Shard Wraith

Crystal Shards Online, Book 3

By: Rick Scott

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

“What darkness within the Labyrinth awaits?”

After defeating the Shadow King and opening the gateway to the mysterious Labyrinth of Onizoso, Reece's hopes are dashed when a surprise attack leaves his girlfriend's life hanging in the balance.

To save her, Reece and his friends must enter the labyrinth in hopes of finding the one person who may be able to bring her back to life...but in a place where players turn into Shard Wraiths, their hopes may already be lost.

Now Reece will have to navigate a strange new world fraught with dangers, while fending off a pursuing army and racing against the clock. And with his arch nemesis lurking just outside, the labyrinth might be only the start of his troubles.

To protect the ones he loves, Reece will have to challenge both his fears and principles, or risk losing everything and becoming a Shard Wraith himself.

But the Labyrinth holds many dark secrets, and what he discovers within may not only change the outcome of their mission, but redefine the very nature of the game world itself.

©2018 Rick Scott (P)2018 Podium Publishing

dont believe the reviews, whole book is good!

the ending was unsatisfying to me, but most unresolved endings feel that way to me a little bit. the author hints at some really interesting ideas im looking forward to seeing where he goes with this series.

All in all this is a very enjoyable series that doesn't have a bunch of useless sex scenes or swearing or anything else like that. the hero in the story is actually a hero, and that's rare these days with anti-heros and "bad guy" characters being all the rage these days.

The author doesn't seem to be making any political statements or pushing any agenda's either, just a good story with good characters, and a solid plot line.

Good but not great

I’ve enjoyed this series so far. It has an interesting premise and plot, but the MC is a bit “slow”, the other characters a bit shallow, and the relationships between them are a bit juvenile.

There are a few instances of repeated alerts, sometimes eight or nine times, I.e. “you have picked up a copper coin, you have picked up a copper coin....” instead of “8 copper coins.”

These books could use some better editing and the narrator stumbles a little, but overall, the story is quite intriguing. It’s like a LitRPG version of Red Rising as far as the base poly goes.

Again it’s not the best LitRPG out there but imo worth the credits. I’ll be staying with the series.

Surprised and delighted

This series got a whole lot better with the addition of this book. This was unexpectedly entertaining and enjoyable, and it left me wanting more. And I don't even particularly care for LitRPG honestly. But this series and Dakota Kraut, I'll vouch for that.

Stats! :(

So many stats repeated over and over.
I like stats but this was just too much.
But I enjoyed the story. Albeit, this group is just super duper unlucky, nothing seems to go their way without major peril. Its basically clock work, they achieve something, some kind of misfortune stands in their way. Please don’t get me wrong I enjoy the story, but surprise me a little.

Continuing

It was pretty good, and I really like the development of a lot of the stories. Sadly the next book is gonna take me a whole longer than the first, both because it is slightly longer and because I’m not working until the weekend, lol.
Wraith was really interesting but as I go on in the crystal shards series there is less and less I can say outside spoiler territory. I guess I could say that for any series, but this particular series has so many secrets that each book is almost completely new information so talking about it becomes less and less viable.
I can say I really enjoyed the mechanics, there was a greater emphasis on town building mechanics and frankly that’s the kind of gameplay I’d be into in the universe.
I play Minecraft and Fallout, combine the two and you’ve got a quest-based town building rpg, and that works in a lot of these worlds.
I can say I wasn’t disappointed with the further development of the major plot lines and new reveals that help move them along, nor am o disappointed with the few new and newish charecters that show up.
I really liked the further development of the secondary plot line. It seems to carry more weight, but it is slow and steady and becomes much more important in book 3 than 2 when it was introduced.

Better and better!

I'm burning through all my credits to read this and don't even care! Amazing stuff, if you like LitRPGs you won't be disappointed.

I frekn love this series!

I cannot get through these books fast enough! Great story telling with equalled narration. Must read series for any gamer!

Good story and a nice listen

I really enjoyed this title, however a few things almost broke it for me. For a book that is all about saving someone within a time limit there is a big plot hole for the part of the story that happens in real time. How did all of that happen in one hour?
Spoiler alert!


They explicitly said that "I sent you that report an hour ago" while our heroes have just spent 40 minutes in real time within the labyrinth, and the team had already been inside the labyrinth for some time before he started on that report.. It's not a big thing but makes it harder to sink into the story and there could have been pretty easy fixes to make the time frame believable

1000000000 stars

absolutely loved it before I even got done with it I knew I was going to be ready for the next one and I know I have to wait which now I'm sad about. so I will sit here and impatiently waiting for the next book...

over too soon

okay, book was great buuuttt the ending with so much going on is aggervating lol. lets pump out the next book. keep them coming. thanks!