In the universe of the Chaos Seeds, it is a law that 1,000 experience points are needed to move from Level One to Level Two, another two thousand to reach Level Three, another three thousand to reach Level Four, etc. Just like in playing an RPG game, in Aleron Kong’s The Land, characters can gain levels according to how much experience they earn.
Imagine a realm where as well as the law of gravity, there are Experience Points, which you learn from completing tasks, quest and – above all – from defeating your opponents.
The Land is a fantasy world, whose laws are those we are familiar with from RPG games. There are currently eight books in the popular LitRPG series and although the series seems to be on a hiatus after book 8, the story is ongoing and there is scope for many more books. Fans of The Land enjoy the fact that the author, Aleron Kong, combines humour with very detailed RPG mechanics. Maybe when I run out of other audiobooks I’ll skip ahead to the middle to see if it improves.Aleron Kong is the bestselling LitRPG author, with his Chaos Seeds series – also known as The Land – having sold over 1m copies. It’s possible it gets better, but I just don’t have time to wait for it. I don’t think I would consider reading any other LitRPG books, though. I would consider listening to other books read by him. On the plus side it is competently read by Nick Podehl, who actually sounds a bit like a cut-rate Luke Daniels. I would describe the first four chapters as boilerplate setup chapters heavy on exposition, the kind of chapters I have written plenty of times before and been embarrassed about. I listened to four audio chapters while I was trapped in the shower, and afterward, it was a fairly easy decision not to continue. It is, I think, a comedy targeted at an audience demographic who plays online games or tabletop RPGs, i.e. It is about (stop me if you’ve heard this before) a guy who accidentally gets transported to a real fantasy world after playing a game (a virtual MMORPG). I have no idea where I heard about this book or why I got it.
This is definitely a winner for the largest number of sub-titles within one title. Actions have consequences across The Land, with powerful creatures and factions now hell-bent on Richter’s destruction. Tricked into a world of banished gods, demons, goblins, sprites and magic, Richter must learn to meet the perils of The Land and begin to forge his own kingdom. The Land: Founding: A LitRPG Saga: Chaos Seeds, Book 1 by Aleron Kong
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