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Hold the Line
- A LitRPG Dungeon Core Adventure (War Core, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Summary
Earth is under siege.
For decades, the governments of our world have been fighting a desperate and secret battle to keep hordes of alien invaders away from our planet.
When the guardian of the United States falls, a new champion must be chosen. Sadly, the choice of a champion isn’t ours to make, and the Galactic Conflict Authority selects a human, seemingly at random, to lead the United States of America’s efforts at holding back the tide.
Hugh Logan is in the middle of teaching a class when he is taken against his will and informed that he is now the newest member of Earth’s defense against alien invasion. He must give up everything to become our champion. He must give up everything to prevent our destruction. He must become...a War Core.
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- AudiobookDevotee
- 30-01-23
Real mixed bag
This was an interesting story trying to do an RTS LitRPG for what may be the first time. The problem is spectating an RTS can be very dull unless the player is doing something crazy. I've seen Red Alert playthroughs with no unit deaths or battles being over in minutes with clever rushes for example.
This story decides instead to have the protagonist know nothing about games and instead take on the challenges he faces in the most straightforward way possible. This, while masterfully avoiding the super-gamer cliché, does get boring quickly. Especially when the majority of the units are walkers rather than fast units so the whole story is slowed down like the battles.
There are even scenes where the MC lets his forces tackle the enemy one by one like "let's let those troops of mine die and then I'll let the next batch, who could be helping right now, attack". It's just frustratingly dumb.
The overall plot is quite good, aliens, spectacle, mystery etc. If the MC wasn't so boringly average at the game that this LitRPG is built around then I would have enjoyed it more.
The characters are a bit flat. Mostly 2D stereotypes and they are saved most of their awkward conversations by Deus Ex Machina censoring.
The narration was good. Luke Daniels knows what he's doing.
I'd recommend this to LitRPG fans for variety juat because of how unique the story is in the genre but otherwise I'd leave it.
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- Callum
- 12-12-21
Another great listen
completely enjoyed not only the story, but the voice acting as well, I'm starting to think that the books by Dean Henegar are quickly becoming some of my favourites, along with the brilliant work of Luke Daniels.
the bloopers at the end where fantastic.
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- Mansoor
- 01-01-22
Just bad bad bad
Did I mention this is bad? It’s boring and the story does not make sense at all, it’s like you are watching a YouTube video of someone describing their play of command and conquer games.
Original idea very poorly executed
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