The One-Armed Warlock: Book One

by Durl White

Introducing a most devilish protagonist, someone who isn’t very touchy-feely and kindhearted. However, he wasn’t always this way. The One-Armed Warlock was once a regular, meme-loving guy. Now, he serves the mighty Voidlord Bognaroth, and commands subservants of his own! Together, the warlock and his minions are forcefully bringing LitRPG into the realm of Humorous Dark Comedy.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The One-Armed Warlock ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐When life gives you oranges, you make orange juice… or keep them on the counter to grow old and eventually get thrown away. When it gives you a demonic master, you become a warlock; that's what I did anyway. My name is Benjamin, but you can call me Big Daddy Ben – no one else does. I was midway through my twenties and living a relatively normal life when everything changed. No, I wasn’t accepted into some weird warlock school for gifted adults. Technology failed, all of it, even simple stuff like bicycles. It all broke apart as if an unseen force was dismantling all those wonderful inventions we took for granted.It was magic of course. Magic was reentering the world at an accelerating pace. You didn’t need to live in a fantasy castle or attend online potion brewing classes to realize it; just peeking out the front window and watching your neighbor get their head blown off by an energy beam would do the trick. This is the start of my (LitRPG) adventure and how I became known to everyone, even your mom, as the One-Armed Warlock.

415 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 8, 2020

Reviews

[Stanislas Sodonon · Rating 1 out of 5]

I want my books to make sense. I want to understand why the MC moves from stage A to B.
Nothing in this book made sense, in regards to why the MC chose his progression path.
And the snark was wayyy above my level of tolerance.
That's a pass for me.

[Johnny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book one

Mistakes: oh wow did I find a lot. Not just spelling errors but plot errors as well. For instance he takes all of Maggots equipment so it doesn’t get damaged, yet Maggot climbs out of the pit fully equipped.

Plot: A weak and cowardly guy makes a deal with a dark god. Honestly the story is a lot of fun if you can overlook all the errors.

Characters: The Mc is a bad guy. His choices though seem to be logical.

5/10

[Chris Evans · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not really a book series for me I'm afraid. Everyone character in it is horrible to a irredeemable magnitude with the Main Character being the worse of them all. It's one of those books where if you find a likeable character, they're either going to turn out to be secretly a child murderer or about to die and/or be corrupted in some horrible way.

White seems to have an issue remembering earlier parts of his own story. When he was getting kicked out of barter town, at one point he was told he was unconscious for several days, but they then proceed to talk as if the events were the night before rather than several days back.
Later, he casts blood leach on Dave and acts like that was the first time he'd cast on a normal human, apparently forgetting the normal human thief he'd burned and leached to death a few pages earlier.

[Lark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Being a warlock ain't pretty, it just is what it is. A wild journey it was. A fun one following a villain without any illusions about how bad and awful he is, just trying to make do.

Story is set on earth not in a VRMMO which also gets bonus points.
Just enough litrpg elements to not be drawn out and tedious to go through.
A lot of dark humor which hit home for me.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The blurb said it has comedy. With a cover this bad, the book has to be funny. I will give it a try.

This wasn't too bad. I actually enjoyed it. I will read the sequel in the future.

3/5 Stars

[Antony Templeman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable, could do with a little more refinement but overall had fun with it.