A Jump into the Unknown

Reality Benders Series, Book 5

By: Michael Atamanov, Andrew Schmitt - translator

Narrated by: Neil Hellegers

Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's Summary

We put an end to the war with the Dark Faction, but still humanity's problems are far from over. More than half of the game's promised tong of safety has elapsed, and yet humankind is no closer to forming a unified front. We've just begun building one of the 12 planetary shield generators necessary to give Earth complete protection, but we don't have enough construction materials, players, or time. Should we ask the parallel magocratic world for help? After all, an invasion from outer space would hurt them just as bad. The mages, though, have plenty of problems of their own. 

What options does Gnat even have here? All he can truly count on are his own strength and his personal Relict faction. Should we put all our eggs in one basket and look for help in deep space? Might technology from ancient, long-vanished races allow humanity to grow strong enough to turn back the onslaught before it's too late?

©2019 Michael Atamanov; English translation copyright 2019 by Andrew Schmitt (P)2020 Tantor

Finally they changed the narrator!

Thank you so much for swaping out that terrible narrator for this much better one. I would say that the reason this book isn't up with The Land and other great LITRPG books was the narrator. I mean this is a very uniue series. This is one of the few that are a space/fantasy LITRPG. I for one think that this series so far has proven that it is the best sci fi based LITRPG series so far. Keep up the good work and I am super excited to see what happens to Nat next.

My favorite audio book series.

I have purchased over 150 sci fi titles and this is my favorite series. Very creative, and the plot flows very well. No wasted sections, every word of this book advances the plot, or gives the reader information.

Again great installment

We really Loved Neil reading this act. It was a beautiful change of pace. Again, It was a well written story. We all agree


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cliff hanger

i am ready for the next one. i again got sucked into the book till i finished it amazing work.

damn good book

love the Cliffhanger ending can't wait for the next book and I personally love the narrator he's one of my personal favorites

Nice book

The change in narrator's style of speech has ruined the story for me. I loved the early books

Author and Narrator Up Their Game

While I enjoyed each book in the Series Box Set, they lacked a certain amount of polish in both the written content and mostly the narrating performance. As Neil Hellegers is one of my favorite narrators, it was noting him becoming the narrator in book 5 that convinced me to purchase the box set. It's not clear whether narrators have influence on how a novel is written, it seemed as though Michael Atamanov (or more probably, the translator Andrew Schmitt) had written/translated the passages with the intent on leveraging Neil Hellegers' style. Whatever the case, the difference was dramatic and well received. The voice transition took a bit to adjust to but it was worth it. Most importantly, the female voices became much more believable and less shrill. The story itself also had a refined quality to it.

Just purchased Book 6, Aces High, and plan to queue it up after posting this review.

loved it.

This was another fun, action packed, fast listen. I couldn't put it down and I'm excited for the next one.

Great but too short

I absolutely love these books and think this is one of the best series in my collection, but I am frustrated at all the cliffhangers. Every book pretty much ends on a cliffhanger except for one and I just feel like it’s a little tacky at this point. We are on book 5 my dude we are clearly invested in the series and the cliffhanger feels absolutely unnecessary in terms of retaining reader engagement.

I originally wanted to give an overall of four stars because of how long it takes to get another relatively short installment in this series but that logic is flawed because the only reason that would bother me is because the book is excellent.

Overall a great read and great series I just wish these books were a little bit longer or had a little bit more of the overarching story after waiting.

It was great it go better

I love this series and I love the new narrator. The story is plain fun!

This series has never let me down

Love all of the series, give it a try! You can return it if not anyway,

a jump into the unknown

once again another excellent book but I'll say this he certainly knows how to leave it on a cliffhanger can't wait for the next one