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Brightblade (2nd Edition)

UnderVerse, Book 1

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By: Jez Cajiao
Narrated by: Wayne Mitchell
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Summary

A realm aside from our own. The center of the realities. Home to every spectrum of magic.

From the beautiful to the terrible, it was all held in delicate balance by the Eternal Emperor and his immortal children. For 10,000 years, the empire was the bastion that protected the sentient races from the darkness, but the revolution, and the War of the Gods has changed all that . . .

Jax seems like a regular guy, except that he fights creatures from a strange place called the UnderVerse in his sleep, leaving him covered in horrific scars when he wakes up. The mysterious disappearance of his brother five years prior has forced Jax into a holding pattern, with a job he tolerates, a girl he kinda, sorta loves . . . until he's kidnapped and given a stark choice by his asshat of a father: Go to the UnderVerse in reality, travel to the capitol of that ruined realm at the center of reality, and open a portal for the Noble Houses to return home . . .

Or die, slowly.

That's the good news. The bad is that he has to survive the arena first, to prove his right to go. Twelve will enter, only one can leave . . .

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It very difficult sometimes to understant readers words. They really slurred and accented, wery heavy to listen. Takes much efford to keep listening in story.

Good story, but i just cant understand reader

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Decided to start from the beginning of Jez’s catalogue after listening to age of stone, bronze and iron.

This has a great introduction and character build as in his other LITRPG novels.

Narration however…

While energetic and performance rich, the accents aren’t the best. It’s hard to discern where anyone comes from.

Australian or Dick Van Dykes London Cockney?

Romanian or Sean Connery’s light Scottish rogue?

I’ll let you decide, but the story is great if you can stomach the narration

Great story - Accents questionable

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Great story. Such a pity the narrator is so annoying. He tries to put on an accent, however it keeps slipping off sometimes into an Arnold Arnold Swaggernager, sometimes into an Australian accent. Wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't the fact that it's the main character and all the narrative - if you wanted that done in a Northern accent, then get a native speaker, not someone that has to try to keep faking an accent for hours on end.
Emphasis is also all over the place. Simple bits like reading out class descriptions are done in an action tone that would normally be reserved for fight sequences.

Don't listen to the Audio, read the book instead.

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I couldn’t stand the accents anymore… only managed a few chapters before I had to call it quits

I really wanted to enjoy this

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50 hrs is not even enough. I want each book jez writes to be 100hrs each

Narrator is amazing, Voices are great, story is great, jez for the win again

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