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Big Sneaky Barbarian: A LitRPG Novel

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Big Sneaky Barbarian: A LitRPG Novel

By: Seth McDuffee
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
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One angry young man is about to take a fantasy realm by storm—or by accident—in the hilarious first book of a new series by the author of Good Boy.

Gabe Skelter has a temper, which he likes to imagine has the effect of causing people to fear and respect him. On the contrary, his pudgy, underdeveloped body and negative personality make him more your standard outcast teenager. Worse still, he kinda knows what a jerkweed he actually is.

Then, in the middle of a class trip, Gabe finds himself spirited away to Regaia: a world of magic, mayhem, and nerd-tastic adventure. Naturally, he’s completely ill-prepared. But in this realm, he’s a monstrous, muscular man of action. Unfortunately, he’s still saddled with the frightfully unimpressive brains of a teenage loser.

Now, Gabe must make his burly, bulky way in a land where the strong dominate, the powerful rule, and picking a class has nothing to do with algebra . . . and everything to do with survival.

Bristling with reckless abandon and antisocial attitude, Big Sneaky Barbarian is Die Hard with dungeons; a must-hear for fans of heavy-hitting action mixed with laugh-out-loud snark—and absolutely loaded with swears.

The first volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with almost 100,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

©2022 Seth McDuffee (P)2022 Podium Audio
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Critic reviews

“This has gotten me very excited at the chance to be one of those authors quoted on a book.”—Shirtaloon, author of the He Who Fights with Monsters series and brazen Australian

“I loved every one of the words in this book! Especially how they followed one another in perfect sequence, each of them dazzling me with their sublime poise, vigor, and panache. Or at least that’s what I think I’d say if I read the thing. Are we done here now? Wait, don’t write that. Stop, what are you doing, don’t hit send . . .”—Luke Chmilenko, author of the Ascend Online series and collector of “antique” eggs

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The beginning of this book was not funny. Maybe the book corrodes your braincells or it turned around and made me laugh out loud at points. Once in a grocery store. This to me make a brilliant book. McClain did a great job brining this book to life.

Slow start, but won me over

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the narrator is fantastic at doing all these voices that's one big positive. another positive is the story and the characters, from Loon who was originally an under height average/above weight average YA teenager with anger issues gets teleported to another world, where the world once again feels like it's against him as he becomes a berserker orc, tall, muscular, seesawing Luck, no shoes... also with anger issues, it's thoroughly enjoyable to see him struggle to find companions in this world, only for said main companion to be a colossal arsehole who hates his guts, for some understandable reasons but also because he hates orcs.
after the conclusion, it has left me wanting to find more and hopefully the future stories are as fun and enjoyable as this one.

a good start

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Odd start, wasn’t at all sure if I’d listen to the end, but it improved, dramatically, to a point where I hope book two comes soon - very shouty narration, but it fits the book. One of the quirkiest litrpgs I’ve come across and I didn’t expect to enjoy it, but I did - Loon’s persona should not be likeable, he should be annoying and, yes, you will want to hit him and knock some sense into his head - but, somehow, you will also want him to survive… and his egg amigos too…. Nope not giving you any spoilers, as you scramble to the end of book one, except I’m pleased I stumbled across him.

Quirky but good with a great narrator

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excellent narration, story a little slow to get started but once you hit about a third of the way through things pick up. a fun, light read. would recommend

funny light read

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Worth a read not a lot of the game stat padding you get with other books, narrator was on point!

Good read

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