Tol-Saroth

Everybody Loves Large Chests #11

by Neven Iliev, Daniel Gonzalez S. (Illustrator), Ian Molnar (Editor)

If given the chance to be a genius, few people would say no. Outstanding talent is a key component of great success, after all. What form this ‘great success’ takes is largely up to the individual, but it is often associated with money, fame, and power. Selfish pursuits, yes, but it is only natural to look out for number one first and foremost. This is true even of the altruistic. For instance, if some wonder-child figures out a foolproof way to achieve lasting world peace they would still need an immense amount of influence and resources to turn that idea into reality. And then, the more they struggle to achieve their vision, the more the harshness of the world frays away at their moral fiber until they become jaded, disillusioned, and unwilling to sacrifice their own gains for the benefit of the unwashed masses. It is a tale as old as time.A tale that Boxxy never cared for. The prodigal shapeshifter skipped all that sappy stuff and jumped straight to the ‘selfish asshole’ part, as befitting a true-blooded monster. The only good that thing’s ever done was either coincidental or with ulterior motives in mind. Dismantling conspiracies, taking down crime lords, culling dangerous beasts – every move it makes is done with the purpose of increasing its bottom line or extending its life expectancy, usually both. Its latest scheme is no different. It just has to dump those troublesome triplets on someone else and find a cure for its demonic affliction that doesn’t involve the one-time divine favor it fought so hard to get. The first half is more or less settled and just needs time. That second bit will prove far more challenging. Though the monster is a genius in various fields, tainted souls don’t fall within its area of expertise. On the upside, some other prodigy with the appropriate talents will have surely figured this out already. All the shapeshifter had to do is find them, capture them, and then torture the information out of them.A bold and logical plan, except for one minor issue – the man in question has been dead for about four hundred years.

Genres: Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction

601 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 28, 2023

Reviews

[Synn Kol · Rating 3 out of 5]

l am so disappointed in Soundbooth theater. I
understand wanting to jump ship to another
platform but you couldn't have waiting until the
books were done? Also we were promised
Small chests are fine too on Audible years ago
but guess screw us right? Sad to have wasted
my Audibl credits on a series I won't get to own in full
on 1 platform. So it has lost 2 and a half stars from the 5 i would have given it.


otherwise this books was a riot and a half! How
does the series keep getting better?!

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

DR (entertainment, non-educational)
NB! To the best of my knowledge official and legal version of the story is published in full (finished work) on RoyalRoad. Wishing more people to enjoy the story go there and read for yourself and if you enjoy it splurge for the audiobook as SoundBooth theater has done an excellent work on voicing Everybody Loves Large Chests series.

Still preparing for the dragon festival. A first in-depth, pun intended, view of the enlightened marine folks. Boxy is struggling with identity crisis. The malicious box has reached it's age of self identification and seeking belonging.

As the story inevitably draws to it's conclusion, seeing how the story is finished on RoyalRoad, and with only 2 unvoiced audiobooks being in the making by SoundBooth theater, Author challenges readers to think about why the world is the way it is. With the leveling system being how it is, there are few rankers who have reached slowed aging. If the rumored double rank up is all it's made to be, and grants the person practical immortality, unaging body, over time double rankers would become legendary triple rankers. Unless... Is something, looking at you Jonathan, or someone keeping double rankers from ever advancing to triple ranker status?

Conclusion: 4/5. Listened on Audible bought for 1 credit. Narrated by: Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott, Dorrie Sacks, Johnathan McClain, Jessica Threet, Aaron J. Morton. Well I certainly didn't foresee the Tol-Saroth reveal at the very end. Neither the blood lord class ranker. Excited to see how the author intends to finish the story (not reading Small Chests Are Fine Too in universe spin-off, would love to read more on Tol-Saroth or the dominion or the fall of Precepia, i.e. prequel stories). Bad value for the length of the book, buying it with USD- 1.41 $/hour ( 24.95 $ / 16 hrs 44 mins ).

Values:
Terrible: >1.66 $/hour
Bad: 1 - 1.66 $/hour
Good: <1 $/hour
Dream: 0.4 - 0.27 $/hour

Stars:
1 - Not worth the resources to reproduce/preserve this title.
2 -Bad
3 -Good
4 - Personally, love it
5 - Masterpiece, recommended to everyone

[Mr Chuck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still great, but not the strongest of the series.

I thought this one would be getting to the dragon festival, but we have a curse to sort out for Boxy and more character building to go through before we start.

I can’t really complain, as I love this series so much that if it ended now I wouldn’t be able to cope. So filling up the series with some fluff books doesn’t bother me, and it had some great moments with the underwater city, the drunk vampire duchess, and the antics of Snack and Arms.

Still an amazing series, and I’m happy for it to carry on and on. Just a small annoyance that it won’t be on Audible anymore—only on the SBT site and app, which is a terrible app and more expensive.

[Simon Sarceno · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series never disappoints

In fact the only negative I could maybe think the list about these books is I never know when they're coming out I just get a notification that there's a new book out.
But that might enhance the sheer excitement I feel when the new book does come out.
I abhor spoilers so all I will say is that as usual our favorite doppelganger is in for an interesting time as is only right considering who he's the hero of.
Also there's a reveal/hook in the epilogue that my brain predicted halfway through the epilogue and when I got confirmation I could not stop laughing so...130 out of 10

[Tom Petersen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Problem child

This book suffers from the same, but opposite, problem as Jackson. In Jackson it was too much going on as a setup for future plots, in Tol-Saroth there's not enough happening as a setup for future plots. Of the two too much is better. The action doesn't really start until the last quarter of the story. Before that there's a slow procession advancing towards, something (?). The ending was pretty good, but not enough.
In all this is my least favorite of the series. Still, I can't not give 5 stars because this one of my favorite series. Hopefully better things to come. Tom out

[Alastair · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy shit, the lore drops are going crazy. Like through the roof crazy. And this world is finally staring to make sense, all the interconnected parts and all.

Boxxy’s still boxxy in the end and that’s one of the best parts of this series - the chaos and ridiculous nature of this story. It tows the line between wacky and serious and love that.

Kinda sad to see the series ending so soon.

[Will Knight]

Note to self: time to jump off this series.

This series lost me when it was all about the doppelganger class. It felt like swapping MCs, and that's not why I got into the series.

Monster MC series tend to go this way, teach them to become, or pretend, to be regular people and you end up with a weird, and yet normal, fantasy book. It lost the uniqueness.

Not bad, just not for me.

[Anthony Hudson · Rating 5 out of 5]

whooooooa!!!!

Typlically awesome. I really think if there was a live action version of this series, the late great James Gandofini would have made a great voice for Boxy.
Hell of a twist at the end!!

[Aaron Reed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read

Once again, Neven hasn't disappointed; he's wrapped his audience around his ever-so talented fingers and mind and has entertained us once again. Long live Boxxy, Fizzy, Xera, Nora, minic and all the other characters that make this series so compelling to read.

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still a little burned out on the series, feels like it's lost its freshness and originality. I understand that it's hard to maintain that for so many books but then perhaps the series shouldn't last this long. This book not much happened. I hope the end of the series is in sight.

[derrick mosier · Rating 5 out of 5]

More boxxy

Need more boxxy, need more boxxy, need more boxxy, need more boxxy, need more boxxy, I hate word minimums in reviews need more boxxy

[Xavier · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome

Awesome as always patiently anticipating the next book in the series and to see what our group of misfits get up to next

[Jordan Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ending made my jaw drop. Love this series!

[Yukine Vuli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just when I was thinking the last book in the series was my favorite this one comes out! It was so freaking good! I'm very happy there will be at least two more books in this series!

[Joshua · Rating 5 out of 5]

just a bit short