Conquest: DarkForce

A GameLit Saga

By: R. M. Mulder

Narrated by: Andrea Emmes

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Voted number-one favorite dystopian book at Virtual Fantasy Con.

The future of mankind is in the hands of one woman - but only she can See it.

Over the last 500 years, Timur Demyan has used his ungodly powers to decimate countless empires. Now, the immortal villain stands as the CEO of the company that has developed DarkForce, the most popular augmented reality video game in the world. What gamers don’t know is that DarkForce has been patterned after an alien planet inhabited by the Leviathan, a loathsome creature with whom Timur has forged an alliance.

Undercover operative Lily Thatcher has only just begun to unlock innate Seer abilities that allow her to witness past, present, and potential future events after she overcame certain death. Now dragged away to another world with a sentient dragon by her side, will her powers be enough to stop Timur and prevent Earth’s apocalyptic fate?

©2016 R. M. Mulder (P)2017 R. M. Mulder

Conquest

I loved the narrator in this book. | thought she did a great job of voicing the characters and making them more realistic. Unfortunately, the book was not as good. I loved it to begin with, but as the book progressed I felt it was dragging, some parts I found confusing and it has clique images and scenarios.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

if you like a story with a little religion

if you like stories like angelopoulos then you will like this with it's a religious overtones as a way of helping to give bones to the story it should be religious fiction so it does have some strong video game Dimensions to it overall it's good read and they could start to Apostle new series in the religious fantasy genre

Good story with excellent narration

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

This was a well written and narrated book. It had a great mix of characters and plot, and although it was a little slow at times, kept my interest. This was in large part due to the narrator. I would definitely be open to more if this becomes a series.

Something a little different💙

Conquest Darkforce is essentially a light verses dark tale. A mix of earth and Atlantis, bible verses/tales and a little sci fi.

The characters grew both on me and  over the course of the story.  

A reasonable story though a little disjointed.  

An average narrator 

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntary leaving a review.

A genre-bending read

What genre-bending read. This had everything from Historic Asian figures, the Bible, gaming elements, and high tech stuff. Narrator Andrea Emmes knocks it out of the ball park as usual. Having a good narrator truly makes a difference, and with certain books, it's all the difference.

unexpected pleasure

this is a really interesting book. it has religious elements but it's not a religious book. it takes characters from the Bible and builds on their story and those of their decendants and what happened to them. it's about Lily, an undercover agent who is watching 2 different people and how everything goes south when the truth about them comes out. there's a fifth horseman of the apocolypse and he's about to throw a wrench in the fourth's plans.

Wonderful narration, fair story

Conquest
By: R. M. Mulder
Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
This is an audible book I requested and the review is voluntary.
This is not a litRPG, it is about a fantasy that takes place sending people to another world or dimension through a portal.
I found it very interesting in the beginning and up to about half way and there it began to bog down. If it had been a print or e-book I might have skimmed portions but that is not possible with an audible book. I really wanted to like this book. It didn't really get much better and the end was a disappointment altogether.
The one good thing about the book was the narrator. If it wasn't for the narrator I might not have made it through at all. She made the voices great, all of them, even the deep gruff male voices she did perfect! She helped me stick it out when I wanted to quit. Her excitement kept me going. She was the perfect voice for this book.

Unique

Another world, mystical forces, a dash of Sci-fi Tech, a great evil and a Apocalyptic Fate all wrapped up with links to ancient prophecies. This strange mix works blending into an interesting setting where the story takes place.

R. M. Mulder has done a good job with this book. The writing is well done crafting an interesting and engaging story. The characters actions and dialogue flow naturally and the book has good pacing to keep you listing. There are no perfect characters here they are all flawed enough to be realistic.

The narration is clear and easy to listen to Andrea Emmes gives each character a unique voice. There are some olde English bits and they are done consistently which adds to the setting rather than distracting from it. There were no errors I noticed in the recording.

I prefer the first half of the book over the second as when both myself and the characters knew less about what was going on there was more of a sense of tension and mysterious threat but the second half is still good.

All and all an interesting listen that is worth putting the hours in to.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

Great Narrator

I got this ARC via audiobook boom and this is my voluntary review. If not for the narrator I would not have been able to get through the story. The story was hit and miss for me. Confusing in parts and boring in others. There were some good parts but they were few. The narrator did each voice to fit the emotion that was intended. I just believe that more story would have made this a good book. Keep using this narrator. Bringing a story to life is her forte.

Good and bad

I liked the idea of this story more than the execution. The narration was at times choppy and stiff and at other times fluid. The writing was ok, but apparently I don't enjoy Old English unless it is in a classic that was written in or about that era. And even then, not much. The characters were alright but the dialog was mostly dry in my opinion. When listening to an audio book, I always try to separate the narration from the writing to see if I would have liked reading it myself more. I don't think I would have in this case, just not my cup of tea.

This book was given to me for free at my request for my voluntary and unbiased review.