Disregard Fantasy, Acquire Currency

Disregard Fantasy, Acquire Currency, Book 1

De: Nemorosus

Narrado por: Daniel Wisniewski

Business magnate Willem dies at age 87, entirely alone.

Populists around the world generally cheer for such a sad fate, but his reincarnation into a world of fantasy would surely put a damper on their enthusiasm. Sword and sorcery, grand adventure, life-threatening monsters and calamities... Willem stands poised to enjoy a life of splendor.

Only, our protagonist doesn't care one whit about all of that. To him, there's only one magic: correcting an inefficient market. He long ago mastered that sorcery, and he's certainly not about to try to learn another when the old tricks work just as well in the new world. No matter how fantastical the world, one thing never changes.

Money makes the world go round.

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Best book I've read in years

only thing you'll dislike about this book is that you cannot read the whole series now

The Art of the Fantasy Deal

Really fun twist on the isekai genre. Instead of chasing power or magic, the MC is basically Warren Buffet dropped into a fantasy world. He couldn’t care less about training or fighting, he just wants to exploit inefficient markets and make stacks of gold. Super sharp, full of dry humor and dad-tier puns, and totally focused on outsmarting the economy while everyone else is busy swinging swords. Don’t expect action, just top-tier competence and some very satisfying business wins.

The narrator Daniel Wisniewski does an absolute top tier job as always, and between him and the excellent writing from Nemorosus had me purchasing this audiobook before I knew a single thing about the story. If you enjoyed Jackal Among Snakes you won’t be disappointed at all.

Conflicted

It’s good. Takes a while to stand on solid footing but if you listen until the very end you probably won’t regret it.

Not what I expected

My initial concern was that Nemorosus' story was going to be mostly focused on mercantilism which isn't one of my preferred genres; however, seeing that Daniel Wisniewski was the narrator and enjoyed his other performances, I decided to give this a try.

While there was a fair bit of mercantilism involved, that was more of a MacGuffin device than the primary emphasis of the story. No, the story really revolved around an industrialist MC upon death being Isekai'd from a modern urban world, presumably Earth, to another realm where magic existed. Further complicating matters, the MC's psyche overrode that of the psyche of a rather despicable princeling. Also, the economy was closer to a pre-industrial era where product development was slow and heavily depended on manual labor. The MC's industrial background knowledge immediately led him on a quest to modernize the economy by removing inefficiencies.

He was was also wrapped-up into political intrigue from within the kingdom as well as from another slaver kingdom.

In all, I enjoyed the novel and look forward to Book 2.

Great story. Great voice acting

Nice change of pace. Give a shot. You wont regret it. Funny and a different type of litrpg