Bastard

Last Life Series, Book 1

De: Alexey Osadchuk, Andrew Douglas Schmitt - translator

Narrado por: Ryan Burke

In a former life, Jack was gifted, meaning he possessed peculiar abilities. If rich folks found themselves in a jam, Jack could use his talents to get them out of it. Where others were sure to fail, Jack's aristocratic clientele could always count on him to finish jobs cleanly, efficiently, and leave no trace, for which his services commanded a hefty fee.

But one day, Jack picked a fight with the wrong man and his old life came to an end. But, as it turned out, his story was far from over.

A mysterious supernatural being whisked Jack's consciousness away and into the body of a young nobleman living in a different world in the multiverse—a magical one.

In it, he must play the part of Max Renard, illegitimate son of a traitor who was recently executed on orders from the king, which caused Max to lose his home and be forced to dwell in a small town on the western outskirts of the kingdom.

And now this new life-his last life—is the one he must lead . . .

©2022 Alexey Osadchuk; English translation copyright 2022 by Andrew Schmitt (P)2023 Tantor

An absolute gem

I loved this book so much.
I am not a critic so I won’t pretend to be, but the way that this book combined reincarnation, mystical abilities, and a touch of fantasy politics makes me happy to say that I will be buying the second book in this series when it releases this Fourth of July.
I only hope that more casual readers like me find this absolute gem when browsing books on audible.com.
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Fun reincarnation tale 

Even though these audiobooks are a little short, I throughly enjoy them! It’s a really enjoyable start from nothing and work your way up tale. If you enjoy OP protagonist that start from nothing and have tons of potential this is the book for you. The only thing that bothered me in the beginning was the French accent but you get used to it.

An Enjoyable Story

I really liked this story. I found it to be an interesting take on the Isekai genre and combined a bunch of different "New World/New Life" elements in ways I haven't heard before. My only complaint is that there is only one audiobook in the series at present. I'm looking forward to the next one!

Absolutely my favorite new author!!

I really love these types of books! A wonderful storyline as well as great characterization.

Best story I've found so far on audible

8 books in and I can honestly tell you that this is the best written story I've found on audible. A MC that is actually competent. Fully flushed out side characters, no annoying love interest is always helpless. The author is good at writing fight scenes and political intrigues. I find myself just re-listening to this series because most of the LitRPG/ Iseki is garbage.

Better than expected

when I bought this book I wasn't expecting it to be so interesting. It doesn't shy away from the the darker side of humanity while not focusing on it. It strikes balance between progressing the story and flushing out the world as a whole. The real issue's I personally only had with the that's it was slow to start and I really wanted it to be longer it was relatively short read.

it's good

it's a good series nothing wrong with it I like quite a bit I want to listen to the next one

It's good!

pretty good book. The only problem I have with it is its to short and a bit slow. The MC is OP and is not a dumb ass. Reminds me alot of Legend of the arch magus.

Surprisingly good

I really wasn’t sure if I would like this book when I was picked it up I started reading it and then set it aside. Then the audiobook came out and I picked it up. Planning to finish the book but never got around to it until now and it turned out to be an excellent book so much so I’m diving into the next book in the series.

Awesome

I couldn't stop listening, from start to finish the story had my attention and i really liked the translation there's usually a level of disconnect but not here or at least i didn't notice. I can't wait for the next one!