Rebels of Last World

Chimera King, Book 1

By: Atlas Kane

Narrated by: Christopher Boucher, Jessica Threet

Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's Summary

Choose a class, win your girls, reclaim the world.

Cade Clarke spends his last night on Earth drinking with an old army buddy. When he decides to risk his life to defend a gorgeous bartender, he pays the ultimate price. 

Resurrected to Antinium, Cade finds himself thrown into a world where the very rules of reality have shifted. He chooses a unique class, customizes his soul weapon, and levels up to unlock vital skills, traits and attributes points in order to survive. 

Cade’s chances for success are minimal, until he finds his destiny intertwined with a group of sexy women who will help him build a village and fight his foes beside him. They must grow strong enough to overthrow an evil tyrant. Or die trying....

The Chimera King series contains explicit adult content, unconventional harem relationships, graphic and persistent violence, and a hero whose humor belongs in a military barracks. Proceed at your own risk.

Includes a special note from the author.

©2020 Atlas Kane (P)2020 Podium Audio

Was just Ok,

Minor Spoilers,

I have many issues with this book. It started out good with a focus on leveling up and getting stronger. Then when he realized he must get stronger to defeat the protagonist/antagonist he stopped leveling. Honestly did he even gain a level during the second half of the book?

The second issue was the last sex scene. During most of the book the MC only has sex with one character. These scenes are pretty long and descriptive. Now when he finally has sex with the other character its mainly him having an inner dialog of the past and whats to come. The first time should be special with a focus on that scene. The other scenes after the first can be quicker and not as detailed but not the first time.

Frankly the lack of focus the MC has in pleasing the beast girl is a major turn off. The MC made a comment I wonder how she taste. At anytime the MC could have focused on her pleasure but it was always about his pleasure with the beast girl. It just gives men a bad image. Additionally I hate peer pressure and the beast girl won't stop pressuring the other woman into joining. She even puts down the MC to try to convince her to join. In a lot of ways the MC is an Alpha male type but not when it comes to women. When dealing with the women he turns into a Beta allowing them to belittle and dictate much of the relationship. Sorry but in polygamist relationship, rather its 1 male and many women or 1 woman and many men the 1 needs to be the Alpha or the relationship will never work.

I'm not sure if I'll continue with this series. In an environment like this one there should be much more fighting, especially given the MC's class. It has the starts of a harem but not really a harem in this book. It has the potential to be a good book but just falls short.

Well written story can’t wait for book 2!

This story was very original. I liked the setting and the different angle on dying and going to another world. The characters were great! Really well done.
The narration was absolutely amazing. Jessica and Christopher did a fantastic job.
If you like LitRPG, and harem spend the credit.

Save your credit

very Amateur and never captured my attention.

the narration is the only thing great here.

Enjoyed this after having read it already.

Second time through a book you sometimes get a better appreciation for aspects of it that you missed the first time. I would say that is especially true when the second time through is a different mode.

This author presents the struggles of a military man. The MC is one who is both prepared and accustomed to violence and war but at the same time has no love for it and would prefer a life of peace. I remember reading somewhere that no one prays for peace as fervently as warriors. I think that is true of the MC, yet what I love about him is that he isn't willing to step up when he needs to.

He takes a stand for what is write and it shows in how he is written. If the author is half the man the Cade is then, I only wish I could buy him a beer.

Of course life isn't all easy for Cade. The enemy he is faced with is overwhelming. He could easily give up but doesn't. He struggles on and finds a way through. He gets a unique and powerful class but it doesn't put him onto the path to easy mode. Quite to the contrary he often learns from his companions how much he has to learn about the new world he is in.

On the other hand life, isn't all bad for him. The cover alone shows you some of the perks of the new life that he finds himself in.

In short, this is a fun, fast paced story, that doesn't preach at you but still has characters who have a backbone for doing right.

More RPG than Harem

If your a fan of RPG and harem fantasies you should give this one try. It has the prerequisites of a struggling hero trying to overcome his past. There are the strong yet equally beast-kin feminine support, as well as the menacing megalomaniac looking for dominance.

What???

I love science fiction fantasy. It is one of my favorite genres to listen to. This is a horrible story for my money. Heard all but the last 40 minutes of it and realized that not only did I not care, but I had not one ounce of invested emotion in the characters. The performance by the narrators is stellar and I noticed that the only emotion I had in the story was the pity I felt for them... I guess a paycheck is a paycheck. I would pass this by, having not read nor heard any of the other works by Atlas Kane, I can not attest to his other works, but this is a shallow story with an ingenious concept to is void of all true character development except for maybe one character, who is not even the main one. The main character seems like a cross between a military version of Jack Burton and Deadpool. Sounds funny if nothing else, but rest assured it is not after 10 hours.

Great book

It was a little more erotic than I expected, but that added some excitement in my eyes

Pretty good and I'm very critical

I'm normally very picky on my litRPG because I know exactly what I like even if it's in a different subset of the genre.
This was actually pretty good though.
the only thing that I have qualms with are I think the progression of the characters level or the story progression kind of went a little slow over all the series. and that he didn't use a lot of his full range of attacks.
there could have also been more emphasis I'm just pounding quite a few more points into intellect and he would have had his rapid-fire gun anyway. but that's kind of a personal qualm. everyone likes an underdog that becomes a little too overpowered in the end.

but all in all honestly it was well written and not too bad I waited till the last book to give my full answer on all three. because I hate s***** endings and I've had to go back and fix a couple of reviews that I've done. But this one's pretty good so when I say four stars I mean four stars for all 3 books

good book

love it so far can't wait to read the next book. I also love the narrators.

awesome

really liked this story a bit more mature with the use of and mentions of drug use but i feel that just made more grounded and an amazing performance

love it

just keep it real... we know your feelings and we respect it. by you speaking at the end and letting us know what's going on is a next bonus that is just meaningful so keep the audiobooks coming and I'll keep on buying. love your books man

amazing start

ohh tis story will be epic i am so glad i picked this up on a recommendation class great story and characters

good

the story is pretty good and the narrators are also really good . .

Good story

I've really enjoyed this story, I feel it progresses at a good pace not too fast, especially his relationships growing at a decent steady pace. Already finished the 2 books, can't wait for the third book to come out to see how the story and his situation progress and what waits around the corner.

fantastic story, brilliantly narrated

first off - i'm a veteran. so to get the first point out of the way- Atlas really tells a believable tale of someone suffering ptsd and handling lingering fears.

second the world and how its constructed is compelling and draws you in. the characters are fun and the protagonist comes across as competent but not super capable - he struggles but doesnt make idiotic moves like other protags. he also makes use of his discoveries, never conveniently forgetting them to artifically ramp up the drama.

this is a great intro to the conflict, resolves a few of the struggles that the story sets out but leaves the larger arc ready to progress.

narration is fantastic, both actors really giving life to the different characters.

ive already bought the other two books after listening to this.

Just a really good story

As a gamelit story, this works really well, the game mechanics work well and the action is well done. The harem side if the book is also good, it's slow burn and so feels part of the story. The characters have depth, with the female ones being strong women who can stand side by side with the mc. The narrators both do a fantastic job. At the end of the book the author gives us a nice personal insight to the origins of the story. Highly recommended.

Great narration

Shame it was a letdown, could not engage with the story, felt like nothing was original, MC felt weak.