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Armon Ellington died on earth and was transported to Terra, a world governed by rules eerily similar to the RPG games he loved. He found he could gain levels, skills, abilities, and magic just like he could in those games. In addition to finding a way to become more powerful, he also found the friends and family he’d always longed for. Unfortunately, he also discovered the pain of losing them.

When the Imperare Empire attacked the village of Restrian, they killed most of the kind kobold tribe that adopted him and took many of the citizens of Restrian as slaves. Now, not only must Armon find some way to free the kidnapped citizens of Restrian but he must find and rescue the few remaining members of the kobold tribe that adopted him.

Adventures on Terra is a LitRPG adventure series

431 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2017

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R.A. Mejia

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Profile Image for Randy Smith.
649 reviews22 followers
October 10, 2017
I’m sorry but the stupidity of this character was so great by the time of this book I had to throw in the towel. I couldn’t read anymore of it without getting nauseous. I almost got 40% to this book but became so stupid after he said oh this looks like a trap and then rides right into it without taking any precautions. Maybe the story picks up after this point but I’m not going to read anymore because I’m sure if he does escape has nothing to do with his actions. Every good fortune that happened to him doing the book is because of somebody else being smarter than him or pure luck being on his side. As you can see this review is totally based on my personal opinion of the storyline and the main character and has nothing to do with the actual writing quality. Unfortunately I like stories about characters who are a bit smarter than a grape and I don’t like plot lines the only survive because of an active God happening every few chapters. Take this review for what it’s worth it’s my personal opinion I’m sure the author is a good writer it’s just he picks bad plot-lines stupid characters to write about.
Profile Image for GaiusPrimus.
870 reviews97 followers
August 15, 2017
This book infuriated me at times. The pseudo-plagiarism between well known pop culture as part of the banter between Mary and Armon, characters from existing media being blatantly used as cameos and the use of the Aleph underground race that use crystals from the Emerilia series are just a few of the examples.

Armon needs to have everything spoon fed to him as a way to expose the world, but it ends up looking like the author doesn't have any true direction on where he wants the story to go. A lot of stuff happens, a ton of new things are introduced but they really get nowhere.

Profile Image for Chris Evans.
903 reviews43 followers
July 19, 2018
Hmmm......



we'll get to you...

Adventures on Terra keeps catching me off guard with just how similar it is to "The Land". I mean, there's a sizable chunk in "The Land" (I think book 2 as well) where the Richter goes into a city to rescue slaves and comes out of it with a coded ledger. How am I not supposed to draw parallels between the two books?

Like the first book, though, Adventures on Terra rips it's first couple of chapters from "The Land" but then transitions into more of a "Dungeon Born" rippoff for the middle...

... not yet, it's coming... And finishes with more of it's own thing (as far as I know).

That said, the book is still it's own thing and is interesting enough to keep me reading. My main complaint, much like with "The Land" is the pop culture references are annoying and I really wish R.A. Mejia and Aleron Kong would tone it down.

Now, about that Dungeon they spend the middle 1/3 of the book in... Over it's all a decent setup and an enjoyable execution. Though right from the start the voice of the dungeon it's self had very Anime-esk mannerisms with regular out of place laughing and a higher pitched voice I'd seen in a couple of different anime... Then they meet him... and it turns out he's a Tall, lanky, formal wear wearing skeleton with an afro and a top hat, who loves music and use to be a pirate captain. I listened to the book so I'm not sure how his name is spelled but I'd put money that what sounds like "Coreb" is spelled koorB. Come on, there's references to things and then there's straight up appropriation.


This is Brook, from One Piece. He's a Tall, lanky, formal wear wearing skeleton with an afro and a top hat, who loves music and use to be a pirate captain before joining Luffy. He has a higher pitched voice and laughs a lot......

You didn't even lamp shade it R.A. Mejia! You just took the character, reversed his name and put him in your story like he was your own original idea. The pop culture spewing main character makes no mention of it, there's not subtle hints about the show or anime in general, it' just a straight rip of the character. O_o why did you do this?

Still, Mostly enjoyable 3/5 stars.

Update: Star Overflow from book 3 bumps this up to 5 star.
14 reviews
November 12, 2018
The series started interesting enough, although the similarities to The Land series were hard to miss, but the second volume was a catastrophe! The MC devolves emotionally instead of growing up, and goes from one mistake to the next one. I can understand that the author doesn't want to present some Mary Sue (or Marty Stu) MC, but the way this guy behaves is just ridiculously stupid and he never learns from mistakes! Even the support characters are developing ridiculously - Mary most of all with all the repetitive pop culture references and primadona behavior.
Very disappointing!
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31 reviews
June 21, 2017
The book's way too repetitive, the Mc show almost zero progression through the whole story and Mary's annoying to a ridiculous extent(she ruined the whole reading experience)!
Profile Image for Erik Rounds.
Author 2 books16 followers
June 22, 2017
Great story!

I enjoyed this unique take on the litrpg genre. It is a good continuation of the first book in the series and I'm excited for the next one.
Profile Image for Luek.
73 reviews2 followers
June 15, 2017
A good read, but.....

Like the title says this a good read, A.O.T2 has a decent plot and good pacing; that being said I have a few issues. Nudging in Easter egg characters from other media for some of the NPCs is kinda a cop out, especially when their names are just barely disguised; AND the MC doesn't recognize them when he's been joking about the various pieces of fiction being referenced. Secondly, the level progression of the MC feels inadequate for the deeds the MC performs. If it was a Dnd campaign I'd be having serious words with the GM about xp rewards and loot drops.
These pet peeves aside I really do enjoy the AOT series; it's good light reading that more or less anyone can enjoy.
44 reviews
October 27, 2017
Pretty poor

I thought the first of these books was gathering momentum. I was wrong. This book stagnated and is increasingly boring in it's bloated descriptions of trivial details. I was quite bored and found the constant references to other novels an annoyance. Maybe the teenage market may enjoy this book more than a more experienced reader.
Profile Image for DJay.
435 reviews76 followers
April 9, 2018
This is turning into a pretty darn good series. I'm liking what I'm seeing. The MC is getting better. In the first book he was aloof. In this one, not as aloof. He also actually listens to the side characters as well. Also, speaking of side characters, they aren't 2D in this book. They actually have a LIL depth to them. All in all, a very enjoyable book.
Profile Image for Pablo García.
855 reviews22 followers
September 13, 2022
The second book is not as good as the first one. Even though this second book is "action-packed".
The author makes, the main character, Armon and his group, get abducted and robbed but by the way that the author wrote it (premonition and still insists on getting abducted and robbed) and then locked into a room by the town of thieves and then just like that, they voluntarily empty their inventories, all this written in this way, makes it incredibly ridiculous to believe.Then, while trying to escape, for example, Kitsune and Mary injure one of the bandit guards and yet the author writes that they do not know what happened (when in a party the display shows amount of injury or death of opponents and points gained all of the time when they are in a party). Then they dungeon delve, learn new skills in a beat-folk territory, etc…. as if they really had nothing better to do with their time (and the reader’s time as well)...
I feel that the priority in the second book should have been towards the rescue of the survivors of the Red Hands Kobolds Massacre. But the author sure takes his time. Stopping at every possible place, rescuing and being abducted-robbed by bandits, learning Smithing, etc. while the few little Kobolds enslaved are running out of time and probably dying out from the tortures and new massacres of the Empire’s slave lords.
I feel that the difference between book one and book two basically resides in that book two has a lot of fan service from the author to his sponsors. This is probably why, book two lacks cohesion, lacks drive towards their main plot arc. Not only have they not rescued the enslaved red-hand Kobolds, Kitsune has not returned to her island kingdom either.
The author makes the main character write to his closest acquaintances, only to give up his tablet communicator to the bandits. So why then write? Why get captured and robbed if it was than irregular/out of the way to help a lady in distress found by the roadside?
1 review
June 29, 2017
This is only my opinion

I have to say that this second book has more of a direction than the first. I especially like how you inculded other little back stories of the characters you were introducing. I am dying to know Sonya's response to his letter and how the trial will go. Even though I know that lilliandra, Rex and Kreans are off with their own Guild missions I sometimes feel that they are being 'left out' in a sense. In the first book it was made out the Lilliandra was like a mother figure to him, but in this one she seems colder like she is just a teacher teaching a student. Seeing that he is now being chased by the imperial empire I feel a 'mother' would find him to see for herself that he was fine to ease her worries. I think this is not that too much of a stretch considering she was ready to give him a beat down for not contacting her when he didn't do what he said he would. I do hope he get another tablet because snail mail seems well too slow in contacting a loved one. I also get how some of these little inconvenience are annoying to the extreme because of the world he came form everything was instantaneous. I like how you throw in some instances where he is annoyed. I am anxiously awaiting the next book! Already a huge fan!
P.S I love the references from this world. Go Gryffindor!
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7 reviews
July 31, 2020
Oh man... I am not sure where to start with this.

1) The main character is... just hopeless. Yeah, the bumbling hero is a trope, but usually they have something that redeems them, like they have a purpose and a point. This guy is just a sail in the wind spinning in circles. It is great that he's not OP like most MCs in this genre, but he is dumb AF instead.

2) Comedic sidekick Mary. I think the only more annoying sidekick I have seen is the one the Station Cores or perhaps Lex from The Realms. Paper thin veneer of something of a steaming pile of nothing. I don't think that she actually does anything other than be annoying. Would have been better to be a sentient wand that could only talk when being held, as then there would be the chance it got stolen from a trap the MC SAW HAPPENING and went into.

The world,is great. I am just barely able to continue with the hope that the world get's more fleshed out, but all but Vrax could literally die in the fire and I would find myself unmoved.

If you have never read a LitRPG book, this one would work to start, because you can only go up, but if you have a few dozen under your belt, you might want to look elsewhere, or perhaps check with the authors later works to see if they have matured.
286 reviews4 followers
June 19, 2017
This is a fun book but a bit long in the wind....

If you like pop culture references and fun fantasy/litrpg tropes this the book for you...if you're the kind of person who believes that the journey matters more than the destination, this might be the book for you...but if you like when stories that aren't particularly slice of life in nature, stay on point, you might want to wait and binge read. A fourth, perhaps a fourth of this novel involves them locked up in a random dungeon trying to get out...it's a fun sequence for sure but the plot just sort of stops there for a while and doesn't really pick up again till the end, where the book kind of sort of abruptly ends. I think this is what you call a pacing problem...the story is good but the ratio of side quest to main quest is uneven for the kind of story that is being told.
16 reviews
December 3, 2018
Slow character progress

I like the story but it'd be better if the main characters had more progression. Main character turns into a jack of all trades with a low level in each. He's only level 5 by the end of the book & this is book 2. Maybe we'll never see him max out or even close but you'd think he'd focus on getting actually stronger since he faces foes at higher levels all the time & barely scrapes by with his life at almost every battle. It feels like he runs on luck most of the time. Ontop of that it's mentioned that he used to be a gamer and he's in a world where it's exactly like a game he has guides & people helping him yet 2 books later he's still not that great at anything.
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2,173 reviews81 followers
June 16, 2017
Decent

It was honestly a good story. I like the fact that nobody can just power level. It takes real work.
About the time the 9 tailed fox girl starts talking about wanting a cold beer. I noticed more mistakes. I'd only found one before this point. Couple spots in the big fight scene at the end had flow problems were someone would do something, but the very next line would have the MC doing something that kept them from doing whatever it just said they did.
Overall a good continuation of the story.
I can recommend this book.
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47 reviews3 followers
June 19, 2017
I not sure

There was little development in this book as far as finding the people they were looking for from book 1 and they get in way too much trouble which also takes soooooooo long to get out of. Also the me is kind of a rug and acts way too much on feelings. He's supposed to be logical but does not follow logical paths. The last part of this book makes no sense either except as a link to the next book which will probably be 80% in court and then they will obviously be found guilty because. This series had sooooo much promise 😔😢
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2,888 reviews48 followers
October 22, 2017
This installment had much fewer errors than the first one, and it was just as enjoyable as the first one. Glad to see the author didn't loose their touch. Excellent story, great adventure, and lots of fun, and a whole lot of action. It looks like there will be ore in the series, and I for one will definitely be looking forward to reading them. Highly recommended. I'm kind of surprised really at how much I enjoy this litrpg genre, I now have to go hunt down more books in this genre and see if they are as good as recommendations claim. This should be a lot of fun.
15 reviews
July 2, 2017
Still does not follow basic rules for writing

First let me state that I love the story. However there is still many spelling and grammar mistakes. One thing I also found strange is the use of present tense for writing. Although it is not technically wrong it is not normal and made me squirm; as most books are written in the past tense, unless the character is thinking about a situation they are currently in or, speaking to someone else.
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270 reviews1 follower
May 12, 2019
I accidentally read the second book first and couldn't finish it !please someone tell me its established that he is challenged (retarded) then I will felt bad with myself and actually try to like this moron.. and the shitty Fairy was a stupid move, it was like going to another world with your mom, will she tells you constantly that you are an idiot' and to follow what she want! heck the insta love lock is even more retarded...
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83 reviews4 followers
June 28, 2017
I want to like it...

I really had trouble getting into this one. Starting around the half way mark I had to just force myself to finish the book. Overall, I would say that the lighthearted humor is to blame. To me, it just came off as cheesy and I didn't care for it. It felt very forced.
Profile Image for David Anthony Beard.
238 reviews
July 18, 2017
Not Bad

I thought the book was good. It had a lot of connections and hints from many different books and other forms of media. I not sure if that is the right word. At one piece a character from The anime and manga One Piece shows up. There are few others also. Other than that story was good. It a good read that makes you want to read more.
241 reviews1 follower
March 8, 2018
Good potential

The continued saga of Armon and his group as they fight slavers, mercenaries and injustice proves to be most interesting. The detracting factor was the numerous editing errors. (Dawns instead of dons), kobold's instead of kobold's, etc. Look forward to next installment.
3 reviews
June 21, 2017
If only I could give more stars

Ever sense I read the first one I been anxious waiting for the sequel and now my only desire is for the next one for I found it very interesting from the characters to the lay of the story making me wish some mmos had this sort of art up
Profile Image for Matt Myers.
76 reviews7 followers
July 6, 2017
Good, not great.

Slow to finish. I struggled about half way through to finish. Not bad but could use some cleaning up. Also, I feel the progression is slow and the main character is not really developing as fast as I thought he should...
93 reviews2 followers
July 11, 2017
...

It's complicated. Sometimes i appreciate that the MC is an idiot moron, but most times just annoys the hell out of me that he is showed as an uncaring or unable to understand anything guy...
The story is good though. The afterwords is not needed.
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582 reviews5 followers
November 22, 2017
3.5 I found myself chuckling a lot at the beginning half of this book. but the endijgncaught me off guard. maybe bec ause I did the audiobook. I just didn't expect it to end when it did because the story suddenly had gotten so exciting
69 reviews1 follower
February 11, 2018
Top notch

A well written and fun sequel to a wonderful series. I was so engrossed in the series I read both booms available in under a day. If you want a gritty, harrowing but adventurous tale then this series is for you.
3 reviews8 followers
May 18, 2018
Great book!

I really enjoyed reading this book! The characters are fun, it has a great balance of combat and story, and the world is really interesting. I can't wait for the third book!
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638 reviews1 follower
July 11, 2018
Going strong

A very well written and fun story that picks up where the last left off. There’s some character homage to anime and various pop culture. And a few more typos than the last book. Still a great read and I look forward to the next.
5 reviews1 follower
June 25, 2019
Book 2 is a good as book 1. Great series

I really emotes book 2 and can't wait to start book 3. MC is growing in skills and the party leveled up one level I think. MC is not overpowered and the interaction between the group, as well as the people they meet, is natural and fun.
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