I Don't Want to Be the Hero Omnibus 1

I Don't Want to Be the Hero, Books 1–3

De: M.E. Thorne

Narrado por: Robert Bradvica, Alyssa Poon

Contains volumes 1–3 of the epic series.

Beat the Demon Lord and save the world? No, thanks!

My name is Mal, and ever since I was a boy I've been treated as a malcontent because of my ability to see magic. For everyone else, magic is proof of the Goddess's love. For me, it is just a colorful spread of enchantments, cantrips, blessings, and hexes. And any spell I can see, I can break.

I had always expected to grow up to be a ditch-digger. Instead, I was dubbed a hero. Heroes are sent out in the wasteland to slay monsters and to challenge the Demon Lord. It's a suicide mission. Once exiled, I found that the outside world was drastically different than I had thought. The beautiful women I meet, demons, dragons, and orcs, might be my best shot at surviving the insanity I've been thrown into.

Narrated in duet style.

©2021 M.E. Thorne (P)2024 Podium Audio

Great Audio Book

I read this book first and loved this book. After listening to the audio version I love it even more.

Such a great collection

Gilly is best girl just go in knowing that. I ended up buying both omnibus before I finished book one. This has been a great adventure with funny side characters. I highly recommend it worth the buy. Spice is short and sweet and gets the point across without taking up to much time.

Good and evil turned upside down

Mc develops in a surprising way. Lots of smut to keep you hooked with the story but brilliantly linked so it’s just spice enough.

interesting turns in the story

only downside is that the voice for mal puts an image of a prepubescent child and it's hard to stay tuned in

bought and returned after 1 hour listen

it's porn novel could not get to story line with 3 sex scenes in an hour of listening

Made it trough book 1, a bit into book 2 and then

I returned it. This book was not for me. I love dungeon crawls, fantasy, progression, cultivation etc. However, this book did not scratch any of those itches. The MC seemed 1 dimensional with no growth throughout the entire first book. He did not grow, develop in strength, improve his magic. Moving on to try something else.

I fully support your goddess

Every character in every story you write should be purged. The women are whores, the men are weak feeble and useless, and every interaction feels like the author validating their own flaws.

Lost momentum. Desperate sex scenes to hold it together.

OK to start with Alyssa’s performance always top . But robert… that bubbly giggle thing you were doing was grating. The mc considering he “graduated” and finding out what job he was to get. is essentially late teens not early teens so sounding like a 13 year old on a sugar high, was just terrible. It hurt to hear that laugh so often for no reason. I’m only hoping that it’s what the author made you do cuz that was terrible. If you left that out I had no problem with the rest of the character portrayal.

Now as for the story. Interesting concept. Had no issues with listening to the first two books but the third was hard to Pay attention to. Hell I just finished listening less than 20 mins ago and the only thing I understood from book 3 was that there was something too do in Annie’s mothers library. And that you bulldozed over her feelings in favor of a sex scene. Thinking about it there’s no reason for any of those girls should love him much less want to marry the Mc. The drake girl is just a horn dog that even near the end sounded like she was just looking to screw some one and the mc just happened to be dragged along with Annie so he was lucky there. And you explained it away with it being part of being a part of being part dragon. The orc just wanted to learn because she was innocent but apparently have sex once =love. The goblin is almost as bad as the Drake. Only difference is that she’s not required to follow Annie around she’s chasing adventure but again sex = love. As for the elf. She was added because the author wanted an elf in the harem and strong l since she was the first female elf that talked to them instead of going full murder hobo she was the one author tossed into the harem. She kind of gets the whole warming up to love thing from being reluctant at first and would work if the author didn’t rush it but then again the actions the mc preformed were not that impressive to earn that much love from her. I can only see it as he earned her respect. Note as for Annie. She had the most promise for a lover. The knight that bottled up her emotions and over time finding ways to gently pull down her walls then having a break down scene where she opens up was good. And I can forgive the sex scene there because it was her choice to knock most of the rest of that wall down. Left just enough of the wall because changing that quick doesn’t work and is jarring. But when she came to his room to talk about her feelings and getting ready to open up to her other friends. The mc not knowing what to do starts fondling her breasts tickles her a little cracks a joke then proceeds to screw her roughly almost immediately. There’s no way that should open her heart up anymore. It screams the mc doesn’t care about her feelings and is gonna treat her as an object. Now if there was a bit more in there. Something as simple as cuddling for a bit while and then things started getting slowly more hot and heavy then there would not have been a problem. But nope bulldozed right over her feelings.

Besides all that, almost all the areas where the author adds a sex scene felt clunky as hell. As if the author thought “story’s dragging better add a sex scene”

The story would be better with out most of those sex scenes And reduce the heavy handed harem aspects


Edit. So yea the next omnibus was worse. 10 chapters in. The mc who started in his own words avoided all of his classes. Is for some reason the smart one in the group. Author dumbs all the women down and side lines allot of Annie’s role. Couldn’t stand it.l I found it insulting. Terrible writing could not maintain the established character models. This author will be one best to avoid if this is the way he treats his characters.