Isekai Cheat Appraiser

A Slow Life of Wandering & Treasure-Hunting [Light Novel] #1

by Sebastian Guzman

Have you heard of the Ultimate Appraiser?

Melchior was a guy who always wanted to leave home.

Then one day, he got his wish and was transported to the world of Maestros. He liked the place, so he took advantage of his cheat-level abilities and settled down there, intent on leading a quiet and profitable life.

Time passed.

Nowadays, Melchior's a guy that lives under the radar, traveling from place to place, plundering dungeons, making money, and visiting his favorite people. Armed with his completely unfair [Appraisal] ability, no other Appraiser can compare to him. His income is the most secure and certain thing in Maestros.

But Maestros is an ever-changing world, one populated by humans blessed by Gods themselves, the Masters. Dangerous power and new sources of revenue are always appearing. If it stopped there, Melchior would be happy, but a great shift is on the horizon, one which might actually harm Melchior's business and partners.

The forces of fate are moving, but Melchior is the one person they should never oppose, lest he shows them just why he is the Ultimate Cheat Appraiser.


"Isekai Cheat Appraiser: A Slow Life of Wandering & Treasure-Hunting" is a new slice of life and adventure story of a guy who wants to make and spend money. Here's what you can expect in this series:
Cheat-level Abilities
Overpowered Protagonist
Fantastical and Abundant Romance
Dungeon Crawling
Slice of Life Elements
Litrpg Elements
Insert Art

Genres: Fantasy

336 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 14, 2022

Reviews

[Roberto Flores · Rating 1 out of 5]

Quit at the halfway point.

A slice of life lives of does by its characters. The character work in this book is non-existent. They are boring and flat. The MC is meant to be mysterious but is portrayed as empty, not emotionally but as a whole. A good two thirds of what I read was explaining a convoluted magic system, it was so tied into the social aspects as to ruin that part of the book. The entire thing is just empty and boring and lacking any descent character interactions.

[Jim Phillips · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not what I expected

This was a tough read. Seemed to be a string of small stories badly fit together. What made it worse was the editorials. We'd stop the story and then take a short cut to advance the plot. That's A really bad crutch for an author to lean on. The final nail in the coffin was the amount of detail in those editorials. I also had an issue with the sex scenes. After the first one I just skipped the rest.

[Alan K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Strange start to a series… needs a prequel

In isekai stories you usually start with the character starting from scratch figuring out their special abilities or magic powers starting from a novice to build the character up, and introducing characters as they meet, but this story did not. Therefore I found this book a little hard to get into, and considered stopping early. The MC was already powerful and in already established romantic/sexual relationships skipping the whole introduction of new characters and how they fell in love which I personally enjoy the most in ‘harem’ or other romantic relationship containing books. So you slowly need to work out what is going on, what type of relationship the characters have with the MC, and what the MC is capable of via reading various episodic adventures he goes on. I did eventually start enjoying the book but it was harder work than I normally allow in the start of a book. I just happened to read this book while waiting for books in any other of the series I am currently enjoying to release. Honestly not sure if I will read book 2, too many other undiscovered gems to find in this genre.

[Dark Ape · Rating 3 out of 5]

May have rate this 4-stars, but the abrupt start of the story dropped it down personally as I was left constantly trying to figure out the world and MC. This entire book is basically a slow intro into the world, some details about the MC here and there, the same with vague hints to his background and current status, and ends with an idea of his goal from now on. I enjoyed it overall, but disliked that I kept getting pulled from the immersion due to trying to suss out how each new detail defined everything else I'd read previously.

[Kevin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the Cheat Potion maker, and I am hesitantly giving this a go. Hopefully it wouldn't become a habit (reading light novels).

This is really not what I expected. I'm a few chapters in, after reading tournament battle with commentary, I'm willing to drop this unless something changes. I guess the anime and manga lovers would have liked those bits. It's like a badly written anime.

This was meh. I was thinking of giving the series a go, but the ending just made me uninterested.
The story flow was too anime for my taste.

2/5 Stars

[Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

Every so often you start a book because it looks interesting, but you finish the book because you just don't want to waste any more time on it. This book isn't bad enough to drop entirely, but it isn't really good enough to enjoy. I had a lot of issues with the ways the characters interacted with each other, and the plot was essentially nonexistent. This reads like a prequel to an established series.

[Zac · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are a bunch of things that could be interesting but it's like the story was a pane of glass that was shattered. You only see random shards and nothing from what should have been a beginning to the story. You read an anthology of random short stories while it's also trying to describe a magic system as well as very limited world building. If you can ignore the feeling that 50% of the potential of the story is wasted then it's still a relatively entertaining read.

[Jake · Rating 1 out of 5]

Mind numbing

Couldn’t make it through the first quarter of the book. The main character is so over powered he’s not interesting, his life slices are also not interesting. His relationships, also, not interesting. 16% of the way into the book and the author is still explaining what ‘masters’ and ‘tablets’ and all of the other little details of his system are.

It’s just not interesting to catch, and I’m not curious enough to find out what the rest of the book is like.

[Kelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

good book but kinda odd start

It is a good book but the start is a bit odd. You are finding out a lot of things that happened in the past and about his relationships. At the end it feels like you are finally have enough background to understand all of the story. I will read the next book in the series.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good premise for a series.

The book was decent but the first half of the book seemed more like a group of short stories than a novel. The world building did keep me intrigued and looking forward to seeing what happened next. But the character development was not very in-depth to me and secondary characters just seemed flat with little depth.

[Paul Hefka · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great start.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It's fun and entertaining. The story and characters were interesting and engaging. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. This book is definitely worth checking out.

[Robert L. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book

This is a fine fantasy harem adventure novel. It is well written and edited. I especially love kps Cody. I anxiously await the sequel.

[Dantegideon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite stilted and the main character was a bit of a wassock.

[steven wolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting

A different slant dungeons, abilities and harems. Plenty of action, violence, magic, drama, and romance. Eager to see the next book in series.

[Frederick · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is little more than a prequel, a well done prequel, but just a prequel.

[Christian · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF