Power

Buryoku, Book 1

By: Aaron Oster

Narrated by: Mare Trevathan

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

In a world of titans, where martial artists reign supreme, Roy is wholly unremarkable. Without the power to channel the essence of the world, he is weak and defenseless.

Adopted into the Shah clan after his parents' deaths, he is forced to do menial labor day after day, all while enduring the ridicule and physical abuse of his supposed family.

Weakness is punishable by death in Buryoku and in the Shah clan, there is no one weaker than Roy. But even the weak can rise up, when pushed to the brink....

©2019 Aaron Oster (P)2019 Aaron Oster

Just call it another dungeon book.

Started with a Will Wight cradle feel (was excited for that) then it moved onto the dungeon nonsense, with basically only two characters (which is basically one) for hours. I hate dungeon core and Litrpg books, they’re always the same books,same concepts and same storyline.

Slow but good.

I am not against the author's choice of bringing such unjust onto the MC. This sets up several aspects of the story, from the MC's motivations, to the abhorrent antagonist, to the general theme of the world.

My main concern is that we are lied to about the length of the book. It isn't huge and most people wouldn't mind it but the book ends about an hour early. It then goes into an epilogue, which foreshadows the next book but isn't all entirely necessary. The next 24 minutes are a preview of Supermage. After that, there is another preview of the book Sommerset. This is advertising for the author and I suppose it is a decent marketing option. I simply think its a bit treacherous as I was looking forward to more of MY book and not some other book that they want to sucker me into buying.

My other concern is that it took nearly the whole book for him to advance. It looks like at the pace it is going, it will take around 3 or 4 more books to complete the MC's goal. This is a biggey for me. On another minor note is the wording/reading in some places seems childish, typical in nature. Aika for example grates on my nerves as a typical happy-go-lucky character, maybe because her voice, I don't know.

Overall, it was an enjoyable book with a few minor concerns. 4/5

has over 48 minutes of previews for other books

has 48 minutes of previews of other books to pad it's time. otherwise ok. didn't like how stupidly mean the nice old man was when it was narrativly useful.

it’s ok just not really great

author has like a thing for suffering like to the point that you want to say why would you write something like that ... people are bullies sure but trying to kill someone after 3 months of there wages are owed to you is kind of unrealistic.... it’s just doesn’t make sense just like alot of reactions throughout the book

Fantastic Cultivation Adventure!!!

Great story and narration!

Roy is a cripple without the ability to cultivate living in a world that only respects power. While struggling just to get by in a small village where everyone torments him, he snatches a chance from the jaws of defeat. Embarking on a journey with an unlikely ally and a powerful beast, he must advance quickly or be torn apart by his new power. Will he find a place to belong, friends, and advance fast enough?

I loved this one!

I can't wait for the next book in this series to come out!

absolutely discusting

oh, let's make the mc a criple, that everyone hates, and bullies, and abuses, and wants to kill, but for some reason still let live with them. you don't need to make the MC go through inhumanising abuse on page to make us dislike the bad guys.

Feel the POWER

great book loved the mc great voice and I would love to get the next book soon but I love cultivating books and cant get enough

Hmmm

This book has a lot of promise, I’m intrigued by the levels of cultivation as well and anything to do with the dungeon core. That said though I’m not similarly invested in the MC. I get that after being abused and mistreated all his life, it’s understandable that he has a chip on his shoulder the size of the north pole, i get it. That doesn’t make his constant whining and mulish attitude any more fun to listen to. He was slowly getting on my nerves, but him hoping with a new advancement comes a new attitude and less self pity.
I will be getting book 2 and looking forward to an improvement.

Its was an okay book

Story: i did not like how the character waws just beat down all up to if not almost a 3rd of the whole book like the guy couldnt get a break the oh something helps BUT>>>>>>> i did like the twist tho... I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING. i really didnt i just thought he was going to died and someone else was going to come after him and take up where he left off. fighting was okay i enjoyed the fight in the city and that was about it. everything else was crap.

MC with the dumbest brain everrrrrrr

If you’re going to read this book then make sure the next 7 or 8 books are available because you will be left with frustration in each book. The book world and concept with techniques and stuff is nice but the MC ruins all of that because he is one of the most dumbest and stupidest characters I’ve read about, yet the author keeps insulting every intelligent human being out there by insinuating that the retard is somehow a genius. The guy has the same epiphany in life threatening battles over and over again yet seems to learn nothing at all from them through out the first 4 or 5 books. The guy is a coward that cannot even understand the basics of his own path -POWER - Overwhelm all in your path. Instead he just keeps on running away( I even call him Roy the diver everytime he gets into a fight because you know exactly how he’s going to start the fight, by diving). And he cannot seem to answer the most obvious of questions or piece together a puzzle with the pieces in front of him unless someone pulls those pieces together, solves the puzzle and hands it to him on a silver platter while telling him this is what the puzzle says and pointing out the obvious picture for him. He is that stupid and dumb and has a very nasty habit of being his own worst enemy by forcing stupid limits on himself and freaking out everytime something good and unique happens to him. I put this review out because I’m in book 5 and even though the character has grown in power, he’s still mentally as dumb as the first day. Maybe even dumber and keeps forcefully dismissing important clues when they pop up by telling himself that it’s not important. All in all if you don’t want an MC who is a total and complete wimp but is being propped up by the author, then don’t go into this book unless you’ve got nothing else, because while the concept of the book is interesting, the MC does not have the mindset of a cultivator who is meant to adapt to new situations and his mind is stupidly rigid. He takes 4 books to learn one lesson and forgets that lesson in the 5th book. Totally disgusting. I can’t count the number of times my lips curled in disgust at the MC over the course of my reading. And i mean true and utter disgust. 😡

Interesting start to this series

While I enjoyed the focus in this book on cultivation being the method of progression rather than it being a side element alongside regular levelling as is more often the case in more mainstream gamelit, some of the story felt a little too heavy-handed such as at the start where it seemed like the author was trying to build the connection between the reader and the main character simply by making everyone else so completely unlikable more than by making the main character grab the reader more readily. One aspect of the story that I thought worked particularly well was how readily the author expanded the book's world with both the reader and the main character rapidly learning how small the initial world and people actually were.

The narrator's performance was a pleasant and clear one, with all the main characters having suitably distinctive tones that served to enhance the story and my enjoyment of it very well.

Overall, an interesting and fairly strong start to the series and I will be interested to see how it progresses from here.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

So bad and generic

This is like a train with random events with no goal. One could almost belive its written by a really stupid AI, with how badly the events is coming. Maybe also not the right voice for a Young mans Journey.
Its not OP character story its weak@& story.