Time of Change

A Science fiction fantasy LitRPG Series

By: Michael Chatfield

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's Summary

As the Stone Raiders come into a time of peace, they set upon building up their guild hall and getting back to raiding.

Without the worries of immediate battles and constant quests, Dave and Party Zero are free to pursue their passions. New discoveries will be made and advances taken. They've got big plans and ideas for the future. What they start now will form and shape that future.

In this time of change, possibilities will rise, and opportunities will be grasped. It's time to build for the future.

©2017 Michael Chatfield (P)2018 Michael Chatfield

It is leveling out.

Through the many books they have been leading up to the creatures being released. It is finally time. I have read my fellows reviews and agree with most, but there are some points I would like to argue.

Some say this book may be a filler book and doesnt contain anything important, this is untrue. There are maybe 6 different plot points that are valuable in this book that would be sorely missed if skipped over.

There are intense fights and astonishing breakthroughs in tech and gear. There was even one portion that tugged at my heart strings even more than the other books. I will avoid spoiling while simply urging you to continue through these books.

If I had to list cons, I would start with the repetition. From the words used, to the overarching theme of "the monsters are coming", to the annoying reiteration of an entire character sheet 2 minutes after it had just been read even though only two minor things had changed.

Possible Minor Spoiler Alert : Another con would be the leveling system. It has gone haywire and I can tell the author didn't plan this far ahead. Levels of monsters reach past 1000 and is a totally incapable of accurately measuring power. There are hidden masters ranging from levels 600 to 1500. This makes me to wonder why everyone was freaking out about Boran Al's Citadel which hand maybe a dozen level 130's. Looking back it seems silly that a master wasn't sent in to wipe the floor with them.

With Dave being only around level 200, but having a technical stat power level of 1000, this is all getting a bit much.

End Spoiler

Some other things I miss are the stat gains from physical exertion, which is understandable, the affinity charts are no longer listed, and skills no longer level up, and no new skills are found or worked on.

The voice actor, while having a large repertoire of voices, has a habit in the way he talks leaving the words old and overused.

TL;DR : This book focuses on build up, leaving much to be desired. It could be a lot better, but it sure could be a hell of a lot worse too. There are still things you dont want to miss.

To much detail.

I found a battle scenes overly descriptive and very boring sometimes. This is a good series like rest of the books and kept me interested.

where's the beef

This one felt like filler. I'll try number 8 but if it's as bad as 7 that'll be it

It went from badass smith story to a dating game

To start things off I really love the world that was built and the magic system but the books are being more and more filler.

I dont know how many times I would see myself skipping 30 seconds ahead just to get away from "I starred into her eyes and he started into mine and I knew that he knew how I felt" bullshit. I'm fine with people having relationships but the books feel more like suffering through 6 different high school couples writing sappy love letters to each other.

After all that the story itself doesnt get real far either with all the bad teenage angst filler. Hell the biggest thing the stone raiders do is go for a portal and never even go inside!

Every characters the same

Narrator was awesome. Story not so much. Imagine all dialogue structured as above. It would be fine if only a character or two abandoned pronouns but pretty much every character, almost every sentance gets old really fast and makes them all sound the same. This becomes very frustrating as the story spends a tremendous amount of time on support characters making it very hard to remember who is who and who's doing what. Kudos to the narrator for doing a bang up job.

Love the overall story.

I started this story waaayyyy back when book 1 dropped and fell in love. so much so that I ignored the series until at least 5 books came out so I could binge them in one go. Then 6,7,and 8 came put amd did not disappoint.

Good book

Pro:
Really great performance by the narrator.
Another good laid out litrpg to the series.

Con:
Takes away from the main group or character. By putting emphasis on other characters... I really enjoyed party zero and Dave more than the other guild...

If only.

Truly and epic story line and very well presented characters but the blandness of the writing is styfeling this stories ability to be a hall mark piece of literature. The grows overuse of the same basic conguncturs is the most glaring problem. It physically hurts me to hear the word "as" used twice in the same sentence and that sin happens. A. Lot. The same issue, more or less continues with using the exact same noun multiple times in the same sentence, or adjectives, or pronouns, all of it. Proper, flavorful and diverse literary expressions and sentence structure would truly take this series to the next level and stop hurting me while I listen to every chapter I can get my hands on.

I think I am getting Mana fatigue

I am struggling to keep going on this series. ok one hand, I want to get to the final book where Humanity once again confronts the Jukal. On the other hand, I am getting bored with the incessant battles that are all pretty much the same now. How many ways can you kill things with air blades and fireballs anyway? And all the sappy romances are getting tedious. We have our hero who is head over heels for a super powerful demi-god, we have our token LGBTQ relationship, and we have our token interracial relationship. Our hero and his Demigoddess are pregnant, but now is not the time to get married because the world is in turmoil. In the old days, the time was over-right when the girl gets knocked up, but then this is modern times. A lot of effort is spent making sappy romances politically correct. I might skip to the last book and see if I can adjust to the plot Gap for the sake of my sanity. Or I may shoot this puppy in the head and move on before this series drains any more of my Mana.

A slough

It feels af if the story has gone on for too long. I've enjoyed the story up to this point but it's starting to drag out pretty badly at this point. I finished the book but it took a force of willpower to do so.

Repeat

Read all 7 books in this saga, after book 3 it’s pretty much rinse dry repeat, it’s time this saga was brought to a conclusion.