Weaponsmith

Weaponsmith, Book 1

By: D.M. Rhodes, Razzmatazz

Narrated by: Hollie Jackson

[I accidentally got engaged to the evil owl-goddess who is obsessed with the number-three and now I have to make weapons for our new adventuring guild].

In an era in which ancient gods live in the world’s cities together with their mortal followers, forming tight-knit guilds and powerful temples, the disfigured ash-caster and blacksmith Hineni has lived his entire life as a reclusive outcast. Hidden away behind layers of clothing and just as many walls and doors, he only ever leaves the house in the dead of night, so that neither the gods or anyone else can ever see him.

However, on one of these night-tide outings, he finds that has gained the unwanted attention of what is seemingly a perfectly normal owl, and through his unwitting efforts at simply filling his nights with acts of personal meaning, he ends up promising himself to a creature that is perhaps even less versed in human ways than he himself is. He is a mysterious, odd owl-goddess that nobody seems to have ever heard of, Obscura.

Hineni, having had no greater purpose in life until now, finds himself willing to accept this turn of events and dedicates himself to creating a brand new adventuring guild, under the watchful eyes of the ancient entity Obscura, who has only one, clear, proclaimed goal—

To hunt the BIG FROG! BIG FROG! BIG!

Weaponsmith is a slice-of-life litRPG [soft romance] with base/guild-building.

©2022 D.M. Rhodes and Razzmatazz (P)2022 Podium Audio

Ha, better than i thought.

It wasnt all action and adventure but a decent faction builder with some romance elements. Not a fan of slice of life but this wasnt all that bad. At the end of it all its an ok listen.

a good look at psychology and ptsd

while decently written, and quite well voice acted, certain things pull Me out of it. I get that its litRPG, but do we really NEED to hear an item breakdown of damn near everything he eats and handles? I mean, the first time I would understand, but every piece of jerky? every frog? the third one is the same as the first, if its not different in any way why bother giving the same description every time?

interesting story

it's a very interesting litrpgs and was an interesting story once you get into it. It has some decent character building. I'll most likely buy the other books.

Great performance!

The performer was really good at putting emphasis of things in threes, which is pretty important to this book.

Interesting, not a lot going on.

This is a tough story to review. It doesn’t seem to fit very well in the Lit/rpg genre. It was recommended by Audible as such. It has a very ethereal feel to it. The mc, Hininee, could be a poster child for ptsd. He is introverted and withdrawn from the city he watches out the window of his house. He does just enough to survive. A chance encounter in the woods forces him reconnect with the world and start dealing with the trauma of his past. He meets a few other misfits and they all form an advocate family together. There are hints of a threat and the possibility of a war, but we never see them. This story is much more about the psychology of the characters than the events we see in the story.
The voice acting is good and helped keep me interested enough to finish the book.