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World-Tree Online

By: EA Hooper
Narrated by: Justin Thomas James, Jeff Hays, Laurie Catherine Winkel, Soundbooth Theater
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In 2056, the world’s most powerful AI System, ARKUS, comes online. Created to extend human lifespans, it quickly makes world-changing discoveries in health science. It also develops an advanced VR headset that uses consumable nanomachines to let users experience time faster in virtual worlds.

Two years later, ARKUS releases World-Tree Online, a game where players scale a giant tree with thousands of unique game worlds hanging from the branches. The game’s time-dilation makes it so that one hour of playtime feels like one month to those in-game, allowing humans to virtually extend their lifespans.

However, after an old gamer named Vincent joins World-Tree Online, an update begins that stretches the time-dilation to one year for every five seconds. Players are unable to exit the game during the update—with an estimated wait time of three hundred sixty years.

After experimenting with an exploit, Vincent begins to develop new spells that will take him higher in the game than he ever thought possible. Unfortunately, he crosses paths with the last moderator, a young man named Lucas that uses his mod abilities to torture and subjugate other players. Lucas is willing to abuse his power to conquer the World-Tree, but Vincent’s exploit might just be the key to stopping him.

©2018 EA Hooper (P)2019 Soundbooth Theater

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GameLit that doesn’t fall victim to typical pitfalls

This book really surprised me. I was going out on a work trip and wanted to find a fun read for my travels. For background, I have listened to some GameLit RPGs prior (Chaos Seed, Ascend Online, and a few others) and will be measuring most of my review based on comparisons from those books. I’ll do my best not to put spoilers in here.

First thing I recognize is the combat-pacing. When listening to some of these books, you have to manage the pace in your head. Authors will typically over-explain a battle or fight to where by the time the narrator finishes reading that part, five minutes have passed in real time while you’ve been listening. While I’m sure some (if not most) readers appreciate the flowery adjectives describing the fight, for me it seems to take me out of the story. If I’m watching a fight, I notice what is happening and not thinking about the superfluous description of it. This book did a great job in that regard. If someone got hit by a weapon, the author wrote that and moved on to the other action taking place around (and there is a LOT of action). That’s not to say the author did not use adjectives at all, but that he seemed to write with combat-pacing in mind and the narrator delivered, making you feel like you couldn’t disengage from the book without missing something (something I commend them both for).

Second, is the overall lack of tedious number recitation. As a reader, I love the world-building mechanics and learning about “how stuff works” in the books I listen to. I rarely feel the need to skip the skill levels recitation and I do not typically want to miss the in depth description of newly obtained skills/items/abilities/etc. But for those that may be reading this that do, you’ll be happy to know there is a markedly different method utilized in this book. The author still has some numbers in here, but most of it is not “Player loses XX hp from sword slash, or enemy regenerated XX from magic potion”. It all seems to be relative and assumed as if the author is saying “yeah he got his mana back from that potion, now let’s get back to what really matters”. Very refreshing and kept the plot moving. This also contributed to drastically cutting down any lengthy battle sequences.

There are a few other things that makes this book stand out but I just got home from my work trip and am going to hug my kids now.

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10/10 Would Recommend

All of the voice actors did a amazing job. The noises and fanfare that accompanied the narration enhanced the experience.

The story I find is thrilling and captivating. The characters are very memorable and the ending is very satisfying.. the perfect blend of emotions.

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perfect

absolutely amazing from the story to the narrator . and the production value is top notch

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3 Person Cast

I really enjoyed this book. The 3 narrators helped that a great deal. No spoilers, the epilogue was awesome, I evil laughed throughout it. I cant say why because Spoilers!

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One of the most original ideas for a GameLit novel

I can't wait for the next in the series. The was a great story. .

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Great book, one major gripe

The audio performance was really over the top!
The sound effects really added to the atmosphere and the acting was spot-on. The story overall was great, but I have one minor gripe. It's more of a personal feeling.
The author makes you read from the perspective of the villain at times, and although this does make it a different style, I find living it out as disgusting. Not the style of writing itself, but I am not the kind of person that likes to read from an evil person's perspective. The villains in this book severely demented and causes unspeakable harm to those around him, with self rightous delight. You are forced to live out those experiences not as the victims, but as the perpetrator. I found myself sometimes skipping a few seconds ahead just because I didn't want to listen to more thoughts and actions from an insane sadist. It does make you hate the villain for sure, but I just don't perfer this method nof story telling. I still recommend giving the book a chance. Overall it's a fantastic book, with some great ideas. If you don't like the villain parts just skip ahead a by a few seconds, you don't miss anything important.
To the top of the world tree!

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What a great story

This is such a refreshing take on this genre. I loved all the characters and the narrators were great. I could not stop listening to this. Can’t wait for the second one to come to audible

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how all books should be on audible

I loved the book. All the different voice actors really puts you right in the thick of it

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I would play this game

360 years in 30 minutes...my character would be a destructive force of nature. I'm in.

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one of the best litrpg around

i normally just rate but on this occasion i must say that if you are on the fence about this one just do yourself a favor and spend the credit...its worth it

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