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The Mage of Shimmer Mountain: The Complete Series: A LitRPG Fantasy Box Set
The day after Hugo gains access to magic, his train explodes.
Unknown magic flings him back in time, and he narrowly avoids death this time. While he is trying to unravel the mystery of this unexpected second chance, life goes on. His new gifts lead him to the magic academy. At the school, he will face off against noble students that don’t want him to be there, teachers that expect him to already know everything, and literal monsters that want to kill him.
To survive and thrive he will need weapons, friends, and a healthy danger sense. But first, he has to pick which magic domain suits him best.
This box set contains the entire series, all six prestiges. That's a whopping 1968 pages of Manapunk - Magic School - Crafting Style Magic - LitRPG - Time Loop featuring slice of life and slow buildup of power1968 pages.
Unknown magic flings him back in time, and he narrowly avoids death this time. While he is trying to unravel the mystery of this unexpected second chance, life goes on. His new gifts lead him to the magic academy. At the school, he will face off against noble students that don’t want him to be there, teachers that expect him to already know everything, and literal monsters that want to kill him.
To survive and thrive he will need weapons, friends, and a healthy danger sense. But first, he has to pick which magic domain suits him best.
This box set contains the entire series, all six prestiges. That's a whopping 1968 pages of Manapunk - Magic School - Crafting Style Magic - LitRPG - Time Loop featuring slice of life and slow buildup of power1968 pages.
- GenresFantasy
1968 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 21, 2023
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June 3, 2024
Contradictory, convoluted and nonsensical "Ground-Hog Day" story about a guy, Hugo, that dies and relives the same events (many times) but in the body of different people (even gender/species-benders) which is not freaky or cringe-worthy (necessarily). Why I think the author's story is convoluted and contradictory is because main character has a dual-sense-of-ethics-values-justice. Criticizes somebody for treating them badly and then turns around and treats everybody else worse. Main character, Hugo, is also a reverse "King Midas-effect", where everything Hugo touches turns into a problem, where previously no problem was to be found... The author treats his main character, Hugo, badly. It's not enough that Hugo is socially (outcast), economically (vulnerable), educationally and emotionally (retarded), but the side characters and the author bully the main character all the time. Hugo, main character has a bad relationship with his mom, who is just trying to make ends meet. Hugo is ungrateful and chastises Mom a little bit too much, instead of stepping up and protecting his Mom, as any child of a single Mom (trying to make ends meet) should.
The "fake-drama" and constant "bullying" made me want to put this book down (and out of its misery)...many times...
The story has great potential (GroundHog Day is one of my all time favorites) (OCD/Perfectionist's dream). Maybe with a deep edit of the story to remove all of the contradictions, the "Gordian-knots" and the constant main character "bashing"/"bullying" this could be a great book and or even a great tv, movie series. Not including the "gender-bender" parts, but in general the author has imagination and ideas that are "innovative", but the book needs a lot of polishing so that it's logical, rational, ethical and action-packed.
So, I can say this is a "mixed-review". I do not recommend it, but it's not a "bad" book to read or to be entertained with (if you can tolerate the bullying, lack of values, lack of foresight, etc. of main character and how he (Hugo) constantly falls into problems because of not thinking things through well enough.
Story needs better character descriptions (especially if side-characters become part of main character in later volumes, etc.) Story needs better world-building describing this alien other world, it's political, economic, social, religious systems in place, so that the readers can better understand what is going on. Editor needs to remove the author's pop-culture references (only relevant in our World and our reality) (from this story of another world, another people, a whole other reality....
Author places a lot of importance on "game-like-system" in place in this alien-other-world but doesn't really include character summaries, inside illustrations, maps or glossaries so that the readers can improve their reading (immersion) experience.
The "fake-drama" and constant "bullying" made me want to put this book down (and out of its misery)...many times...
The story has great potential (GroundHog Day is one of my all time favorites) (OCD/Perfectionist's dream). Maybe with a deep edit of the story to remove all of the contradictions, the "Gordian-knots" and the constant main character "bashing"/"bullying" this could be a great book and or even a great tv, movie series. Not including the "gender-bender" parts, but in general the author has imagination and ideas that are "innovative", but the book needs a lot of polishing so that it's logical, rational, ethical and action-packed.
So, I can say this is a "mixed-review". I do not recommend it, but it's not a "bad" book to read or to be entertained with (if you can tolerate the bullying, lack of values, lack of foresight, etc. of main character and how he (Hugo) constantly falls into problems because of not thinking things through well enough.
Story needs better character descriptions (especially if side-characters become part of main character in later volumes, etc.) Story needs better world-building describing this alien other world, it's political, economic, social, religious systems in place, so that the readers can better understand what is going on. Editor needs to remove the author's pop-culture references (only relevant in our World and our reality) (from this story of another world, another people, a whole other reality....
Author places a lot of importance on "game-like-system" in place in this alien-other-world but doesn't really include character summaries, inside illustrations, maps or glossaries so that the readers can improve their reading (immersion) experience.
May 31, 2024
Excellent read
Never a moment of boredom. Feels a but rushed from outside perspective but overall an excellent binge read. Kudos to Adam Sampson for building a wonderful world.
Never a moment of boredom. Feels a but rushed from outside perspective but overall an excellent binge read. Kudos to Adam Sampson for building a wonderful world.
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