Goblin Summoner

A Deckbuilding LitRPG

By: Tracy Gregory

Narrated by: Graham Mack

Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Life and death decided by the draw of a card!

When an accident claims his life, Gareth finds himself reborn on Acamida. Dropped into a world where sorcerers draw magical power from a deck of cards, summoning monsters and flinging spells, Gareth must adapt to having arcane power at his fingertips. It’s just a shame he’s found himself with the weakest cards around - goblins!

Joined by a fallen goddess, a deposed demon king, and surly local, Gareth sets out into Acamida. In a realm where experience points and levels are very real, Gareth must grow stronger if he intends to have his second life last longer than his first. With monsters around every corner and dungeons beneath his feet, Acamida is a dangerous place.

As Gareth finds new cards and grows in power, the rumbles of war stir in the west. If he’s going to survive, Gareth will need to master his deck and find the strength hidden within his goblin allies.

©2021 P.W Hillard Fiction (P)2021 P.W Hillard Fiction

Fun and unique take on magic

This book has an interesting concept that was executed very well. The story is enjoyable and the main character is fun to follow. There were some minor audio problems but otherwise it was a great experience. Would definitely recommend.

AD-VER-SARY or AD-VIS-ORY?

The narrator's weird pronunciation of some common words was extremely distracting for me. Really good story so far though.

Narration is distracting

The narrator mispronounces several relatively common words and that pulls you from the story a bit. The story is good tho, unique and engaging.

Surprisingly good! Surprising gem

I did not expect to find a gem before the end of 2021 and so was very surprised at the quality here.
Original story, good card mechanics, good world building. Lots of potential for universe expansion.
A few hiccups here and there but very minor and left the story unnaffected.

Slow burn

Within the first few chapters, the book picks up. I purchased the second book before I finished the first one.

5stars

Well done. Well narrated.  will be looking forward to the next from this author. Is worth a listen, give it a try.

Producers didn’t pay attention

There were many and I mean many mispronounced words and switching of names, numbers and just felt like narrator was skipping around the page in places. Not good.

I loved it

Tracy Gregory did really good with this and it's even better than we the people, I'm going into the second book as soon as possible!!!. I loved this book.

the Narration was good as always, you can always expect that with Graham mack. all the voices were different and you could tell them apart, and Grahams voice is just dang right soothing. I can't wait to hear more from him.

Characters aren't bad, I didn't particularly dislike any of them. they were all awesome in their own way, the Mc was down too earth and relatable and the same can be said for the side characters.
Character development is lacking. I can't say the Mc or any other character for that matter actually developed. I can say there was alot of skill progression. I want too say that the deck building aspect is truly awesome and more books need too be like this, I like the duel system/magicsystem and I don't have dislike anything about the skills. I think that the goblins are actually quite a boon. Character plot isn't much better either, there wasn't really a character plot. I couldn't tell anything out between the characters, I can say they're was some but that's it.
the regular plot though was way better, I can say the plot in this book was way better than most. from the start of the book you couldn't really tell where it was headed, sometimes that's a pro or a con. in this book it's a pro, it was a perfect mix of plot and foreshadowing and that's just downright hard to accomplish.
the base storyline was also really good and I liked that. I can't say it's better than the plot of the storyline is nothing too scoff at.
world detail isn't as good as I'd thought it'd be. it was good but it could be better. it was like I couldn't really imagine I was there or there was detail left out. if the world detail is really good that's what you should be looking for. world building was way better and I really liked it, the world they were in and the way it was built was unique.
The fighting wasn't lacking at all, I loved the duels and how they played out and it was a treat. they were detailed and weren't drawn out.

this book is worth the credit and every penny, I'm hopping right into book 2.

not a bad foundation

liking the story but the narrator is a little dry for my taste and hoping the author goes into more detailes on how the magic works and has the MC take advantage of it

great take on cards as magic

Great book and solid narration but there were a few hiccups where voices get mixed up. Great character interplay and I actually enjoyed the card game aspect of the magic.