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Victor of Tucson #7
Earthshaker
Every hero must eventually face the fact that each victory only leads to another battle in this fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl.
As a young, powerless transplant from Earth, Victor Sandoval was destined for certain death in the slave pits on Fanwath. But he had other ideas—bigger, bolder, bloodier ideas. Now known as Lord Victor after a hard-fought campaign to claim the newly christened Free Marches, his legend grows beyond his own lifetime.
With yet another conquest, Victor must set order in his new realms, a task more daunting than battle with all it entails. But above all, he must somehow save his dear ally Edeya, whose spirit was stolen in the chaos of war. That alone will require Victor to level up not as a warrior but as a leader and politician. Because saving Edeya means portals to other worlds. And portals mean coming up with one hell of a lot of scratch. After all, working the System isn’t cheap.
The first step may prove the hardest, as Victor must visit the settlement founded by humans from another timeline—First Landing—to raise some much-needed Energy beads to power his colony stone and begin his quest. It’s a place where beings from all realms have since created a haven of freedom and light and where all are welcome. It’s also a place where certain sinister parties are trying to take control, suppress those they deem unworthy, and besmirch Victor’s awesome reputation. But soon, he’ll make them wish they were very, very far away . . .
The seventh volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with more than 850,000 views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
Tropes Rags to riches, Leveling up, Fight to the death, Politics is war
As a young, powerless transplant from Earth, Victor Sandoval was destined for certain death in the slave pits on Fanwath. But he had other ideas—bigger, bolder, bloodier ideas. Now known as Lord Victor after a hard-fought campaign to claim the newly christened Free Marches, his legend grows beyond his own lifetime.
With yet another conquest, Victor must set order in his new realms, a task more daunting than battle with all it entails. But above all, he must somehow save his dear ally Edeya, whose spirit was stolen in the chaos of war. That alone will require Victor to level up not as a warrior but as a leader and politician. Because saving Edeya means portals to other worlds. And portals mean coming up with one hell of a lot of scratch. After all, working the System isn’t cheap.
The first step may prove the hardest, as Victor must visit the settlement founded by humans from another timeline—First Landing—to raise some much-needed Energy beads to power his colony stone and begin his quest. It’s a place where beings from all realms have since created a haven of freedom and light and where all are welcome. It’s also a place where certain sinister parties are trying to take control, suppress those they deem unworthy, and besmirch Victor’s awesome reputation. But soon, he’ll make them wish they were very, very far away . . .
The seventh volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with more than 850,000 views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
Tropes Rags to riches, Leveling up, Fight to the death, Politics is war
- GenresFantasy
443 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 11, 2025
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Plum Parrot
26 books134 followersPlum Parrot is the pen name of author MC Gallup, who grew up in Southern Arizona and spent much of his youth wandering around the Sonoran Desert, hunting imaginary monsters and building forts. He studied creative writing at the University of Arizona and, for a number of years, attempted to teach middle schoolers to love literature and write their own stories. If he's not out walking his Airedale Terrier, you can find Gallup writing, reading his favorite authors, or playing D&D with friends and family.
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March 20, 2025
Titan power!
The hero in this book is the Hulk with a brain! People who get in the way get flattened. Lots of action. Some new interesting characters both good and bad. Lots of good plots for the future story.
The hero in this book is the Hulk with a brain! People who get in the way get flattened. Lots of action. Some new interesting characters both good and bad. Lots of good plots for the future story.
March 24, 2025
This book seems to be following primal hunter’s path but that’s great so I’m all for it
March 21, 2025
Wtf? It ended too soon!
I love this series, watching Victor grow has been awesome. I was reading and then it ended and I was quite annoyed....was totally in the story and enjoyed the world.... then boom, gotta wait! 😂
Read it... great series!
I love this series, watching Victor grow has been awesome. I was reading and then it ended and I was quite annoyed....was totally in the story and enjoyed the world.... then boom, gotta wait! 😂
Read it... great series!
March 23, 2025
Great characters
Love the characters in this series.
Would have loved to see th Rhidonne twist go a little further, but good hook for later either way.
Love the characters in this series.
Would have loved to see th Rhidonne twist go a little further, but good hook for later either way.
March 13, 2025
Earthshaker (Victor of Tucson, book 7) is out of this world!
I have read all the books in this series and they just keep getting better and better! Great job Mr. Gallup!
(Spoiler Alert) Earthshaker has Victor leaving his new hard-earned lands and traveling to a hub world to seek help for his friends stolen spirit so she does not die. Victor is forced to enter into an agreement as an apprentice for a powerful being to get her spirit fixed. He then has to compete in a challenge dungeon against others like him.
I have read all the books in this series and they just keep getting better and better! Great job Mr. Gallup!
(Spoiler Alert) Earthshaker has Victor leaving his new hard-earned lands and traveling to a hub world to seek help for his friends stolen spirit so she does not die. Victor is forced to enter into an agreement as an apprentice for a powerful being to get her spirit fixed. He then has to compete in a challenge dungeon against others like him.
March 14, 2025
Great book
Stellar work once again from Plum Parrot. Lots of action and adventure, magic and monsters. Looking forward to the next one.
Stellar work once again from Plum Parrot. Lots of action and adventure, magic and monsters. Looking forward to the next one.
March 11, 2025
great book
Love this series stays true to what I love fighting carnage and a bit of romance
Lite litrpg
No Hareem
Action
Dark fantasy
Character building
This one felt a little short
Love this series stays true to what I love fighting carnage and a bit of romance
Lite litrpg
No Hareem
Action
Dark fantasy
Character building
This one felt a little short
November 30, 2025
A previously strong series sadly lets off the gas in Book 7.
The steady and satisfying pace of this series takes its first significant dip in Book 7 of Victor of Tucson. This book is basically three short stories with a bunch of filler in between, and one of those stories being absolutely brutally boring and another being somewhat nonsensical. The one good story ended in an unsatisfying manner, robbing us of payoffs. I am officially concerned this author is following the unfortunate trend of many other series when they near the ten book mark.
Story one, Earthling colony of morons:
I feel like the overconfidence of the humans about their mundane weapons was WAY over the top and unbelievable. Firstly, people of science use certain paradigms as necessary to utilize various methodologies in their fields. There’s concepts of logic and statistics that would make any scientist both aware of the potential for significant lurking variables (things they haven’t considered which may effect their conclusions), especially with magic being that variable, as well as knowing the logical fallacies of making baseless assumptions. I mean they clearly haven’t yet experimented with these weapons on powerful cultivators, so no scientist in reality would actually be so cocksure.
I know the author isn’t a scientist, and like most people who lack that context of scientific paradigms, he simply applies his paradigms to everyone else oblivious of how this fails. But that’s what makes this whole situation so unbelievable to me.
I have to wonder why is Victor so indifferent to these humans? They are from Earth! There doesn’t seem to be any context in the story to explain this.
It seems obvious this human colony is headed in two directions. He should offer land in his territory to the group that understands their new reality, as obviously the other way is going to go badly for the common people, either by outside forces or the greed and gatekeeping of their own leadership.
It’s established early in the series that Earth used to have magic, that it used to be home to many of our mythical species, such as fae, titans, dragons, etc. It’s also established that these species interbred and that all humans have some lineages of admixture meaning potential to unlock unique and powerful bloodlines and races. Why doesn’t Victor provide this information to them? Seems like a great impetus for the humans to cultivate and seek to unlock these powerful traits.
Arrival on Sojourn:
I have mixed feelings about the revelation that levels potentially go far into the hundreds with 0-100 being the lowest level. For one, this means this series has no end in sight. I genuinely dislike the idea of open-ended series as those series fall into necessary patterns of greater and greater stakes and greater and greater power. In a genre where the good guys winning is a given, throwing in repetitive story arcs makes them boring. The other issue is this is a bit of a plot hole for this series. Remember the Warlord from the other planet. He seemed content and assured of his level (120s) being near the peak of power and acted as if his position was unassailable. But if he’s from a world with portals to others, where traveling to a single hub planet reveals the true potential for power in the universe, why would he be so confident? He shouldn’t feel safe in his position whatsoever. I liked this series more when it felt like there were limits, either with power itself, or in the ability for powers to insert themselves in the affairs of lesser powers. I feel like this new lore development is opening a big can of worms that spells nothing good for this series.
Story two, save the gelly chick:
The whole insect hive escapade was pretty much pointless and excruciatingly boring. No real fights. Didn’t even get to see Lesh’s skillset. Just filler to pad the word count and facilitate Victor accepting an apprenticeship with the rock dude. They did wrap up the what-her-name spilt soul thing. Yay, I’m glad that didn’t go any further.
Story three, Dungeon Competition:
Finally, the dungeon competition was awesome. Dungeons, or their equivalent, are what this series has been missing. And for the most part, it does what this series does best, lots of satisfying fights. However, I don’t like the way it ended. Victor gained all of five levels in this entire book, and was robbed of probably 2-3 more by the way this competition ended. I understand the author needs a reason to place Victor in front of the council and be a known person on Sojourn for whatever he has planned, but you can do that and still get the rewards of the fights. The whole last battle was essentially pointless and fruitless for Victor. And that’s lame in a book already the first book in the series for Victor to not to gain at least one new tier.
Other notes:
I’m pretty much indifferent towards the new human character, the dumb guy from the human colony. Totally unbelievably he talked himself into going to Sojourn with Victor’s party despite A: not having a core or any levels, B: Having been on of the antagonists and idiots promoting delusions in the human colony, and C: Just being annoying to MC. It made no sense. But, the author has plans for him I guess. He needed to get this guy tied to Lesh and set up his character so we ignore all the nonsense plot elements because their purpose is to facilitate another other plot with this guy down the line. That’s sloppy writing. I dislike him being used as a perspective character, and I’m more than a little concerned we’ll get more of his perspectives. Maybe the author is setting him up as an antagonist? Could probably equally be as a party member. But one thing is for sure, I have no desire to watch this guy go through the tiers from his perspective. He’s not a likable character, and we already did that, with Victor. If this perspective thing with this character continues, I’m afraid all it’s gonna do is further slow the pace of this series that basically is already coasting in this book.
As to where this book ends, it’s pretty much random as this book isn’t one story arc, but instead three short escapades with a bunch of filler in between.
In conclusion, this series has had a great pace, not relentless by any means, but a steady pace until this book. No self contained arc, a lot of filler, and robbing us of the payoffs and fun of the other books. Hopefully, we get back into the swing of things in the next book, though I’m concerned this trend is permanent. It’s all too familiar for a series in this genre,at this stage of around 10 books, to really start to stagnate the pace of progression, to stretch plots over books, to increase the filler or even have outright filler books, and to rob the readers of payoffs. I hope that’s not the case.
The steady and satisfying pace of this series takes its first significant dip in Book 7 of Victor of Tucson. This book is basically three short stories with a bunch of filler in between, and one of those stories being absolutely brutally boring and another being somewhat nonsensical. The one good story ended in an unsatisfying manner, robbing us of payoffs. I am officially concerned this author is following the unfortunate trend of many other series when they near the ten book mark.
Story one, Earthling colony of morons:
I feel like the overconfidence of the humans about their mundane weapons was WAY over the top and unbelievable. Firstly, people of science use certain paradigms as necessary to utilize various methodologies in their fields. There’s concepts of logic and statistics that would make any scientist both aware of the potential for significant lurking variables (things they haven’t considered which may effect their conclusions), especially with magic being that variable, as well as knowing the logical fallacies of making baseless assumptions. I mean they clearly haven’t yet experimented with these weapons on powerful cultivators, so no scientist in reality would actually be so cocksure.
I know the author isn’t a scientist, and like most people who lack that context of scientific paradigms, he simply applies his paradigms to everyone else oblivious of how this fails. But that’s what makes this whole situation so unbelievable to me.
I have to wonder why is Victor so indifferent to these humans? They are from Earth! There doesn’t seem to be any context in the story to explain this.
It seems obvious this human colony is headed in two directions. He should offer land in his territory to the group that understands their new reality, as obviously the other way is going to go badly for the common people, either by outside forces or the greed and gatekeeping of their own leadership.
It’s established early in the series that Earth used to have magic, that it used to be home to many of our mythical species, such as fae, titans, dragons, etc. It’s also established that these species interbred and that all humans have some lineages of admixture meaning potential to unlock unique and powerful bloodlines and races. Why doesn’t Victor provide this information to them? Seems like a great impetus for the humans to cultivate and seek to unlock these powerful traits.
Arrival on Sojourn:
I have mixed feelings about the revelation that levels potentially go far into the hundreds with 0-100 being the lowest level. For one, this means this series has no end in sight. I genuinely dislike the idea of open-ended series as those series fall into necessary patterns of greater and greater stakes and greater and greater power. In a genre where the good guys winning is a given, throwing in repetitive story arcs makes them boring. The other issue is this is a bit of a plot hole for this series. Remember the Warlord from the other planet. He seemed content and assured of his level (120s) being near the peak of power and acted as if his position was unassailable. But if he’s from a world with portals to others, where traveling to a single hub planet reveals the true potential for power in the universe, why would he be so confident? He shouldn’t feel safe in his position whatsoever. I liked this series more when it felt like there were limits, either with power itself, or in the ability for powers to insert themselves in the affairs of lesser powers. I feel like this new lore development is opening a big can of worms that spells nothing good for this series.
Story two, save the gelly chick:
The whole insect hive escapade was pretty much pointless and excruciatingly boring. No real fights. Didn’t even get to see Lesh’s skillset. Just filler to pad the word count and facilitate Victor accepting an apprenticeship with the rock dude. They did wrap up the what-her-name spilt soul thing. Yay, I’m glad that didn’t go any further.
Story three, Dungeon Competition:
Finally, the dungeon competition was awesome. Dungeons, or their equivalent, are what this series has been missing. And for the most part, it does what this series does best, lots of satisfying fights. However, I don’t like the way it ended. Victor gained all of five levels in this entire book, and was robbed of probably 2-3 more by the way this competition ended. I understand the author needs a reason to place Victor in front of the council and be a known person on Sojourn for whatever he has planned, but you can do that and still get the rewards of the fights. The whole last battle was essentially pointless and fruitless for Victor. And that’s lame in a book already the first book in the series for Victor to not to gain at least one new tier.
Other notes:
I’m pretty much indifferent towards the new human character, the dumb guy from the human colony. Totally unbelievably he talked himself into going to Sojourn with Victor’s party despite A: not having a core or any levels, B: Having been on of the antagonists and idiots promoting delusions in the human colony, and C: Just being annoying to MC. It made no sense. But, the author has plans for him I guess. He needed to get this guy tied to Lesh and set up his character so we ignore all the nonsense plot elements because their purpose is to facilitate another other plot with this guy down the line. That’s sloppy writing. I dislike him being used as a perspective character, and I’m more than a little concerned we’ll get more of his perspectives. Maybe the author is setting him up as an antagonist? Could probably equally be as a party member. But one thing is for sure, I have no desire to watch this guy go through the tiers from his perspective. He’s not a likable character, and we already did that, with Victor. If this perspective thing with this character continues, I’m afraid all it’s gonna do is further slow the pace of this series that basically is already coasting in this book.
As to where this book ends, it’s pretty much random as this book isn’t one story arc, but instead three short escapades with a bunch of filler in between.
In conclusion, this series has had a great pace, not relentless by any means, but a steady pace until this book. No self contained arc, a lot of filler, and robbing us of the payoffs and fun of the other books. Hopefully, we get back into the swing of things in the next book, though I’m concerned this trend is permanent. It’s all too familiar for a series in this genre,at this stage of around 10 books, to really start to stagnate the pace of progression, to stretch plots over books, to increase the filler or even have outright filler books, and to rob the readers of payoffs. I hope that’s not the case.
October 6, 2025
Another solid entry in a junk-fun series.
A weird/interesting start with the proving his strength to the human settlement which had much more build-up than it really paid off with, felt a little over-the-top.
I think the book started to hit it's stride landing in Sojourn which did another good job of expanding the world to a wider view, and providing more "everyone's a small fish in a different pond" type outlook. The champion dungeon was a cool concept but we started to hit a little bit of walk-in-the-park territory with Victor? I feel like I'd like to see some development towards strategy, rather than him walking into situations without context or planning and then brute forcing his way out. But hey, berserker right.
Overall, good entry - the addition of tests of steel & walking through the veil is the right thin in the story, adds some structure/outline to world limiting powers.
A weird/interesting start with the proving his strength to the human settlement which had much more build-up than it really paid off with, felt a little over-the-top.
I think the book started to hit it's stride landing in Sojourn which did another good job of expanding the world to a wider view, and providing more "everyone's a small fish in a different pond" type outlook. The champion dungeon was a cool concept but we started to hit a little bit of walk-in-the-park territory with Victor? I feel like I'd like to see some development towards strategy, rather than him walking into situations without context or planning and then brute forcing his way out. But hey, berserker right.
Overall, good entry - the addition of tests of steel & walking through the veil is the right thin in the story, adds some structure/outline to world limiting powers.
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July 25, 2025
This book was much better. the new setting, power scaling, and more were refreshing and gave the story more room to grow. The last one felt like a promise the author made and was obligated to fulfill, but after he and the characters moved on to other things that ended up being more interesting, the promised conquest turned into something he just had to do. That's how it felt anyway, on paper the idea and even execution of it were quite good, but yeah, it still felt stale and this book was more refreshing.
April 4, 2025
Another fantastic book in Victor's saga. One of my favorite aspects of Plum's writing is the overall positive tone and this book does not disappoint. Victor's progression and ramping challenges are steady. His spiritual aspects are well executed.
Robb Moreira's performance is stellar. I absolutely adore his voices for Victor and the other primary characters. Love how he breaths life into Victor's emotions and aspects.
Robb Moreira's performance is stellar. I absolutely adore his voices for Victor and the other primary characters. Love how he breaths life into Victor's emotions and aspects.
May 20, 2025
Always a great story! Victor is a glory hound and a battle maniac
But he cares deeply about his friends and they are finally going to get off world to find some help for poor Edeya! As always the challenges that Victor fights through draw more attention, mostly negative as grudges get formed. Meanwhile Victor is just trying to grow stronger and help his friends grow stronger as he is about to learn more about the scope of power in this universe or reality!
But he cares deeply about his friends and they are finally going to get off world to find some help for poor Edeya! As always the challenges that Victor fights through draw more attention, mostly negative as grudges get formed. Meanwhile Victor is just trying to grow stronger and help his friends grow stronger as he is about to learn more about the scope of power in this universe or reality!
April 22, 2025
solid book 7
Such a great book. Victor and the readers world expands again. He finally meets the other humans, exceeds expectations and then we are off to try and help Edeya. We leave Fanwaith again and go to a different world. So much intrigue, so much learning of new species and of course some epic battles !
Such a great book. Victor and the readers world expands again. He finally meets the other humans, exceeds expectations and then we are off to try and help Edeya. We leave Fanwaith again and go to a different world. So much intrigue, so much learning of new species and of course some epic battles !
November 25, 2025
I tried getting through the first quarter of this book for a week, but just couldn't do it. I'm not a fan of the direction the main character is going, and the two new point of view characters are not interesting. There is still adventure, but it is at a pace that sucks all the life out of the wonder of it, so this one will have to go on the DNF shelf.
March 25, 2025
great
I am loving this series Victor, Valla and the gang. I would prefer a longer book. The dynamics of the book keep changing I can’t say I don’t like it. I was expecting one thing and got something totally different.
I am loving this series Victor, Valla and the gang. I would prefer a longer book. The dynamics of the book keep changing I can’t say I don’t like it. I was expecting one thing and got something totally different.
June 29, 2025
good read
A new planet where Victor is at the bottom and must struggle to find a place for him and his friends. Victors might stands up to any challenger but can it stand against an entire cities political machine?
A new planet where Victor is at the bottom and must struggle to find a place for him and his friends. Victors might stands up to any challenger but can it stand against an entire cities political machine?
March 15, 2025
Great read, ending is a bit abrupt.
April 2, 2025
Lost interest maybe I will try again later
April 9, 2025
This is my favorite LitRPG at the moment.
April 28, 2025
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
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