Dungeon Worlds

Reborn Online Series, Book 1

By: Aurora Weiss

Narrated by: Travis Baldree

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

The car crash was the last thing I remembered...then I woke up here. Where "here" was felt like an impossible nightmare. I died, but this wasn't what I'd expected to find when they said I'd meet my maker.

The afterlife is just like a video game, except I didn't start in a noob world like everybody else. I started out on one of the most challenging dungeon worlds meant only for ancient souls who've been dead much longer than I have....

Welcome to Epoc.

I don't have the right stats for this place, not even a little bit. I'm in complete noob gear with the standard human sword and shield. I don't even have any crafting skills to make a decent breakfast with the high tier ingredients in this place.

Dying in the afterlife is even worse than dying on Earth. Earth, you only die once, but here, you can die over and over again and each one is just as miserable as the last.

There's only one way I can survive the cycle, one way to stay sane.

I need a power leveler...and fast.

©2020 A. J. Flowers (P)2021 Tantor

Solid story with an RPG realm

Enjoyed the characters and the villains. Looking forward to the next one. The narrator did a good job, with some fun character voices.

good story amazing narrator

the book is great and I look forward to more books in the series well written and the narrator all time favorite and best there is

Solid story - gets better as it progresses

I like this book. The first few chapters felt a bit weak but then he grabbed me and I enjoyed the last 2/3 a lot. The author has the start of an interesting series. I hope it stays strong.

Give it a chance

Good book. It surprised me! I almost stopped after the first 10 mins but it gets better.

Tropey start, but actually interesting story

This book starts like all the other LitRPG books, but has a really interesting story line developing. I am looking forward to the next entry in the series.

Been done before and better

It is a bit boring to me and short sighterd the performance carries it along but that is to be expected of Travis

Meh

Meh. Sure it picks up a little in the back half, but frankly just feels unfinished-as if the whole time the author is thinking about what he’ll do in the second book instead of making the first story solid.

Excellent

Stick with it. You won’t be disappointed. This book really picks up in the second half

Decent

Travis Baldree is an amazing narrorator as always. Story was just...just there to me. Book isn't bad but isn't exciting either.

I think I am missing something.

The premise of the book had me paint a very different picture of what the book is actually about. I bought it thinking we would see the struggle of someone being in a high level area while they themselves are not. I imagined ingenious solutions to massive problems. Maybe helped by a gimmick that would hurt as much as it helped.

However we got something different, not bad, just different. Instead he is power leveled within a couple of chapters. His gimmick is something several people want. He is chased by gamemasters which seem to be something like mods or GMs in Blizzard. Except they don't have special powers that differentiate then from standard players beyond deleting players completely. We are introduced to 3 types and they all seem equally insignificant. There is a lot of tell and not a lot of showing us they are strong and different from the normal users.

With Neil being a nonstandard MC, being over 50 and not a gamer I was hoping this would lead to some interesting issues. Instead you could take the cookie cutter 20 year old MC and plop them in instead and nothing would change.

Travis Baldree was Travis Baldree, a very talented narrator and one of the reasons I got this book. He does what he does and if you've heard him before you know how this is narrated.

In short, I feel liked I missed something while listening to this book. The synopsis feels like it was written for a different book.