Unexpected Healer

Earthen Contenders, Book 1

By: Jonathan Brooks

Narrated by: Miles Meili

Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Something went wrong. Something went very wrong….

Against his will, Thaden was transported elsewhere in a big flash of light along with millions of other Humans from Earth, to a place where they would train to become Contenders in a whole new world. Unfortunately for him, something occurred during his transference into the “Training” program, and he was ejected from the whole training process and sent into the open mouth of an active volcano for bodily disposal.

Through a miraculous and horrifying series of events, Thaden managed to survive, only to find himself alone in the middle of a dungeon with no clothes, no weapons, and no way to defend himself. Worst of all, the strange new Assimilation System automatically assigned a Class to him without his knowledge, which ended up sticking him with a Support-based Class that has absolutely no offensive capabilities. As an Assistant Healer, none of his spells did any damage and he couldn’t even pick up a weapon to defend himself if he wanted to!

But all hope isn’t lost, as Thaden quickly learns something unique about himself that might just allow him to survive long enough to escape the dungeon. Sure, all his new magical spells might be focused on healing and protection, but what does it mean when he seemingly won’t ever run out of Mana…?

This story contains an overpowered MC with a normally non-combat Class, LitRPG progression mechanics and stats, and isekai/portal fantasy elements. Contains no sexual content or harems.

©2024 Jonathan Brooks (P)2024 Jonathan Brooks

Nice start!

If you want to see how a pure healer is surviving after being transported to a new world and equally screwed over and over powered this book should be a nice fit for you. Definitely making the best of a bad and confusing new start. I’m looking forward to see how things go in the future and this book set up the story nicely. A different experience from his other books but this author really knows how to always create whole new systems for dungeons! All his dungeons run differently, even if some more than others. Give it a chance if you like this other books and writing style you probably won’t regret it.

Fresh take on the litprg.

Had a hard time getting into it but once it picked up I was hooked! Looking forward to see what happens next in this story.

Jonathan has done it agen

Jonathan is a great author and has written a lot of great books now and this is most certainly not an exception.
from start to end iv enjoyed this one good narration you can understand great story flow that makes it feel shorter than it is and good world building that iv come to expect
won't get into much story detail as I don't want to spoil it but expect the unexpected is the best way to think of it where the Mc is a heal base character with zero attack options what you think that is boring? then you need to read and find out how this hilarious out take will both be op and not

Really fun story with rough, AI sounding narrator

The story is pretty neat. A fun take on litrpg apocalypse. Unfortunately, the narrator sounds like a computer generated reader with some inflection and voices for different characters. Made it very hard to listen to the audiobook. I will be avoiding this AI narrator moving forward.

Loved the story, not so much the reader

Read the book, loved it, but the reader brought it down for me. Very little inflection, always placed emphasis on the last word in the sentence, struck me as odd!

Crunchy bag of peanuts

Jonathan Brooks is An author who is knowing for his stats and the crunchiness that occurs this 1 is 1 of the more heavier ones when it comes to crunching it's a bag of peanuts But fishing with this book and brings the story forward it's interesting as a first look and shows promise throughout the book it should be interesting to see what happens with this serious as explorers a healer with questions And people who want to hurt him

Engaging

Want to read more. The story is interesting and the rhythm is good. Expect to have a continuation soon enough.

Great Book

A solid take on the LitRPG/Isekai. IMO it is good enough to appeal to non-LitRPG fantasy readers, as well as genre fans.

Great new story from a great author

Top notch world building. A bit more profanity than some of the others by Brooks if you are looking for a book to listen to with kids as well as more graphic violence but it was still great for me and within my admittedly stricter than normal sensibilities. Very fun book about a heaer specialization figuring out a new MMO

a fun adventure

a different take on litrpg and healers. a good story and a fun journey . looking forward to the next book.