Arcane Pathfinder

Arcane Magic, Book 1

De: Mashton XX, Mashton XY

Narrado por: Azur Studios/Erin Neil

Samantha is a young attorney transported to an alternate reality in her sleep across the Void and time. She soon finds that the world she wakes up in is controlled by an all-powerful System with mechanics similar to the fantasy games she played back on Earth.

After a brutal introduction to her new reality, Samantha (Sam) is given a class explicitly curated by the enigmatic System.

Equal parts artist, survivor, explorer, and battle junkie, Sam's only limitation is her lack of knowledge about her new magical powers and the System controlling her new reality. A limitation she is quickly overcoming as she explores and battles her way across the landscape, learning and improving along the way!

Follow Sam’s adventures as she explores the fantastic and deadly new world she has found herself in.

©2023, 2024 MATTHEW BERTRAND (P)2024 MATTHEW BERTRAND

Pretty Okay

Was enjoyable, power system is unique, character is a bit too MC for me but it works for the plot just not my cup of tea.

Excellent start!

I won’t be too wordy here, but I absolutely love the story! This is the second time I’m reading this novel and it’s still amazing. The only thing that would constitute in, “issue,“ is that the writing is a bit shaky along with a little bit of the narration. Neither or bad enough to Take away from the story, and there is obvious and visible improvement. Don’t let this deter you, an amazing series!

A decent start to a series

While I like the story, I struggled with the execution.
Erin Neil (Narrator/voice actor) has a good voice, but lacks some vocabulary. The time it took to figure out the word she mispronounced pulled me out of the flow.
I am unsure if the editor listed at the end is for the writing or the audiobook. The writing needs better editing. Show me dont tell me, and definitely dont tell me then also show me.
As I said, I like the story. Its flaws are down to its quality control with the writing editor and boice acting.

great start!

love it! good to see an MC that's not an antisocial loaner.

for some reason book 1 doesn't show up as part of the series with book 2 on audible. hoping that gets fixed

I am entertained

I like this book reminded me of a couple of other book that I liked like as a ran healer, and Amber the cursed berserker. The only deficit I could really say is that not every battle needs to be won by the skin of her teeth.

I freaking loved it.

How does this not have more ratings? I tore through Book 1 and 2 and grabbed Book 3 on Kindle without even blinking.

Book 1 had the perfect balance—not too heavy on the system stuff (which I love reading, just not so much hearing narrated at me). Book 2 leaned into it more, which wasn’t exactly my thing, but the story still had me completely hooked.

I especially loved the MC’s time in the adventurer’s guild. That arc had personality—some fun, some chaos, a bit of drunken nonsense, and a lot of heart. Once she left, though, it started to feel like one non-stop fight after another. Still cool, just… I found myself missing those playful, more grounded moments.

There’s also a good bit of girl-love going on, and heads up—she’s definitely not a one-girl type of… girl. That might not be for everyone, but it worked for me.

If you're into action-packed series with an overpowered main character who keeps pushing her limits and somehow finds herself in danger every other chapter, this series delivers. I just wish it kept a bit more of that carefree spark from Book 1. Still not docking any stars, though—I'm just genuinely surprised this isn’t way more popular.

Similar to another book

This book was similar to another book… Azarinth Healer. So if you like this book I think you really like AH.

This book was good, it will be an in between series while I wait for others to come out. DOF, HWFWM, and Primal Hunter, my main LitRPG’m series.

never managed to make me really care for the main character

good at action scenes, not great at social scenes. I just never ended up really feeling engaged by the main characters story which led to me not finishing the book with only a few hours left.

So far

The writing is kinda elementary and hard to tolerate. I’m all for OP protagonists but going from sub lvl 10 to killing 30 40 50+ lvl monsters is just strange to me. This is a personal thing for me and not JUST this novel but I’m getting a bit bored with every female protagonist being a lesbian and/or having disdain towards men. I’m gonna try and power through the rest of this book but it’s not likely I’ll purchase the following entries.
This is a review not far into the listen. I already don’t really feel like finishing it. Kinda shot myself in the foot for not looking at reviews. I usually don’t and it usually works out. I’ve also never posted a review before I’ve finished.

A Bit Annoyed

It was really great to start and quite OP class, but interesting. There’s extreme progression which was pretty good. What I wasn’t really happy is that she gets told right off the bat her class is a solitary traveler, and the within halfway through, she’s already in an intimate relationship with her female partner, which of romance I was not expecting sapphic. I ended with 3hrs left of audio, I have no interest in continuing. I thought it would be centered around the FMC and traveling and getting a whole rag tag group, not a relationship. Usually I don’t mind, but it’s one of those where it’s like the entire shift of the story focuses on them and no longer on progression