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Melody of Mana

A Progression Fantasy

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Melody of Mana

By: Wandering Agent
Narrated by: Reba Buhr
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A young bard must rely on otherworldly know-how to navigate a magical, war-torn kingdom in the first book of an inventive coming-of-age fantasy series.

Alana wasn’t always a child of the Kingdom of Bergond. In fact, she hails from an entirely different world. But an accident on Earth left her dead, and she was reincarnated as the daughter of a farmer and his wife in the hamlet of Orsken. Now, she’s learning how to live in a land vastly unlike that which she came from—and how to wield the new powers she possesses. For, even by the rules of her strange new home, Alana is special: a young bard capable of mending wounds, counteracting poisons, and healing the sick, all through the use of mana and her own mind.

But as she cultivates her newfound abilities through training with various teachers in the magical arts, those around her are struggling. War has torn the empire apart, and famine is disrupting the simple lives of the villagers. When the conflict comes right to their doorstep, Alana is separated from her family and forced to set out on her own. To remain safe and have any chance of reuniting with those she loves, she will need to apply all her cunning, sorcery, and knowledge—both of this world and Earth. Because there are forces that would do anything to control her, and they’re growing ever closer to discovering who and where she is.

Blending elements of traditional and progression fantasy, Melody of Mana is an action-packed and original story of magic, politics, friendship, and intrigue from a thrilling new voice in the genre.

The first volume of the hit progression-fantasy series—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available on Audible!

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I really enjoyed this book; I can't even think of anything that could have been done better. It captivates from the first chapter, the plot developed in an interesting way, and reasonable main character. I’ll definitely be buying the second book.

It’s a great book and if others in its series would be so interesting, I’d be buying all of them! ✌︎

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Slow start and a bit miscategorized genre, it is 90 percent Slice of Life with 1 percentage progression fantasy. Still an absolute fantastic story worth reading. Narration is also great.

Only tiny negatives to the story are the multiple inconsistencies with distances, seasons and travel times as well as trying to use particle physics to justify some effects that makes no actual sense (for example the invisibility) since the author clearly doesn't understand the topic, and would have just been better to justify it with magic.

Also, there are thousands of simple gadgets, tricks and inventions from modern era she could (should) have immediately thought of, instead of the mostly useless ones she has used. Especially since she seems to be a scientist who has memorized the whole periodic table, molecular structures and properties of all elements. So, it would have been far better to have storywise "muddled" up her memories from past life to be too vague to remember modern engineering, physics or mathematics. Also, she would be instantly the smartest person in the kingdom with modern University degree, yet is doing manual labor

She could have easily solved all her village's problems with almost no effort with what she had available with just a couple of trivial industrial and modern era inventions.

Amazing slice of life story, but not progression fantasy. Great narration

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this is really good
it seems like a great beginning , I can't wait to see where the story goes from here

enjoyable

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it was overall good while building up to something greater after 2/3 of the book

overall good

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it was a good book listen to how she had to deal with something most would never have to even consider was a nice spin on a good genre.

interesting

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