The Sequestered Seminary of Sawtorn

Zectas #5

by John Nest

With the tragic death of Sharur and Laernea, Smoke ventured out to the continent of Sawtorn. There, he hopes to find a miracle. As the Brotherhood of Beggars informed him that a Thaumaturge may live there, in the form of the true Magietrois. However, Smoke's quest for his friends' resurrection is on constrained time. Duke Burmistrz of Centzo City plans to attack Verbrannt within a year's time.

Genres: Fantasy

546 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2016

Reviews

[Lazybee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seriously, what's with the Cliffhanger?

Reducing a star because of the Cliffhanger.

Otherwise it was a good read.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great LitRPG series overall and the gameworld is amazing. Some big problems are starting to show within the story and plot sadly. The MC out of the gameworld isn't convincing and his actions don't make since. Author would be better off sticking to just the VR parts as i no longer have any desire to learn about MC's real life. The author put afterimages into every fight which was kinda anoying. I did enjoy the chapters about the other two highest leveled characters/guilds though. Series is good but unless Nest works out some kinks future books will suffer from declining ratings. It be 3 stars if the gameworld wasn't as good as it is

[joshua glenn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent.

I usually say most litrpgs are way to fast, but this one is a tad bit slow. Decent for the price.

Also the MC confuses me. He literally has to support his whole family on videos from the game... But he wants to keep his guy all secretive, more so then he wants his house or family to live in comfort. You'll see when you read, it's like his guild and npcs are more important then his grandmother and brothers. I think amazing vids would be way more important then anything else.

Besides that. Decent book. Pick up the pace a little please.

[Daniel Lawson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely love the book and the direction it's heading in, but wtf is the MC doing? It's like the MC has completely forgotten why he even plays this game sometimes. Has he sold any of the crazy gear he has that he doesn't use for real money? Why isn't he leveraging some of the stuff he can do with real world money outside of videos? My guess is that his Grandmother is going to pass away or get really sick in the next book and he's going to hit a huge crossroad.