Young Gods Tournament

Young God's Tournament #1

by Cale Plamann, Alex Beaumont

The Young Gods Tournament awaits. Only the victors will break through to the worlds beyond the heavens.

In an unfair world where a single monster can wipe out an entire village, Thomas is not one of the chosen few. He wasn’t gifted with immense power from the moment of his birth, nor does he have a powerful backer to defend him.

By the laws of the world, it’s near impossible for him to rise to the top.

But where the god’s themselves have failed him, Thomas will push on and gain the strength to protect his friends, and his home, from the ever rising dangers of the world.

There is only one true opportunity to break through the shackles of his life — The Young God’s Tournament. After surviving a deadly ambush, he’ll use every ounce of his strength as he faces off against his rival Prospects, a continent-wide conspiracy, and the ever looming threat from the once-slumbering Empire.

Genres: Litrpg, Fantasy

424 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 7, 2024

About the author

A lifelong fan of Fantasy and Science Fiction, I usually spent my nerdy energy creating overly elaborate homebrew RPG campaigns. As it became harder and harder to juggle schedules for a half dozen players, I eventually made the logical choice and just cut them out of the picture entirely.

Now I write novels. They whine a lot less about critical failures.

Reviews

[Dantegideon · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is one of those where the guy is talking confidently about stuff you’ve never heard of, and you think ah, this is to get us interested, and then later he’s never heard of it either, and you realise that both the author and editor have made a series of catastrophic fuckups that disincline you to read further. Such is life.

[Christopher · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are the bones of a good story but it is just a hot mess. I thought the author was going for mysterious and executing poorly. I am now of the thought that this book is all stream of consciousness without any editing.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

A new cultivation series

This book is a bit rough at parts. Tom is not your usual cultivator. He lacks a gift, which are powers in the world. Without it he cannot advance like others do, but moving into the Young Gods Tournament will allow him the advancement he desperately needs. The rough parts of this one are that sometimes it seems to skip parts and doesn't always explain what the advancement stages are. I think the characters are good and the plot is good so I can get past the rough stuff.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book definitely could have done with some more beta readers, to get a better feeling for where some more explanation would be helpful. Parts were confusing or seemed to contradict previous bits. My suspicion is that this is one of Alex Beaumont's first books. Although Cale may have been part of the process it didn't feel like his other books.

[Cmoore · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well that was a complete bust! I was never able to connect with Thom the main character. I guess the story was interesting enough but the ending... the authors couldn't even finish finish the tournament, just blah. Blah I say...

[Jim Phillips · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well...

Well written I think there was only one formatting SNAFU and no misspelling. That was nice.

The beginning of the story was pretty good but it seemed to devolve. I hope the sequel improves.

[Johnie C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who likes LitRPG and progression type of books with lots of action.

[John Galt · Rating 1 out of 5]

dnf. Sorry author. Swing 'n a miss. Nobody likes pugilist stories. Punching just isnt very creative.

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ever look at the Percy Jackson series and think to yourself "I bet I could write an even worse version of the same thing?" No of course not, who on Earth would do that? Well, we have an answer.

[Tristan Severs · Rating 1 out of 5]

No stakes, action consistently hard to follow.