Minute Mage

A LitRPG Adventure

When you steal Time Magic, prepare to run for eternity …

Arlan can go back in time by one minute, once per day.

Fail a challenge? Say something dumb? He can get a redo as long as he acts fast.

And every time he levels up, he can go back a little further.

But, even with his growing power, Arlan has never been in more danger. He was left stranded in the middle of a monster-infested forest, nobody to rely on but himself as he fights to build strength.

And his time magic wasn't given to him freely.

He stole it.

And its original owners would go to any lengths to take it back.

Don't miss the start of a new LitRPG adventure filled with time magic, three-dimensional characters, a crunchy LitRPG system, tactical combat, and power progression where level-ups are hard-earned and bring with them meaningful change in characters’ abilities.

©2023 Reg Rome (P)2023 Recorded Books

Great performance

I really didn’t care for the main character to much but the devil kinda got me hooked

Well written, engaging, but one critical flaw

I'll start by saying I've scraped the bottom of the lit RPG barrel and I have read some very not good novels. this is not that. it is a well written and well paced novel with a few minor structural issues that annoy the heck out of me. 1. The MC has various progression paths available and 9 times out of 10 you'll hate the path he chooses. This is true across books. The author gives themselves the foundation amd opportunity and backstreet to justify a pretty cool charachter build and then chooses seemingly at the last moment the most boring & predictable path. Not only that but it relies on the MC somehow being able to always outrun out tank and out muscle dedicated physichal classes despite taking no points directly into physichal stats. Its annoying that in order for the charachter to feel cool I have to constantly suspend my disbelief and go "yeah totally makes sense that despite having the dexterity of a slightly athletic human he can do nearly impossible things against supervillainswith state blocks dedicated to seemingly just health with no strength dex intelligence etc. This could have so easily been avoided and it is so aggressively steered into at every opportunity that it makes the whole series hard to read.

"Smart" character is mentally deficient.

As the title states, the side character is an absolute moron. The author bends over backwards to try to portray her as "the smart, bookish one", but she is just ham-fistedly, high-key, unrelentingly 'tarded. Don't get me wrong, the MC is an idiot also, as well as a Gary Stu thanks to plot armor to save him from his own idiocy - his love interest is just 100x worse.

Knows the MC for less than a day, DEMANDS to know his EVERY secret because she "has to know" and how DARE he keep secrets from her. Demands he commit suicide because the villains that hunt him are bing villains and is somehow convinced they'll stop being villains and killing all the people if he just lets them kill HIM. Is given a set of information, believes everything that fits her world view and outright dismisses every bit of info that doesn't - full stop, no discussion, just "No, I don't believe you because I BELIEVE that to not be possible, and my feelings are more valid than your evidence/experience.

Imagine if Harmine was a min-maxer who insists on learning spells in the order the newest wizard build guide said was "optimized" because she literally cannot have an original thought that isn't "whatever I believe if correct and if you contradict it, you're the fool".

I'm only halfway through the book as I write this, and I genuinely hope she straight up dies horribly.

Edit: gave up with 9 hours left after she insisted the MC NOT take the only spell upgrade option that let him heal himself. The guy is a touch-based spell user that gets the crap beat out of him nearly every fight and neither of them have ANY means of healing. She is so GD stupid, and he's stupid for listening to her.

great

I really like this it's a fresh take on time travel. I normally don't like time traveling but this surprised me I recommend this book

The MC is a forgetful idiot

The mc forgets very important things, and delays the use of their power for way to long. The build up to level 10 falls flat after the MC not only forgets about a talent they specifically singled out at level 5 but also hesitates to “use” till they are literally at deaths door. This almost made me refund the book. The narration absolutely saves this book as it is phenomenal, power system is also great. But the MC is the worst part of this story. Pick this one up on sale.