• How Not to Be a Rogue: Trials of Amaford Novella

  • By: Zack Brooks
  • Narrated by: Sean Duregger
  • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (44 ratings)

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How Not to Be a Rogue: Trials of Amaford Novella

By: Zack Brooks
Narrated by: Sean Duregger
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Amaford, a city of prosperity and trade. Merchants flock to it, sailors swear by it, but the people curse its name. For a city of such stature, its dark side runs to its core. Its people struggle to survive the harsh conditions that come with its popularity. More so, the people of its Bridge Districts, or better known as the slums. This is where we find our story, a story covered in filth and poverty.

What started out as a typical day in Amaford becomes something more as a young urchin finds himself constantly plotted against lady luck. Jimmy, a teenager with a long streak of bad jokes and a loose tongue, is forced into a situation that could change his life forever. Armed with a handful of knives, sub-par wit, and the charm of a feral kitten, he finds himself struggling to save the day. It’s in this day that only Jimmy can show you what it’s like when s--t truly hits the fan.

©2018 Zack Brooks (P)2019 Zack Brooks

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The story centres around Jimmy the street urchin and the good and bad that happens to him. While the street language is part of the story, the swearing put me off somewhat and I struggled to get past the first chapters, but ended up enjoying the story. The street and city life is well portrayed.

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An Entertaining Adventure

I received this book for free. I am voluntarily leaving this review and all opinions expressed herein are mine.

This is billed as a fantasy book but I would call it fantasy-light. That statement is not meant to be disparaging - it's just that there are certain expectations in fantasy books such as a lot of sorcery or use of magic or characters from another realm who have completely different worlds [world-building] - not so much here. Here, Jimmy is a pauper who steals for a living with his best friend Grumps. Sort of like an Oliver Twist or The Lies of Locke Lamora - he works for Big Brother, who takes care of the group of young thieves. When one of his plots spirals out of control, Jimmy has to deal with the consequences.

I liked that the entire story is told from Jimmy's POV, who not only tells the story but provides some humorous comments on the situation as well. This is a charming story but what distracted a bit for me, and may not bother other readers, is that while the time period is not really defined - everyone uses a plethora of curse words which are very contemporary and felt a bit out of place. Overall, this was a fun and enjoyable story with a good heart.

The narrator did a great job. He was definitely the man of a thousand voices - each character had a defined voice, which fit their persona. He definitely enhanced the story.

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Great short story

Love the main character, and the colorful world of inhabitants! The narrator really brought the talkative Jimmy alive, with all the cursing you can wish for. Hoping for a sequel soon.

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Hilarious!

Started kind of slow but showed early humor and just got more interesting and funny as it went along.

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Fun low fantasy novella

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The story has a little magic, but not much. The protagonist is witty, but not as much as he thinks. There are a number of small plotholes. The various plotlines are slightly disjointed.

For all that, the story was entertaining, and it's less than four hours to listen to.

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Great listen

This is a delightful tale that is so well narrated that it has become a firm favorite for me. The characters are so different and well executed that you forget that only one person is narrating. Well done.

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Good Listen

Really enjoyed the story and the characters. Not to long not to short. Well worth the listen. Narration was fantastic really enjoy Sean’s work.

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Fun Story

This was a fun little story. the language was stronger for most Fantasy. The characters make this one for me. The Narrator did a great job, as usual. I would like to see this fleshed out to full novel size to make the story a bit stronger.

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Adult Comedy Entertainment


Entertaining although gratuitous language is peppered throughout. Definitely not for younger listeners within earshot.

The writing was colorful - not just for the language, but the perspective. I think it would lose the comedic appeal if it was written in third person; but parts of it - if Jimmy can’t see it - how would he know? (Like when he was hiding under the bed).

The characters were given unique voices by the narrator. It’s apparent he became familiar with the book to create and set the appropriate tone.

It’s a cruel world and Brooks dragged us through the shyt with Jimmy. It’d be interesting to see the rest of the world.

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A basic fantasy tale.

in a world of mages magic humans and dwarfs. Hear a tale of a smartalec street urchin. with no magic and no dwarfs. I received this book for free for a review.

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