He Who Fights with Monsters 2: A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 2) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Shirtaloon (Author), Travis Deverell (Author), Heath Miller (Narrator),

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The path from retail middle management to inter-dimensional wizard adventurer wasn’t easy.

But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer.

While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before. Friends and foes made along the way will lead him to cross it again. Inevitable conflict looms....

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22 hours and 1 minute
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Shirtaloon, see all
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Heath Miller
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May 18 2021
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English
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B08YKJ2RLT
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	22 hours and 1 minute
Author	Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
Narrator	Heath Miller
Audible.ca Release Date	May 18 2021
Publisher	Podium Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08YKJ2RLT
Best Sellers Rank	#585 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #36 in Action & Adventure Fantasy #67 in Epic Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals) #75 in Fantasy Action & Adventure

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preston

fun

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 15, 2023

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Like it, pacing is a bit slower but that’s fine. Curious how it’ll go going forward. Jason is funny, haters be damned.

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Derrick Neal

Book two

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 23, 2022

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This was a great continuation of the story. I am happy with this book. A few spelling errors. I am excited to see what is next. I already have the next book.

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Fussimist

cliffhanger

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 2, 2022

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Would’ve been 5 stars except for the cliffhanger. It also got a bit boggy with descriptions of the powers and essences.

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Gabriel

Too much filler

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 9, 2022

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The mysteries are interesting. The universe superb. But there too many subplot that in the end does not matter. You could remove them and it will change nothing.

I think the book should had a second written version.

Not my taste.

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not as good as the first

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 24, 2022

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SPOILER WARNING:

The author is trying to make Jason seem awesome, while constantly reminding us that everyone in his rank is stronger and better looking. The amount of times I had to read words about people having better abilities or how skinny and meek he looks compared to everyone took away a lot of enjoyment. He’s still not halfway to bronze, and his literally servant is more capable than he is. It was an okay book but I’m unlikely to pick up the next book.

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An excellent continuation

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 22, 2021

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Just as good on average as the first. There are some heavy emotions and some dark dealings, but neither are unwarranted and added a good amount to the characters. I laughed out loud several times while reading, which is not normal for me and quite refreshing. Not a single cringy attempt at humour that usually plagues LitRPG. There were some parts that frustrated me, but luckily the author knows how to get their characters to resolve it.
I look forward to the next book, and sincerely wish the author the best. This book was a delight.

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Sean Mulholland-Smith

Slow progress

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 28, 2021

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Story is good and entertaining, the MC is fun and makes you laugh. The author is really drawing things out however. The end of the second Novel and the MC is still the lowest rank possible, and while strong isn’t close to a level up. The last 2 books just felt like a very stalled leveling situation which is very frustrating to read. Going to take way too long for the MC to have any meaningful impact from a power perspective.

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Efil

excellent addition!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 1, 2022

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The world becomes bigger, the characters more interesting, the plot thickens… a wonderful adventure filled with twists and turns. Thank you for sharing with us!

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Bhawan

Awesome read

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on June 5, 2023

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Will definitely recommend as a read. I however wish that the main lead goes out once to power up, i feel the team holds him back 🤷‍♂️

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Brilliant

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on May 22, 2021

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Everything I expected and then some.

Epic world building - check
Magic system that is more sophisticated than a system granting same old D&D spells - check
Dialogues. Lots and lots of dialogues - check
Actual character growth, believable social interactions - check
Shades of Grey, Enemy of the Enemy - check
No Uber Dark Lord coming to enslave all Humanity plot - check
A story that revolves around multiple narratives but doesn't let the focus shift and things tie up in a organic manner rather than plot armour - check

My only gripe is that the abilities everyone has been receiving felt a bit too tailor-made for them. Where is the supposed randomness? Where is the innovation to make a seemingly crappy skill appear OP? All those that were presented were far from straightforward, don't get me wrong, BUT... They still weren't subtle enough for your hardcore LitRPG fans. Anyway, that's just what I felt and it's just a minor gripe, absolutely nothing compared to the amazing adventure that I read in one sitting.

I can hardly wait for the next update.

Vimalathithya

2.5/5 is my rating. But since that is not an option, I am forced to give it a 2.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on June 9, 2021

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The only saving grace about this book is that it's not as bad as the other LitRPG works on Kindle.

To kick things off, let's start with:

Humour. Great job with that by the author, both in this book and the prequel. I laughed out loud so many times that it actually surprised me. Not a smile, nor a snort, but full blown laughter. The author has a certain flair for comedy which they have employed well.

Then the Banter. This one is more complicated because it's good most of the time but also bad at some points. The MC - Jason's tendency to wax on philosophical was mostly awkward rather than profound.

The magic system was also fairly innovative and original........and that's about it.

The rest is all unimpressive or outright bad.

The biggest writing flaw I noticed in this book is the jumbled perspective. It's like the author couldn't decide which perspective to tell the story from. This reads more like the script for a movie than an actual novel.

Then there are the fight sequences that feel more like reading through a summary than an actual fight. There's just too much talking about the fight rather than showing us the fight itself. When such a problem arises, people like to throw around the overused advice 'show, don't tell' quite often. But I remember reading somewhere that you need to 'show when you need to show, and tell when you need to tell', and I can't help but completely agree. Nobody wants to read an extended synopsis. But at the same time, nobody wants to read page after page of unengaging prose either.

The key lies in finding the right balance, which the author has failed to do. I mostly skipped through the large scale fights at the end of both books. The one in the astral space where Farrah dies and the attack on the island in this book. They were just so boring.

If the author ever reads this review, I'd like to recommend the 'Cradle' series by Will Wight or 'Mistborn' by Brandon Sanderson, so they could see how action sequences are done right.

The characters are paper-thin--except for Jason, maybe--and feel more or less the same. The introspection or contemplation required to give them the necessary depth was completely absent. Dialogue alone can only do so much. Show us their thoughts, show us how they feel when no one is looking. This is another reason the way the author tells this story is bad. Because it feels too disconnected for me to really care about any of the characters. Too impersonal.

The way Cassandra was handled made it obvious that the author was just looking for an excuse to take her out of the picture, so Jason and Sophie could be pushed together. Poorly done, that one.

And the Farrah-card was so overplayed that it felt cheap, instead of impactful. It got so bad as the story wore on that it became downright obnoxious when she was brought up in the later parts. The author simply hadn't established her well enough, before they killed her off, for me to feel for her death. Nevermind those grieving for her.

I could go on and on about all the little flaws that could be fixed but this is already getting longer than I intended it to be.

I'm not sure whether to allude all these pitfalls to the author's inexperience or if this is the extent of the author's capability as a writer, but let's hope it's the former. There is room to grow that way.

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Kindle Customer

Awesome story, uproariously funny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 21, 2021

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I spent a good 30 minutes in the library, trying to stifle the giggles that came when Jason met Rufus' parents. Suffice to say I will probably still chuckle a bit the next time I see a pottery workshop.
The rest of volume 2 is a great read, balancing an irreverent Aussie humour, the vulnerabilities and emotional trauma of being an outsider and never quite fitting in even before being summoned to a new world, and trying to be a hero when the incantations for the abilities in your skill set are sinister and evil, and your familiars are an apocalypse beast called Colin, an avatar of doom called Gordon, and the shadow of the astral entity that embodies death.
An excellent study of Machiavellian manipulation and intrigue.
The only issue I have, which is still nowhere near enough for me to think about knocking it down to 4 stars, is the post-editing proof reading. Spelling mistakes, missing words, extra words, auto-correct errors, and punctuation issues that meant it took quite some time to figure out why certain passages seemed wrong... Because the errors in some cases almost made grammatical sense but completely shifted the story, a bit like Great Uncle Robert suddenly coming out of the closet at the family Christmas party, at the age of 72.
Even with that, though, still a book I would definitely recommend and one that I will be reading again, for all of the humorous bits.

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JMa

Spelling and punctuation!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 16, 2022

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As good as the author's imagination and story telling skills are, the amount of spelling errors and lack of correct punctuation detracts from the enjoyment of reading this book. When you have to reread a sentence 3 times to understand what meaning the author was trying to convey, frustration soon follows. Otherwise its a good book. Enjoy the main characters sense of humour and the descriptions of techniques and fighting styles used throughout.

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