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Checkpoint
Once again, the ten heroes must split their paths if they are to accomplish all that needs to be done before the final war. Crag and Tulip journey to the land of perpetual winter in hopes of solving the dwarven problem, while Raven, Kira, Smoke, and Listra head to Dragon Holm to learn the true history of the fractured worlds. Meanwhile, Rock and Orchid need to meet with the human king to form an alliance. The only trouble is that no one knows where he is. All the while the dragons and the darkness are moving forward with their own plans as each group races towards the final battle.
617 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 13, 2020
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August 15, 2020
Five friends were given a new role playing game that was more than a simple roll-the-dice RPG. They were transported to another world where they and five more have joined together to form a band of 10 heroes who are tasked with saving not just our plane of reality but three more plus a central area that connects with every other plane in order to save everything and everyone from The Eater of Worlds. Do not confuse this adventure with the Fellowship of the Ring. It is much more and doesn’t depend upon the usual tropes found in adventures that include the mystical as well as the physical.
While there is plenty of swift-moving action, Checkpoint provides more insight into each of the characters and what their magical or physical capabilities are and how they learn and grow. And part of the fun of this tale is learning what their capabilities are and how they react to them. Don’t assume anything. You will be constantly surprised in what transpires and how it all fits together.
Book 3 of the World of Mantidom saga more fully provides insights to the band of heroes and their intra-personal relationships and why pairs have formed. The completion of their tasks will bind them more closely together but in order to do so, they will meet and have to overcome situations that if they don’t overcome them would result in their demise from all planes of the games reality.
Dragons, magic, sword-play, nasty opponents, transmogrification, and self-doubts are skillfully blended to advance the plot and provide enough action to satisfy the most jaded action-novel junky.
These tasks will test them and enable them to more fully understand what will happen if they fail.
Do not think this is your usual swords and sorcery tale. It is much more and the action and situations and how our heroes overcome them are consistent with their world.
It will inveigle into buying into their world. The author plays fair has paid attention to avoiding plot lines and plot holes that depend upon sudden revelations for which readers have not been prepared.
While it is not an absolute requirement, if you haven’t read books 1 and 2 before reading Checkpoint, doing so before reading Checkpoint will so help you understand the motivations and driving emotions of the characters and how they work their way through the situations in which they find themselves.
In any event, you will find yourself reading until late into the night and turning pages to see what happens next. You will not be bored.
While there is plenty of swift-moving action, Checkpoint provides more insight into each of the characters and what their magical or physical capabilities are and how they learn and grow. And part of the fun of this tale is learning what their capabilities are and how they react to them. Don’t assume anything. You will be constantly surprised in what transpires and how it all fits together.
Book 3 of the World of Mantidom saga more fully provides insights to the band of heroes and their intra-personal relationships and why pairs have formed. The completion of their tasks will bind them more closely together but in order to do so, they will meet and have to overcome situations that if they don’t overcome them would result in their demise from all planes of the games reality.
Dragons, magic, sword-play, nasty opponents, transmogrification, and self-doubts are skillfully blended to advance the plot and provide enough action to satisfy the most jaded action-novel junky.
These tasks will test them and enable them to more fully understand what will happen if they fail.
Do not think this is your usual swords and sorcery tale. It is much more and the action and situations and how our heroes overcome them are consistent with their world.
It will inveigle into buying into their world. The author plays fair has paid attention to avoiding plot lines and plot holes that depend upon sudden revelations for which readers have not been prepared.
While it is not an absolute requirement, if you haven’t read books 1 and 2 before reading Checkpoint, doing so before reading Checkpoint will so help you understand the motivations and driving emotions of the characters and how they work their way through the situations in which they find themselves.
In any event, you will find yourself reading until late into the night and turning pages to see what happens next. You will not be bored.
July 25, 2020
Excellent book! Book 3 took some LitRPG twists I hadn't expected. Now I need to go back and read the first 2 again. As I was dropping off to sleep I kept thinking to some of the odd scenes in the first two books that now make sense, mostly.
August 3, 2020
Interetsing twist in storytelling
The best thing about this book is I can't describe the story because it is completely unique with a very interesting ending.
The best thing about this book is I can't describe the story because it is completely unique with a very interesting ending.
October 6, 2020
Been following Vincent Trigili for years now. Have purchased every book he's published. Loved both the Lost Tales and Dragon Masters series. Not sure what happened here. I read the first two books of Mantidom and thought they were okay books, but nothing to write home about. Just finished Check Point. Well, that's not entirely true. At 20% I started skimming paragraphs. By 30% I was skimming pages. By 40% I was skimming chapters. I would read the first paragraph hoping for anything that might make me want to stop and dig back into the book. By 50% I was skipping groups of chapters. I did skim through the last chapter just to see what happened, but had no Idea what was going on by then. The book is chocked full of meaningless action, shallow characters and storylines that went no where. All through this ordeal my one thought was 'at least this is the last book of the series. Maybe we can get back to Lost Tales or Dragon Masters.' Then, at the end of the book was the promo for book four...
July 20, 2020
I struggled to get into this story.
I have to admit to being a little bit put of to begin with.
It would of probably been easier had I read the first couple, (?), of the series first. I was somewhat lost.
In the end, it really didn't matter, once I started to feel and believe in the characters. That was due to the excellent writing. I may have taken a while, but what a great read. Thank you
I have to admit to being a little bit put of to begin with.
It would of probably been easier had I read the first couple, (?), of the series first. I was somewhat lost.
In the end, it really didn't matter, once I started to feel and believe in the characters. That was due to the excellent writing. I may have taken a while, but what a great read. Thank you
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