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Wuxia #1
Thunder Rumbles Twice #1
He has lost it all – his family, his health, his job. When life loses all meaning but revenge against your enemy, you can follow him even to another world from where you have no chance of returning. With nothing but uncertainty ahead.
Now he is a teenager who has been sold for debts to the school of Quan. The school is little different from a prison, and the hero’s status – from slavery.
There one is expected to work tirelessly and take tablets that cause addiction. Once you begin taking them, there is no escape from the place.
There are only two ways out – become a fighter and win a chance to achieve freedom by becoming a soldier of the Zhou family; or work to exhaustion until adulthood and be sent off to the silver mines, where few survive longer than three years.
Our hero’s body is weak, his status in the school low, and he has no friends. He would appear to be doomed, but the spirit of the one who finds himself in the boy’s body in pursuit of his enemy forces him to cling to life, to grow stronger and stronger instead of breaking. His memory cannot give him a complete answer as to who he is and what was in his past. But his recollection steadily returns, and his weak body is ready to grow strong through training with his teacher and through the abilities of the Chosen One. He is ready to challenge those who want to break him.
Now he is called Lei, which means Thunder. And he intends to rumble so loud that the one he seeks will hear him.
Martial arts, superpowers and a hero’s story of growth. The first of five books of an exciting progression fantasy tale in wuxia style. Read this new series, already a bestseller in its home country, now in English too!
Now he is a teenager who has been sold for debts to the school of Quan. The school is little different from a prison, and the hero’s status – from slavery.
There one is expected to work tirelessly and take tablets that cause addiction. Once you begin taking them, there is no escape from the place.
There are only two ways out – become a fighter and win a chance to achieve freedom by becoming a soldier of the Zhou family; or work to exhaustion until adulthood and be sent off to the silver mines, where few survive longer than three years.
Our hero’s body is weak, his status in the school low, and he has no friends. He would appear to be doomed, but the spirit of the one who finds himself in the boy’s body in pursuit of his enemy forces him to cling to life, to grow stronger and stronger instead of breaking. His memory cannot give him a complete answer as to who he is and what was in his past. But his recollection steadily returns, and his weak body is ready to grow strong through training with his teacher and through the abilities of the Chosen One. He is ready to challenge those who want to break him.
Now he is called Lei, which means Thunder. And he intends to rumble so loud that the one he seeks will hear him.
Martial arts, superpowers and a hero’s story of growth. The first of five books of an exciting progression fantasy tale in wuxia style. Read this new series, already a bestseller in its home country, now in English too!
491 pages, Hardcover
Published May 12, 2022
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About the author
V. Kriptonov
6 booksVasily Kriptonov is an author and citizen of the world. He works in several speculative genres such as action sci fi, fantasy, YA sci fi and wuxia. He’s also trying his hand at non-speculative genres such as mystery and detective novels. He was a runner-up of the 2015 Debut literary prize in the Best YA and Children’s Books as well as the winner of the Transylvania-2021 literary prize for Best Long Form. [amazon]
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July 21, 2022
I'll keep this short.
It was difficult to follow what was happening as well as work out what kind of technology have or time period based on, add to that is no cultivation really in this or any power for most book and found self bored to be honest.
Then final nail in coffin of this book for me was when smoking brought into it. (Mc is only 14 years old for one terrible advertisement there add to fact he sleeping around too.)
Also it's really slow frustratingly slow yet I still found myself reading to the end lol. (I hate leaving things unfinished that own.)
It was difficult to follow what was happening as well as work out what kind of technology have or time period based on, add to that is no cultivation really in this or any power for most book and found self bored to be honest.
Then final nail in coffin of this book for me was when smoking brought into it. (Mc is only 14 years old for one terrible advertisement there add to fact he sleeping around too.)
Also it's really slow frustratingly slow yet I still found myself reading to the end lol. (I hate leaving things unfinished that own.)
April 6, 2023
Book one
There's only a couple of mistakes in this book. Don't worry though I will post them on Goodreads and let the publisher know. They are good about fixing mistakes.
This is a portal to another world and cultivation book. I'm not a fan of drugs but I think it made a good foundation for this series.
I'm not100% sold on the MC yet, but I'm heading straight for book two.
7/10
There's only a couple of mistakes in this book. Don't worry though I will post them on Goodreads and let the publisher know. They are good about fixing mistakes.
This is a portal to another world and cultivation book. I'm not a fan of drugs but I think it made a good foundation for this series.
I'm not100% sold on the MC yet, but I'm heading straight for book two.
7/10
July 10, 2023
DNF at 3%
Maybe i am overly sensitive but i find the constant use of the term "chinaman" vulgar and off-putting.
Maybe i am overly sensitive but i find the constant use of the term "chinaman" vulgar and off-putting.
September 21, 2025
a smash-up of wuxia and A Scanner Darkly (the novel).
December 13, 2022
I received a review copy of this book.
If this wasn't part of a series, I wouldn't believe it had anything at all to do with LitRPG. It claims to be a western/wuxia tale. Seriously, had I encountered this book outside of a review copy, I probably wouldn't have bothered to read it.
Honestly, it's not a bad story, but when something claims to be a LitRPG story, then I'd expect at least some LitRPG elements in it. In this book: nothing.
I can only hope that other books in the series will remedy that oversight, but as of now, I can't recommend this series to LitRPG fans, because there isn't a single LitRPG element in this book.
On the other hand, if you want a story about a character who never gives up, who always does what's needed, regardless of personal cost, and works hard to learn their internal spirit, then in that vein, this book is a fairly decent entry, and one I'd recommend to anyone looking for such a story. but the mere fact that it's marketed as LitRPG irritates me, since stand-alone, it isn't.
If this wasn't part of a series, I wouldn't believe it had anything at all to do with LitRPG. It claims to be a western/wuxia tale. Seriously, had I encountered this book outside of a review copy, I probably wouldn't have bothered to read it.
Honestly, it's not a bad story, but when something claims to be a LitRPG story, then I'd expect at least some LitRPG elements in it. In this book: nothing.
I can only hope that other books in the series will remedy that oversight, but as of now, I can't recommend this series to LitRPG fans, because there isn't a single LitRPG element in this book.
On the other hand, if you want a story about a character who never gives up, who always does what's needed, regardless of personal cost, and works hard to learn their internal spirit, then in that vein, this book is a fairly decent entry, and one I'd recommend to anyone looking for such a story. but the mere fact that it's marketed as LitRPG irritates me, since stand-alone, it isn't.
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