven't been this interested in a new series in a long time.

This was a real surprise, was not expecting a top tier book when I started. Genuinely, one of the best I've read in a while. Characters could use a bit of work as they're a bit on the shallow side, but there's plenty of time to expand there. Other than that, world building is excellent, magic systems intestesting with each power actually seeming to matter, and the pacing was terrific.

I hope the next one doesn't jump fully into full War mode, which feels like the biggest risk to this series right now. Doesn't need full slice of life, but the set up is perfect for more world exploration, new characters, political intrigue, even a bit of base building. Tons of potential. Keep up the pace too - this is about the path to immortality, don't need a book covering 6 months of battles.

As someone else here mentioned, the narrators were good but the audio editing needs a lot of work. Female narrator was half the volume and there were quite a few strange pauses and cut off sentences where I thought the app froze.

Wow I did not expect to like that as much as I did

this is a really strong contender in the LitRPG space. it has a really classic feel of good vs evil, with the force of the void pushing in on all sides and group of people pushing back the dark.
it feels good. the characters are very likeable, and the progression and power development keeps you hooked in wanting to see how the trio will improve themselves.

definitely looking forward to seeing more of this series.

I Need More Book in My Book.

The characters in this story are fun and interesting. while the plot is loose the world building is very well executed.
I have one complaint. This book is excellent. absolutely a must read. but when I looked at the time remaining and saw over 40 minutes left I was content until the auther's notes started and the book was over. I don't want a preview of another series I want this one!

Story is good, performance is terrible to the point i do no recommend

I would not buy this in its current state. The story is fine, though i feel it actually needs some refinement towards the end. Whoever did the mixing for this should be fired. The female narrator is so quiet you can barely hear her, the male is a normal volume so there is constant problems there. Also there are constant problems with cuts, starts and stops, words cut halfway through, sentences cut in the middle and then weirdly picked back up. The narrators are pretty good, just whoever did the editing and mixing needs to be fired. Just read this on kindle or something dont buy this product.