Continue Online Part Three: Realities

By: Stephan Morse

Narrated by: Pavi Proczko

Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's Summary

Worried for his sanity after poor in-game choices, Grant Legate’s sister, Liz, blocks access to Continue Online. With no way around the restriction, he ventures into a new world—a VRMMO game based in space—called Advance Online. There he must help his companion AI, Hal Pal, overcome an identity crisis, race to the center of the universe to bring back his true love, and figure out where he stands on the scariest implication of all; AIs are bringing the dead to life.

©2016 Stephan Morse (P)2017 Stephan Morse

annoying

half the novel is the main character complaining and it's so annoying every other thing is him complaining and saying things like if only I had my old skills pops up so much it makes my blood boil and him looking back second guessing himself and pretty much ignoring the character build up of the first two novels if I wasn't so invested because of the first two novels I would have returned this book.tbis the first and only bad review I've goven here

Definitely a detour but still good

This series exists in the LitRPG genre but pushes the cliches out of the way to show a deeply thoughtful story. Be warned. The online world of continue is replaced in this book with Advance Online. It is a Sci-fi game set in space.

I just didn't like it.

I loved the first two books in the series but this book goes off the rails. There are much better space exploration/fight books and there are way better litRPG books. Give this one a skip. It felt like a punishment to get finish. I just didn't care about the new game and the family drama
felt forced and irrational. Check out Dakota Krout if you're looking for your next litRPG adventure.

The change of pace was unexpected but good

I wanted more Morogul's Gift and Echo but laser and spaceship battles was interesting as well.

The pull of this series is the main character's relationship with the voices of continue online, Hal pal consortium, his twin sister, nephew, his ailment and his deceased wife. The rest is topping and serves as background to the story. Can't wait for the next installment.

Great world building.. Story is too long

I really want to love this series! The world is awesome.. The protagonist is just too wordy for me tho (or not wordy enough, depending on how you look at it). The story is one line of dialog followed by 30 lines of introspection about that one line of dialog... No exaggeration. The shortest sequences are stretched out to an extra 10-20 minutes because of this. I found myself constantly rolling my eyes as the main character went off into yet another diatribe rehashing everything that's happened up to this point. It's like the author doesn't trust us to follow the story on our own.. If we're on book 3, we probably get it by now!

Anyway.. Narration is superb and worldbuilding is great so I split the difference and gave it three stars

Do some people dream of electric sheep as well?

What did you love best about Continue Online Part Three: Realities?

The main character. These books really dig deep into important questions: what is real; what does it mean to be alive? What is most important to a man? We get to ride along with Grant Legate while he struggles with these.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Mother. I was glad to finally hear a bit about what she was about.

What does Pavi Proczko bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

His voice acting is excellent and he really makes the characters come alive. I thought there was something with his cadence that made it easier to imagine the place settings in the virtual world.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, I wanted to. I had to do it in two as its a bit long for one sitting.

Any additional comments?

I've read the entire series. The audiobook for book 3 really added to the experience.

Great Series. Do Not Expect Quick Gratification..

Great Series! This was the best so far. Do Not Expect Quick Gratification. One Must Be Patient, One Step At A Time..

Confusing Plots

To many Plots within Plots for one book the author should have narrowed his focus. Because we were flipping between realities, it got confusing and hard to follow, losing cohesiveness of a fine novel. Though still I recommend this book, it is with regret because this audio book could have been a lot better if the Author could control his focus. The Plots cause confusion and can be hard to follow, they are to numerous and lose the reader to easily.

Main character is depressing, incomplete, and irritating

I forced myself to go threw this book. The world is good but the main character is mind numbing. You have been warned!

Mind Numbing

So basically the author made the main character OP, so he locks him out of the game to start another one but in space that is basically the same game with the exact same NPC's but in space and spends countless chapters debating morality over and over and over again in the main characters head instead of just telling the story. In the end I skipped whole chapters of this mind rhetoric and missed nothing because the main character never actually comes to any conclusions to his endless mind rambles until the last chapter. So the book has like 7 or 8 chapters of constant unanswered moral questions, each chapter being 30+ min long. The mind rambling was so bad and constant I felt like I was reading a twilight book and I just wanted the main character to stop talking to himself and just do something. The Performance of the book however was great and probably the only reason I could stand to finish.

Disappointed !

The first 2 where great, this one really disappointed me, so much that I’m feeling generous giving it 3 stars.
The only way to fix this is by continuing the story with another book which hopefully is on its way.

Recommend only if book 4 is out.

My mistake I’ve just noticed that audiobooks 4 & 5 are available ( I just purchased them ) so now I can say yes I do recommend this book/series especially for gamers.

Total regression

The main character totally regresses and becomes an even bigger wuss who can't stop complaining makes him so unlikable I had to stop listening