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Last Born of Ki'darth #1
Reincarnation
Nick was going to make something of himself. He was not going to be just another guy drifting through life. Then he died.
Lucky for him he caught the attention of an eccentric god and gets to choose. Reincarnation or travel beyond.
Nick is reborn as a champion of Ki’darth people. He must learn their ways, stay alive, and work to understand the Titan system one level at a time.
Join Nick and his trusty talking book, Neako as they complete quests, learn new abilities, and gain levels!
This is a LitRPG book with a ‘game system’-levels, stats, and cool abilities. No Harem and loads of fun violence.
Lucky for him he caught the attention of an eccentric god and gets to choose. Reincarnation or travel beyond.
Nick is reborn as a champion of Ki’darth people. He must learn their ways, stay alive, and work to understand the Titan system one level at a time.
Join Nick and his trusty talking book, Neako as they complete quests, learn new abilities, and gain levels!
This is a LitRPG book with a ‘game system’-levels, stats, and cool abilities. No Harem and loads of fun violence.
- GenresFantasyScience Fiction
179 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 1, 2020
300 people are currently reading
126 people want to read
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Timothy McGowen
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As a full time author I enjoy hours of writing and reading every day. I'm living the dream and I thank my lucky stars each day that I get to write fulltime. Please leave a review and tell a friend about my books, each one reviewed or sold is a boon towards my epic quest of staying fulltime.
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July 17, 2022
My reviews are to help readers determine if they want to take a chance on a book.
That being said, this is just horribly written. It is as if you built a house so quickly that you forgot to put in ANY framing. The characters are generic. The conflict is manufactured and cliche. The MC is pathetic. The character development is just missing, it is completely skipped over. The world mechanics are presented as crunchy, but are in reality bloated and unneeded. This was either rushed forward without a care for quality, or it was written with a lack of creative talent.
That being said, this is just horribly written. It is as if you built a house so quickly that you forgot to put in ANY framing. The characters are generic. The conflict is manufactured and cliche. The MC is pathetic. The character development is just missing, it is completely skipped over. The world mechanics are presented as crunchy, but are in reality bloated and unneeded. This was either rushed forward without a care for quality, or it was written with a lack of creative talent.
February 2, 2022
Good story, good characters.
A nice mix of isekai and portal elements with reincarnation and gamelit elements.
Tends towards the sci-fi range of things, which is a nice change of pace from the normal gamelit offerings. It's gone through a recent rewrite, which has made the story a lot tighter and with a really great flow.
Second book can't come soon enough.
A nice mix of isekai and portal elements with reincarnation and gamelit elements.
Tends towards the sci-fi range of things, which is a nice change of pace from the normal gamelit offerings. It's gone through a recent rewrite, which has made the story a lot tighter and with a really great flow.
Second book can't come soon enough.
August 28, 2020
I liked this book. It's a bit scifish, so that helps, since scifi is usually my favorite genre, and while this story doesn't have a lot of scifi stuff in it, there's aliens, spaceships, and laser weapons, so that helps. Of course, there's also fantasy elements too, what with the magic and multiple races, but all and all, it's really the story that stands out here. It's a story that's been told before, (aliens show up, mine the planet into oblivion, while enslaving the natives, but this version has some unique twists that makes the story not so identical to it's clones, and that's where the fun comes in. It's a fun story, and I'd wager any scifi LitRPG fan will enjoy. Give it a try and see.
September 7, 2022
Timothy McGowen does an excellent job with book 1 in the Reincarnation series. The MC is likeable and you want him to succeed at every bend while he comes into his powers. The supporting characters are well balanced, the story is well written, and the world is awesome to watch unfold in front of your eyes as the MC learns more about the world and the race he finds himself belonging to now. I cannot wait for book 2! Narrated by: Todd Menesses does an amazing job with the narration and each character is unique. Watch out for the cat!
February 18, 2022
wow just wow
The story is great, it’s grow better with each page, I could not put it down. Characters draw you in an I like Nick. Looking forward to the next books.
The story is great, it’s grow better with each page, I could not put it down. Characters draw you in an I like Nick. Looking forward to the next books.
February 15, 2022
great read
I really liked this book. The book was not long in page count but there was very little filler which is nice. Will definitely buy the next one.
I really liked this book. The book was not long in page count but there was very little filler which is nice. Will definitely buy the next one.
February 13, 2022
Great litrpg
Weak to strong, stats, isekai, fantasy, sci-fi, budding romance. What more could you ask for? Thanks for the read very fun entertainment.
Weak to strong, stats, isekai, fantasy, sci-fi, budding romance. What more could you ask for? Thanks for the read very fun entertainment.
February 10, 2022
Interesting ideas with questionable character/world building choices.
The quick of it is I got to 86% of the book and just had to stop to write this review. Don't read this if you like good litrpg mechanics, cats, sci-fi, even a little bit of romance in a story, magic, strategy, or MC's without plot armor. This story could have been awesome I feel, but is held back by the MC and his actions/dialogue, the lack of imagination in power uses, and more. Numerous times the MC would say or do something and it would kick me out of the story with me thinking "why did he do/say that". I want to say much more but it's just mostly criticism for the author on why this story could have been better, imo. It had me excited at the beginning of the story but it let me down. 3/10
The quick of it is I got to 86% of the book and just had to stop to write this review. Don't read this if you like good litrpg mechanics, cats, sci-fi, even a little bit of romance in a story, magic, strategy, or MC's without plot armor. This story could have been awesome I feel, but is held back by the MC and his actions/dialogue, the lack of imagination in power uses, and more. Numerous times the MC would say or do something and it would kick me out of the story with me thinking "why did he do/say that". I want to say much more but it's just mostly criticism for the author on why this story could have been better, imo. It had me excited at the beginning of the story but it let me down. 3/10
November 15, 2022
Book one
OK I’m using voice to text so if this doesn’t come out well blame whoever created the system.
For me, this book just felt choppy and rushed. It’s a reincarnation story, and as far as I can tell throughout the book, he’s a child, but he’s strong enough to take out the strongest champion of the people who reincarnated with. He’s also having sex with his girlfriend. This doesn’t make any sense because again they are children.
The author could’ve spent some time building up the world going in depth on the people. Instead, he’s in a mad rush to make the character as overpowered as possible. Everything just feels incredibly rushed.
I actually skimmed parts of entire chapters because it’s jumping from one thing to another no real time is spent on any one thing not even the main characters.
The stat sheet doesn’t matter. I mean the gathering of experience just seems to come out of nowhere to make the MC stronger and stronger and stronger.
As a child, he’s running around killing hundreds if not thousands of enemy troops. Can shoot lasers from his eyes. Kills monsters with one shot that terrifies everybody else.
It’s just really unrealistic to the point where I have problems suspending my belief.
This book could’ve been much better if it had been given some depth.
I’ll give this book a four out of 10 hopefully the other two books in the series will be better.
OK I’m using voice to text so if this doesn’t come out well blame whoever created the system.
For me, this book just felt choppy and rushed. It’s a reincarnation story, and as far as I can tell throughout the book, he’s a child, but he’s strong enough to take out the strongest champion of the people who reincarnated with. He’s also having sex with his girlfriend. This doesn’t make any sense because again they are children.
The author could’ve spent some time building up the world going in depth on the people. Instead, he’s in a mad rush to make the character as overpowered as possible. Everything just feels incredibly rushed.
I actually skimmed parts of entire chapters because it’s jumping from one thing to another no real time is spent on any one thing not even the main characters.
The stat sheet doesn’t matter. I mean the gathering of experience just seems to come out of nowhere to make the MC stronger and stronger and stronger.
As a child, he’s running around killing hundreds if not thousands of enemy troops. Can shoot lasers from his eyes. Kills monsters with one shot that terrifies everybody else.
It’s just really unrealistic to the point where I have problems suspending my belief.
This book could’ve been much better if it had been given some depth.
I’ll give this book a four out of 10 hopefully the other two books in the series will be better.
February 8, 2022
Ok book
Nothing remarkable about this book,some of it was unbelivible especially about the mc getting the girl right off the bat!! Plus the writer actually wrote while they where walking to safe zone " sorry i have been so tence lately" that ended my reading if this book
Nothing remarkable about this book,some of it was unbelivible especially about the mc getting the girl right off the bat!! Plus the writer actually wrote while they where walking to safe zone " sorry i have been so tence lately" that ended my reading if this book
February 10, 2022
KU Review
Really fun reincarnation/portal story. Nice to get a perspective other than typical fantasy. Also an interesting blend of rpg and cultivation. Looking forward to the next.
As the title says this is a review for Kindle Unlimited and as such is a reflection of my enjoyment of the book and in no way reflects cost to value analysis.
Really fun reincarnation/portal story. Nice to get a perspective other than typical fantasy. Also an interesting blend of rpg and cultivation. Looking forward to the next.
As the title says this is a review for Kindle Unlimited and as such is a reflection of my enjoyment of the book and in no way reflects cost to value analysis.
July 29, 2022
3.5 Stars
I liked a lot about this book, but there were many things that I didn’t. I think a lot of those can be blamed on the narrator. When I was reading the text, I enjoyed it a lot more than when listening to it on audible. Of particular annoyance was the pronunciation of one of the Character names. “Mesh’eel” looks like it should be pronounced “Mesh Eel.” For the First half of the book he pronounced it “ME shell” like it was a Frenchman named Michel or a woman named Michelle. Then he changes it to “ME SHEEL” for a while and around the end of the book seems to just pick a pronunciation at random. If you are going to pronounce something incorrectly, at least be consistent!
The MC is DUMB. Most of the damage he takes in the book is avoidable if he was just paying attention or quicker to react. It felt like, in most of the fight scenes, he takes one swing… whiffs… then stands there with a dumb look on his face trying to figure out what is happening while the attack he knows is coming inevitably lands.
Also, mildly annoying, was the fact that the race he is reincarnated into has a 100:1 male to female ratio. So, of course, the only female in the story is his love interest even when he is still considered an infant by their standards. I would think a race like that would either end up with a Matriarchy & reverse harems or Females would end up as highly valued “commodity” that all the males would fight over. But no, the MC infant gets to come in and take her off the market almost immediately and nobody bats an eyelash or says a thing about it.
I liked a lot about this book, but there were many things that I didn’t. I think a lot of those can be blamed on the narrator. When I was reading the text, I enjoyed it a lot more than when listening to it on audible. Of particular annoyance was the pronunciation of one of the Character names. “Mesh’eel” looks like it should be pronounced “Mesh Eel.” For the First half of the book he pronounced it “ME shell” like it was a Frenchman named Michel or a woman named Michelle. Then he changes it to “ME SHEEL” for a while and around the end of the book seems to just pick a pronunciation at random. If you are going to pronounce something incorrectly, at least be consistent!
The MC is DUMB. Most of the damage he takes in the book is avoidable if he was just paying attention or quicker to react. It felt like, in most of the fight scenes, he takes one swing… whiffs… then stands there with a dumb look on his face trying to figure out what is happening while the attack he knows is coming inevitably lands.
Also, mildly annoying, was the fact that the race he is reincarnated into has a 100:1 male to female ratio. So, of course, the only female in the story is his love interest even when he is still considered an infant by their standards. I would think a race like that would either end up with a Matriarchy & reverse harems or Females would end up as highly valued “commodity” that all the males would fight over. But no, the MC infant gets to come in and take her off the market almost immediately and nobody bats an eyelash or says a thing about it.
December 25, 2022
I “discovered” Timothy McGowen through his Arcane Knight books (now 2 books in the series - and, as per my separate review, total fun). Those were so good that I had to try others so I turned to his Last Born of Ki'darth series. The bad news here is that they’re dangerously addictive leading to binge reading and loss of sleep. The good news is that they’re a total blast and, even better, the series is complete (though there is room for a sequel that I hope is in the works). I loved watching the lead here, Nick, develop in powers, maturity and as a truly neat person, all in the context of an extremely exciting and well written story arc that has been a total joy ride. As a bonus, the mysterious creator entity Mah’kus, who had an even more mysterious - so far - role in the Arcane Knight books, also appears here thus very loosely tying the series, so who knows maybe there will be a crossover some day. As for this series, and each of its books, they’re all deserving of a 5 star rating in my opinion - and all highly recommended.
March 14, 2022
Rough Diamond
This story of a young man who gets reincarnated as an alien was Fantastic. Honestly, I almost quit on the dude as he started out as a smarty pants teenage punk. But he quickly finds himself, as the people who he is a Champion to really needed him to grow up as they’re on their last leg. Can’t wait for the next book. No really, this will be awesome if it’s not too long between books.
This story of a young man who gets reincarnated as an alien was Fantastic. Honestly, I almost quit on the dude as he started out as a smarty pants teenage punk. But he quickly finds himself, as the people who he is a Champion to really needed him to grow up as they’re on their last leg. Can’t wait for the next book. No really, this will be awesome if it’s not too long between books.
July 23, 2022
Great book
I thought this would be written towards teens and such but I was pleasantly surprised to find it written in such a way that adults will enjoy it too without feeling like it's too simplistic or plain. Looking forward to the next book.
I thought this would be written towards teens and such but I was pleasantly surprised to find it written in such a way that adults will enjoy it too without feeling like it's too simplistic or plain. Looking forward to the next book.
July 25, 2022
WHAT!
I was loving the book. Especially the cat. It was interesting that all his abilities or stats that I put into a oneness. What I didn’t really like was very end a cliffhanger. Now I must read the next book.
I was loving the book. Especially the cat. It was interesting that all his abilities or stats that I put into a oneness. What I didn’t really like was very end a cliffhanger. Now I must read the next book.
August 8, 2022
I had a blast listening to this book I absolutely love the character build-up and the characters them selfs. The uniqueness of the powers was amazing overall this is a book you need to check out can't wait until the next book.
November 19, 2022
The story reads like a bad superman comic.
Reincarnated as an alien the MC becomes soon totally OP and slaughters his enemies by the hundreds. The characters who don´t like him right away are - of course - evil incarnate. The world building stays flat while the story feels rushed.
Reincarnated as an alien the MC becomes soon totally OP and slaughters his enemies by the hundreds. The characters who don´t like him right away are - of course - evil incarnate. The world building stays flat while the story feels rushed.
February 3, 2022
Great start
The main character is amazing His abilities are well-thought-out His species Wasn't the norm which is pretty good In my opinion You can see the plot laid out. Great star to a series.
The main character is amazing His abilities are well-thought-out His species Wasn't the norm which is pretty good In my opinion You can see the plot laid out. Great star to a series.
February 8, 2022
This book was amazing
This book had a well thought out plot. The bad guy was a different character than most books. Can't wait for 2 and 3.
This book had a well thought out plot. The bad guy was a different character than most books. Can't wait for 2 and 3.
February 20, 2022
Wonderful
I dont know what it was like before the rewrite/mass editing but it's a sci-fi & isekai litrpg masterwork now. I'm going to read whatever is out till it's all gone.
I dont know what it was like before the rewrite/mass editing but it's a sci-fi & isekai litrpg masterwork now. I'm going to read whatever is out till it's all gone.
March 7, 2022
Fairly good story
Fast paced excitement. Characters have some depth to them, while author explains mechanics briefly....It's more focused on telling a story.
Fast paced excitement. Characters have some depth to them, while author explains mechanics briefly....It's more focused on telling a story.
March 18, 2022
Kind of boring
Story is slow, did not really like anyone until the end. Maybe next book will be better. I probably won't know
Story is slow, did not really like anyone until the end. Maybe next book will be better. I probably won't know
May 2, 2022
Very good read
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who like LitRPG and progression type of books with lots of action.
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who like LitRPG and progression type of books with lots of action.
August 2, 2022
Not bad writing. But generic story line and predictable. Kudos to author though, just not my taste
October 30, 2022
Really good
This was a very solid book. Well written with likeable characters. I really enjoyed it, and highly recommend it.
I'm looking forward to the next one.
This was a very solid book. Well written with likeable characters. I really enjoyed it, and highly recommend it.
I'm looking forward to the next one.
didn-t-like-it
August 12, 2025Note to self: not for me. MC and companion are not my cup of tea.
September 1, 2022
Good concept but felt like MC is missing something plus side characters are kind of useless and cliché villains. Best part was the conversations between the MC and the book.
February 2, 2022
Good story, good characters.
A nice mix of isekai and portal elements with reincarnation and gamelit elements.
Tends towards the sci-fi range of things, which is a nice change of pace from the normal gamelit offerings. It's gone through a recent rewrite, which has made the story a lot tighter and with a really great flow.
Second book can't come soon enough.
A nice mix of isekai and portal elements with reincarnation and gamelit elements.
Tends towards the sci-fi range of things, which is a nice change of pace from the normal gamelit offerings. It's gone through a recent rewrite, which has made the story a lot tighter and with a really great flow.
Second book can't come soon enough.
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