Nomad Core

Core Control, Book 2

By: Andrew Seiple

Narrated by: Mark Boyett

Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

Life can be good when your enemies think you're dead.

But Wynne has traded one set of foes for another, and a hunter in old tech armor wants him for sinister purposes. Neither fully man or machine, it's up to this new bunker core to rise up against all odds, using his wits and technology to prevail against twisted animal-folk, shining mutants, and threats literally from out of this world....

©2021 Andrew Seiple (P)2021 Podium Audio

solid follow up to the first book.

I enjoyed Mark Boyett's narration, he is amazing, but there were a few times where the sound quality dropped and started sounding a little fuzzy.

The pacing of the story was good and felt like a natural build up in story progression. there were no major plot holes or moments where I felt the character didn't "earn" a win or moment.

honestly pretty great

I just found this two booker a few days ago and knocked them out pretty quick. id love another few books. hopefully not each taking a few years

I wish the books were longer

The story is unique and solid. It feels like your in a game, with a immersive world. The author does a good job of slowly opening up the world and allowing it to grow naturally.

So glad the second book is finally out!

I love this series. I have been waiting for this one to come out since the first day the first book came out. The only complaint I have is when the review of all the stats goes on and on. It really just seems like filler.

Good book

I liked the first one better. Felt anticlimactic on this one. Hopefully next one comes out soon.

Gratifying continuation of a long awaited followup

Andrew Seiple comes back strong book 2 of the series. There are introductions of new tribes and interesting characters as well as evenly pace forward movement of the story. While I appreciated the author's moderate use of stat dumps, the MCs stat tree is so long that when it does occurs, it brings the story to a mostly uninteresting stop. This is especially true for audiobook listeners. While a reader can choose to take their time analyzing the stats or easily skipping over them, this is not the case for audio listeners since the stats are recited at a pace that makes it difficult to make since of the updates and frustrating to have to forward past it without trial and error. This is a common problem with a lot of litRPG novels and it be better if the authors and audio-producers could find a way to shorten the stat-dump to only include changes to stat attributes that will have some significant effect in the next few chapters.

Still, I find this series highly entertaining, all the more s because of Mark Boyett's fine performance skills.

it's been too long but it was worth it

Entertaining, quality and well crafted.
Very nice for a quick bit of entertainment. Hopefully the next one comes quicker.

As great as the first.

Happy and surprised that his didn't rehash the first, kept things moving, and didn't introduce unrestrained power creep. Already a step above many contemporaries.

Good continuation of story

Love the further development of characters and background. More focused on story development than building of dungeon.

Meh

Boyette is superb as always. Best VA on the site bar none. The problems are 1) a completely different pronunciation of the bad guy's name (from Tyr to Tire. TF?) and 2) a completely unnecessary, badly written, and underdeveloped anti-religious narrative. It's not that such a thing is off limits for me, but when a character is smart enough, they should be able to understand their own arguments and their motivations for believing what they believe should be clear. Neither is true of Wynne, who is supposed to be and incredibly smart character. That generally means it isn't the character speaking, but it's instead the author showing through the character. If that wasn't the intent it was at best sloppily written. If it was intended, that means a good portion of the book is a "narrative message" and appeal to emotion. A disingenuous piece of writing posing as an internal monolog. It took me entirely out of the story. Please avoid this laziness in future, author. Your story was good without this weakness.