Azarinth Healer: Book One

A LitRPG Adventure

De: Rhaegar

Narrado por: Andrea Parsneau

Ilea likes punching things. And eating.

Unfortunately, there aren’t too many career options for hungry brawlers. Instead, the plan is to quit her crappy fast-food job, go to college, and become a fully functioning member of society. Essentially—a fate worse than death.

So maybe it's lucky that she wakes up one day in a strange world where a bunch of fantasy monsters are trying to kill her?

On the bright side, "killing those monsters right back" is now a viable career path! For she soon discovers her new home runs on a set of game-like rules that will allow her to punch things harder than in her wildest dreams. Well, maybe not her wildest dreams, but it’s close.

With no quest to follow, no guide to show her the way, and no real desire to be a Hero—Ilea embarks on a journey to discover a world full of magic. Magic she can use to fight even bigger monsters.

She’s struggling to survive, has no idea what will happen next, and is loving every minute of it. Except, and sometimes also, when she’s poisoned and/or has set herself on fire. It’s complicated.

Listen to the story that took Royal Road by storm with more than 60 million views and counting.

©2022 Rhaegar (P)2022 Portal Books

A fun story told cartoonishly...

The Good:
--Fun LitRPG story.
--The Math and Numbers aren't overwhelming (except for the number of times the word DING and Meters is used)
--The Class system is pretty straight forward and easy to pick up on.
--The MC doesn't get too bogged down in internal monologues (though they do happen)
--Lots of progression - like - a truck load for one book.
--Very long book so you get your money's worth


The Less than Good:
--I am 3 meters away from this, that is 2 meters tall, she threw the rock 34 meters. My god - be general with some of the math or description. I don't need the actual length of something. "She was knocked back a bit" instead of "She was knocked back 1.5 meters".
--The Narrator giggles WAY too much or chuckle talks. It was fun for the first hour - 20 hours in and I'm losing my mind.
--The characters are anime characters. Flat and devoid of actual depth - they have zero care about life or anything at all other than their 1-2 assigned traits which they repeat over and over. NPC likes to eat. Every single conversation is her suggesting they eat or her producing a steak. Its lazy. Its repetitive and it detracts from every character.
--The MC is a shell of what she should be. She curses like a sailor- is brash and roughly acts like a 12 year old boy most of the time which makes the author seem like he is a 12 year old boy.
--The numbers don't work. At the beginning level 100 is awe inspiring. By mid-book level 150 is the norm and by the end of the book people at 200 are ho-hum. What??? That makes no sense at all. If she is around exceptionally high level people then it needs to be written so the reader is made KEENLY aware of this--- not just "She is on an adventure so obviously 200 is the norm..."

Not a healer but a monk

Her class is a classic monk class but is called healer all the time which is misleading

Really, surprisingly good

I was not expecting much. Looked like a standard litrpg from a new author — with perhaps a nod to a Sylvester Stallone-type MC subplot. That’s fine. Litrpg isn’t the sort of thing you turn to for literary innovation. Currently the genre has as many fixed conventions as a standard Elizabethan sonnet. You read those for excellence in how the conventions are combined and colored.

In most respects that’s all you’ll find here. So why was I still reading the damn thing at 4:30 am?

As far as I can tell, it’s because the characters were so consistently engaging that I wanted to know more about them. The MC in particular is conventional, but (as others often tell her) a complete mad woman. Still, she’s a nut case of a recognizable, and not completely unrealistic, kind. Some people really react that way to one-on-one conflict etc.

Maybe the book just hit me on a good day. Still, I hope to see some more of those days from this author as soon as possible. Narration is also high quality — save for the annoying “ding!”s mentioned by a previous reviewer. Andrea Parsneau reminds me a bit of Dina Perlman although Parsneau doesn’t quite have Perlman’s amazing tonal range

Healer huh?

The story and the character development is quite good, even the class system, I would listen to this title more. I haven't finished book two, but book one is good to me.

Fun to listen to.

Lots of interesting characters and fast flow. Recommend for all gamer’s. Female listeners will love the strong lead character.

transgender man in a women's team world.

characters are unlikable. the flow of the story is good. completely unrelatable though, and not something any of my daughters could relate to. not even the martial artist.

Could the author have the MC say the f-word more?

The story is good. I really enjoyed it. However, an MC that is going to start medical school saying “fuck” nearly every time she’s surprised is a little annoying. However, I’m unsure if it’s the MC saying it so often or the way the narrator says it that is the irritating part.

Again, I must say, good monk story, though.

a great start

This has a been a great book with a wonderful narrator who brings the characters to life. The main character is appropriately badass at points while also being a ball of fun but she has plenty of points where she has to pull herself through some truly horrible situation in a believable way. The problem I had is that I could not get a real feel of where the story is going. I am looking forward to the next book.

great book but..

the near constant "ding" is very annoying. as well as listing most every upgrade. just sum it up. otherwise love the book and the naration

luv

she's a crazy battle Junkie, but the story is good and it has it's funny parts