First Sorcerer

Singularity Online, Book 1

By: Kyle Johnson

Narrated by: Basil Sands

Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's Summary

The Singularity - the merger of man and machine into a greater whole - is finally within humanity's grasp. When programmer Jeff Lawing gets the opportunity to join Singularity Online, the world's first realistic VRMMO and the testing ground that will lead to the Singularity, he leaps to accept.

Singularity is much more realistic and darker than Jeff had imagined, though. As a Sorcerer, his arcane magic is limited only by his imagination, allowing him to craft powerful spells forged from his desires. As the only Sorcerer in the game, he'll need to carve his own path, with only an ancient specter as his guide.

Will his new powers be enough to see him through the deadliest training quest he's ever encountered or to protect him in a fallen realm filled with undead? Does the have the courage and passion he needs to seize the mantle of First Sorcerer?

©2020 Kyle Johnson (P)2020 Tantor

smart mc is stupid af

what is with authors making smart mc's, but also making them dumber than a box of rocks? mc has magic class that literally lets him make spells useing his imagination... and yet as far as i got the idiot only uses it for THE MOST BASIC crap any fanfic writer puts into their first chapter he doesnt even use it in any inventive ways on top of making situations ten times harder than they should be. needs to cross a lava river useing a shield spell that he just learned to make into any for he wants? instead making a damned bridge, like has thought of in passing this dumbass wants to play leapfrog to start off with.... noo thanks, im good, ill find something else

About the narrator

I saw a review saying the narrator was bad. So i held off on this book for a while because of the review. But the narrator is fine and the story entertaining. I did notice a few times the scenes where quite stiff, but that’s more on the author than the narrator. I feel fine picking up more books with the narrator because of his good performance from listening to this book.

Not Bad

If you have nothing else to listen to give this a go. Overall the experience was mixed. Mostly it seems things were overly explained and I found my mind wandering to other thoughts then having to rewind to relisten to the last paragraph. The MC seemed just a little whiney early on and the slow pacing of the story doesn't lend itself to dungeon crawls which was a large part of the book. On a positive note the game system itself was indepth and interesting and the world lore seemed neat but I couldn't care about the plot much.

bad narrator

the narrator has absolutely no inflection or excitibility In his tone made a good story really hard to listen to.

Good Book

At first I struggled getting into the book then I turned up the speed of the narration. I really liked I after that..

Solid Litrpg

Solid litrpg, focused plot with lots of magical theory and good characterisation.
Narration is somewhat old fashioned but good nonetheless.