Tower of Jack
A LitRPG Adventure
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Narrated by:
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Johnathan McClain
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By:
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Sean Loomer
About this listen
He's arrogant. A certified pain in the butt. Maybe just crazy enough to survive.
Jack Atlas, self-proclaimed 'World's Best Assassin', had a simple plan: retire in style and marry the girl of his dreams. Then he gets placed in The Tower—a divine deathtrap where gods pit their creations against each other for the ultimate prize: eternal paradise for you and your friends. The catch? If you lose, well, let's just say your chances of finding a decent bar in oblivion are slim.
Jack, who’s never met a hornet’s nest he didn’t want to kick, soon finds himself on the wrong side of The Black Centipede, a notorious assassin cult with a charming recruitment policy: join or they’ll murder everyone he loves.
Instead of sipping Mai Tai’s on some beach he can’t pronounce; it’s slurping down health potions because he got stabbed by a goblin with a particular fondness for stabbing him in the rear. Heroic quests? Conquer The Tower, appease his assassin overlords, reunite with his dream girl? Nope. Jack instead gets sent to 'dungeon timeout' for bad behavior. That's fine by him.
If anyone’s crazy enough to not just survive, but win against The Tower, it’s Jack.
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- Paul
- 20-10-24
really good
I really enjoyed this book Jack is funny an allways getting Into trouble but comes out on top
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-10-24
the comedy and the action
I love this book I hope more will be coming out in audible. because this book is addicting
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- Anonymous User
- 19-12-24
Laugh out loud, love this book
Really enjoyed this story and humor. Laugh out loud in the store. A most to listen too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-10-24
humour storyline narration, this one has it all
Highly recommended. it a great listen. Our 'hero' is conflicted. Is he a bad guy gone good or a Good guy willing to do whatever necessary with lots of humour on the journey.
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- Ross Nicoll
- 10-10-24
It took a minute but then I was hooked
At first I didn't relate or like the MC because I thought he was a joke. When I realised that was the point and then later realised there is a justified reason for it, I really enjoyed this book.
The story is different enough to be unique and interesting enough to keep you hooked. 100% recommend for any litrpg lover.
Also enjoyed that although levels don't sky rocket (MC below level 10 by end of book) there is progression that makes sense and scales well.
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- Jennifer
- 01-11-24
the protagonist has you flipping between liking and loathing him
spoiler warning; I wasn't expecting much from the book. more so when the protagonist started talking. I was pleasantly surprised. The story was engaging for the most part with a little lost section at one stage in the later book, but recovered well and finished leaving me wanting more. I very much enjoyed hannah and Sam and the other small role characters bit didn't really feel his longing for love crossed over enough to make me care if they reunite or not.
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- Mr J A Broadhurst
- 28-12-24
Great listen
At last a LitRPG book where remain character is not emotionally immature agonising over his kiills or a woman it also has some great one liners that I intend to use
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- Ben
- 08-01-25
Starts well, but...
I'm on the fence about this one as a series. This book? It's really good in parts and absolutely rubbish in others. If it wasn't for the last chapter, I likely would have written this off entirely as not for me, but the second book looks to be promising to "fix" what I consider the main issues with this book. As such, I'm going to give it a higher rating than I likely would have otherwise. If this trust is misplaced, I may come back and knock this down a star on the story front.
Regarding the book, the comedy at the start is top-notch, but it's very much like a rollercoaster. Massive ups and downs, with some of it flowing naturally and other bits feeling forced and not really fitting. It's like the author felt they must have a joke here at this moment, regardless if it would fit or not. Yes, it's the main character's MO to do this, but seriously. Some of it just doesn't work with what is happening in the story.
Speaking on the story-wise side. Well, it's all over the place. One minute, it seems like we have a set of goals. A person to find and protect, and a target to do the opposite. We're on a track heading forward towards these set goals, and then the next moment? We're chasing keys and quests to train up. I, unfortunately, can't rightly say I enjoyed it. I should have. The elements of my LITRPG interests were all there, and while not entirely convincing, there were reasons to get sidetracked when the story did... But everything was so shallow and overshadowed by the main character's total disregard to engage with what was happening that we ended up with just chapters and chapters of nonsense. I really don't understand how this happened. There was all this talk of a team. Of said team's skills, brilliant plans, etc, yet all the characters seem to just be mini Jacks. Following whims and hoping it all works out. I really don't understand the setup, and the story just ran through everything seemingly without purpose, without engagement, all the way to the failed quest. Even this was shallow.
I think the main thing I took issue with overall was that the main character, Jack, just constantly doing the worst possible thing at every possible moment. It was bizarre. I get that fooling around was kinda his thing and at times, it works, but it's over-the-top. Even for his assumed persona. This makes it extremely hard to describe here, but the character? It's like the author wants him to be charming, confident, and competent in everything he does. Even when everything goes wrong. But that's not what's coming across to me at all. All I see is someone with a death-wish who is intentionally making everything go wrong and then being protected by plot armour. Someone who's told of something shiny, and they just run at it. It sort of reminds me of enemy AI in games from the early 2000s. Limited to just running at you in straight lines- A lemming! That's what the main character reminds me of- And how can a lemming possibly be this so-described competent assassin figure? They simply can't. Not without the plot armour.
Anyway, I was able to suspend my disbelief in the beginning with the mention of Hannah being the brains of the team, but once she was reintroduced, it turned out that she's just another lemming too. I've not seen a single actual plan from the character? You could argue the setting up of Sam WAS a plan, but no, you also can't. I found it exceedingly harder and harder to understand why anyone would want to associate with any of these characters, let alone each other. How they would "function" as a team without plot armour is beyond me.
Focusing on Jack, though, another thing I'm failing to understand is that he apparently deeply cares about Sarah. Loves her and wants to change his life to be with her. Give up the life he loves to be with her- yet... And yet, once he had the chance to go find her, it's like she's a piece of lint to him. He speaks of her but seems to just be leaving her be. If the author wants to play it off that Jack is maybe scared to face her? To go find her and talk with her? Then we should have a few conversations about that in this book, but we don't. Perhaps I missed something to explain this.
There's just so much wrong with the characters that it seems to go against the writing. We're told one thing, but the characters actions make you question it.
I've given the story four stars because while it's littered with issues and problems, it was interesting and funny at times. In the last chapter, there is talk of maybe taking everything more seriously (which is all I can really say without spoilers) so IF we see laid out plans and a more competent, reliable Jack, then this story could be seen as setting up the series and thus the flaws would (mostly) be explained away.
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Okay. My optimism was misplaced. I've lowered the score to 3. The next book is even worse, and all the points listed above only deepen. The one "plan" we've got from Hannah, she immediately messes up and Jacks- Well. I try not to give spoilers, so I'll not say for those actually enjoying this series, but it's just stupid. He's even less competent and an even bigger liability. I've not finished it yet, but I've already skipped three chapters because nothing was happening, and it was just turning into a slog. The pacing is all over the place.
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