Forever Fantasy Online

Forever Fantasy Online, Book 1

By: Rachel Aaron, Travis Bach

Narrated by: Josh Hurley

Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

A thrilling new novel for fans of Sword Art Online and World of Warcraft!

In the real world, twenty-one-year-old library sciences student Tina Anderson is invisible and under-appreciated, but in the VR-game Forever Fantasy Online she's Roxxy—the respected leader and main tank of a top-tier raiding guild. Her brother, James Anderson, has a similar problem. IRL he’s a college drop-out struggling under debt, but in FFO he's famous—an explorer known all over the world for doing every quest and collecting the rarest items.

Both Tina and James need the game more than they’re willing to admit, but their escape turns into a trap when FFO becomes real. Suddenly, wounds aren’t virtual, the stupid monsters have turned cunning, and death might be forever. Separated across a much larger and more deadly world, their skill at FFO is the only thing keeping them alive. But as the harshness of their new reality sets in, Tina and James soon realize that being the best in the game is no longer good enough.

©2018 Rachel Aaron and Travis Bach (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

Captured

This is a good one! Well written, unique story. I have listened to it twice.

Two actors, one lackluster and one amazing

While the story is one that i would like to follow, the male narrator needs to adjust his tone for the situation he is reading, he uses the same chipper tone for somebody getting murdered as he does when something wonderful happens. his lackluster performance steals any sense of dread from the book. his counterpart preforms wonderfully in comparison, matching her tone with what is being read.

Just ok

Roxxy's story was boring however, James's made up for it. Probably the only reason I finished the book.

The character of Roxy is very unlikeable as well as just about everybody in her party. The Raid party made pretty much zero cents most of the time. If you've ever played an MMO at endgame contact and are hoping that there may be some basic comparisons you're out of luck. They know the terms and classes but that's about all they got right.

James on the other hand. Was a pretty good story from top to bottom even if it was a hero start. If nothing else I would recommend reading just his chapters.

awesome rpg story

Scenario: Raiding party suddenly get trapped into a real version of the game they were playing. Death is real but no one believes the raid leader Tina so she resorts to beating up and dominating her party members into following her orders. So she can save them. 5 stars

Duuddddeeeeeeeee

I'm taking a star away for all the "Dudes" spoken throughout the story.

Seriously dude.

Two separate stories, with lots of whining

The first point to be clear about is that this book tells two completely separate stories, which have no interesting intersection. It could literally have been written as two separate books (with nothing lost) by simply copying out alternating chapters. The story ends (in a cliffhanger) at the point where the stories would come together.

The two main characters spend too much time in self recrimination and aren't generally interesting other than a bit of gender reversal: the sweet, pacifistic, healing character is male; the aggressive, driven fighter character is female.

Overall the story (stories) is based on a mechanic that is effectively nonsense -- that an MMO game, would somehow be built from an actual, real-in-some-universe environment -- with some only some vague foreshadowing of supernatural influence as a possible explanation. Really though, there can be no explanation of this situation which would satisfy an Occam's razor test, making the whole story feel like a 19 hour waste of energy.

Great for the Gamer in You

Wonderful story, great characters,and wonderfully performed.
I've been a casual gamer myself for many years and got into online role-playing over the past year, because of family and the show Sword Art Online. This book has everything I'd want in a gaming story, and even taught me how to fight in a group and be a better online gamer. Regardless, it's an awesome book.

Good Story But MCs Suck

The story is well written and performed decently but the MCs are whiny incompetent scrubs. Expect frustration and teeth grinding.

I am amazed by the reader's performance!

I purposefully downloaded a long "fluff" Sci-Fi to paint my house too. I didn't want to have to think too hard....just be entertained while I painted. The story was enjoyable, but the reader bowled me over with his consistent command of multiple distinct voices (male and female). Bravo!

Solid book

Ok having a prologue just tell me what was going to happen was wierd. And at first I was thinking "Its a game, getting really overdramatic over it." But once the game became real, it got good and interesting. At least at first.

It gradually got more and more corny though the longer the book ran. From joining a tribe, to a romantic plot that might as well have used the words "true love", to a constant and kind of stupid "GAMER PRIDE!" element.

But I still liked it much more than I hated it. The sort of inversion of the typical litrpg was neat. And it lacked most of the annoying things other litrpgs have. No womanizing, no filler just solid storytelling and action. So a solid 4 stars.

I rated the narrator 4 stars cause half the book was a female protagonist and they didnt get a female narrator for those parts