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I Summoned My WHAT?!: Book 1
Wanting to go into business with his best friend, Evie, Calon never could have expected how his life would turn in an instant.
Rushing into the burning home of a neighbour, the unthinkable happens and our fearless main character dies a hero. Only... He doesn't quite make it to the afterlife.
Thrust back in time, and into an alternate reality of South East Queensland, Australia, Calon finds himself in a world, familiar in only the vaguest sense. Before he can come to grip with his new world, Calon is captured by a host of wolf-riding goblins.
With the help of sheer dumb luck, a borderline sarcastic set of popups and the relatively low IQ of the previously mentioned goblins, our young hero stumbles into the role of the Summoner Class.
And accidentally calls forth someone... Familiar.
Contains: MF, MFF, MFFF, elements of taboo, unrealistic time travel, blood, gore, violence, sarcasm and the occasional stat sheet!
Rushing into the burning home of a neighbour, the unthinkable happens and our fearless main character dies a hero. Only... He doesn't quite make it to the afterlife.
Thrust back in time, and into an alternate reality of South East Queensland, Australia, Calon finds himself in a world, familiar in only the vaguest sense. Before he can come to grip with his new world, Calon is captured by a host of wolf-riding goblins.
With the help of sheer dumb luck, a borderline sarcastic set of popups and the relatively low IQ of the previously mentioned goblins, our young hero stumbles into the role of the Summoner Class.
And accidentally calls forth someone... Familiar.
Contains: MF, MFF, MFFF, elements of taboo, unrealistic time travel, blood, gore, violence, sarcasm and the occasional stat sheet!
286 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2022
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August 25, 2022
Rating 3.5 stars
This one started off really good but then kind of stalled for me. Callon ends up dying saving his neighbor from a fire. His step sister was there and watched him die. Like in so many other of these stories, Callon has huge attraction to his sister and loves her, but she is also his best friend. He ends up on another world and goes through a tutorial system. He initially doesn't pick a class and gets kidnapped by goblins. He tries to escape and finds a summoner stone and accidently chooses it as his class. The system doesn't understand context so when he says something out loud even if it is not to the system, it takes that as agreement. So when this happens he just says "Fuck, I wish Evie (his step-sister) was here. The system takes that as a request to make his step sister his summons as a succubus. So his step sister shows up as a succubus and she is able to help him escape. This is the good part of the story and I like the interaction between the two of them. Turns out she was a lesbian back on earth but never told anyone. Now though she is a succubus AND his summons so she can't think of anything else besides having sex with him. There was the question of if she is real or not but that line of questioning was shutdown real quick. Once he levels up he gets another summons and Evie asks him to summon her girlfriend Chrissy. Calon also had a thin for her which his step sister knew. Of course he didn't know that they were lovers. This is where my issues with the story start.
This one started off really good but then kind of stalled for me. Callon ends up dying saving his neighbor from a fire. His step sister was there and watched him die. Like in so many other of these stories, Callon has huge attraction to his sister and loves her, but she is also his best friend. He ends up on another world and goes through a tutorial system. He initially doesn't pick a class and gets kidnapped by goblins. He tries to escape and finds a summoner stone and accidently chooses it as his class. The system doesn't understand context so when he says something out loud even if it is not to the system, it takes that as agreement. So when this happens he just says "Fuck, I wish Evie (his step-sister) was here. The system takes that as a request to make his step sister his summons as a succubus. So his step sister shows up as a succubus and she is able to help him escape. This is the good part of the story and I like the interaction between the two of them. Turns out she was a lesbian back on earth but never told anyone. Now though she is a succubus AND his summons so she can't think of anything else besides having sex with him. There was the question of if she is real or not but that line of questioning was shutdown real quick. Once he levels up he gets another summons and Evie asks him to summon her girlfriend Chrissy. Calon also had a thin for her which his step sister knew. Of course he didn't know that they were lovers. This is where my issues with the story start.
July 6, 2024
the Audiobook was laughably bad
Isekai / sex scenes / LitRPG / Stepsister incest
This book reads like a classic 2010's harem novel in both the good & bad way. The story is basic as hell and is just a delivery vehicle for the smut. It was uncomplicated enough to enjoy until summon #2 expressly stated that she hated being summoned and would never consent to sex.
-And that's a wrap!- That's where I quit. You and I both know she is going to end up with her legs in the air, and I won't be able to enjoy it. Why Montgomery Quinn chose to write it that way? I'll never know. Oh well. Plenty of Smutty books where the fictional characters want to get it on.
By The Way, the characters are supposed to be Australian. But instead of the audiobook hiring voice actors from Australia (I hear they still have a few actors left who aren't in blockbuster Hollywood movies) Or even voice actors who are capable of sustaining a believable Australian accent, they got two people who sound like they've only ever heard an Australian accent on the Simpsons. Yes I understand that the pool of candidates shrinks when you tell people they will be recording a fantasy incest harem book and you take what you can get but... a bad fake accent can be funny through a 30 second TV commercial not a seven hour audiobook. ...but it did start out amusing for quite a while.
Isekai / sex scenes / LitRPG / Stepsister incest
This book reads like a classic 2010's harem novel in both the good & bad way. The story is basic as hell and is just a delivery vehicle for the smut. It was uncomplicated enough to enjoy until summon #2 expressly stated that she hated being summoned and would never consent to sex.
-And that's a wrap!- That's where I quit. You and I both know she is going to end up with her legs in the air, and I won't be able to enjoy it. Why Montgomery Quinn chose to write it that way? I'll never know. Oh well. Plenty of Smutty books where the fictional characters want to get it on.
By The Way, the characters are supposed to be Australian. But instead of the audiobook hiring voice actors from Australia (I hear they still have a few actors left who aren't in blockbuster Hollywood movies) Or even voice actors who are capable of sustaining a believable Australian accent, they got two people who sound like they've only ever heard an Australian accent on the Simpsons. Yes I understand that the pool of candidates shrinks when you tell people they will be recording a fantasy incest harem book and you take what you can get but... a bad fake accent can be funny through a 30 second TV commercial not a seven hour audiobook. ...but it did start out amusing for quite a while.
April 29, 2023
Worse Book Ever
This book is written in such an immature way I kept having a desire to just throw the book across the room it is so bad.
1...boy summons step sister as a succubus and you guess it. The end up having sex. Is the Summoner in control or the master? Nope! The female of course is the lead. Just got to shove more "woke" garbage down the readers throats.
2...eventually boy summons step sisters 'girlfriend' from first life as promised and he's not the master of her either. I'm mean OMG forbid the male might be in charge but he's led around by his manhood and just L.O.V.E.S being humiliated.
Just no. Nope. This author is now on my Never Again list. Would it be so awful to give us Alpha males a warning so we know not to purchase this 'woke' garbage. Please!!
This book is written in such an immature way I kept having a desire to just throw the book across the room it is so bad.
1...boy summons step sister as a succubus and you guess it. The end up having sex. Is the Summoner in control or the master? Nope! The female of course is the lead. Just got to shove more "woke" garbage down the readers throats.
2...eventually boy summons step sisters 'girlfriend' from first life as promised and he's not the master of her either. I'm mean OMG forbid the male might be in charge but he's led around by his manhood and just L.O.V.E.S being humiliated.
Just no. Nope. This author is now on my Never Again list. Would it be so awful to give us Alpha males a warning so we know not to purchase this 'woke' garbage. Please!!
August 10, 2022
A Solid Foray
Monty Quinn comes barreling out of the gate with a solid litrpg/isekai romance. If you enjoyed offerings from authors such as William D Arand and Michael Scott-Earle, this fun fantasy romp will be right up your alley!
Monty Quinn comes barreling out of the gate with a solid litrpg/isekai romance. If you enjoyed offerings from authors such as William D Arand and Michael Scott-Earle, this fun fantasy romp will be right up your alley!
May 31, 2023
Great Book 1
Excellent book, filled with fast paced action, adventure and hot sex! Colin dies a hero rescuing a little girl and is rewarded with a new life as a Summoner. He builds a harem of monster girls, takes on jobs building his skills and upgrading his girls. Then he meets a Nightmare, how will it all work out? I'm looking forward to the next book!
Excellent book, filled with fast paced action, adventure and hot sex! Colin dies a hero rescuing a little girl and is rewarded with a new life as a Summoner. He builds a harem of monster girls, takes on jobs building his skills and upgrading his girls. Then he meets a Nightmare, how will it all work out? I'm looking forward to the next book!
December 6, 2023
Not bad. It's very low stakes and very slow. By the end of the story, our characters have barely accomplished anything at all. Regardless, it kept me interested enough and the characters are likable, if not shallow.
June 6, 2023
Fun, cute fast paced. Good read
Looking forward to reading the series. Fun characters, good start to the story, believable bad guys. Keep up the good work.
Looking forward to reading the series. Fun characters, good start to the story, believable bad guys. Keep up the good work.
August 4, 2024
Final Rating: 2.67/5.00
Starting score: 2.50
+0.28 for practical compassion and reciprocal relationships
+0.23 for the accidental-summoner premise and comic timing
+0.27 for transformations affecting everyday life
+0.21 for cooperative action and earned physical adaptation
+0.17 for chemistry and boundary discussions
+0.16 for regional atmosphere and suggestive folklore
+0.19 for local investigation and tangible consequences
-0.30 for inadequately examined coercion and magically altered desire
-0.20 for repetitive conflict and narrow character development
-0.19 for convenient system behaviour and avoidable protagonist mistakes
-0.18 for routine crowding out emotional development
-0.20 for repetitive wording and identifiable editing errors
-0.13 for an underdeveloped wider world and uncertain rules of existence
-0.14 for abrupt brutality with limited aftermath
Calculated final score: 2.67/5.00
Essential Context
There is a substantial amount of explicitly described sex here, and I would not disguise that behind the harmless-sounding word “spicy.” Sexual commentary begins almost immediately, extended encounters become prominent early, and explicit material continues through the middle and into the ending. This is not an opening burst of erotica that quietly disappears. The relationships include adult step-siblings, an existing relationship between women, transformed bodies, and negotiated dominance and submission, alongside magical compulsion that deserves separate scrutiny. Those ingredients are central to my judgment. I am not deducting points simply because an audiobook contains graphic intimacy, nor awarding them because it supplies fur, wings, and an expanding romantic group. I want to know whether the desire belongs convincingly to the people involved, whether their different needs survive the fantasy, and whether the adventure remains worth following between encounters. Pleasure and discomfort come from the execution of those questions rather than the mere presence of adult content.
Hook and Thesis
The easiest thing in this story is opening a portal. The hardest should be answering for the life pulled through it. That is where my claws catch: a mischievous, frequently engaging adventure discovers consequences heavier than its preferred tone can comfortably carry. I can enjoy the ridiculous tutorial, the hostile little monsters, and the warmth of people sharing a meal without pretending that accidental ownership is emotionally simple. My response while listening is mixed because the audiobook has genuine character-building moments, especially when someone needs equipment, healing, or reassurance, but repeatedly hurries past the implications of its most important transformations. I find more to value in a carefully fitted harness than in another assurance that a furious woman secretly wants affection. From my den in HowlStrom, that difference matters. “Put all the wings you like on a fantasy. It still needs something solid beneath its feet.” There is an enjoyable adventure here, but its confidence exceeds the depth of its emotional groundwork.
Basic Plot Summary
Calon begins with a future that is modest enough to feel real: finish studying agriculture and build a life around a farm with Evie, his best friend and stepsister. A neighbour's house fire ends that future after he helps rescue a child. His next experience is an unfamiliar forest, an obstructive system, and goblins who regard him as food. Through a mixture of improvisation and disastrously literal commands, he becomes a summoner and brings Evie into this world as a succubus. Their immediate concerns are food, shelter, and earning enough to survive, but his abilities also alter their relationship and eventually enlarge their travelling group. Chrissy and Suki bring different reactions to transformation and belonging, while seemingly ordinary jobs expose danger beyond roadside monsters. What interests me about the premise is its conflict between obtaining help and assuming responsibility for another person's circumstances. Calon needs companions; that does not make every consequence of acquiring them straightforward or harmless.
Praise and Critique
Calon's most convincing strength is practical kindness. He is not merely called a good man and rewarded with admirers; he does useful things without needing to dominate the room. Tending injuries and paying attention to an undervalued craftsperson give his decency a visible shape. Burt is especially valuable because their relationship moves in both directions. An older stranger offers water, guidance, and material help; Calon's developing healing provides a meaningful return. The farmer's generosity is neither mystical wisdom nor endless charity without context. He understands that helping capable people can make the road safer for others. That gives the supporting cast more life than merchants waiting to distribute equipment. I also appreciate Calon's willingness to learn and his later efforts to turn goodwill into dependable working relationships. As Alpha, my respect goes to the hand that actually helps somebody stand. These exchanges make his emerging place in the world more credible than his embarrassment or romantic status could manage alone.
The comedy works best when it grows from a situation rather than another sexual interruption. A tutorial explaining maps while refusing to supply one is recognisably aggravating, and treating casual speech as a binding selection creates a useful comic trap. Burt's deliberately unhelpful answers to an officious sheriff give an ordinary ally some teeth. A frightening presence joining the group's agreement that they are in danger neatly combines menace and absurdity. Those exchanges need no grand punchline. The setting also has more flavour than an interchangeable fantasy village: familiar Australian place names sit beside unfamiliar social arrangements, making recognition unsettling. The folklore offers a quieter reference. Brittia appears in Procopius's account of a reported passage of dead souls, making its use here suggestive rather than merely exotic. That supports the characters' afterlife speculation without proving their explanation correct. I like the possibility of an older, stranger story beneath the popups, although the book develops its jokes more confidently than its mystery. ([Penelope][1])
My ears rise highest when becoming nonhuman changes something beyond appearance. Chrissy must learn to move with her unfamiliar body, carry a weapon without obstructing her wings, and use advantages that initially feel like humiliating complications. A craftsperson adapting a spear harness to her movement is better world-building than declaring her powerful. Scent and night vision affect investigation and travel; flight requires practice and becomes useful under pressure. That is the furry detail I value: the body participates in the story instead of waiting to be admired. It also improves the action. Calon cannot replace everyone else's abilities, and stronger sequences require the group to combine protection, mobility, and magic. Chrissy's difficulty controlling her wings gives a later escape preparation and payoff that other developments lack. Embodiment makes daily life credible; cooperation makes danger dynamic. The fighting can turn crude or convenient, but it is not uniformly effortless. These people sometimes need one another in ways a character sheet cannot supply.
The adult material deserves acknowledgment before I bare my fangs at its weaknesses. Calon and Evie's shared history supplies familiarity, teasing, and trust that would take longer to establish between strangers. Their intimate conversations sometimes reveal more than attraction, particularly when Evie distinguishes private submission from equal treatment outside it. That matters, and I will not pretend a woman surrendering control by choice automatically lacks agency. Nor does her involvement with Calon erase her affection for Chrissy; their existing bond continues. The erotic writing is direct and extended, with varied participants and circumstances rather than repeated fades to black. However, it leans heavily on escalating bodily reactions, and reassurance sometimes arrives too neatly to settle what preceded it. My modest praise is for chemistry and articulated boundaries, not an equation between explicitness and quality. Intimacy may provide pleasure, comfort, or play without advancing a quest. Its emotional foundation still needs to withstand the weight the story places on it.
Criticism
That foundation cracks around compulsion. The first major encounter does not begin as mutual choice: Evie is in an altered state, Calon's attempt to stop her meets a physical threat, and his reactions are affected by magic. Later willingness cannot retroactively turn that opening into informed consent. Equally, not every later interaction is forced. Evie explicitly expresses desire after recovering and describes earlier curiosity alongside uncertainty about her sexuality. The problem is how readily the story treats that combination as settled. Explanations about magical compatibility raise questions about which desires developed naturally and which were imposed, without giving those questions proportionate attention. Attraction need not be fixed forever, and fantasy can explore coercive premises. But the writing wants ownership and altered identity to create excitement while reassurance makes their consequences conveniently harmless. My fur bristles at that emotional shortcut. Chosen erotic surrender and a system changing the conditions under which someone chooses deserve more careful separation.
Chrissy suffers from a substantial emotional problem expressed through repetitive reactions. Her anger has reasons: she did not choose this body, its difficulties are real, and strangers treat her as lesser. Evie acknowledges requesting her arrival, so the story does not conceal that responsibility from Chrissy altogether. My frustration concerns the repeated movement through insult, vulnerability, attraction, and another insult. These cycles obscure growth even as her practical competence improves. Suki provides a contrast: she welcomes her new circumstances as an escape from relentless expectations. That is more personality than calling her an empty pet would acknowledge. Nevertheless, she repeatedly returns to the same performance of eager submission. Her negotiation with Calon is valuable because it briefly allows her to speak outside that role. I want more such space: Chrissy without the compulsory hostile response, Suki without every preference becoming an invitation. A growing pack needs distinct lives, not just contrasting ways of orbiting one person.
The system has rules, but its presentation too often depends on convenient ignorance. Perks, mana, healing, and upgrades offer choices, and developing support skills rather than instantly becoming the strongest fighter is worthwhile. My complaint is that Calon repeatedly fails to establish basic information until a scene requires its discovery. An early accidental command is understandable; repeating that vulnerability after its consequences are clear makes him selectively inattentive. The sharpest example is planning around relocating a living companion, only to confront the distinction between summoning and reviving once danger is immediate. Panic produces mistakes, but he has already discussed what revival means. Uncertain experience rewards remain speculation, while questions about what summoned people actually are receive insufficient examination. Suki's belief about another version remaining at home is not proof that the dilemma is solved. The setting has material detail, but its gods, institutions, and rules of existence remain less convincing than its shopping arrangements.
Pacing suffers from unevenly distributed attention. The narrative lingers over equipment, packing, clothing, and camp-making while letting enormous emotional changes pass with a few exchanges. Some routine is welcome; food and shelter make this world habitable, and a developing household needs ordinary work. Yet my paws sometimes seem to cross the same patch of snow while the difficult conversation waits off the trail. A separate problem emerges when violence intensifies. Calon's protective instincts turn into extreme brutality, followed by a brief acknowledgment of feeling wrong before practical concerns resume. The surrounding sexual excitement further narrows the distance between vengeance and reward. I do not need a heroic protagonist to remain gentle, nor a graphic fight to become a lecture. I need sufficient preparation or aftermath to recognise how the person changed. These deductions address different effects: overextended routine weakens momentum, while compressed responses to killing weaken psychological credibility. Neither improves merely by adding another enemy or a more spectacular attack.
Grammar and wording need their own judgment rather than disappearing beneath “it is meant to be fun.” Repeated nodding, sighing, frowning, and reciprocal questions create a limited verbal rhythm. Informal speech, profanity, deliberate stammering, and a goblin's distorted language are not inherently mistakes. Other problems are less defensible. Third-person narration abruptly produces “Evie gave me a blank stare.” Calon's place in the action is occupied elsewhere by “Kevin,” and later by “Stan,” without a corresponding character change. Those are identifiable editing failures, not dialect. I am not attributing them to a performer or claiming every textual slip necessarily survived unchanged in the recording. Repetitive sentence construction is the broader problem, giving distinct situations similar verbal textures. As listening material, the story benefits from a contained central group and manageable character sheets, but performers repeatedly face Calon's uncertainty, Evie's teasing, and Chrissy's anger in familiar exchanges. A different voice cannot supply missing emotional development. I have no separate technical verdict to offer on accent authenticity, pronunciation, recording noise, or volume consistency; those questions should not inherit the story's deductions. My self-taught English does not make me demand ornate language. Plain sentences are welcome in my den, provided they remain clear and attentive to whose experience they convey. These writing objections alone would not stop me listening to the performers again.
Evaluation and Personal Impact
Unlike Ole's prolonged isolation in Through the Ashes, Calon rapidly regains someone familiar. The emotional problem shifts from enduring absence to renegotiating closeness. That distinction makes me want more attention to what companionship costs here. Chrissy gains formidable advantages while still feeling deeply wrong in her body; being useful cannot automatically erase that discomfort. I am Kiba Snowpaw, Alpha of the Ice Wolf Clan, and this identity gives shape to what I express. Somebody else need not experience an imposed transformation as liberation. My claws, my fur, my place in HowlStrom are an identity I embrace, not permission to decide what should make another person happy. Practical accommodations therefore reach me more convincingly than reassurance based on attractiveness. “Do not tell me the cage is beautiful. Show me who holds the key.” Belonging works best here when someone can contribute without first becoming easier to love.
Conclusion
I leave with more affection for the group's cooperation than confidence in the larger design. The local adventure develops: wagon tracks and a revealing scent lead somewhere, threats receive answers, and the characters gain resources and a possible home. Calling everything meaningless setup would be unfair. Yet the closing invitation to expansion feels easier than resolving the questions already attached to this company. I would consider continuing for the transformed characters, practical details, and possibility that shared responsibility becomes more important than adding companions. I would not recommend it unreservedly to someone seeking carefully examined consent, firmly explained systems, or developed emotional consequences. Listeners who enjoy explicit monster romance, irreverent banter, and modest adventures have a clearer route to its pleasures. My 2.67 reflects entertainment repeatedly limited by weak follow-through. There is warmth inside this travelling den, enough that I would pause beside its fire, but too many walls depend on wishes instead of timber.
Starting score: 2.50
+0.28 for practical compassion and reciprocal relationships
+0.23 for the accidental-summoner premise and comic timing
+0.27 for transformations affecting everyday life
+0.21 for cooperative action and earned physical adaptation
+0.17 for chemistry and boundary discussions
+0.16 for regional atmosphere and suggestive folklore
+0.19 for local investigation and tangible consequences
-0.30 for inadequately examined coercion and magically altered desire
-0.20 for repetitive conflict and narrow character development
-0.19 for convenient system behaviour and avoidable protagonist mistakes
-0.18 for routine crowding out emotional development
-0.20 for repetitive wording and identifiable editing errors
-0.13 for an underdeveloped wider world and uncertain rules of existence
-0.14 for abrupt brutality with limited aftermath
Calculated final score: 2.67/5.00
Essential Context
There is a substantial amount of explicitly described sex here, and I would not disguise that behind the harmless-sounding word “spicy.” Sexual commentary begins almost immediately, extended encounters become prominent early, and explicit material continues through the middle and into the ending. This is not an opening burst of erotica that quietly disappears. The relationships include adult step-siblings, an existing relationship between women, transformed bodies, and negotiated dominance and submission, alongside magical compulsion that deserves separate scrutiny. Those ingredients are central to my judgment. I am not deducting points simply because an audiobook contains graphic intimacy, nor awarding them because it supplies fur, wings, and an expanding romantic group. I want to know whether the desire belongs convincingly to the people involved, whether their different needs survive the fantasy, and whether the adventure remains worth following between encounters. Pleasure and discomfort come from the execution of those questions rather than the mere presence of adult content.
Hook and Thesis
The easiest thing in this story is opening a portal. The hardest should be answering for the life pulled through it. That is where my claws catch: a mischievous, frequently engaging adventure discovers consequences heavier than its preferred tone can comfortably carry. I can enjoy the ridiculous tutorial, the hostile little monsters, and the warmth of people sharing a meal without pretending that accidental ownership is emotionally simple. My response while listening is mixed because the audiobook has genuine character-building moments, especially when someone needs equipment, healing, or reassurance, but repeatedly hurries past the implications of its most important transformations. I find more to value in a carefully fitted harness than in another assurance that a furious woman secretly wants affection. From my den in HowlStrom, that difference matters. “Put all the wings you like on a fantasy. It still needs something solid beneath its feet.” There is an enjoyable adventure here, but its confidence exceeds the depth of its emotional groundwork.
Basic Plot Summary
Calon begins with a future that is modest enough to feel real: finish studying agriculture and build a life around a farm with Evie, his best friend and stepsister. A neighbour's house fire ends that future after he helps rescue a child. His next experience is an unfamiliar forest, an obstructive system, and goblins who regard him as food. Through a mixture of improvisation and disastrously literal commands, he becomes a summoner and brings Evie into this world as a succubus. Their immediate concerns are food, shelter, and earning enough to survive, but his abilities also alter their relationship and eventually enlarge their travelling group. Chrissy and Suki bring different reactions to transformation and belonging, while seemingly ordinary jobs expose danger beyond roadside monsters. What interests me about the premise is its conflict between obtaining help and assuming responsibility for another person's circumstances. Calon needs companions; that does not make every consequence of acquiring them straightforward or harmless.
Praise and Critique
Calon's most convincing strength is practical kindness. He is not merely called a good man and rewarded with admirers; he does useful things without needing to dominate the room. Tending injuries and paying attention to an undervalued craftsperson give his decency a visible shape. Burt is especially valuable because their relationship moves in both directions. An older stranger offers water, guidance, and material help; Calon's developing healing provides a meaningful return. The farmer's generosity is neither mystical wisdom nor endless charity without context. He understands that helping capable people can make the road safer for others. That gives the supporting cast more life than merchants waiting to distribute equipment. I also appreciate Calon's willingness to learn and his later efforts to turn goodwill into dependable working relationships. As Alpha, my respect goes to the hand that actually helps somebody stand. These exchanges make his emerging place in the world more credible than his embarrassment or romantic status could manage alone.
The comedy works best when it grows from a situation rather than another sexual interruption. A tutorial explaining maps while refusing to supply one is recognisably aggravating, and treating casual speech as a binding selection creates a useful comic trap. Burt's deliberately unhelpful answers to an officious sheriff give an ordinary ally some teeth. A frightening presence joining the group's agreement that they are in danger neatly combines menace and absurdity. Those exchanges need no grand punchline. The setting also has more flavour than an interchangeable fantasy village: familiar Australian place names sit beside unfamiliar social arrangements, making recognition unsettling. The folklore offers a quieter reference. Brittia appears in Procopius's account of a reported passage of dead souls, making its use here suggestive rather than merely exotic. That supports the characters' afterlife speculation without proving their explanation correct. I like the possibility of an older, stranger story beneath the popups, although the book develops its jokes more confidently than its mystery. ([Penelope][1])
My ears rise highest when becoming nonhuman changes something beyond appearance. Chrissy must learn to move with her unfamiliar body, carry a weapon without obstructing her wings, and use advantages that initially feel like humiliating complications. A craftsperson adapting a spear harness to her movement is better world-building than declaring her powerful. Scent and night vision affect investigation and travel; flight requires practice and becomes useful under pressure. That is the furry detail I value: the body participates in the story instead of waiting to be admired. It also improves the action. Calon cannot replace everyone else's abilities, and stronger sequences require the group to combine protection, mobility, and magic. Chrissy's difficulty controlling her wings gives a later escape preparation and payoff that other developments lack. Embodiment makes daily life credible; cooperation makes danger dynamic. The fighting can turn crude or convenient, but it is not uniformly effortless. These people sometimes need one another in ways a character sheet cannot supply.
The adult material deserves acknowledgment before I bare my fangs at its weaknesses. Calon and Evie's shared history supplies familiarity, teasing, and trust that would take longer to establish between strangers. Their intimate conversations sometimes reveal more than attraction, particularly when Evie distinguishes private submission from equal treatment outside it. That matters, and I will not pretend a woman surrendering control by choice automatically lacks agency. Nor does her involvement with Calon erase her affection for Chrissy; their existing bond continues. The erotic writing is direct and extended, with varied participants and circumstances rather than repeated fades to black. However, it leans heavily on escalating bodily reactions, and reassurance sometimes arrives too neatly to settle what preceded it. My modest praise is for chemistry and articulated boundaries, not an equation between explicitness and quality. Intimacy may provide pleasure, comfort, or play without advancing a quest. Its emotional foundation still needs to withstand the weight the story places on it.
Criticism
That foundation cracks around compulsion. The first major encounter does not begin as mutual choice: Evie is in an altered state, Calon's attempt to stop her meets a physical threat, and his reactions are affected by magic. Later willingness cannot retroactively turn that opening into informed consent. Equally, not every later interaction is forced. Evie explicitly expresses desire after recovering and describes earlier curiosity alongside uncertainty about her sexuality. The problem is how readily the story treats that combination as settled. Explanations about magical compatibility raise questions about which desires developed naturally and which were imposed, without giving those questions proportionate attention. Attraction need not be fixed forever, and fantasy can explore coercive premises. But the writing wants ownership and altered identity to create excitement while reassurance makes their consequences conveniently harmless. My fur bristles at that emotional shortcut. Chosen erotic surrender and a system changing the conditions under which someone chooses deserve more careful separation.
Chrissy suffers from a substantial emotional problem expressed through repetitive reactions. Her anger has reasons: she did not choose this body, its difficulties are real, and strangers treat her as lesser. Evie acknowledges requesting her arrival, so the story does not conceal that responsibility from Chrissy altogether. My frustration concerns the repeated movement through insult, vulnerability, attraction, and another insult. These cycles obscure growth even as her practical competence improves. Suki provides a contrast: she welcomes her new circumstances as an escape from relentless expectations. That is more personality than calling her an empty pet would acknowledge. Nevertheless, she repeatedly returns to the same performance of eager submission. Her negotiation with Calon is valuable because it briefly allows her to speak outside that role. I want more such space: Chrissy without the compulsory hostile response, Suki without every preference becoming an invitation. A growing pack needs distinct lives, not just contrasting ways of orbiting one person.
The system has rules, but its presentation too often depends on convenient ignorance. Perks, mana, healing, and upgrades offer choices, and developing support skills rather than instantly becoming the strongest fighter is worthwhile. My complaint is that Calon repeatedly fails to establish basic information until a scene requires its discovery. An early accidental command is understandable; repeating that vulnerability after its consequences are clear makes him selectively inattentive. The sharpest example is planning around relocating a living companion, only to confront the distinction between summoning and reviving once danger is immediate. Panic produces mistakes, but he has already discussed what revival means. Uncertain experience rewards remain speculation, while questions about what summoned people actually are receive insufficient examination. Suki's belief about another version remaining at home is not proof that the dilemma is solved. The setting has material detail, but its gods, institutions, and rules of existence remain less convincing than its shopping arrangements.
Pacing suffers from unevenly distributed attention. The narrative lingers over equipment, packing, clothing, and camp-making while letting enormous emotional changes pass with a few exchanges. Some routine is welcome; food and shelter make this world habitable, and a developing household needs ordinary work. Yet my paws sometimes seem to cross the same patch of snow while the difficult conversation waits off the trail. A separate problem emerges when violence intensifies. Calon's protective instincts turn into extreme brutality, followed by a brief acknowledgment of feeling wrong before practical concerns resume. The surrounding sexual excitement further narrows the distance between vengeance and reward. I do not need a heroic protagonist to remain gentle, nor a graphic fight to become a lecture. I need sufficient preparation or aftermath to recognise how the person changed. These deductions address different effects: overextended routine weakens momentum, while compressed responses to killing weaken psychological credibility. Neither improves merely by adding another enemy or a more spectacular attack.
Grammar and wording need their own judgment rather than disappearing beneath “it is meant to be fun.” Repeated nodding, sighing, frowning, and reciprocal questions create a limited verbal rhythm. Informal speech, profanity, deliberate stammering, and a goblin's distorted language are not inherently mistakes. Other problems are less defensible. Third-person narration abruptly produces “Evie gave me a blank stare.” Calon's place in the action is occupied elsewhere by “Kevin,” and later by “Stan,” without a corresponding character change. Those are identifiable editing failures, not dialect. I am not attributing them to a performer or claiming every textual slip necessarily survived unchanged in the recording. Repetitive sentence construction is the broader problem, giving distinct situations similar verbal textures. As listening material, the story benefits from a contained central group and manageable character sheets, but performers repeatedly face Calon's uncertainty, Evie's teasing, and Chrissy's anger in familiar exchanges. A different voice cannot supply missing emotional development. I have no separate technical verdict to offer on accent authenticity, pronunciation, recording noise, or volume consistency; those questions should not inherit the story's deductions. My self-taught English does not make me demand ornate language. Plain sentences are welcome in my den, provided they remain clear and attentive to whose experience they convey. These writing objections alone would not stop me listening to the performers again.
Evaluation and Personal Impact
Unlike Ole's prolonged isolation in Through the Ashes, Calon rapidly regains someone familiar. The emotional problem shifts from enduring absence to renegotiating closeness. That distinction makes me want more attention to what companionship costs here. Chrissy gains formidable advantages while still feeling deeply wrong in her body; being useful cannot automatically erase that discomfort. I am Kiba Snowpaw, Alpha of the Ice Wolf Clan, and this identity gives shape to what I express. Somebody else need not experience an imposed transformation as liberation. My claws, my fur, my place in HowlStrom are an identity I embrace, not permission to decide what should make another person happy. Practical accommodations therefore reach me more convincingly than reassurance based on attractiveness. “Do not tell me the cage is beautiful. Show me who holds the key.” Belonging works best here when someone can contribute without first becoming easier to love.
Conclusion
I leave with more affection for the group's cooperation than confidence in the larger design. The local adventure develops: wagon tracks and a revealing scent lead somewhere, threats receive answers, and the characters gain resources and a possible home. Calling everything meaningless setup would be unfair. Yet the closing invitation to expansion feels easier than resolving the questions already attached to this company. I would consider continuing for the transformed characters, practical details, and possibility that shared responsibility becomes more important than adding companions. I would not recommend it unreservedly to someone seeking carefully examined consent, firmly explained systems, or developed emotional consequences. Listeners who enjoy explicit monster romance, irreverent banter, and modest adventures have a clearer route to its pleasures. My 2.67 reflects entertainment repeatedly limited by weak follow-through. There is warmth inside this travelling den, enough that I would pause beside its fire, but too many walls depend on wishes instead of timber.
September 22, 2022
Isekai LitRPG with a twist. Great Story
If you were sent to another world/resurrected/ reincarnated as yourself Who would you want with you? The MC drags someone with him inadvertently and in the process creates a situatrequires intimacy intimacy. Everything follows logically and creates a compelling storyline.
This an adult read but it's not trashy. It will be interesting to see what happens with book 2. It seems the Harem must grow. Will more characters from the MC's homeland appear? What about the MC's mom? What about people the MC meets in the new world can they be added to the harem.
There's some grammar and misplaced words throughout the book but it's not a big ordeal. For example pg 230 refers to Kevin instead of Calon.
It would be nice to know when book 2 is coming.
If you were sent to another world/resurrected/ reincarnated as yourself Who would you want with you? The MC drags someone with him inadvertently and in the process creates a situatrequires intimacy intimacy. Everything follows logically and creates a compelling storyline.
This an adult read but it's not trashy. It will be interesting to see what happens with book 2. It seems the Harem must grow. Will more characters from the MC's homeland appear? What about the MC's mom? What about people the MC meets in the new world can they be added to the harem.
There's some grammar and misplaced words throughout the book but it's not a big ordeal. For example pg 230 refers to Kevin instead of Calon.
It would be nice to know when book 2 is coming.
November 24, 2025
It was okay. The first half of the book pulled me in well, but the second half was bad. There were far too many incidents of "she hated him, then they fricked, then she couldn't get enough, but somehow still hated him." If you told me that M. Quinn had written the first half and used ChatGPT to write the second half, I'd believe you. From the moment that MC and MC's sister mentioned "it'd be nice if my best friend were here", the book went severely downhill.
Really, from the first quarter to half of this book, I thought it'd be a new favorite, but blah. If you like poorly written (there was a time where he's making out with a centaur and he can somehow kiss her lips and have each hand on opposite lengths of the centaur. Horses are far bigger than that) fantasy smut with demi-humans, read this immediately. If that isn't your taste, go away.
Really, from the first quarter to half of this book, I thought it'd be a new favorite, but blah. If you like poorly written (there was a time where he's making out with a centaur and he can somehow kiss her lips and have each hand on opposite lengths of the centaur. Horses are far bigger than that) fantasy smut with demi-humans, read this immediately. If that isn't your taste, go away.
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May 28, 2026
I liked farm or die a lot, but this one is a bit... Shallow.
The character's reactions to things are shallow and so are their relationships. There are a lot of smutty scenes (which I like) but even those happen at weird times and feel a bit rushed.
That said, it still held my interest all the way through.
The character's reactions to things are shallow and so are their relationships. There are a lot of smutty scenes (which I like) but even those happen at weird times and feel a bit rushed.
That said, it still held my interest all the way through.
August 11, 2022
Great book, hopefully not the only one in the series. I really like everything by this author because of the characters he writes, how unique they are and how the MC interacts with all of them. Can’t wait for the next one.
December 26, 2022
Great story
I really enjoyed this story and thought the characters were very likeable and well written. There were a few typos and editing issues. But I would highly recommend this book.
I really enjoyed this story and thought the characters were very likeable and well written. There were a few typos and editing issues. But I would highly recommend this book.
May 8, 2024
Kinda of porny, kinda of creepy with the not incest trope. Just tropy in general, if your really starved for litrpg in this genre, you would probably be able to finish it, I did. But I don’t really have a desire to continue the series, nothing super original here.
July 14, 2024
Calon battles goblins and wolves menacing the town. He adds new members to his growing family as well as new powers. Some good battle scenes with goblins riding wolves. A new supernatural, the Nightmare, appears, friend or foe?
March 12, 2025
Great funny story
I really enjoyed this book with am the twisted turned and exciting experiences. I hope the series continues for a few books. Its really getting exciting with each chapter.
I really enjoyed this book with am the twisted turned and exciting experiences. I hope the series continues for a few books. Its really getting exciting with each chapter.
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August 10, 2026The litRPG is subpar, the other stuff is ... frequently rushed and dropped out of nowhere. The mix is ... decent, for an incident story. Worth a read in this genre, yet I think, no, I hope, there are better reads out there.
October 25, 2022
An exciting adventure
I loved how playful and fun this book was. It doesn't weigh itself down with unnecessary things and as a result has a story that flows nicely.
I loved how playful and fun this book was. It doesn't weigh itself down with unnecessary things and as a result has a story that flows nicely.
October 31, 2022
Good story
This was quite the interesting take on isekai summoner genre. I would like to read a continuation of this story and find out who he will bring next.
This was quite the interesting take on isekai summoner genre. I would like to read a continuation of this story and find out who he will bring next.
May 1, 2023
Good job
Nice characterisation. Story rolls along nicely. Really looking forward to further books in this series. Keep up the good work.
Nice characterisation. Story rolls along nicely. Really looking forward to further books in this series. Keep up the good work.
August 15, 2023
Not bad
Fairly well written and the characters weren’t to bad.Some misspelled words and to much agonizing over what’s good and what’s wrong when your given a second life to live.
Fairly well written and the characters weren’t to bad.Some misspelled words and to much agonizing over what’s good and what’s wrong when your given a second life to live.
March 7, 2024
The premise of an accidental summoner is very intriguing. I had some good laughs, and 'DOH!' moments.
March 8, 2024
What a great beginning!
I really enjoyed this story, I went through the book quickly, just having to know what would happen next, on to book 2!
I really enjoyed this story, I went through the book quickly, just having to know what would happen next, on to book 2!
March 22, 2024
A decently funny book with well written saucy shenanigans. Fairly good combat and magic use as well
June 2, 2024
Eh, it's...fine.
Lightweight, bordering on porn-with-plot over being a fantasy novel with sex scenes, but fine.
Not a lot to call out as especially good; the characters are a bit thin, the world building is, well, let's say "economical", there isn't any overarching plot or villain just yet. It's pleasant, but it's hard to summon up much enthusiasm for reading book 2 either.
Lightweight, bordering on porn-with-plot over being a fantasy novel with sex scenes, but fine.
Not a lot to call out as especially good; the characters are a bit thin, the world building is, well, let's say "economical", there isn't any overarching plot or villain just yet. It's pleasant, but it's hard to summon up much enthusiasm for reading book 2 either.
June 22, 2024
Good plot but need some work
Don't get me wrong, it's a good book but it seems like the author made this in a week and just sent it our into the universe without editing it.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good book but it seems like the author made this in a week and just sent it our into the universe without editing it.
December 25, 2024
great
Great first book, looking forward to read more of this series. A nice discovery and well written, characters well defined
Great first book, looking forward to read more of this series. A nice discovery and well written, characters well defined
August 28, 2025
good book
Very good book entertaining kept me interested the whole time definitely one I would recommend very, good book.. thank you
Very good book entertaining kept me interested the whole time definitely one I would recommend very, good book.. thank you
February 11, 2025
Good story so far
What can I with only having read the first volume so far other than it's a good story even if it has a bit to much "Furries" for my taste
What can I with only having read the first volume so far other than it's a good story even if it has a bit to much "Furries" for my taste
April 21, 2023
I enjoyed the book
I enjoyed this book of the author's and look forward to both the sequel in May and the Audio book version next week.
I enjoyed this book of the author's and look forward to both the sequel in May and the Audio book version next week.
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