Highspire

A Game Of Two Worlds #3

by Boyd Lee, Boyd Craven III

Losing the bet was the least of Matt’s worries.With Amara and Alana’s support, Matt starts to get ready for the orphanage and school’s dream to become a reality. Neera, always around to pitch in, cheer them up, or cause problems… finds part of what’s been missing in her life.The Empire’s Princess though won’t leave the new Duke alone. She still has a score to settle with Remus, and if he’s escaped her clutches and fled to another world… Well… she’ll take it out on Matthew. When subtlety doesn’t work, when her nefarious plans go awry, she keeps upping the difficulty level hoping to exact her revenge.If that isn’t enough stress already, the powers that be on Earth once again start to move in the shadows. Again, they see Matthew as a pawn in their schemes of power. If Matthew wasn’t so new and still getting his bearings, he’d be afraid, very afraid. Instead? He worries how he’s going to get a few hundred pizzas through the portal in time to give his orphans the party they deserve. When you play a game of two worlds, you always walk a fine line.What this book A fantasy LitRPG/GameLit progression based storyline. There are grownups in this book who act like grownups. They drink, they swear, they make bad jokes, and they fall in love. What’s not in this book? Sex scenes. Graphic or otherwise. There are plenty of jokes and innuendo about it, however.

Genres: Fiction

474 pages, Paperback

Published October 31, 2023

Reviews

[Johnny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Book three

While I really liked the first two books, this one has some real problems and they involve the plot itself.
Soul binding: The MC has tied his soul to three wives and they to him. If one of them died then everyone else dies to. This was stupid and short sighted for people that no longer age.
I could do a list of reasons for why this is just the stupidest thing a person can do. However I will let you think about it instead.
The other big problem is the character Kate.
The MC has killed people for a lot less than what she has done. Yet she is just basically forgiven,
The MC does say that he was thinking of removing her collar of suppression.
Entire sections of this book come off as disjointed and out of place.
How would the plot change if Kate was executed like she deserved?
And what is the point of running a dungeon if you are going to leave the loot?

4/10

[Glazier18 · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a head dive!

I'm an older reader and just slightly entrenched in my preferred genres. However, when I was rereading some of my favorite Boyd Craven books, I realized the recommended reading mentioned Boyd Lee. I took a chance on this set and was delightfully surprised. Humor, action, a masterful development of the main character. What's not to love? Even the gaming lingo added to the story in a way that I could follow despite being illiterate in game speak. In fact, I went back and purchased the series. I look forward to any further books from this author with anticipation.

[Monty · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author choked with this one in going for what I guess is a trilogy wrap-up. There were already problems with the worldbuilding/plot from past books, passage of time/effort/power gain, but part way into this one things just get fubar with the Dijon up the cats ass from the point the author wall-breaks. Overarchingly it felt sadly slapdash with minimal effort.

The series is an okay read, but frustrating in the sense that it all fell far short of the promise I perceived from the start, with this book in particular not being worth my audible credit. That said I stayed with it to the end to make sure my rating/review would be justified.

[Clarence M Brown III · Rating 5 out of 5]

You Must Read

This series. Stop. And do it, now. This author has suddenly shot to the top 3 of favorite authors. In fact, I'm rereading the books I read last week. If you like original storyline, alternate earths with one present day technology, the other medieval with magic, connected by gates, well, this is for you! You're welcome!!

[Jim Phillips · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still loving it

Story still has the same cadence as the first book which is always nice to see. Dropping a star for the ending. There's still an abrupt ending but I don't see our heroes at a breathing point. There are still unresolved issues and we're not in a safe happy place.

[Roberto Flores · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pretty mundane up until. . .

They decided to treat a hundred plus year old warmonger with a body count larger than a South American drug cartel as a child in need of saving. That was a line too far. To expect the audience to believe that was insulting.

[Marcus Wofford · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW!

Just finished.this series and hoping for more.to come! As harem goes this definitely qualifies , but without explicit sex,scenes. This probably qualifies as girlfriend harem,so recommend it without worry.

[Grant Merrifield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Woot. Epic

This book series is epic. I love it to bits and pieces. , I highly recommended. You read this book well you should start with book one.

[Brennok · Rating 5 out of 5]

enjoyable read

This was another fun read in the series. Hopefully there are many more on the way sooner rather than later.

[william harms · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Great book and I can't wait to see what you write about next time. This is what I love about this author.

[Tom Maxey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great series, well written with easy System understanding. Author does not give multiple pages of stats constantly. Author has another series which is in same world and is highly recommended also.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

That was fun!

I gotta say I hope there is another one or many more. It might be a harem novel but I really appreciated that there were no explicit scenes. It was a fun series!