The Dao of Magic III

By: Andries Louws

Narrated by: Pavi Proczko

Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's Summary

A sea of savage beasts. An ancient order of mages. A looming cataclysm.

Now that Drew has become even more powerful by stepping into the Foundation Realm, new challenges await him. He is quietly growing his school and sect, and allowing his students to recruit whoever they want so he can take it easy.

Trouble looms as his old mistakes come back to haunt him. The entire planet is about to be sent down a savage and unforgiving path, and it might be his fault. Monsters are popping up everywhere, packs of deadly animals led by terrible mutants. The worst part? They seem to be steered by some higher power, some nefarious being that holds the reins of the planet.

His students have turned from bright-eyed, eager learners...into lazy good-for-nothings. Whoops. It seemed he was too influential in their development. Teach now has to spend large amounts of time crafting gear for all the new recruits, and the rising tensions are giving him a headache.

Teach might just decide to end them all. He had a fresh start once … maybe he should try again?

©2019 Andries Louws (P)2020 Podium Publishing

I am a little disappointed in this third novel

What started as a clear and precise story with excellent motives and good storyline has become a confusing mess of interconnected random stories. I am quickly losing interest in this whole story. At this point I’m not even sure if I’m going to pick up the fourth book. It is sad to see such an excellent concept and storyline fragment into this jumbled mess. I would highly recommend the first two novels in this series without hesitation but this third novel gives me pause and I am not sure an almost hate to see what the next novel will bring.

its alright.

the Dao of Magic is a fun series so far. this was one of the weaker books in the series so far. But I get the impression that the author is building up for something in the future. Worth a listen

Downhill Quick

This series went downhill fast. I couldn't even finish this book. The story jumps from one story line to another and you find yourself wondering if you missed something, because it is so hard to follow. And a series that had a clear path has jumped the wagon and has gone rouge. I have no idea where this storyline is going now, and find myself not wanted to find out either.

Yes, it keeps getting better

Enough said, it gets better. Well done Andries Louws, witty, fun, yes... Keep it up!

Good Story - Complex - Worsening Language

I like the multiple points of view that add depth and show that the main character(s) are not the be all and end all. Nice world building for his school, students and the greater world at larger. Excellent story and character development.

The characters are increasingly using excessively foul, pointless, highly offensive and vulgar language to express themselves, including both the C word and and excessive, repetitive use of the F word. This fairly good author is destroying his work because he is too lazy to convey his characters thoughts without this ugly method. This is horrid enough that I have dropped the overall a full star below the performance and story ratings.

Awesome better and better

like I said the series just keeps getting better and better can't wait for the Nextbook this series is one of my favorites

better than the last two

Don't give up on this series. It's really good. Just because the last book wasn't as good don't judge this one.

Review

I enjoy this audiobook all the way up to the halfway mark!. for some strange reason it just got weird. It feels like there’s two different authors. I went on to listen book 3 and its worse. Cultivation is a big theme in this book, but the ability for them to gain power through cultivation is so easy it’s pointless, The characters is essentially overpowered. There is one theme about cultivation it’s a great deal of power but requires hard work and sacrifice to obtain it. This audiobook reduce is the contcept to a joke🤦‍♂️. Pavo Proczko pretty much carries this audiobook. One of the reason why I was able to get the book 3.

Still intrigued

The characters and world building are still good enough to keep me intrigued. The humor also stays at a good level.

Now the Tao of Cultivation - Apparently

The Tao of Magic... in the middle of this book I suddenly felt a sense of deja vu - like I was listening to The Ten Realms and the growth of Alva. This isn't an accusation of plagiarism, I'm just telling you that in this book there's a lot more about about management, immigration to the Tree, interacting with the King as a client, and so on. Future books are different, but this one is certainly setting up characters and details that will be used then.

The Kindle version of the book advertises this as a 'Western Cultivation Series'. And a turn towards cultivation certainly happened. So there's no real complaint.

Despite the world building, this book has plenty pf what I see are core story line threads: those of Drew and the unintended consequences of his actions, the investigation of 'what is going on with this messed up world?', and again those questions of 'how to interact with people in a way that is positive to them'. And we do see character development.