The Legacy Builder: The Chronicles of Lincoln Hart

Barakdor, Book 1

By: Ember Lane

Narrated by: Tom Konkle

Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

Barakdor, a virtual fantasyland packed with elves, dwarves, gnomes and trolls.
Barakdor, a world sliding helplessly to war.

Lincoln wanted to be a warrior, a rogue or a mage, but he'd made a promise to himself, so he chose builder. He wasn’t supposed to play the game on his own, but now he wanted to build a legacy for Joan, a sanctuary in a virtual world.

It was supposed to be a place where folk could come to get away from the terrors that the land held, a utopia he would create with his bare hands. It was supposed to be Joan’s legacy. But as the growling thunderheads of war gather, he begins to think it might be a last refuge. He begins to think it might be the land’s only hope.

Fantasy collides with LitRPG in the the Land of Barakdor. The Legacy Builder is the first installment of Lincoln's journey. The Veils of Lamerell is the first in Alexa's game. Follow them both in the next book to be released, Hero Hunting!

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really liked it

I really liked this book. The MC wasn't a whining simpleton, the supporting characters had some depth and the story moved quickly.

Really Epic

I listened to this book in one day, I just couldn't stop. You can tell from the start that this series is going to be an amazingly expansive experience. If you love world building, fantasy races coming together for the greater good, brilliant and endearing characters this one is for you. So I was coming to the end of the book, about an hour or so left, and I started getting really depressed. I hate when amazing books end and you have to wait forever for more stories to come out and/or then be released to audible. I have good news for you though. I did the research. There are 9 books so far in this series, and there will be one dropping on audible every other month or so as of 10/26/19. It looks like they are changing narrators for the upcoming books. I thought the narration was good but I was enamored with the story. If I had a complaint it would be the way the narrator handled the stat sheet reading. There has to be a better way to translate that info for audible. I cant wait for book two and the rest of the series for that matter. I highly recommend this series. I was given a free copy of this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left my honest review.

Great story at a relaxed pace

The Legacy Builder was everything the title made me hope it was! It was a story about a BUILDER. there are a few fights and the story seems to be leading toward more, but the focus is on a man building a new home in a fantasy game world.

The MC is NOT some teenage "chosen one" bumbling around with a magic sword. He is a capable man with a goal and a plan. He meets some great people along the way (and some not-so-great) who keep things interesting and lighten up a man who tends to brood.

The narrator reads the story well, but sets a slow pace that detracts a bit. He took some getting used to but will not stop me from picking up the next one when it comes out.

- I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. -

WOW! 6 / 5. NOT YOUR TYPICAL LitRPG/ Fantasy

This is the first book I’ve read/listened to by this author and I really want to listen to more. This is a great light LitRPG. We get some stats but it’s not too much. Just the way I like it. This book is certainly outside the norm as far as ones I’ve listened to until now.
I really like the constant interplay with his computer guide and how it tells him requirements to build, what the outcome of those builds is, what he need to support the workers, etc. Lincoln gains friends, starts a guild and a village, but things are about to get tough.
War is looming and they need to prepare.
The book ends without any conclusion, just a direct lead into the next book.

This is the first book I’ve listened to by this narrator ( Tom Konkle ) and I would gladly listen to another. His voice acting is engaging . He brings this story to life so well. His voices are varied and personalities suit the characters.

There are no explicit sex scenes, excessive violence or swearing.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and voluntarily left this unbiased review.
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Good story, pretty decent writing if a bit short

Narrator not the best, little variation in inflection, hard to differentiate different characters, detrimental to overall listening experience

This is a great book

I received a free copy of this book for review purposes, my review is voluntary and unbiased.

This story is great, the motivations and personalities of these characters are fantastic. It's a bit different from other gamelit novels as Lincoln our MC isn't an avid gamer, and doesn't want to be a big damn hero, He's just a guy who wants to build a monument to his wife and keeps getting smacked in the face with adventure.

The characters are great, some of them aren't precisely likable but they are interesting, I was hoping to find out more about what happened to Alexa but I guess she gets her own books. so looking forward to that.

Pretty much everything that is good about this book is character driven, there isn't a whole lot of story going on that affects the characters as of yet. There are some warnings about war coming and that certain rulers are jerks but those are tomorrow problems

The first part of the book is Lincoln preparing to set out to find a good place to build a town, the second part is the journey there, and last is building the foundations of a settlement and preparing it for the future. Lincoln takes a long view of development and is planning for the future needs of a larger and somewhat isolated civilization.

The only downside of this book is the way the stat blocks are read. Each skill/stat/item and so on has several sets of numbers associated to them and most of them have no effect on anything perceivable. A skill will have a level a percent to completion and bonus number and an aptitude number, and the narrator reads commas by saying "comma", so you will get a skill list that reads something like

"Carpentry comma level 4 comma eighty-one percent comma plus sixteen comma 24."

for each skill and stat and so on, and other than the level none of those numbers mean anything in the narrative. It's just a huge block of text that means nothing. That could have been read as "Carpentry level 4" and moved on, the rest is just made up fluff to make it sound more gamey and has no affect on anything that is actually going on.

Great Builder LitRPG

I received a free review copy.

I loved the book. The prose was very poetic at points with the way the scenery was described. I thought it was beautiful. I laughed and cried (a little) while listening to this book. I
I recommend the book.

The main character wants to be a builder. He travels to the future site of his city, making new friends of the downtrodden along the way. After he arrives, he works to build the city along with support from the people surrounding it. It was very satisfying. I look forward to the next book in the series.

I thought the reading was great! The narrator had the perfect voice for this character/story.

There is a balance, this is not it.

As much as I enjoy the LitRPG genre, there is a balance between story and interrupting the story with character/town status upgrades. In this book it is completely disruptive to the flow of the story. In combination with a narrator that seems incapable of distinguishing the multitude of characters through tone or accent causes this book to be just another in a list of mediocre LitRPG fully capable of getting lost in the crowd.

This is disappointing because the premise is good, and certainly worthy of expansion. Find a better way to present stats for audio format and get a narrator that is a performer instead of a reader and you have a reasonably good book.

Cry baby

Story was weak mc was a cry baby just to weak needs too nut up and spill some blood and grow a spine

Great Story.

The story overall has the potential to be really awesome. This book the story was great, having said that I also want to say, the narrator is dry as dust, which doesn't do favors for the author...

Ahh, the author (seems) to be fairly new to writing so there is a lot of "tell" rather than "show" the descriptions given are very predictable. In my opinion the characters lack voice, some of that is due to writing and some due to a narrator who could rival Ben Stein (Bueller? Bueller? ) in flat affect.

All that being said I liked where I think the story might go.
I want to encourage the author to keep writing because eventually all the writing faux pas will be a thing of past books.