The Last Warrior of Unigaea: Box Set

By: Harmon Cooper

Narrated by: Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott

Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's Summary

A crimson sky. A plague approaching. Violence on the horizon. A world in desperate need of a warrior. Oric Rune must rise to this challenge or lose everything he’s ever held dear.  

Joining him on his journey are his large black wolf, a mysterious female solar mage, a scholarly giant, and Sam Raid, the woman who might just hold the key to saving Unigaea.  

The audiobook series that started it all for Soundbooth Theater is now available in one audiobook! This is Annie Ellicott’s debut role and the first multicast performance released by this burgeoning production house. The gruff narration of Jeff Hays blends with Annie’s sweet yet commanding delivery to perfectly set the tone for this heartfelt tale set in a harsh world.

©2018 Harmon Cooper (P)2018 Harmon Cooper

At least it's 18hrs?...

Maybe I'm spoiled at this point from the abundance of good offerings in this genre, but this series doesn't cut it. The only saving grace is that it is read by Jeff Hays. The author repeatedly tries to cover lazy writing with snark and profanity. I'm a fan of snark and witty banter from an MC, but this was a sloggfest. Towards the end I was skipping through entire chapters just to be done with the story. There was an idea behind this book. I think the author forgot what it was in book 2. Lazy writing and plot armor ensues.

5 of 5 people found this review helpful

Absolutely awesome.

Let me start by saying that for those unfamiliar with Harmon Cooper you are in for a massive treat. He's an incredible writer and has crafted many series, most of which are at least partially connected in some way, much like almost all of Stephen King's books partially connected.

Now on to The Last Warrior of Unigaea. This is an awesome 3 book LitRPG series, which makes this boxset one heck of a bargain. As mentioned this is a LitRPG series and it takes place on the world of Unigaea within the Proxima universe, which is the virtual universe that many of Harmon's series take place in. At the start of the first book we meet Oric Rune and his companion, a giant wolf named....well Wolf, lol. Oric is a player killer, a despised class of character within the world of Unigaea, but he's chosen that class for a reason. It's the only way he can carry out his personal mission of revenge, a mission you'll come to appreciate as you learn more about Oric. But as the series goes on his mission grows well beyond simple revenge, morphing into a mission to save the world...or at least to save as much of it as he can, and you'll see he is not a simple player killer, Oric is a true hero. Throughout the journey he's joined by an awesome and diverse collection of characters. Not only does the series tell a great story with tons of fast paced action and great RPG elements, but it has true heart as well. You will come to love and care about these characters. I love Sam Raid!

Now as for the narration, Jeff Hays is one of the most incredible narrators I've ever listened to. He's one of my all time favorite narrators and I've listened to dozens of books performed by him. Not only does he always give each character their own unique voice but he gives each of them their own speech patterns. Listening to one of his books you'd think you were listening to dozens of different people, not one person doing dozens of different voices. Now in this series Jeff is joined by the incredibly talented Annie Ellicott and she does a spectacular job. If you see either of these two or Soundbooth Theater in general attached to any book then you are pretty much guaranteed to be in for an incredible listening experience.

As I started at the start of this review, The Last Warrior of Unigaea is an incredible series and getting the entire boxset for only 1 credit is an unbelievable deal. And once you finish this series you'll be looking for more. The great news is that Harmon has plenty more readily available.

I received a copy of this audio title in exchange for an unbiased review

14 of 16 people found this review helpful

not very good

the story really lacks in writing. the main character is play the "player killer class"... wtf? and why would anyone want to play a game that allowed you to feel some one torture you and not give you the option to log off while it happened... but there's just something special about unigea or whatever the world is called.. yeah I'm not buying it.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

I love this series!

I love love love box sets. Harmon always pulls through with grouped books.

The narration of this title was absolutely fantastic and probably one of the best works I've experienced by Jeff Hays and I am new with Annie but she was also fantastic. This is one of my favorite series by Harmon. The point where death means the death of the character is a real seller for me. I would rate Last Warrior above fantasy online as a fantasy series easily and I only enjoyed other works like the feedback loop as much. I highly suggest this series and this deal.

5 of 6 people found this review helpful

Tedious details about game statistics.

Listening to game stats laced with unnecessary profanity was very distracting. The storyline was lost because of these two things and though I made it through more than half the book, I lost any interest in the story and decided, for me...it wasn't worth finishing.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

woot

use Annie Ellicott a whole lot more she's awesome perfect Counterpoint for Jeff Hayes woot

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Awesome!

Slow start, but once it got going, I couldn’t stop listening to it. Great story made better by Jeff Hays’ narration! Well done!

good story

A good book to listen to. It held my attention through my day. I like how it ties the characters from the feedback loop series along with the same video game universe

Outperformed expectations

Pretty daring concept. Thought it would be clunky with all that DnD type thinking. By the time I was a ways into it I enjoyed it totally.

Abrupt End

Overall story was great, I felt a connection with each character. My only real complaint is i wasn't ready for the ending. This is the boxset, so I'm assuming there isn't anything else in production for our motley crew. If that's the case, I think an epilogue would have been great for closure.

3 audios of excellence for 1

The Last Warrior trilogy is a great find as it's 3 times the fun and excitement and with the emotional and Intense story of Oric, Wolf, Sam amd Deathdale this is a roller coaster and a treat to the ears.
As with any LitRPG this is for most a tale of politics, revenge, action and a good tie in with other Proxima world stories from Cooper. The politics are very easy going and the twists we have are very well done.
The skills of Hays and Ellicott are well matched with the characters and SBT always does a good job I have found.
I asked for this audio and have left my thoughts on this for you to peruse.

this book just got better

box sets should be a way of life! what's better than one book? well the answer is 3! now you can get the whole series just for one token.

this story is the first that I have heard were there is more than one narrated and this works really well!

the story mixes it up with action, fantasy, mystery, intrigue and a little bit of romance. it tracks the story of Oric and his companion wolf on an epic quest to find the source of a plague that is destroying the world.

soundbooth studio has also pulled out all the stops again and made this the masterpiece that it is!

5 stars all round