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Mimic & Me #3
Mimic & Me 3
After a hundred years of regrets, revenge is just around the corner.
We have finally reunited with Kristan, Marko, Franja, and Renata, who proved to be instrumental in our battle against Harkel's Hellhounds and the siege on Arrdeam. Having brought down the first leg of Harkel's slaving empire, we're getting ever closer to cutting off the head of the snake. Before we can face him, though, we must still grow stronger, but assassins lurk in the shadows and dangerous foes want us dead.
There's only one good thing about the whole mess we keep finding ourselves the giant, near indestructible mimic by our side. Chester can turn into anything he absorbs, from a giant carriage to a huge pile of garbage that can even kill monstrous dungeon bosses. And by the end of our quest, maybe he'll have a few more new transformations too.
We have finally reunited with Kristan, Marko, Franja, and Renata, who proved to be instrumental in our battle against Harkel's Hellhounds and the siege on Arrdeam. Having brought down the first leg of Harkel's slaving empire, we're getting ever closer to cutting off the head of the snake. Before we can face him, though, we must still grow stronger, but assassins lurk in the shadows and dangerous foes want us dead.
There's only one good thing about the whole mess we keep finding ourselves the giant, near indestructible mimic by our side. Chester can turn into anything he absorbs, from a giant carriage to a huge pile of garbage that can even kill monstrous dungeon bosses. And by the end of our quest, maybe he'll have a few more new transformations too.
640 pages, Paperback
First published March 20, 2024
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August 6, 2025
it's a good series but the continuity issues can be annoying
November 2, 2024
Great book
Great narration
I can't wait for book 4
Great narration
I can't wait for book 4
March 24, 2024
Rollicking good adventure
Shinies and nomnoms and friends, what a basis for a novel. This is fun from start to finish and leaves you thouroughly excited about the next instalment of your friendly monster.
Shinies and nomnoms and friends, what a basis for a novel. This is fun from start to finish and leaves you thouroughly excited about the next instalment of your friendly monster.
October 7, 2025
The story is getting interesting. Liked it.
Definitely recommend this series of books
Definitely recommend this series of books
October 9, 2024
Further adventures of Damon and Chester and his ever growing party of found family
I loved this continuation of the LitRPG adventures of Damon and Chester. The story had the perfect balance of humor, love, friendship, real life issues, danger, machinations, politics, supernatural elements, fighting, and morality. Damon lives in a world where everyone lives within the “system,” which includes skills, abilities, spells, classes, and essence. This book begins exactly where the last book ended - Damon, Malina and Chester have been reunited with Kristan, Marko, Franja, and Renata and they’ve added Burt, Katrin, and Lamora, humans and an elf from Arrdeam, to their party. They are following the plan to destroy the slaver Harkel to get revenge for Malina and work on getting stronger as their carriage caravan led my Chester as the Monster Near Wagon travels to Harkel. That’s just the beginning of their new adventure to grow stronger and work on completing the monster corruption based quest given to them by the system. Every time the small band gets out of one mess, another takes its place. I love that Damon, and by extension Chester, continues to be a sweet, naive, messy, lucky, sarcastic, kind of dumb, and awkward man who regularly screws up which makes him a very likeable and relatable hero. The story includes what you’d expect from this genre - fighting, dangerous situations, supernatural creatures, evil entities, henchmen, loyal friends, tragic back stories, mystical coincidences, snark, and laughs. I will definitely keep reading the series to see what happens next with Damon, Chester, Melina, and all the new members of their party/found family.
I loved this continuation of the LitRPG adventures of Damon and Chester. The story had the perfect balance of humor, love, friendship, real life issues, danger, machinations, politics, supernatural elements, fighting, and morality. Damon lives in a world where everyone lives within the “system,” which includes skills, abilities, spells, classes, and essence. This book begins exactly where the last book ended - Damon, Malina and Chester have been reunited with Kristan, Marko, Franja, and Renata and they’ve added Burt, Katrin, and Lamora, humans and an elf from Arrdeam, to their party. They are following the plan to destroy the slaver Harkel to get revenge for Malina and work on getting stronger as their carriage caravan led my Chester as the Monster Near Wagon travels to Harkel. That’s just the beginning of their new adventure to grow stronger and work on completing the monster corruption based quest given to them by the system. Every time the small band gets out of one mess, another takes its place. I love that Damon, and by extension Chester, continues to be a sweet, naive, messy, lucky, sarcastic, kind of dumb, and awkward man who regularly screws up which makes him a very likeable and relatable hero. The story includes what you’d expect from this genre - fighting, dangerous situations, supernatural creatures, evil entities, henchmen, loyal friends, tragic back stories, mystical coincidences, snark, and laughs. I will definitely keep reading the series to see what happens next with Damon, Chester, Melina, and all the new members of their party/found family.
October 4, 2024
If I am being honest, the dialog in these books has always been a bit of a weak point. Characters are blunt to the point of sounding like NPC's handing out quests or just stating exactly how they feel with very little nuance.
Moving past that, the story was just OK this time around. Nothing crazy bad or anything, just kindof meh.
Average book all around I guess.
Moving past that, the story was just OK this time around. Nothing crazy bad or anything, just kindof meh.
Average book all around I guess.
July 29, 2025
Thoroughly enjoyed the entire series before stopping to post review. So I'm going to copy/paste my response to all four books.
I've been a LitRPG reader/consumer for several years now and a long time D&D player/fan. The idea of a Mimic and a Human joining forces literally and figuratively was very original and entertaining for me. Like any book, there is a soak time you must get thru before the begins to breath for the reader. Your Mileage may vary. Book 1 I listened to on audio while on an 8 hour cross country drive to visit family.
I alternated between reading and listening to the books depending on driving times and eating/quiet times. There is no perfect hit for all readers but for me this was 200% a hit in humor, silliness and serious moments. I read some reviews complaining about hearing a full list of upgrade path options etc, saying why did they have to list all of them if they were going to choose the 1st or 2nd item.
So allow me to provide a clarification for those still reading or considering reading.
1. LitRPG is NOT simple fantasy/fiction where its JUST a storyline of characters.
2. LitRPG is based upon the precept of D&D leveling/Video Game Character leveling combined in a SciFi/Fantasy/Fictional format.
There are entire communities that are dedicated to their favorite authors and seek to create worlds and campaigns based on the ideas, skills, spells, exp etc that an author fleshes out in their novels.
Having read thru several authors across several series each I can quantitatively say that stats pages and upgrade paths can either be boring, exciting or meh depending on who's reading, but always bear in mind that you made that choice when you selected a LitRPG novel over traditional SciFi/Fantasy/Fictional novel. The selections and amount of time spent in this series was substantially less then others authors that I enjoy.
If your looking for fun fantasy, entertaining characters, world building and fantastical monsters and demons - absolutely give this series a try.
I'm glad I did.
I've been a LitRPG reader/consumer for several years now and a long time D&D player/fan. The idea of a Mimic and a Human joining forces literally and figuratively was very original and entertaining for me. Like any book, there is a soak time you must get thru before the begins to breath for the reader. Your Mileage may vary. Book 1 I listened to on audio while on an 8 hour cross country drive to visit family.
I alternated between reading and listening to the books depending on driving times and eating/quiet times. There is no perfect hit for all readers but for me this was 200% a hit in humor, silliness and serious moments. I read some reviews complaining about hearing a full list of upgrade path options etc, saying why did they have to list all of them if they were going to choose the 1st or 2nd item.
So allow me to provide a clarification for those still reading or considering reading.
1. LitRPG is NOT simple fantasy/fiction where its JUST a storyline of characters.
2. LitRPG is based upon the precept of D&D leveling/Video Game Character leveling combined in a SciFi/Fantasy/Fictional format.
There are entire communities that are dedicated to their favorite authors and seek to create worlds and campaigns based on the ideas, skills, spells, exp etc that an author fleshes out in their novels.
Having read thru several authors across several series each I can quantitatively say that stats pages and upgrade paths can either be boring, exciting or meh depending on who's reading, but always bear in mind that you made that choice when you selected a LitRPG novel over traditional SciFi/Fantasy/Fictional novel. The selections and amount of time spent in this series was substantially less then others authors that I enjoy.
If your looking for fun fantasy, entertaining characters, world building and fantastical monsters and demons - absolutely give this series a try.
I'm glad I did.
October 26, 2025
I'm of two minds on this one. I used to love this series for the weirdness and the humor, but not so much for the plot. The first book was pretty good, the second was rather fast-forwarded, and the third took on a breakneck speed.
I don't want to be unclear. It's fast not in the sense of a snappy pace, but huge swaths of things jumped ahead or just plain skipped over to get to huge, almost meta-breaking events.
It got huge, OP, and frankly, I feel sad because of that. It was better when it was small.
That's not to say that there weren't a bunch of great, weird things going on, (I'm looking at you, googly-eyed split-idiot Chester,) but I really got a bit annoyed with the System plot.
Not horribly so, but it is still real.
Personal note:
If anyone reading my reviews is be interested in reading my SF (Very hard SF, mind you), I'm open to requests.
Just direct message me in goodreads or email me on my site. I'd love to get some eyes on my novels.
Arctunn.com
I don't want to be unclear. It's fast not in the sense of a snappy pace, but huge swaths of things jumped ahead or just plain skipped over to get to huge, almost meta-breaking events.
It got huge, OP, and frankly, I feel sad because of that. It was better when it was small.
That's not to say that there weren't a bunch of great, weird things going on, (I'm looking at you, googly-eyed split-idiot Chester,) but I really got a bit annoyed with the System plot.
Not horribly so, but it is still real.
Personal note:
If anyone reading my reviews is be interested in reading my SF (Very hard SF, mind you), I'm open to requests.
Just direct message me in goodreads or email me on my site. I'd love to get some eyes on my novels.
Arctunn.com
March 27, 2025
hahahaha
So the MC and his friends are reunited and on the path of vengeance. They hunt down the leaders of a slaver army to accomplish this. Along the way they get recruited by the System to broker peace between the Races and Monsters. This results in slave cities saved, questions about Chester’s past, and the MC and Chester briefly being launched out of reality. Only for them to meet the leaders of the monsters and accidentally start an apocalyptic event.
This story continues to entertain. It is a quasi standalone; the previous novels help greatly but isn’t strictly needed. Chester is an absolute chaotic delight. The narrator is a treat. It held my attention beginning to end and launched me straight into the next one.
So the MC and his friends are reunited and on the path of vengeance. They hunt down the leaders of a slaver army to accomplish this. Along the way they get recruited by the System to broker peace between the Races and Monsters. This results in slave cities saved, questions about Chester’s past, and the MC and Chester briefly being launched out of reality. Only for them to meet the leaders of the monsters and accidentally start an apocalyptic event.
This story continues to entertain. It is a quasi standalone; the previous novels help greatly but isn’t strictly needed. Chester is an absolute chaotic delight. The narrator is a treat. It held my attention beginning to end and launched me straight into the next one.
August 28, 2025
Amazingly story, but terrible editing
Still love this story, but the authors need to fire their Editor. Just as many spelling, grammatical and continuity errors, if not more, as the second book. Book four is already out as I’m writing this, and I pray to the System that such issues are dramatically reduced. I believe there’s going to be at least a fifth book in the series. I doubt either of the authors will see this, but if there’s any opportunity to join a beta-reader group, I would love to help make this series as great as it can be.
Still love this story, but the authors need to fire their Editor. Just as many spelling, grammatical and continuity errors, if not more, as the second book. Book four is already out as I’m writing this, and I pray to the System that such issues are dramatically reduced. I believe there’s going to be at least a fifth book in the series. I doubt either of the authors will see this, but if there’s any opportunity to join a beta-reader group, I would love to help make this series as great as it can be.
April 17, 2024
Cheese And Crackers That Escalated Quickly Towards The End
Really enjoying the progression so far of everyone. The traveling circus of pain and eating sure made its rounds this time. It was interesting seeing the universe expand little by little. Along with some points closing up as the new ones opened. Quite a bit going on but a good balance was kept mostly throughout. Can’t wait to start on the next one.
Really enjoying the progression so far of everyone. The traveling circus of pain and eating sure made its rounds this time. It was interesting seeing the universe expand little by little. Along with some points closing up as the new ones opened. Quite a bit going on but a good balance was kept mostly throughout. Can’t wait to start on the next one.
May 20, 2024
Worth the wait
I am still completely immersed in this series. This book felt like a feel good character growth installment. There were many reflective moments of “I love what our little island of misfit toys has become” I gave this story four stars because it lacked some of the dynamic action and asymmetric problem solving that the previous books included. It is well worth your time and money and sets up the next book in the series which I await with baited breath.
I am still completely immersed in this series. This book felt like a feel good character growth installment. There were many reflective moments of “I love what our little island of misfit toys has become” I gave this story four stars because it lacked some of the dynamic action and asymmetric problem solving that the previous books included. It is well worth your time and money and sets up the next book in the series which I await with baited breath.
January 29, 2025
I need the next one now!
While this one was the funniest yet & it had me laughing heaps, the story was a bit of a let down near the end. I hope the next one has a few new characters or some more things go wrong as it seems too easy.
While this one was the funniest yet & it had me laughing heaps, the story was a bit of a let down near the end. I hope the next one has a few new characters or some more things go wrong as it seems too easy.
March 22, 2024
Not what I was expecting!
The book did not go the way I expected, but that's definitely not a bad thing!
I can't wait for book 4!
This was excellent, and I really must recommend it.
The book did not go the way I expected, but that's definitely not a bad thing!
I can't wait for book 4!
This was excellent, and I really must recommend it.
March 23, 2024
Not as fun
The attempts at humor didn't hit this time. Appreciate that Chester continued to be himself and not humanize but the interplay got annoying not funny. It was nice to wrap up stuff but seemed too easy. When no jeopardy, no drama
The attempts at humor didn't hit this time. Appreciate that Chester continued to be himself and not humanize but the interplay got annoying not funny. It was nice to wrap up stuff but seemed too easy. When no jeopardy, no drama
March 26, 2024
Incredible Tale
Fun fast paced story with well crafted characters, that play well off each other. Lots of action and adventure to keep the story moving. But not at the expense of the development of the characters and arc. Looking forward to the next installment!
Fun fast paced story with well crafted characters, that play well off each other. Lots of action and adventure to keep the story moving. But not at the expense of the development of the characters and arc. Looking forward to the next installment!
June 6, 2024
Slaver dude was too easy
So I think all the characters just got too overpowered. It’s very entertaining but it does get repetitive and over dramatic sometimes. I was disappointed by hours easy the slaver was to kill and all his army. Excited to see how the apocalypse goes though!
So I think all the characters just got too overpowered. It’s very entertaining but it does get repetitive and over dramatic sometimes. I was disappointed by hours easy the slaver was to kill and all his army. Excited to see how the apocalypse goes though!
October 3, 2024
I really enjoyed this book it was a lot of fun. The crazy shenanigans that Chester and Crew got into were fun. The ending is one heck of a cliffhanger. So be ready for that however If you liked the first two books, you will absolutely love this book. I can't wait for the next book to come out.
December 1, 2024
I liked the character growth in this story, even though a few things remained over the top for me - and some even seemed out of character to me, but that's personal preference, I guess. But I do like the story. It's entertaining, and a pretty good read. Enjoyed the read.
April 29, 2025
It's a excellent reading adventure story!
I can't wait to read the next book in this series. Excellent story with humor and I had to stop laughing at all times when it was just so funny.
I can't wait to read the next book in this series. Excellent story with humor and I had to stop laughing at all times when it was just so funny.
September 20, 2025
I was so ready to quit listening to this book because Chester became so annoying and out of control. Then everything changes .moving forward and the book went back to being a delight again. Narration is well done with the various characters voices and the entire storyline.
November 25, 2025
This continues to be a story that keeps me hooked and needing to know what is coming next.
It is a story full of loveable characters with a ton of personal growth as well as stat increases.
Chester is still my favorite. His chaos is entertaining and he's a really fun character.
It is a story full of loveable characters with a ton of personal growth as well as stat increases.
Chester is still my favorite. His chaos is entertaining and he's a really fun character.
March 26, 2024
I enjoyed this more than book but have to admit I'm not a fan of the ending.
April 5, 2024
Just simply great
A pleasure to the story of Chester and didn't follow him on with development of calamity. I'll see everyone survive in 013th sector
A pleasure to the story of Chester and didn't follow him on with development of calamity. I'll see everyone survive in 013th sector
June 1, 2024
Mimicry
This series is hilarious but complex. Looking forward to the next book. A mystery and an enigma. I love it.
This series is hilarious but complex. Looking forward to the next book. A mystery and an enigma. I love it.
June 13, 2024
unique LitRPG reas the first two first!
I read a lot of LitRPG this series is original
In several ways. The books build and are exceptional. Read them!!
I read a lot of LitRPG this series is original
In several ways. The books build and are exceptional. Read them!!
June 22, 2024
Great story
This book ends in a way i never saw coming and makes you want to know what happens next. Definitely not the ending one would expect.
This book ends in a way i never saw coming and makes you want to know what happens next. Definitely not the ending one would expect.
September 27, 2024
+1 for writing a Recap. Thank you.
Loved the ending... beaten by his son's severed heads. Poetic Justice.
Loved the ending... beaten by his son's severed heads. Poetic Justice.
September 30, 2024
A fun book to read.
Great series, good character growth.. all around fun read. This isn't great expectations, this is however great in its own way.
Great series, good character growth.. all around fun read. This isn't great expectations, this is however great in its own way.
October 9, 2024
Great tale with exciting adventures and interesting and unusual locations. Really enjoyed it.
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