Review: Prism Academy 1

Title: Prism Academy- Inferna: A Litrpg Supers Adventure 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B54C4RQ6

Author:  David Burke

Rating: 3.75/5

Comments: Sometimes you just need a light popcorn read, and this filled that niche for me.

The amount of dramatic tension in this one is fairly low.  Our Hero succeeds at pretty much everything, and panties drop with the mere steely glance of his gaze.

All that being said, it's enjoyable popcorn and the sex scenes aren't ridiculously long or tedious.  The story is reasonably consistent and doesn't jar your suspension of disbelief excessively.

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Review: Law of Family and Battlemaster's skirmish

Title: Law of Family: A Litrpg Portal Adventure (Four Laws Book 2)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09MPSDDYB/
 Author: David Burke

Title:  Battlemaster's Skirmish: A LitRPG Monster Girl Harem Adventure (Tournion Book 2)

Rating: 3.6/5

Comments:  I am putting these two together because my reaction to them is essentially the same.  I liked previous books better than I liked their sequels.  The first books had more interest because we were establishing the world, and introducing the characters. The book 2's had a lot of stuff going on but not a lot of growth in the protagonist and the relationships with the characters introduced in book 1 didn't significantly develop. It was a lot of "Oh my god my sexy waifu I realized yet again for the fifth time this chapter how much I love you.  Let me worship your meaty dripping sex until you are ruined for any other man!"  And there's a lot of sex.  In some cases it seems to be sex for the sake of sex.  I skipped a lot of pages of thrusting, moaning, and pulsing.  In the case of Battlemaster, he seems to be picking up women like a lint roller.  Bordering on Chad in Vaginaland.

Anyway, I am ambivalent about book 3 on both of these.  I guess it will depend on my mood when they come across my feed.  I don't expect I'll be checking the series page regularly to see if they have a new installment.

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Review: Law of Strength

Title: Law of Strength: A Litrpg Portal Adventure (Four Laws Book 1)

Author:  David Burke

Rating: 4/5

Comments: A lot of this book is fairly standard Isekai, monstergirl, harem fare, which would at best get it a "It doesn't suck" rating, but this had enough interesting characters, world building, and humor to bring it up to a 4/5.   Some light POV switching, but nothing egregious.  I'll read the next one, assuming it comes out.

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Review: War God for Hire - Book 3

Title:  War God for Hire- Mercenary: A Reincarnation, Cultivation, Litrpg Adventure 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0968SB587/

Author: David Burke

Rating: 4.3/5

Comments:  I let this one sit in my TBR pile at around 15% complete for a bit because the start of it did not really grab me.  Then I got in a snit with another book and picked it up out of spite.  All in all it's pretty good.  The author manages to keep the protagonist challenged and growing despite being a deity, which is obviously a bit of a tall order.  He could lay off the White Knight'ing, a bit but it's not too excessive.  I like that he has people around who are not sharing his bed, too many books with multiple Sally Loveinterests fail because of that.

So better than I anticipated, and I expect I'll pick up book 4.

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Review: War God for Hire Book 2

Title: War God for Hire- Adventurer: A Reincarnation, Cultivation Adventure

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094ZC881G/
 

Author: David Burke

Rating: 4.5/5

Comments:

This is a pretty strong sequel to book 1.  Admittedly I was in the mood for a book where I could somewhat check out when I read it, but I enjoyed the ride.

This book gave a good bit more meat to the main story and you find out that some things were not as they first appeared, so there's some growth for the protagonist.

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Review: Descend Book 1 Audio book

Title: Descend Book 1: First Steps

Author: David Burke

Voice actors: Daniel Wisniewski, Rebecca Woods

Rating: Story:  2.5/5

            Performance 4.5/5

Comments:

Ok the story is borderline terrible.  There's almost no dramatic tension, and the plot is heavy on what a horny adolescent would think would be awesome. 30 to 1 female to male ratio; check.  Aphrodisiacs  liberally applied; check.  Magic enhanced body; check.  Magic sex powers, check.

No guy over the age of about 25 would think it would be awesome to be stuck full time with 30+ women.  

Then there's the dialogue from the James T. Kirk school of talking.  It takes stilted and awkward to new heights.  It's so over the top I genuinely laughed.

On the upside, Daniel and Rebecca take that sow's ear and do everything they can to make it a silk purse.  Best of all, Rebecca delivered her signature "warm southern belle" accent at least once in the 10 hours, so that made it worth it.

If I had been reading I have no doubt this would have been a DNF - avoid, but I took a chance based on the voice actors (they did TAP by Cebelius), and broke-even.

To be fair, if you just wanted a LitRPG book with sexy times, and no thought required, this would probably work.

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Review: War God for Hire - Gladiator

Title:  War God for Hire - Gladiator

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0911GF96F/

Author: David Burke

Rating: 4.5/5

Comments

I will state up front that I had *very* low expectations of this book when I started it.  I am exceedingly happy to say, that my expectations were absolutely wrong, and it was a good story.

Based solely on current market trends, and the cover being a very sexy woman, and the protagonist being a 6 time World Series champion, I thought that we would have Chad the Mega-Alpha fucking everything that even glanced his direction that had compatible genitalia with a phenomenal divine dick.  I was very wrong.

I won’t get into spoiler territory, but the story is good, and the relationships are not magical in their simplicity.   There is some culture clash and the little bit of sex there is, actually has some emotional weight.

I will be looking forward to the next one.                    

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