The Citadel

Mirror World Series, Book 2

De: Alexey Osadchuk

Narrado por: Kyle McCarley

If you're a warrior seeking glorious feats, we need you! The walls of the Maragar Citadel are always in need of heroes!

Or are you a wizard in search of forgotten lore? One visit to our Ancient Library will reveal you many a great mystery!

Or are you an online player craving excitement? Then you'd better hurry! The Maragar Citadel is rife with adventure-choose one to your liking!

Performing deeds of online valor is the last thing on Oleg's mind, though. Neither does he care about any ancient lore. He's never trusted adventure, anyway. Mirror World is no place for the likes of him. Still, he's here to stay - at the demand of Reflex Bank, which has granted him a loan for his daughter's hospital treatment. Which is the only reason he's joined the ranks of the defenders of the Maragar Citadel.

©2016 Alexey Osadchuk; English translation copyright 2016 by Irene Woodhead and Neil P. Mayhew (P)2016 Tantor

Excellent LitRPG series!

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This is one of the first LitRPG series I got into and its still one of my favorite. Its got an excellent narrator and the story really pulls you in and has you caring about the character. I always look forward to a new book in the series and will buy them all.

Great story, excellent narration

I'm eager to hear the rest of this adventure. Well done!
The self-narration of the story converts well to audio, and the narrator does a great job.

same same

but different...

I'm starting to be a little confused that he claims to do all this for his daughter and yet not a single scene with her so far...

only half as good as first book.

He worried about hiding his leveling far too much. Nearly every other paragraph was an inner monologue about no can find out how powerful or talented my character is. Plus he never worked for any achievements. All the rewards or benefits literally were handed to him. Where he then ignores them constantly. His lack of any gaming knowledge get insultingly annoying to me as a reader of this genre. Like his brother and every character he befriends tells him... Learn about the world you are in.

story gets better, narattor still anoyingly slow

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For a second book in a series its good, the story gets better, main character gets more debt. only thing that annoys me is that the narrator is reading a bit slow.

Great

I’m already on book four of the series I definitely recommend them all. The all amazing and the story just keeps getting better.

Well written and engaging.

I have really enjoyed the past two books and look forward to the new one.

great story

I have fallen in love with this series. great performance and overall interesting. plenty of driving force that done comments said was lacking.

More intrigue and loot

This next book takes us to a totally different part of the world with new characters, new areas, and new history to explore. There are many powerful people and clans interested in our Olgard and it’s not clear what will happen until the very end. Speaking of the end, we get some interesting explanation of the purpose behind why the main character is leveling so quickly.

Overall, I’m really enjoying this series and don’t think the reviews do the series justice. I would have happily enjoyed this series long ago if I’d had the sense of how well it’s written. While not my favorite litRPG series ever, this one ranks among the top 10.

I've noticed that Russian Lit RPG authors do similar things

The translation is kinda on the nose to the point where sometimes it isn't grammatically correct. Russian authors tend to use thr same exact phrases the whole book and way to many metaphors and similes. It's "Keep your hair on" instead of switching it to "Hold your horses" or something like that once in a while. They always smoke a mob not defeat or conquer it's always smoke. He says snug as a nug in a rug twice I think which one was already almost too much lol. Also the narrator always reads it as lol instead of just not saying it. No one says that out loud. Popping my clogs is always how he says dying or literally any other word that means death. So honestly it's kind of repetitive in that sense. Still good tho.