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Harpy Core
Tame Harpies. Fight Monsters. Gain Power. Become King.
When Kit Jones inherits a house from a long-lost relative, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot – until a mysterious orb in the attic transports him to a far-away land of islands, tropical forests, dangerous creatures, and harpies.
But these aren’t your typical harpies – they’re smoking hot, white-winged and know how to defend themselves.
Thrown head first into battle, Kit must learn how to fight, command his new abilities, and tame the desires of the beautiful harpies if he wants to have any hope of not only surviving, but leading his girls to victory against a vicious enemy seeking to wipe the harpies from existence.
Warning: Harpy Core features explicit sexuality, hot harpies, savage creatures, giant monsters, melee combat, winged flight, fallen kingdoms, assassination attempts, deadly jungles, a sun-splashed archipelago, magical orbs, hidden temples, and a whole lot of bad guys getting speared in the face. If that doesn’t sound like your kind of thing, steer clear.
When Kit Jones inherits a house from a long-lost relative, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot – until a mysterious orb in the attic transports him to a far-away land of islands, tropical forests, dangerous creatures, and harpies.
But these aren’t your typical harpies – they’re smoking hot, white-winged and know how to defend themselves.
Thrown head first into battle, Kit must learn how to fight, command his new abilities, and tame the desires of the beautiful harpies if he wants to have any hope of not only surviving, but leading his girls to victory against a vicious enemy seeking to wipe the harpies from existence.
Warning: Harpy Core features explicit sexuality, hot harpies, savage creatures, giant monsters, melee combat, winged flight, fallen kingdoms, assassination attempts, deadly jungles, a sun-splashed archipelago, magical orbs, hidden temples, and a whole lot of bad guys getting speared in the face. If that doesn’t sound like your kind of thing, steer clear.
197 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 2, 2019
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April 15, 2019
Kit Jones is a simple barista whose life is about to get a lot more complicated. A mysterious magical orb ignites a journey to a Greco-Romanesque world full of beautiful harpy women that haven’t seen a man in ages.
The world Kit finds himself in is a vast ocean pocked with innumerable islands that support various species of warring creatures, including multiple types of harpies — some of which are bestial and bellicose. The women he aligns himself with, however, are soft, sensual, and feminine. They also wield melee weapons like nobody’s business, constantly prepared to fend off enemies that would destroy their nation and all of the winged women in it.
Enter: Kit. For reasons no one can yet explain, he was able to unlock an item of vast power and potential, making him the harpies’ best chance of keeping their race alive. It doesn’t hurt that the two harpy women he starts questing with are eager to remind themselves how much they enjoy a man’s touch.
The story has action scenes aplenty, including a nice climactic battle at the end with a villain I wasn’t expecting. There are explicit sex scenes, but they are fairly short and few in number – easy and enjoyable to read without becoming a centerpiece of the story.
The writing is a little rough, with occasional typos, incorrect word choices, and repetitive words and phrases in close proximity. Plus, the narration comes off as frantic from time to time. If you can push past that, the story is a fun one, featuring an MC who quests for ancient relics and ventures across an archipelago to diffuse traps, kick ass, and blow stuff up while bedding two busty harpy gals both separately and together.
As for Kit, he comes across as immature and inconsistent, though he does evolve a bit by the end of the book. Still, he’s no alpha male. Despite growing into a role as hero to the harpies, he gets teased and pushed around a bit. He does accumulate a few powerful abilities though, so it will be interesting to see how his personality arcs in the next book and what kind of confidence these powers give him.
There were a few mysteries set up in book 1 that book 2 may address, so there is promise to build on this basic foundation. Kit may yet uncover the secret to traveling to this world he landed himself in, discover more about these ancient artifacts, and learn what role his family inheritance may have in the conflicts that face the harpies.
All in all, this was a nice quick read. It’s not too complicated, and was perhaps a bit rushed at times, with issues in the manuscript that could have been fixed with an editor, but the world was creative and the character interactions were fun. Hopefully book 2 will improve as the story develops.
The world Kit finds himself in is a vast ocean pocked with innumerable islands that support various species of warring creatures, including multiple types of harpies — some of which are bestial and bellicose. The women he aligns himself with, however, are soft, sensual, and feminine. They also wield melee weapons like nobody’s business, constantly prepared to fend off enemies that would destroy their nation and all of the winged women in it.
Enter: Kit. For reasons no one can yet explain, he was able to unlock an item of vast power and potential, making him the harpies’ best chance of keeping their race alive. It doesn’t hurt that the two harpy women he starts questing with are eager to remind themselves how much they enjoy a man’s touch.
The story has action scenes aplenty, including a nice climactic battle at the end with a villain I wasn’t expecting. There are explicit sex scenes, but they are fairly short and few in number – easy and enjoyable to read without becoming a centerpiece of the story.
The writing is a little rough, with occasional typos, incorrect word choices, and repetitive words and phrases in close proximity. Plus, the narration comes off as frantic from time to time. If you can push past that, the story is a fun one, featuring an MC who quests for ancient relics and ventures across an archipelago to diffuse traps, kick ass, and blow stuff up while bedding two busty harpy gals both separately and together.
As for Kit, he comes across as immature and inconsistent, though he does evolve a bit by the end of the book. Still, he’s no alpha male. Despite growing into a role as hero to the harpies, he gets teased and pushed around a bit. He does accumulate a few powerful abilities though, so it will be interesting to see how his personality arcs in the next book and what kind of confidence these powers give him.
There were a few mysteries set up in book 1 that book 2 may address, so there is promise to build on this basic foundation. Kit may yet uncover the secret to traveling to this world he landed himself in, discover more about these ancient artifacts, and learn what role his family inheritance may have in the conflicts that face the harpies.
All in all, this was a nice quick read. It’s not too complicated, and was perhaps a bit rushed at times, with issues in the manuscript that could have been fixed with an editor, but the world was creative and the character interactions were fun. Hopefully book 2 will improve as the story develops.
July 19, 2023
It's a Fantasy-Isekai-ed to another world through the use of some magical Harpy Crystals. It is irrational, illogical and nonsensical. Kit Jones (Kitrington Oliver Jones Hunt), main character, was a hot-beverage-server in Center State U.S.A. (Chesterfield), when a lawyer's aide gives him the bad news that a Grandmother that he had no previous knowledge of, died and willed him her Estate. Most Isekai-s have plot holes about the teleportation/taking another person into another world, so, let's say that part is okay. Where I draw the line is, Kit, main character, is sent to an island full of Harpies. Not the regular bird-like-with-Talons-and-cries-that-are-like-siren's-calls... Harpies of Fantasy lore, but more like Valkyries (beautiful Angels with wings-like the Victoria's Angels in their fashion show). Not having a real reason to be there, much less having a good reason to stay, Kit, main character, decides on the author's whim, to be the "savior" of this "last-bastion" of Valkyrie-like-women-with-wings (Alerian Harpies). There are only women, and he being the only male, well, this is the explanation for the Harem-like-wet-dream-of-an-adventure-created-by-an-author-that-has-little-to-no-emotional-intelligence.
Would a hot-beverage server, that has no martial arts training, no real abilities or skills, throw himself into a family-war, to save the last of the Winged women of this other World?? Would you risk your life, constantly, without any martial arts training, warfare training, abilities or skills, to save some wing-like-Valkyries?? Where I am going with this is that I feel this author did not sell the Honor, Glory and Duty part of staying to fight for the right of the Valkyrie-Winged-Women to be able to survive. I mean, Kit Jones, main character, has sensual liaisons (the same day) with the Valkyrie that saved him (Ariadne) from falling into an abyss and towards definite death, but can sex with at least 2 Valkyries be "enough of a reason" to stay? Kit is an orphan, really not good at anything, and has really nothing to lose or anything to fight for...but is this the profile of a "savior"-"hero"? "Alpha-male" that will save and procreate this group of Valkyries from the brink of extinction? I do not think so. Progeny, Love, Duty, Boatloads of Money, etc. are usually required for a person to risk their lives for complete strangers. And, NO, definitely NOT, there is no LOVE in this story. I mean the main character had sex with Ariadne, just because, there hadn't been a male Harpie, in their community, since the Heir (Son of the Queen) supposedly died in battle and to top it off, these Valkyrie-type-Harpies are polyamorous, no strings attached, will have pleasure and consensual sex with anything and anybody...anytime??? So, where is the Love in that?? It can be lust, it can be extreme "horny-ness" and not much "emotional-intelligence", but who in their right mind would risk their life for these remaining Alerian Harpies?? Is this enough to create a whole Fantasy-Isekai-ed novel series??? NO DEFINITELY NOT. No way José!
So, the common plot holes and the weak theme makes this a bad Fantasy novel series. The author doesn't really sell the main character well, doesn't really sell the Alerian Harpies extinction well, then places a lot of contradictions (when Kit, main character, talks to the Harpie God-Figure, when somebody that was presumed dead shows up to continue to make the Alerian Harpies extinct. So, if they aren't really into the Valkyrie-like-Angel-women, why should a regular Joe, that only knows how to serve it hot (Hot Joe/Java/beverage). protect, save and serve these few remaining women??
I do not recommend this Fantasy-Isekai-novel series. The only positive thing I could find, was that this author actually wrote in the small introduction, that this is an adults only book. No inside illustrations, no maps, no character summaries or additional information about this world, it's governance, location, etc. etc. etc.
Would a hot-beverage server, that has no martial arts training, no real abilities or skills, throw himself into a family-war, to save the last of the Winged women of this other World?? Would you risk your life, constantly, without any martial arts training, warfare training, abilities or skills, to save some wing-like-Valkyries?? Where I am going with this is that I feel this author did not sell the Honor, Glory and Duty part of staying to fight for the right of the Valkyrie-Winged-Women to be able to survive. I mean, Kit Jones, main character, has sensual liaisons (the same day) with the Valkyrie that saved him (Ariadne) from falling into an abyss and towards definite death, but can sex with at least 2 Valkyries be "enough of a reason" to stay? Kit is an orphan, really not good at anything, and has really nothing to lose or anything to fight for...but is this the profile of a "savior"-"hero"? "Alpha-male" that will save and procreate this group of Valkyries from the brink of extinction? I do not think so. Progeny, Love, Duty, Boatloads of Money, etc. are usually required for a person to risk their lives for complete strangers. And, NO, definitely NOT, there is no LOVE in this story. I mean the main character had sex with Ariadne, just because, there hadn't been a male Harpie, in their community, since the Heir (Son of the Queen) supposedly died in battle and to top it off, these Valkyrie-type-Harpies are polyamorous, no strings attached, will have pleasure and consensual sex with anything and anybody...anytime??? So, where is the Love in that?? It can be lust, it can be extreme "horny-ness" and not much "emotional-intelligence", but who in their right mind would risk their life for these remaining Alerian Harpies?? Is this enough to create a whole Fantasy-Isekai-ed novel series??? NO DEFINITELY NOT. No way José!
So, the common plot holes and the weak theme makes this a bad Fantasy novel series. The author doesn't really sell the main character well, doesn't really sell the Alerian Harpies extinction well, then places a lot of contradictions (when Kit, main character, talks to the Harpie God-Figure, when somebody that was presumed dead shows up to continue to make the Alerian Harpies extinct. So, if they aren't really into the Valkyrie-like-Angel-women, why should a regular Joe, that only knows how to serve it hot (Hot Joe/Java/beverage). protect, save and serve these few remaining women??
I do not recommend this Fantasy-Isekai-novel series. The only positive thing I could find, was that this author actually wrote in the small introduction, that this is an adults only book. No inside illustrations, no maps, no character summaries or additional information about this world, it's governance, location, etc. etc. etc.
August 15, 2020
Garbage
This book is badly written with little to no depth or plot. The characters are flat and their interactions are rushed and unbelievable. To be clear, it has nothing to do with the books genre. It is the writing that is terrible. Don’t waste your time.
This book is badly written with little to no depth or plot. The characters are flat and their interactions are rushed and unbelievable. To be clear, it has nothing to do with the books genre. It is the writing that is terrible. Don’t waste your time.
November 3, 2024
So many idiots expecting the book of the century when it's obvious what it's for. Sex and harem. Idk why you complain about plot holes and development. Don't read it if that's what you want. Dumb asses.
April 21, 2019
this was pretty cool, hope that its the first in a long series rather than a stand alone with the possiblity of more either way i liked it :)
May 7, 2019
Fun book
A new mythology for those who enjoy these types of books. While not groundbreaking, it doesn’t need to be to have honest characters and fun action sequences.
A new mythology for those who enjoy these types of books. While not groundbreaking, it doesn’t need to be to have honest characters and fun action sequences.
April 11, 2020
Great
A great way to start a new series!! Love the concept and the way "beautiful" Harpies were explained ! I for one anxiously await the next books
A great way to start a new series!! Love the concept and the way "beautiful" Harpies were explained ! I for one anxiously await the next books
May 21, 2021
A fun, quick read
Thus book was a lot of fun. A good quick read. I'm really looking forward to the next one. Give it a shot.
Thus book was a lot of fun. A good quick read. I'm really looking forward to the next one. Give it a shot.
April 19, 2019
Fun read
What a fun book to read. The author has created such an amazing world and fun characters. I really enjoyed reading this book and can’t until the next book comes out.
What a fun book to read. The author has created such an amazing world and fun characters. I really enjoyed reading this book and can’t until the next book comes out.
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