Kingdom Come: A LitRPG Dragonrider Adventure

The Archemi Online Chronicles, Book 3

By: James Osiris Baldwin

Narrated by: Justin Thomas James, Jeff Hays, Laurie Catherine Winkel

Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

As reward for stopping a serial killer and restoring the Kingdom of Vlachia to its rightful ruler, Dragozin Hector and his queen dragon, Karalti, have earned a noble title, a castle, and land of their own.

There’s only one problem – it’s occupied. By a freaking elder vampire.

Not only has the vampire unleashed the blight of undeath across the land, but Hector's nemesis is on the warpath. His mission? To steal Karalti, kill a god, and use their combined power to become the Insane God-Emperor of Archemi.

Hector never wanted to go back to war, not even in a video game. But now, he must fight to claim his territory from Ol’ Fangface before everything is taken from him - his dragon, his territory, and the woman he loves.

©2017 James Osiris Baldwin (P)2020 James Osiris Baldwin

epic

love this series and love the narrators. can't wait for the next book. worth every penny.

Loving the story

This series continues so well it's like watching a TV series grow the characters and storyline. The narration is again the best out there, the twists and turns the story takes makes you want to continue immediately and the bonus is the soundtrack/effects make the immersion even better

wait wait wait, what?

I mean, the story is okay, but there’s too much talking which makes the listening kinda boring. also there’s too much curses.
and where’s the part where he fights the warsinger?

If you like crude and the F word, this is for you!

Each book has had more crude talk and cursing, until this this entry could remove them and be about a quarter shorter. It's truly reaching ridiculous levels, which is sad, because otherwise it's a great series. It's as if the author's vocabulary is shrinking, or he's hanging around biker bars! Seriously annoying, because the characters and the imagination are great.

It just gets better!!! Amazing LitRPG!

The story just gets better with each book. Character development, pace, humor and writing are just leveling up with each book. Can’t wait for the next one.

Another wonderful work of art.

Soundbooth did amazing on this one. From sound design, to voice work, this beats out so many other books. Feels like I'm listening to a full length movie, and it's so well narrated that I don't even need to see it. A lot of people say, that they can feel themselves enter a world while reading a book, I say an audio book like this makes that world so much more colorful.

Justin and crew brought a life to this story that I don't see often and I can't wait for the next book.

Soundbooth Theater, thank you for another wonderful book

Amazing work!!!

Yet another amazing work done by James and Soundbooth Theater. The story is compelling and the characters are truly alive. I absolutely cannot wait for the next volume to be made. I absolutely look forward to it!!!

great book

solid story and great fun can't wait to get the next two books. hope audible gets them soon

The Best Yet

While a lot of series tend to hit a lull as they proceed, this one was the best yet. The jokes are still actually funny (mostly, some of them are word-play, but the main character is aware that they are puns and the "joke" of the puns is that he's annoying his companions with them), the adventure is still fun, and the progression is still a mixture of hard to remember or parse skill names that must exist firmly in the author's head, but that I only understand through context. . . and yet, the combat is still fun. It's a definite area for improvement, but not enough to bring down the score.

The only downside of this book is that sex is no longer off-page. Eroticism is great, but it isn't one-size-fits-all and I found myself skipping ahead during the chapters that were about shared sexuality over a psychic bond with the MC's dragon-daughter-twin-companion that is meant to have matured to young adulthood through leveling in the game but has only existed for a few months as well as the moments when the main character and his girlfriend's sexual escapades became explicit. Admittedly, these sections are short and I'm all for romance and sexuality, but I don't want explicit stuff (even brief passages) in an adventure story. I want to read about his abused girlfriend's struggles and the difficulty of the psychic bond in relationship to sexuality, but I want the actual sex to occur off-page. Plus, there is a ton of foreshadowing meant to pave the road for the main character to eventually have sex with his dragon. Luckily, the main character is well aware of how creepy that relationship would become, but then the psychic bond thing happens and he's turned on and it seems like the author is chipping away at the taboo wall to eventually reach Creep Town, but I don't want to go to there - though others might and I will freely admit that if this was a story about gay male characters with the dragon being a gorgeous twink when polymorphed, I'd be ambivalent and interested in both potential outcomes instead of my current states of boredom and revulsion. . . so I'm willing to just skip ahead on this stuff and not hurt the score because I realize that I'm probably yucking someone's yum.

So that's a lot of criticism, but look at the stars. This is a great LitRPG novel that is highly entertaining and I include criticism not to scare people away but to try to make this glowing review helpful.

Fun Listen

I found this book too be a reasonable listen oh, I would have gave sound booth five stars, but they have a tendency to make the characters whisper at times that makes it extremely hard to listen to while you're driving.
sadly it looks like I'll have to wait till the next books comes out to continue the series...
the cliffhanger was expected oh, but it did have several unexpected spots which made it more interesting, especially the twist at the end.
we'll be waiting for the next books to come out someday soon.