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The Blue Mage Raised by Dragons
Blue mages learn skills from beasts. This is the story of one fortunate enough to be taken in by dragons.
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First published June 24, 2017
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February 22, 2019
Rating 2.5
What the hell did I just listen to? There are so many things about this book I need to explain that it is hard to know where to begin. I think the target audience for this book is either very young teen or old children. Another possible target audience is stoned adults? If you ever wondered what it would be like if a child was given the power of a God and then given absolutely no supervision ( or maybe the supervision of a mental patient) then this is the book for you.
The story starts with a dragon's egg being stolen. The dragon the egg belonged to is pissed and goes out to destroy 18 human towns in retaliation. In the process the dragon comes across a family with a baby. The dragon roars and scares the hell of them, except the baby roars back. The baby is apparently a blue mage ( someone whose magic is focused on beasts, that can mimic or learn their powers/skills). The dragon decides to take the baby and raise it as a dragon (this dragon might be a little insane at this point). The dragon imprints the baby. Imprinting is sort of passing down the ancestral power. The dragon egg that was stolen would end up being just a beast without the imprinting. The imprinting allows for the person being imprinted to have access to all the magic energy from that line. So in this case, the young baby Vur, would be way more powerful than the hatched baby dragon that was stolen.
About half the story takes place when Vur is around 5-6 years old and the other half takes place when he is about 16. It is impossible to describe this story because all the things that happen didn't seem to lead anywhere. There were people and plot lines that I thought would be important that didn't go anywhere. It was somewhat entertaining in the moment but the whole time I was wondering where the story was heading and it turns out the author didn't seem to know either. Think of it this way, if you ever have watched the old cartoon show Ren and Stimpy or for newer audiences Spongebob, you might have liked watching the show. Now imagine trying to write a review about that show and what happened during the show after it was over. Would anything you could write make any sense for someone who didn't actually watch the show? That is what this book was like. It was like watching 10 episodes of one of those cartoons. Everything was loosely connected but something that happened at one point of the story that you might want to know more about, turns out to be nothing. Some of the highlights of the things that I thought might be important but turned out to be nothing
I didn't like that every character talked like either a teenager or a little child. Even the dragons who were thousands of years old. One of the dragons told another dragon that he was whipped. That vernacular seems a little out of place in this setting. It also didn't help that the narrator was a female that had a "valley girl" voice. I was almost expecting to hear a "OMG" or "Whatever" while I was listening.
This one is really not for me.
What the hell did I just listen to? There are so many things about this book I need to explain that it is hard to know where to begin. I think the target audience for this book is either very young teen or old children. Another possible target audience is stoned adults? If you ever wondered what it would be like if a child was given the power of a God and then given absolutely no supervision ( or maybe the supervision of a mental patient) then this is the book for you.
The story starts with a dragon's egg being stolen. The dragon the egg belonged to is pissed and goes out to destroy 18 human towns in retaliation. In the process the dragon comes across a family with a baby. The dragon roars and scares the hell of them, except the baby roars back. The baby is apparently a blue mage ( someone whose magic is focused on beasts, that can mimic or learn their powers/skills). The dragon decides to take the baby and raise it as a dragon (this dragon might be a little insane at this point). The dragon imprints the baby. Imprinting is sort of passing down the ancestral power. The dragon egg that was stolen would end up being just a beast without the imprinting. The imprinting allows for the person being imprinted to have access to all the magic energy from that line. So in this case, the young baby Vur, would be way more powerful than the hatched baby dragon that was stolen.
About half the story takes place when Vur is around 5-6 years old and the other half takes place when he is about 16. It is impossible to describe this story because all the things that happen didn't seem to lead anywhere. There were people and plot lines that I thought would be important that didn't go anywhere. It was somewhat entertaining in the moment but the whole time I was wondering where the story was heading and it turns out the author didn't seem to know either. Think of it this way, if you ever have watched the old cartoon show Ren and Stimpy or for newer audiences Spongebob, you might have liked watching the show. Now imagine trying to write a review about that show and what happened during the show after it was over. Would anything you could write make any sense for someone who didn't actually watch the show? That is what this book was like. It was like watching 10 episodes of one of those cartoons. Everything was loosely connected but something that happened at one point of the story that you might want to know more about, turns out to be nothing. Some of the highlights of the things that I thought might be important but turned out to be nothing
I didn't like that every character talked like either a teenager or a little child. Even the dragons who were thousands of years old. One of the dragons told another dragon that he was whipped. That vernacular seems a little out of place in this setting. It also didn't help that the narrator was a female that had a "valley girl" voice. I was almost expecting to hear a "OMG" or "Whatever" while I was listening.
This one is really not for me.
July 25, 2017
Very enjoyable read
A short summary:
For those of you thinking about buying this book, I would recommend getting it. However, if you want to know exactly what you are getting into keep reading.
This book first and foremost seeks to be fun. It is not a sprawling epic or a deep intricate narrative, but a romp where an overpowered child goes on a variety of adventures and antics, much to the delight and terror of the people he encounters. It is a hilarious tale where often times you will laugh out loud because of the sheer silliness or nonsense taking place. Additionally, the book also contains a few LitRPG aspects like talk of levels and classes, but the elements aren't overly stressed like in some other books. Altogether, the book just wants you to enjoy reading it and have a laugh as it never takes itself too seriously even in the darker moments.
A short summary:
For those of you thinking about buying this book, I would recommend getting it. However, if you want to know exactly what you are getting into keep reading.
This book first and foremost seeks to be fun. It is not a sprawling epic or a deep intricate narrative, but a romp where an overpowered child goes on a variety of adventures and antics, much to the delight and terror of the people he encounters. It is a hilarious tale where often times you will laugh out loud because of the sheer silliness or nonsense taking place. Additionally, the book also contains a few LitRPG aspects like talk of levels and classes, but the elements aren't overly stressed like in some other books. Altogether, the book just wants you to enjoy reading it and have a laugh as it never takes itself too seriously even in the darker moments.
July 11, 2017
Entertaining
This is an entertaining story and I enjoyed reading it. There were a couple of times I chuckled out loud; so good job on the humor, author! This is definitely worth the purchase price.
The only reason I deducted a star is I ran into one of my pet peeves within the first couple of paragraphs : the use of modern slang by a non-human in a different world. Some dragons are talking about another dragon and call him "whipped". If the author modified it to fit the setting, I would have been happier (e.g. "tail whipped"). There were a couple of other instances of something similar in the book but as I said, they're my personal pet peeves, so I think most people wouldn't care.
This is an entertaining story and I enjoyed reading it. There were a couple of times I chuckled out loud; so good job on the humor, author! This is definitely worth the purchase price.
The only reason I deducted a star is I ran into one of my pet peeves within the first couple of paragraphs : the use of modern slang by a non-human in a different world. Some dragons are talking about another dragon and call him "whipped". If the author modified it to fit the setting, I would have been happier (e.g. "tail whipped"). There were a couple of other instances of something similar in the book but as I said, they're my personal pet peeves, so I think most people wouldn't care.
February 7, 2018
This book is nuts. It's absolutely nuts. I loved every second of the book. Grim is my spirit animal. I swear he is. This book is fantasy adventure on crack mixed with LSD, a sprinkle of coke to be downed by someone mixing a BFC Monster and 20oz Red Bull together. This is fun read and I'm DYING for the next book to come out.
February 15, 2018
I can sum this book up with one word...
Ridiculous
This book was definitely entertaining at times, especially since the protagonist is so overpowered, which I like. However, everything that happens in this book is over the top. I read 75% of the book and lost interest in finishing it.
Like others stated, the litrpg aspect is kind of tacked on afterwards. Actually, if Virlyce would have left it out, the book would be more coherent. The litrpg aspect is refereed to about 10 times in the entire book, and then only vaguely. However, the scale doesn't make sense since a 5 year old that is level 1 I am assuming can destroy an entire group of level 100s? Like I said before, ridiculous.
Also, all of the main characters are the bad guys, yet they are not treated that way. They casually murder and destroy entire towns and cities because they felt slighted or were bored. I usually like anti-heroes, but these characters are not that. Anti-heroes have a reason to do bad things: the greater good, revenge, to collect power, etc. The protagonists in this book do horrible things randomly for no reason. They are all sociopaths.
Ridiculous
This book was definitely entertaining at times, especially since the protagonist is so overpowered, which I like. However, everything that happens in this book is over the top. I read 75% of the book and lost interest in finishing it.
Like others stated, the litrpg aspect is kind of tacked on afterwards. Actually, if Virlyce would have left it out, the book would be more coherent. The litrpg aspect is refereed to about 10 times in the entire book, and then only vaguely. However, the scale doesn't make sense since a 5 year old that is level 1 I am assuming can destroy an entire group of level 100s? Like I said before, ridiculous.
Also, all of the main characters are the bad guys, yet they are not treated that way. They casually murder and destroy entire towns and cities because they felt slighted or were bored. I usually like anti-heroes, but these characters are not that. Anti-heroes have a reason to do bad things: the greater good, revenge, to collect power, etc. The protagonists in this book do horrible things randomly for no reason. They are all sociopaths.
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April 7, 2024 Zero Stars
This Review is for the first two chapters.
I heartily apologize to the Author Virlyce if they are 12 and this is their first book.
This book (as judged by the first 2 chapters) is AWFUL! I can get into the so bad it's good vibe, but this was so bad it made me feel queasy. Then I tried to tough it out and it got worse. I could not make myself read more.
I enjoy a well written YA novel now and then but this wasn't juvenile, it was infantile.
the author might have been aiming for wacky or zany, they missed and hit asinine.
painful to read. sorry I picked it up. now I feel bad, and like a jerk for criticizing some kid's high school attempt at a book.
Virlyce. if you are 12, Great job! don't give up. keep working hard.
This Review is for the first two chapters.
I heartily apologize to the Author Virlyce if they are 12 and this is their first book.
This book (as judged by the first 2 chapters) is AWFUL! I can get into the so bad it's good vibe, but this was so bad it made me feel queasy. Then I tried to tough it out and it got worse. I could not make myself read more.
I enjoy a well written YA novel now and then but this wasn't juvenile, it was infantile.
the author might have been aiming for wacky or zany, they missed and hit asinine.
painful to read. sorry I picked it up. now I feel bad, and like a jerk for criticizing some kid's high school attempt at a book.
Virlyce. if you are 12, Great job! don't give up. keep working hard.
January 6, 2019
I understand the community the author is coming from, the light novel community of flashy Japanese characters but long drawn out quests and sagas of Chinese Wuxia. I know there was some influence of isekai or even Legendary Moonlight Sculptor. Sadly, this story does not come close to what is normally seen in the genre.
The story started off very interesting - albeit somewhat cringy because of the use of modern saying and personalities from all characters, even the dragons - and I was very curious to see where the story would go. Humans steal a dragon egg, the dragons rampage and take a human baby back with them. This baby is Vur, a blue mage who gets imprinted on by the mama dragon.
Here is where the story starts to derail, and keep in mind this is still the very beginning of the tale. The author does a poor job explaining the rules and logic in the story. For instance, at no point are the characteristic of mages properly defined. They are just labeled colors and the reader has to infer their roles through context clues. White is healing? Black is dark magic? Blue is beast magic? And there are ... what? Five colors, six? Most of the fantasy elements are thrust into the story without explanation like this. I think the only thing given decent explanation is imprinting. Basically, all the magical aspects in the story, which takes up a majority of it, can be overlooked for logic or reason.
Next is the characterization. The story tone is a good balance between western and Japanese-version-of-western fantasy, and the characters mimic that. There is a lot of nonsensical chatter between characters, lack of common sense for the purpose of being humorous, and ridiculously OP skills. Essentially, if someone is powerful, they are the side we are supposed to root for. Weak characters or ones with bad personalities are bad.
Dragons are introduced as practically invinsible. They are Vur's family. Good.
Demon girl, introduced at birth as having great potential as a strong Demon Lord. Grows to be strong. Vur's childhood friend... etc. Good.
Human Prince, wanted a dragon bond, despite growing up to be a hardworking (?) he is still shunned by his "girlfriend", bad.
Human King, bad.
Demon Lord, bad.
Random strangers offering a ride to Vur? Good.
Etc. Etc.
Okay, characters can be a matter of personal taste, and while some have better build up than others, and I would argue that none are enough, the characterization is no where near as bad as the structure of the story. It skips around, introduces characters, places, plot points, does random shit all the time, I could barely keep track of things in the second half. It became incredibly chaotic.
I kept reading, I wanted to know what would happen. I bought the book, might as well finish it. I checked out the second book and simply could not bring myself to read more.
I'm sorry to the author, work on world building and character building and cohesion.
The story started off very interesting - albeit somewhat cringy because of the use of modern saying and personalities from all characters, even the dragons - and I was very curious to see where the story would go. Humans steal a dragon egg, the dragons rampage and take a human baby back with them. This baby is Vur, a blue mage who gets imprinted on by the mama dragon.
Here is where the story starts to derail, and keep in mind this is still the very beginning of the tale. The author does a poor job explaining the rules and logic in the story. For instance, at no point are the characteristic of mages properly defined. They are just labeled colors and the reader has to infer their roles through context clues. White is healing? Black is dark magic? Blue is beast magic? And there are ... what? Five colors, six? Most of the fantasy elements are thrust into the story without explanation like this. I think the only thing given decent explanation is imprinting. Basically, all the magical aspects in the story, which takes up a majority of it, can be overlooked for logic or reason.
Next is the characterization. The story tone is a good balance between western and Japanese-version-of-western fantasy, and the characters mimic that. There is a lot of nonsensical chatter between characters, lack of common sense for the purpose of being humorous, and ridiculously OP skills. Essentially, if someone is powerful, they are the side we are supposed to root for. Weak characters or ones with bad personalities are bad.
Dragons are introduced as practically invinsible. They are Vur's family. Good.
Demon girl, introduced at birth as having great potential as a strong Demon Lord. Grows to be strong. Vur's childhood friend... etc. Good.
Human Prince, wanted a dragon bond, despite growing up to be a hardworking (?) he is still shunned by his "girlfriend", bad.
Human King, bad.
Demon Lord, bad.
Random strangers offering a ride to Vur? Good.
Etc. Etc.
Okay, characters can be a matter of personal taste, and while some have better build up than others, and I would argue that none are enough, the characterization is no where near as bad as the structure of the story. It skips around, introduces characters, places, plot points, does random shit all the time, I could barely keep track of things in the second half. It became incredibly chaotic.
I kept reading, I wanted to know what would happen. I bought the book, might as well finish it. I checked out the second book and simply could not bring myself to read more.
I'm sorry to the author, work on world building and character building and cohesion.
June 21, 2018
So far, this book is more consistently written than The Godking's Legacy, but it's not quite as entertaining. It picks a tense and sticks with it. But the characters aren't quite as entertaining as Lucia. It's still a fun book that was written by someone who has clearly played a very large pile of Jrpgs. It's less an outright comedy like Godking's Legacy, and more just a silly growing up under weird circumstances story.
Okay, the whole skeletons trying to convert people to their religion thing is pretty damn funny. Having spent some time as a missionary a couple decades ago, I was laughing pretty hard at that. On the whole, at about 2/3 of the way through, this book really has the feel of a story that was made up as the author went along. It doesn't really seem to be going anywhere, or to be about anything. It's entertaining, but there's not much point or purpose to it other than to be silly. Which, for what it is, is pretty fun. If you're expecting more than that, you'll probably be a bit disappointed. That's something else The Godking's Legacy has over this one. It feels like an actual story with goals to be achieved, a progression of events leading to a climax, etc. But, sometimes, you just need something silly and pointless that you can have fun with and not have to think about too much to enjoy.
So the book just kind of ends. There's no real climax or anything. Nothing is really resolved. A bunch of things happen, and then it ends. It kind of has the feeling, again, of being made up as the author went along, and then he got to 80k-90k words, said, "great, it's a book. To be continued." And then moved on to writing volume 2. I mean, it's not exactly bad, but at the same time, if you're looking for some sort of story, rather than a collection of silly things that happen, you're probably going to be disappointed. For what it is, a collection of silly things that happen to no point or purpose, it is pretty entertaining, but I do like having some sort of goal to eventually be reached in the end of a story, rather than having it build up to nothing, and just end.
If you are looking for a pointless comedy to relax with and not have to think about too hard, this book will do it for you, especially if you've had any experience with older JRPGs, as it is kind of satirizing them. It was fun, written well enough, and makes no pretensions toward being anything other than what it is--I'm looking at YOU, Rothfuss. I read it pretty quickly, and I'll probably pick up the sequel sometime. The author has a great sense of humor, and knows exactly how seriously to take any given event in the book. I'd recomend his other book, The Godking's Legacy over this one, but this one was still pretty entertaining.
Okay, the whole skeletons trying to convert people to their religion thing is pretty damn funny. Having spent some time as a missionary a couple decades ago, I was laughing pretty hard at that. On the whole, at about 2/3 of the way through, this book really has the feel of a story that was made up as the author went along. It doesn't really seem to be going anywhere, or to be about anything. It's entertaining, but there's not much point or purpose to it other than to be silly. Which, for what it is, is pretty fun. If you're expecting more than that, you'll probably be a bit disappointed. That's something else The Godking's Legacy has over this one. It feels like an actual story with goals to be achieved, a progression of events leading to a climax, etc. But, sometimes, you just need something silly and pointless that you can have fun with and not have to think about too much to enjoy.
So the book just kind of ends. There's no real climax or anything. Nothing is really resolved. A bunch of things happen, and then it ends. It kind of has the feeling, again, of being made up as the author went along, and then he got to 80k-90k words, said, "great, it's a book. To be continued." And then moved on to writing volume 2. I mean, it's not exactly bad, but at the same time, if you're looking for some sort of story, rather than a collection of silly things that happen, you're probably going to be disappointed. For what it is, a collection of silly things that happen to no point or purpose, it is pretty entertaining, but I do like having some sort of goal to eventually be reached in the end of a story, rather than having it build up to nothing, and just end.
If you are looking for a pointless comedy to relax with and not have to think about too hard, this book will do it for you, especially if you've had any experience with older JRPGs, as it is kind of satirizing them. It was fun, written well enough, and makes no pretensions toward being anything other than what it is--I'm looking at YOU, Rothfuss. I read it pretty quickly, and I'll probably pick up the sequel sometime. The author has a great sense of humor, and knows exactly how seriously to take any given event in the book. I'd recomend his other book, The Godking's Legacy over this one, but this one was still pretty entertaining.
August 28, 2017
If I was forced to use two words to describe this book they would be wasted potential. Interesting premise, interesting characters and yet everything is a mess. It's a hotchpotch of fantasy tropes and the author obviously couldn't decide if he wanted it to be a fantasy or litRPG book. Color coded dungeons (that were only mentioned once), levels, ranks, classes, are just a few of terms that should be more at home in a litRPG novel. Then there are the various inconsistencies in characters, the passage of time and of course there are so many characters that seem to have been introduced and then shortly discarded, not to mention the never explained magic system or even the explanation of color coded mages.
It was simply a barely readable mess that could have been so much more.
It was simply a barely readable mess that could have been so much more.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 23, 2018
Super creative...so much potential...very poor writing
I want so badly to give this author 4 or 5 stars but I just can't.
First, the positive. I've rarely read so creative a tale. Tons of original concepts and interesting plot lines, several interesting characters, and a host new ideas.
Sadly, the negatives. Poor timeline management, every idea/character/storyline is both hurried and only partially developed, and the dependency on gaming lingo makes the entire effort sub-par.
Given that...I still may read the next one. I have high hopes for Virlyce given the glimpse we've been given here...but there is a ton of improvements needed if the quality of the storytelling is every to reach the quality of the creativity. There is potential here but it needs a lot of work.
I want so badly to give this author 4 or 5 stars but I just can't.
First, the positive. I've rarely read so creative a tale. Tons of original concepts and interesting plot lines, several interesting characters, and a host new ideas.
Sadly, the negatives. Poor timeline management, every idea/character/storyline is both hurried and only partially developed, and the dependency on gaming lingo makes the entire effort sub-par.
Given that...I still may read the next one. I have high hopes for Virlyce given the glimpse we've been given here...but there is a ton of improvements needed if the quality of the storytelling is every to reach the quality of the creativity. There is potential here but it needs a lot of work.
August 3, 2018
I have mixed feelings about this book. A very strong start - the first quarter was laug filled, enjoyable and filled with surprises and chuckle-inducing content. It puts me in mind of Terry Pratchett, but on much less absurd level.
After the first quarter...the point of view jumps all over the place between quite a few characters and when I started to get a bit lost, I also lost the thread of the story and it stopped making sense for me.
The last third, the only reason I kept reading was, that I don't like leaving books unfinished unless they are terrible and this was only....meh.
Maybe you might enjoy it more, but for me, it was only good for the first 25%.
After the first quarter...the point of view jumps all over the place between quite a few characters and when I started to get a bit lost, I also lost the thread of the story and it stopped making sense for me.
The last third, the only reason I kept reading was, that I don't like leaving books unfinished unless they are terrible and this was only....meh.
Maybe you might enjoy it more, but for me, it was only good for the first 25%.
July 12, 2020
At first it was hilarious, like laugh-out-loud funny. It's written in a Japanese-style light novel format, meaning elementary level writing about simple fantasy worlds with simple characters. The problem is that it reads like a manga or anime screenplay, by which I mean the descriptions are skeletal if they're there at all, and prose is non-existent. It's embarrassingly bad, but there's an even bigger issue: all characters have essentially the same personality. The author has no clue how to write a diverse cast in different voices, with different motives, different worldviews, different humor, etc etc.. As you can imagine, it gets old quickly.
October 18, 2017
Definitely a roller coaster ride
Not exactly sure how to describe this other than an overpowered litrpg romp. Imagine raising a super powered barbarian child. Or captain marvel with the innocence of billy batson, but with dragons, elves demons and undead. Fun, funny and not spoiling it.
Not exactly sure how to describe this other than an overpowered litrpg romp. Imagine raising a super powered barbarian child. Or captain marvel with the innocence of billy batson, but with dragons, elves demons and undead. Fun, funny and not spoiling it.
August 1, 2017
Ruined by litRPG
Would have given this a 5 if it wasn't for all the litRPG. If this isn't your thing it is still readable and I will likely get the next book.
Would have given this a 5 if it wasn't for all the litRPG. If this isn't your thing it is still readable and I will likely get the next book.
September 29, 2024
This book is funny! I’m looking forward to reading the next installment. It left a few questions unanswered but I just figure that’s because it was never meant to be a stand alone book. That said you can read this without reading more (as long as you’re not the type to fixated on what happens/happened to every side characters). It is a complete story all on its own. Very good would definitely recommend
February 3, 2021
I wanted to like this book so much but overall it had a couple shortcomings that made this a little less fun to read.
I wasn’t prepared for so many characters. There were actually so many being introduced near the beginning of the book I had to take notes to try to keep my characters straight, and when I stopped taking notes because I thought the rest of the book wouldn’t have many more characters added the author introduced even more! I believe I wrote down info about 30-something characters before I even hit the 100th page. Maybe I’m just not used to this style but it felt overwhelming at times.
The personalities of a lot of the characters seem cold blooded and I wondered if this was intention of the author to make a lot of the characters sound like psychopaths. Maybe this was me looking too much into it, but the oddness of some of the characters didn’t make sense to me. I found myself only really liking a few characters, but disliking the rest. I felt like some of the characters could’ve had fit into the flow of the story a little better, but maybe this is another flaw on my comprehension since I was struggling with keeping up with all the different characters.
Lastly, I felt like the author’s transitions were a little rough at times between paragraphs and chapters. I believe they had so many mini-storylines going that sometimes it’s hard to get all of them to flow better together.
It’s hard for me to give a book three stars; especially after sitting through 511 pages. In all honesty I would do 3.5 stars if I could. I enjoyed the writing style and story flow on the main storyline so it has me thinking about reading the second book in the series still, but near the end of this one I was about ready to turn down reading the second book so we shall see.
Even though I’m just leaving these reviews for me so I can look back at books later, thank you for reading it!!
I wasn’t prepared for so many characters. There were actually so many being introduced near the beginning of the book I had to take notes to try to keep my characters straight, and when I stopped taking notes because I thought the rest of the book wouldn’t have many more characters added the author introduced even more! I believe I wrote down info about 30-something characters before I even hit the 100th page. Maybe I’m just not used to this style but it felt overwhelming at times.
The personalities of a lot of the characters seem cold blooded and I wondered if this was intention of the author to make a lot of the characters sound like psychopaths. Maybe this was me looking too much into it, but the oddness of some of the characters didn’t make sense to me. I found myself only really liking a few characters, but disliking the rest. I felt like some of the characters could’ve had fit into the flow of the story a little better, but maybe this is another flaw on my comprehension since I was struggling with keeping up with all the different characters.
Lastly, I felt like the author’s transitions were a little rough at times between paragraphs and chapters. I believe they had so many mini-storylines going that sometimes it’s hard to get all of them to flow better together.
It’s hard for me to give a book three stars; especially after sitting through 511 pages. In all honesty I would do 3.5 stars if I could. I enjoyed the writing style and story flow on the main storyline so it has me thinking about reading the second book in the series still, but near the end of this one I was about ready to turn down reading the second book so we shall see.
Even though I’m just leaving these reviews for me so I can look back at books later, thank you for reading it!!
June 16, 2018
I picked this up after finishing Virlyce's "The Godking's Legacy", and this was significantly worse. It had no purpose- no major resolution to a conflict or clear goal that it was headed toward. The pacing was also off, as it seemed like it aught to have found a different way to include a number of events rather than moving through them chronologically. I'm not saying I haven't picked up other books that did these things, but I am saying this one didn't manage to make it work. It often felt like it was moving too slow, and the characters just weren't interesting enough. A book like this needs to play to its strengths, and unfortunately this one didn't.
June 14, 2019
This book was one thing. And that was WEIRD. It is the most peculiar thing I have read for quite sometime.
Lets start with the hero being so overpowered from day one that I felt like reading his beautiful life, where he did what he wanted. The conflict was always minimal and the big fights were not even described.
At some point the plot just bore me. Nothing happened.
The author was like, oh he should become king, and next page he just became king. The other wealthy people tried to poison him. But guess what he is so OP that he can not be poisoned!!!
Finishing the book I had one question.
What was the point for this book to exist?
Lets start with the hero being so overpowered from day one that I felt like reading his beautiful life, where he did what he wanted. The conflict was always minimal and the big fights were not even described.
At some point the plot just bore me. Nothing happened.
The author was like, oh he should become king, and next page he just became king. The other wealthy people tried to poison him. But guess what he is so OP that he can not be poisoned!!!
Finishing the book I had one question.
What was the point for this book to exist?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 23, 2020
This book is an absolute waste of your time and brain power. I could actually feel my brain cells die as I progressed through the story.
The author has no ability to utilize any sort of tension, dramatic, comedic, or narrative. As a result, there never seems to be a sense of purpose or punchline in the whole story. The story goes over various arcs in which the main character, gifted the power of dragons, goes about his life as a spoiled brat while some shadowy tension seems to build and then it just peters out in service to a new gag. Literally nothing happens because the character is powerful enough to just get what he wants. There's never a question whether he could fail.
The author has no ability to utilize any sort of tension, dramatic, comedic, or narrative. As a result, there never seems to be a sense of purpose or punchline in the whole story. The story goes over various arcs in which the main character, gifted the power of dragons, goes about his life as a spoiled brat while some shadowy tension seems to build and then it just peters out in service to a new gag. Literally nothing happens because the character is powerful enough to just get what he wants. There's never a question whether he could fail.
January 5, 2018
Entertaining amalgamation of video game, rpgs, etc. But unfortunately brings with it the worst of geek culture; a lack of understanding of physical boundaries, consent, and sexual assault. Sexual assault is defined in most states as penetration, and that includes by objects (ie knives). And continuing to touch someone when they don’t want to be touched (tickling them for hours) is also a violation of consent and can considered assault. These things are never a joke. If a few scenes were removed I would have loved this book.
July 27, 2021
This is fun... in the same way as Saturday morning cartoons. The hero is some kind of superman with the innocence of a toddler. The corrupt entrenched powers of the world should beware.
It's trite, amusing, and low-brow. If you don't go into it expecting literary prose, you should have a great time.
It's trite, amusing, and low-brow. If you don't go into it expecting literary prose, you should have a great time.
May 17, 2018
Whiny, overpowered sociopaths make for an occasional funny moment, but aren't really up to being engaging characters.
January 10, 2021
Did not finish - maybe listened to 45 minutes. I love some children's literature, but this was not mature enough for me.
June 28, 2021
Started out ok, but once a certain character was freed, the book lost me. Can definitely tell this is from a serial media. Normally this is not an issue for me, but it was in this case.
January 20, 2018
Cuando el huevo de un dragón es robado por humanos, la madre roba un niño humano con poderes de mago azul y le imprime sus poderes de dragón. Mientras el niño crece en edad y en habilidades guerreras, se van incorporando personajes de distintas especies (elfos, hadas, demonios, golem, esqueletos, espíritus...), aportando tramas paralelas, describiendo el mundo y su historia.
Me encanta que la narrativa es entretenida, hay situaciones hilarantes, y hasta tiene momentos muy "Forest Gump" donde un personaje socialmente inadaptado logra dar consejos muy precisos.
Ninguno de los personajes es totalmente bueno o malo y, a pesar de introducir toneladas de ellos, cada uno juega una parte necesaria en la trama mayor. Y eso es muy difícil de lograr!!
Este no es un libro para tomar en serio: se ríe de las convenciones sociales, la nobleza, el clero, la locura, el poder, de las reglas biológicas (por qué no mezclar especies???!!!) y hasta de los prejuicios de los lectores (leí críticas a los dragones porque hablaban slang humano ¿¡W?!)- Es una apuesta muy jugada porque es difícil de catalogar (y a la gente que le gustan los libros, le gustan las definiciones claras). Mi recomendación es que se relajen, disfruten el libro y retengan aquellos elementos que les resulten valiosos.
Me encantó !!!
Me encanta que la narrativa es entretenida, hay situaciones hilarantes, y hasta tiene momentos muy "Forest Gump" donde un personaje socialmente inadaptado logra dar consejos muy precisos.
Ninguno de los personajes es totalmente bueno o malo y, a pesar de introducir toneladas de ellos, cada uno juega una parte necesaria en la trama mayor. Y eso es muy difícil de lograr!!
Este no es un libro para tomar en serio: se ríe de las convenciones sociales, la nobleza, el clero, la locura, el poder, de las reglas biológicas (por qué no mezclar especies???!!!) y hasta de los prejuicios de los lectores (leí críticas a los dragones porque hablaban slang humano ¿¡W?!)- Es una apuesta muy jugada porque es difícil de catalogar (y a la gente que le gustan los libros, le gustan las definiciones claras). Mi recomendación es que se relajen, disfruten el libro y retengan aquellos elementos que les resulten valiosos.
Me encantó !!!
June 18, 2018
An absolutely hilarious book which had me laughing out loud constantly throughout. Many people seem to disapprove of this book's litRPG features as well how ridiculous it can be, but I believe this is due to what some look for in the book. If you are looking for a serious, deep read, look elsewhere, but if you would like a fun, lighthearted tale then this is for you. This book is basically about a young, ridiculously overpowered child who goes on all matter of adventures and uproots most societies in his path, while being completely clueless about the destruction he leaves in his wake. When reading this book, think of it as a fun tale that could be told around a campfire, rather than a serious, more modern book. Some may be confused by the litRPG features, however even someone not familiar with games should be able to figure out what they are saying for the most part. Overall an amazing tale which I would highly recommend to anyone looking for a fun, different book to put them in high spirits.
August 15, 2018
A long quirky fun read.
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Would I read the next oneor reread ?: Yes
My rating system (* = star)
0* Could not finish this book (waste of time)
1*Finished the book butdidn't like it not fulfilled
2* Finished the book it was okay.
3* A good read worth your time.
4* An excellent read often with a novel concept or unusual plot.
5* A magnificent read. A prominent example of the genre.
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Book Rating
Sexual Content: U
Language: U
Violent: U
Would I read the next one
My rating system (* = star)
0* Could not finish this book (waste of time)
1*Finished the book but
2* Finished the book it was okay.
3* A good read worth your time.
4* An excellent read often with a novel concept or unusual plot.
5* A magnificent read. A prominent example of the genre.
February 23, 2019
This is a strange little book.
At points, this is laugh out loud hilarious.
At points the poop jokes made me just put it down and read something which didn't have the sense of humour of an eleven year old boy.
The characters are ridiculous and mostly you just shouldn't take anything seriously.
The world building is honestly better than I expected. It all hangs together better than it should.
There are some serious problems with pacing and a lot of characters with unmemorable names which are sometimes hard to keep track of.
But I thoroughly enjoyed the ridiculous adventure of this silly book. I don't think I'll read the sequel immediately, but I'll keep it in mind when I'm looking for new lighthearted adventure fantasy again :)
At points, this is laugh out loud hilarious.
At points the poop jokes made me just put it down and read something which didn't have the sense of humour of an eleven year old boy.
The characters are ridiculous and mostly you just shouldn't take anything seriously.
The world building is honestly better than I expected. It all hangs together better than it should.
There are some serious problems with pacing and a lot of characters with unmemorable names which are sometimes hard to keep track of.
But I thoroughly enjoyed the ridiculous adventure of this silly book. I don't think I'll read the sequel immediately, but I'll keep it in mind when I'm looking for new lighthearted adventure fantasy again :)
June 8, 2022
This was a DNF for me after 30%. It was an interesting premise and the start of the story was good. There were some numerous parts. Unfortunately, there was no story arc, no depth for the characters, and no growth. It almost felt like a disjointed set of brief cartoon episodes in which the main character, Vur, goes to a new location, annoys the magical being there, learns something to make him even more god like without learning anything to temper his impulsivity, recklessness or lack of compassion and then moves on to the next location. We never hear from those characters again. Rinse and repeat. The dialogue between Vur and the various other magical creatures was also just a slight variation of the dialogue with last magical creature. I’m sure this story is for someone but not for me.
January 10, 2022
If you enjoy a sence of dry humor and irony read this
When you first start the book its hard get a sense of direction in intent of the story, its almost as if the Author is trying to find their footing. Fortunetly the tale gains a leg up and therr are truly funny portions and worth the read. There are however points where the story shifts focus and you feel like your wondering around in the dark for a bit, its as if the Author wanted to shift styles. What's interesting is they almost pulled it off but in the end shift back to the dry humor and irony to conclude the story. Yeah sorta drifts at the end like this review
When you first start the book its hard get a sense of direction in intent of the story, its almost as if the Author is trying to find their footing. Fortunetly the tale gains a leg up and therr are truly funny portions and worth the read. There are however points where the story shifts focus and you feel like your wondering around in the dark for a bit, its as if the Author wanted to shift styles. What's interesting is they almost pulled it off but in the end shift back to the dry humor and irony to conclude the story. Yeah sorta drifts at the end like this review
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