The Grand Game, Book 1

A Solo Adventure in a New World

By: Tom Elliot

Narrated by: Andrew Tell

Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

One man. Assassin. Caster. A new world. And a game that is as brutal as it is complex.

Michael finds himself in the realm of the Forever Kingdom, with no memory of how he got there and who he is. Even so, he must participate in the Grand Game and forge a new destiny for himself.

Dropped into a dungeon of monsters and strange magics, would you survive in a game where to lose means death?

Alone, and with little more than his wits to aid him, Michael must advance as a player, slay his foes, and gain experience. All while navigating the intrigues around him and discovering his purpose.

A world of powers, forces, and mysterious factions. A game with endless opportunities for advancement and power.

Join Michael on his epic adventure as he deals with the game's challenges, the machinations of the powers, and the ambitions of his fellow players.

The start of an exciting new portal fantasy epic!

©2021 Tom Elliot (P)2021 Tom Elliot

What I needed

Just fighting and figuring out how to survive no harems no beautiful woman just fighting

Too much inner dialog...

The MC has too much thought in action scenes. The excess inner dialog makes things drag. I also find the MC a little dense for my tastes. I will give the next book a shot if it's slim on selection, but drop this if the continuation is more of the same.

Whoever said this was master hunter K

I wanted to like this book because another user said “it’s like master hunter K” NO it’s NOT! first off this dude is waaay underpowered, SPOILER ALERT…..
How is he lvl 18 but letting lvl 8 people toss him around? He uses literally only “let me stealth around until it doesn’t work then only Stab” it was hard to keep going but I pushed on hoping he would idk evolve or something? But nope more “let me stealth and walk around enemy’s until they see me” then when they see him he gets beat up because guess what? He didn’t put any points into fighting only into what? STEALTH oh yea he sees his friend getting killed? Let me watch until I can go back into STEALTH I couldn’t stand it anymore. Amazing narration that basically only reason I kept listening. Again I wanted to like this book but I felt cheated. The other characters are basically only there to question him and the “monsters” were more intresting then the actual humans when he finally finds them. Please do better if it’s a stand alone adventurer we need more actions, need more smart thinking. I don’t want to hear his plans in his head then hear how he Carrie’s out the plan because the “chapter name” basically gives away the chapters plot to where I can guess what happens. Ok sorry rant over

A complete win ...from out of nowhere

Truthfully, this book is one of the best I've read all yr.
The MC is likable and sensible. The magic system is pretty open-ended, and leaves a ton of room for "the players" to develop unique and powerful abilities. The story is well-written, it is similar in some ways to other books in the genre ...but I like the pacing, and I can't lie I'm completely hooked. Can't wait for the next installment.

For me this book was something I chose on a whim. I love it when I stumble across a good book unexpectedly, and this book was really good.
If ur already a fan of litrpg/cultivation/progression fantasy you'll probably like this book. If ur not familiar with the genre, this wud be a good book for you to have as ur 1st experience. Even if u think u don't like the genre, maybe this book will be the one to change ur mind.

Basically, no matter ur starting point, I highly suggest that you check this book out ...it's a winner

Plot By Stupidity

Everything has to be explained to a person who has gaming knowledge. Bad people lie and do bad things and look bad people lie and do even worse things WOW how could they do this to me/us they’re not nice

THIS SUCKS BECAUSE STUPIDITY AND IGNORANCE ARE NOT GOOD PLOTS

Never hated a MC like I hated this MC

Too much internal thinking and overthinking of his choices. Pretty much no world building I feel like there’s no character development outside of fighting it’s a basic story that drawn out for no reason.

It’s been hours, and I have no idea what’s happening…

Tho has been the most poorly narrated book that I’ve listened to. Holy hell, monotone much? Not only are most of these characters near indistinguishable, but the presentation is so damn boring. Also the internal monologue of this MC is written so badly it leaves me speechless. Who thinks like this? It’s like listening to a clipped c

Audience is geared towards children

It’s a fine story line and the reader is fine, but the caliber of story is for the middle schooler rather than an adult. Stilted reading with overly explanatory exposition. The main character is both dense and intelligent depending what needs to be explained.

neat

neat. too much inter dialog. worth the credit tho. ending was awesome. is this 15 words yet?

Eh, the MC

I like it, but as it has been stated some of the introspection drags on and seems misplaced, unless you were going for overthinking MC

Nice a bit dragged by the tail but nice

author tends to over explain things but the story is very interesting and entertaining. nice

Great read

0 regrets with this one lads certified banger character ain't bullshit story good. What more can a lad want except getting... never mind greatly recommended.

Very interesting!

i loved it, the story was interesting and kept me guessing. The narration was amazing. it does remind me alot of he who fights with monsters mixed in with a bit of dungeon crawler carl. Its a good story with an mc that isn't overly power straight away its a slow burn. im excited to see where it goes ! cant wait for the next one