The Rise of Chess

Fair Quest, Book 2

By: Kit Falbo

Narrated by: Matthew Broadhead

Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Overwhelmed by a shift to a "normal" life, Nate is under pressure to make friends. Rejoining the immersive fantasy game Fair Quest seems like his best option. But the game has changed, and many players are taking what is going on more personally. Will the return of the Kingmaker winner send shock waves through the game, even as he's trying to avoid attention? Find out in The Rise of Chess.

A GameLit coming-of-age story. Book two of Fair Quest.

©2021 Kit Falbo (P)2022 Kit falbo

Solid Follow Up

I enjoyed finally getting to hear the sequel to The Crafting of Chess. In most LitRPG/Gamelit books, the outside world is boring. In this series, I enjoy the outside world elements as much or more than the game world. I am looking forward to the next book.

Warning: Though the first book had very little combat, this version focuses much more on combat. I personally enjoyed the addition of combat, but some readers might be put off by it.

Is Falbo TRYING to Lose Readers!?

Also Kit, I know the publishers hype “YA”. They think they’ll hit gold with the next H.P. But this is litRPG. The adults you drew in with “Crafting…” aren’t going to return for a R.L. Story about high sch

Great continuation

I felt like I waited forever for book 2 and it was worth the wait.

Good second book

This felt different from the first book. From crafting to battle, from set up to action. Different feel but both are great books. Matthew Broadhead did an excellent job.

A Kings Performance

A great continuation from the first book. An epic adventure of maneuvering pieces with an ever expanding world.

A different take and style from the first ones crafting orientation, but nonetheless still a great story.

Keep up the good work Kit, I never write reviews but want you to succeed.

Beyond Amazing

This book was awesome, it has been awhile since I heard the first book, so I do not remember all the characters. What Frank did to Nate's Character Chess was a little underhanded. I am not sure if more will be written, but if they are I look forward to listening to them.

great story slow start

The story is a little slow but once it gets going it really draws you in just as good as book one

Unlistenable

The first book has some of the silliness some VRMMOs have about developers being antagonists when actual developers see players who "break" the game as free QA and just fix the problems without any animosity or relationship with the players who "break" them; however, this is tertiary, and you can honestly just skip these chapters for a better experience. The second novel uses a peevish developer's plans as the plot device and thus makes this too ridiculous for me to take seriously as someone who has worked in the game industry.

Matthew Broadhead voicing this peevish character like the least respectable cartoon villain in a cartoon made for ages three to eight makes this intolerable plotline unlistenable. What a huge disappointment after such a strong first book.

From crafting and struggling, to struggling to craft

First off, voice acting is solid, villains are read a bit oddly but still.

The story itself is a huge drop from last one. The first book uses the struggle of a child trying to survive with his Grandfather to drive the narrative, with an interesting crafting system to add to the flavor of things. The side stories about the company, a real Richard, and third character that has no barring on the story almost at all, make it a fun read.
This book took all of the struggle out, replaced it with a 'coming of age' narrative with some minor abuse, and made the story more about this assassin.
They took out all of the crafting, barely even touched on anything other than the smithing.

Severe disappointment, skip all the chapters without Chess in them and you have a story that just abruptly stops after an abusive mother gets her son back from her crazy father.

Crafting Isn't in the Title for a Reason

I honestly loved the first one because it's a crafting focused novel.

This isn't. I'm a couple hours in, and I think one piece of gear was crafted.

I agree with all of the other one or two star reviews on the Kindle version. Villians have no consequences for any action, and Chess' storyline in the game is frustrating more than anything.