Step 2: Lust: A LitRPG Adventure

A Gamer's Guide to Beating the Tutorial, Book 2

De: Palt

Narrado por: Daniel Wisniewski

Unlike the challenges Lo Fennrick has faced so far, the one that lies ahead can't be solved with brute force and manslaughter, in this dark fantasy LitRPG.

When former MMORPG champion (and current indebted, isolated madman) Lo Fennrick joined the Tutorial, it seemed grit, dedication, and a willingness to kill were all he needed in order to beat each hellish floor. But as he enters the ashy wastes of this next one, he finds a familiar face awaiting him—alongside a challenge that might prove to be more than he can handle . . .

Together with fellow challenger and former rival Moleman (who may or may not now be his friend) and the goblin Simel (of whose friendship he's fortunately entirely certain), Fennrick—or PrissyKittyPrincess, as he's come to be known—must make his way across the world of Purgatory. One thing's for sure: he'll do everything in his power to do the right thing by his new allies, no matter how tenuous their bonds.

And as Fennrick battles his way through savage beasts and harsh elements, he'll soon come to realize that making—and keeping—a friend can be far more difficult than killing.

The second volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

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A second fall into madness

What I enjoy about this story is a complicated thing to say, it's both the character who constantly puts himself in bad situations in the most logical ways and also how the more I listen the strangest feeling of empathy keeps hitting me. This part is cruelty, especially on the last floor lo fenrick vists. There is nothing but death now and if the main character finally died in book 3 no one will cry at his funeral.

So yes, I'm still hooked and I can't wait to hear how much darker this man will go on his delusions of "friendship".

Doom Eternal meets Goblin Slayer

Saw a recommendation for this after listening to Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon, it was described as "a more brutal LitRPG". Pretty much spot on. The narrator does a great job conveying the MC's emotional state as he slowly loses his mind from constant suffering. until all he knows is rip & tear.

The redemption is coming

In book 2 he is a crazy skin walker, in book 3 he starts growing as a character. Just stick with it.

No one understands my main man Kitty

Everyone's so mean to him, my dude just needs some affection and direction. Hopefully he gets some soon because bro is spiraling HARD in this one.
10/10 ~the gods are dumb and I hate them too kitty

Rock Bottom and Still Digging

The highlights are still the humor and writing style. With the MCs continued downward spiral and added layer of "character development" being enjoyable.

I enjoyed this one more and less than the first. Moleman being a highlight along with the brief moments of humanity being well written.

The weakest aspect of this book I think was the first books strongest. That being how visceral the descriptions are. The style is still there, but it's just too abundant. Part of this is intentional I assume, to make the reader as dicensitized as the MC. And this works for humor and emotions to great effect sometimes. But it also leaves a lot of the novel just feeling samey and less impactful. With me just zoning out during the murder hobo parts of the story near the middle as I lose any associating with the MCs actions in a way that was repetitive and intentional, but also left me bored with sections in the middle of the book.

The performance also really makes the story pop, with the voice actor giving life to scenes that I don't think I'd like if I were just reading it.

even better

yes no this is even better than the first more worlds reserve currency doesn't

the feeling of insanity

the narrator really breathe the feeling of kitty that I remember of the novel's 10/10

love the performance, nail the main character

main character doesn't learn, to call him broke. The insanity is to make Hannibal Lector look noble.

This is the worst book I've come across on audible

The title says it all. I was morbidly curious where this disturbing story would lead. So I used a credit for book two to see what vision the writer had in mind. If I knew that 2/3 of the book's run time would be nothing but the main character essentially torturing a goblin both physically and psychologically I wouldn't have bothered. I'm serious by the way. That last 2/3's of the book is the main character, whose becoming stupider as the story progress, terrorize a goblin over the course of months with all the collateral damage that comes with that. The mc just becomes more deranged, disgusting and unlikable to the point that I think the writer has a fetish they are putting to paper under the guise of dark fantasy. I don't even get the point of the story. The leveling system makes no sense, the difficultly settings don't really mean anything, and gods don't make sense. What's the point of even having a hell difficulty when a person in easy difficulty can become just as strong with better time? You would think that the pace of progression would limited by difficulty. That a level 30 in easy difficulty would only be as strong as 15 in hard and only a 5 in hell but it's not. A level 30 is a level 30 making hell difficulty just a means to torture anyone who chooses it. Which brings up the gods role in this into focus because they make no sense. A majority apparently hate the methods the mc uses to clear the floors but nothing the mc does compares to what evils the gods do themselves. They are the ones who set this entire thing up. Which means they are both creating sentient beings to be their play things to die by the thousands every hour and simultaneously uses a already existing civilization to do the dying for their tests. So nothing the mc has done comes close to how evil and complicit the gods are to the suffering of living being. So their outrage is absurd. I think the writer gave up on rationalizing this aspect of the story just to focus on their deprived fetish.

The performance is as good as ever Daniel Wisniewski did a fantastic.

Awful

I did not enjoy the second installment at all. Quit about 2/3 through, just be warned the character begins to learn morals and feelings but still just does things randomly that don't make sense with his goals.

Narrator 5/5 as always.