Arcane Survivalist

Apocalyptic Fantasy LitRPG

By: Deck Davis

Narrated by: JJ Jenness

After experimenting with dark matter, Dr. Benny Aitken inadvertently opened a portal into another dimension. He found himself in a world called Rapto, a place where he was given magic powers and killing stuff made him stronger. A dark mage guild soon discovered the portal and found a way to get through it. Dr. Benny Aitken, self-proclaimed genius, had unwittingly visited a fantasy apocalypse upon earth. It's starting point? A small town called Pasture Downs.

In a fit of desperation, Benny sends blue orbs back through the portal in the hope that a few heroic residents of Earth would find them and absorb their powers, granting them magical skills that they can level up by killing things. Who are these heroes of legend to be? Unfortunately, one of them is Ash Hobbes, a conman and self-confessed ass.

After stumbling on an orb he becomes a blood mage. Together with a companion called FF, who lives in his head, Ash must learn to stop being such an ass and find the strength to save the world as a blood mage.

Contains adult language.

©2017 Deck Davis (P)2018 Deck Davis

Narrator is painfully bad.

I couldn’t get through an hour with the narrator. I can’t honestly judge the story, so it may be good, but again I couldn’t make it through with that narrator.

I found out about Deck Davis a week ago and now

I only recently got a suggestion of Deck Davis and was I ever happy that I did. I proceeded to get his books and have enjoyed all three. But now I am left wanting more glimpses into all three of these worlds.

too much profanity for me

too much profanity for me but story did start to get interesting. not sure I will get next one

story ruined by narrator

Good story, really bad narrator. If you're a fan of drag Queens with no talent for voice control than ya might like this. No offense to drag Queens but the whole " gay" voice narrating an adventure novel doesn't work for me. You may feel differently. If so, you might like this.

better as a book

Quite a good book, but the narrator is not for everyone he has something like a Valley Girl accent that irritates the heck out of me.