Time Chaser

A LitRPG Game of Death

De: Rick Gualtieri

Narrado por: David Winter

TIME IS NOT ON HIS SIDE.

My name’s Tim McAvoy. I was a mid-level software manager from suburbia until the day I caught my wife with another man. I thought our divorce was the worst fate imaginable. But then I met my end at the grill of a speeding bus, only to realize I didn’t have a clue.

Whisked away at the moment of my death to a dimension beyond time and space, I now find myself an unwilling contestant in a multiversal game where brutal bloodshed is considered entertainment. My only chance to get my life back is to win. But if I lose, not only will I die for real this time, but my entire world, including my son, could be erased from existence.

With a jaded AI by my side and a juiced-up squash racket in hand, I'll have to face off against the worst horrors history has to offer as I race to complete the first of twelve increasingly deadly levels.

The rules of this game are simple: I need to survive and grow stronger while always keeping one eye on the clock – because once time runs out, there won’t be any more second chances.

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From Rick Gualtieri, the twisted mind behind Bill The Vampire and Bigfoot Hunters, comes a brand new GameLit adventure. Time Chaser is the pulse-pounding tale of an average guy trapped in a game of danger, nonstop terror, and the bloodthirsty howls of an audience with an insatiable appetite for destruction.

Fans of Matt Dinniman and James Hunter won't want to miss this time-spanning thrill ride full of action, suspense, and heavy amounts of snark.

Content Warning: This book contains violence, gore, swearing, and disturbing scenarios.

©2024 Rick Gualtieri (P)2025 Rick Gualtieri

The narrator is about to ruin it for me.

I am only a third of the way through the book, and I love the author and his work. this book is good, but the narrator is really throwing me off. it seems like they have a British accent but they are trying to do an American accent. The words are slow like the character is drunk and he is slowly trying to articulate his words. but then random words have a British accent and it sounds weird. The only good voices are the AI voice and other characters voices. The main character is hard to listen to because it throws me out of the story. it really makes me lose my suspension of disbelief when it comes to the story.

Achievement Unlocked!

Just finished up listening to the book and I had a great ride through.

While it did take a bit for the narrator to really warm up once he hit his stride it was really smooth sailing and his voice for the main character tonally was quite solid. I especially liked his voices for Boog, Pixel, and Dreyger as well which I feel allowed him to be a bit more natural in his intonations. A few pronunciation hiccups did not spoil anything.

On the story end, my only critique is it felt a touch longer than the story needed to be, or that maybe I just wanted a little more variety to the location or stage as a whole that the first stage was. The characters held up to the level and quality I expect from Rick's work and soon entered the same cherished place in my mind that the rest of his works hold. I full expect as he continues to work on this series he will bring more to this particular genre and I'm looking forward to the next installment!

Pretty good

Good story. Narrator accent takes a minute to get used to, but afterwords it’s cool.

I can’t wait for the next one!

Well, I’m a fan of the author’s work, but this is different than a lot of his other stories. The humor was different, the action was different in a really good way. I really appreciated a few throwbacks to other books, While I prefer audible books at this time, I think I’m gonna have to read the next one of the series because I won’t be able to wait.

Not my favorite work from Gualtieri or Winter

David Winter's performance was inconsistent at first, stabilizing later as he warmed up, however, the accent he used in not any known American accent, and it was at times jarring and brought you out of the story. Honestly, it is not necessary to use a localized accent to read/narrate a story, and if it is necessary for the particular work, then by all means publishers, type-cast.

This is not to cast aspersions on David Winter, in general as a narrator, nor do I wish him less work in the field. I generally find him to be a fine narrator.

As for Rick Gualtieri, The Tome of BIll had it's charms, and Bill of the Dead as well, but I would not hail this as his best work. He is clearly trying to enter a very specific and narrow, sub-genre of the general LitRPG genre, which he is certainly welcomed to do, but I am not sure this specific book is the best example of his work and style.