Master Class

A Slice of Life Harem LitRPG

By: Annabelle Hawthorne, Virgil Knightley

Narrated by: Jessica Threet, Evan Jordan

The Demon Lord is dead.

The System is broken.

Somehow, Elias Hearthsong is neither of these things, despite being at the final battle of the Demon Wars. He is a Master Enchanter, perhaps the last one alive. Determined to keep a promise, he crosses the continent to protect his dead friend's legacy: a crumbling orphanage run by a beautiful kitsune.

He isn't a teacher, nor does he have experience with children. But with the love of a few good women, anything can become possible.

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Perfect slice of life

Loved it.
Loved the characters, loved the magic and skills system. The writing was very good. Comfortable and relaxed. I can't say I didn't like anything about this book. Like not even one. Which is unusual for me.
As for the two narrators..........
Perfect. Absolutely perfect.
Virgil has such a nice voice and reads so realistic. He doesn't sound like an ai/robot voice. He sounds like an actual person speaking with inflections and tones in places that make sense.
Jessica sounds so sweet and I love her characters' voices. She also seems to know exactly where tone and inflection and pauses in text should go. So many people don't seem to have that talent.
I am currently impatiently awaiting book two and I will be looking for more books written and narrated by any combination of these four brilliant people.
Keep up the good work.

Great story.

such a good mix of slice of life, litrpg, and smutty fun. Would recommend for sure.

Pretty Good

This one is pretty good. It has a serious story with lots of humor.

love this book

if you like games, romance, and adventure this book is for you. the book is like those lit rpg books you like and love. but the story is like what happens to the main character after defeating the last boss. telling a story about what comes next and how to move forward with his life and how to traverse his new roll in this new world. it's a must read book. can't wait to listen to the next book.

great book

very well done, was a great story that holds your attention from start to finish

Believe the hype

This title has been bouncing around message boards and comment sections for the top recommendations for haremlit. After listening to it, I will do something very rare and say: the hype is real.

Crazy I know but for once this book truly deserves the accolades that have been showered over it. With that being said let’s jump into the review with the part you’re actually wanting to know first.


The Smut:
Varied just enough to keep things interesting and keep the reader realllly looking forward to wanting more. Something hard to do since most of us just expect the scenes and walk into them knowing “WHOOH sexy times” but for the first time I found myself really looking forward to reading the deepening of the relationships in that manner more than just the horniness etc.

The Actors:
Honestly some of the best I’ve heard in the variations and accents. Especially when some instances make the actors switch between three different characters they voice in seconds without a misstep. Also, there’s a scene where a child sneezes, the sound of the sneeze that Jessica Threet makes to emphasize the situation is both the most adorable and heartbreaking I’ve ever heard. Truly insane that a VA was able to make something so trivial into such a deep moment.

The actual plot:
Fantastic. This is REAL slice of life. Not slice of life that catapults into adventure territory while pretending to be Slice. The issues they face are understandable ones of nature, greed, resources, coming of age, and hope without giving up info that could spoil things. The way the history of the world and recent events is told as well as the quickly changing face of this new era and it’s troubles is done in some very meaningful ways. Not just a huge info dump, but flashbacks or long moments that truly accent the changes that were mentioned or discussed in real time to the characters.

Oh, and the pop culture references were just the absolute best seasoning on top.



The only negative of this review:
Usually I don’t even find a negative but I do have to say that the fact that in the middle of smutty action the entire train gets thrown into the sun not just off the tracks by a repeated and unnecessary info dump of skills being used. It would barely be acceptable if the user had not made use of the skill before and we needed a description but these are skills that were liberally used in previous scenes. We know what they do. I do not want for example mid thrust for the entire scene to stop to be told what essentially a cantrip/low level spell or more apt a Symbol spell does before attempting to get right back into the rhythm. Complete destruction of immersion during some of the most anticipated scenes.
Despite that I still looked forward to the scenes, just, with less enthusiasm.



Final review:

Worth the purchase and audiobook in every way. Minor tiny annoyance are not enough to ever dissuade me from saying this was one of the best of this genre I have read this far.

Thank you Annabelle and Virgil. I’ve read your works separately, and together. Now please excuse me while I go dive into even more fiction.

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

I found this title upon a whim while pre-ordering another book. This book NEEDS a series of fallowing titles. For the shadow this book has casted will need support to sustain its casting.
The love that the MC of this story is from this story and isn't stolen from earth like many other harem styled stories.
The voice acting is spot on. They don't lead on that they are only reading the lines. They breath life into the characters they voice👍👍

Excellent story

I liked the entire production. Story, characters and plot everything was great. Of course the narration was as good as it gets ,thanks.

Awesome book one!!

I've been patiently waiting for this one for a while. The two co-authors are insanely talented and it shows in this book. Jessica threet narrating is always perfection. You can't go wrong with this audiobook.

Check This One Out

Right up front before you read any further just know that I recommend this book to anybody thinking about giving it a shot. A little context for my review. I tend to take it easy on the first and last book of any series as not every series makes it to “The End” and the first of anything can be a shaky endeavor. I also try to make clear the distinction between the quality of the writing/performance of the author/narrator and my personal tastes should they differ. The story seems to be taking place in a world where there is a game-like system complete with levels. A massive war has just concluded between the fantasy races and the demons. The war was so devastating that it leveled everything and killed almost everyone before the good guys won. Our main character is at the end of his journey to what will become his new home. That new home is an orphanage that used to be run by his master, mentor, friend? There's at least one lovely lady running the orphanage when he arrives although she looks disheveled and in need of assistance. Of course, there is another issue that appears early on in the book. With all the real men away fighting the war it has allowed bottom feeders to take control in certain areas and despite, in this world, slavery being against the law it has reared its ugly head and an orphanage is an easy target for thugs. Fear not for our main character is a Master Class Enchanter! I very much enjoyed the story and the performances by the narration team. Jessica Threet is one of my all-time favorite narrators and I absolutely loved her performances in “Paladin of The Sigil.” Evan Jordan is relatively new to me, but I enjoyed his performance in “I'm Just a Small Town Shifter.” They absolutely positively did not disappoint here in this book either. This book was a joint venture between Annabelle Hawthorne and Virgil Knightley. I'm familiar with Virgil’s previous works and if I was going to recommend another series of his for you all to check out, it would be “Monster Masseur.” As an author he appears to be very upfront and unapologetic about the type of stories he writes. Those stories tend to be close to a 60/40 split with a heavy emphasis on the “spice.” This is the first time that I've come across anything from Annabelle and it appears to me that she is a relatively new author. Out of the stories available on Amazon, the one that caught my attention for my next read is titled “The Last of Her Kind.” In her bio on Amazon she's got a web page listed where you can also find a link for her Patreon and on her Patreon she's got the standard fare such as artwork, polls, chapters of her work, etc. Also, for this book if you have kindle unlimited then I would say just you grab the eBook if only to check out the artwork that is available there. Lastly, I'll just say well done to everybody who had a hand in bringing this story to us, the Audible listeners.