Rise of the Devourer: Voidborne

A LitRPG Adventure

By: Krazekode

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Noah Brown has a gift for fighting.

Unfortunately, punching things doesn't pay the bills, at least until he died and an Eldritch god found his soul.

The encounter brings him to a new world, summoned by bloody cultists. He's got nothing but the shirt on his back and a strange item in his system menu.

[???]: A source of infinite potential.

Perhaps he'll finally get to put his gift to good use.

Don't miss the start of an action-packed crunchy LitRPG series from KrazeKode, author of The First Law of Cultivation. Loaded with stats, skills, combat, and power progression, it's perfect for fans of Iron Prince, Road to Mastery, and He Who Fights with Monsters!

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Holy mother of plot armor

Over all not a bad listen but the amount of times Mc gets away with things he shouldn’t makes the story feel like it has no consequences

good book

I liked the book. not too sure on the narrator. for the most part over all good. book

Heavily inspired, but with the listen.

I don't agree that this book is a copy of HWFM. It's def inspired by it, but falls very short of HWFM's glory. That being said, it was a good book.

This is the first time I didn't enjoy Peter Kenny's narration. He can't fully do an American accent. He ended a lot of the words with an 'a' sound; mana- manar, Noah- Noar. It's obvious that the MC's accent was off compared to those of the other characters.

The author used a fair amount of inspiration from HWFMs 1, but not enough to be a shitty copy. The book was well written, and is its own story.

I don't think it's deserved of the bad rep it's gotten. I look forward to reading(listening to) the next book.

great book

Awesome listen and great story. it does remind me of "he who fights monsters" but as the story goes on you can see it gets further away from it and comes into its own story. kinda wish there was more rabbit story lol. Only thing that bothered me was the narrator says the main characters name is Noah but whenever the character says his own name it sounds like he is saying Nor, not that its very important just something that bothered me somewhat lol

Second Book Disappoints

While the first book entertains with lots of new ideas and a fast pace, the second quickly fails as a normal novel.

There are tons of moments when exposition is withheld - likely to entice readers to come back to read the web serial as it was written - that ruin the narrative flow of a novel. Additionally, a slave girl damsel trope character is added and there are point of view shifts to her that aren't at all important or interesting because the character is written as a damsel who has no backbone or agency other than to be timid and paralyzed by self doubt. Point of view characters need to be the heroes of their scenes (even if they are the victim or the villain of the overall story). If they aren't, then the scene should not be written. We can get a summary of how they were running away in fear when they meet back up with more interesting characters later. Alternatively, the "side characters" could make big decisions that have a meaningful impact on the narrative.

Anyway, the first novel is worth a credit, but stop there.