Derelict

Book 1, Repel Boarders (A LitRPG, Dungeon Core Adventure)

By: Dean Henegar

Narrated by: Jack Voraces

One captain’s death might turn out to be humanity’s best chance at survival.

As humanity expands into the stars, it discovers the universe is a hostile place.

When Captain Slater of the USS Franklin is assigned to a deep-space reconnaissance mission, his ship is destroyed by an unknown alien race.

Much to his surprise, Slater isn’t killed - he’s transformed. He is now a “derelict” - a consciousness bound to his old vessel.

Slater must quickly adapt to his new existence before raiders, alien armies, and mysterious forces seek to destroy him for a second and final time.

©2020 Dean Henegar (P)2020 Dean Henegar

OK story Terable narator

This is an interesting take on the Dungeon litrpg style. There are great big holes in the story but you can ignore most of them with little effort. The biggest drawback is jack Voraces as narrator. His accent is impossible to ignore. he apparently has never had a voice coach that told him that "C"s and "S" sounds are not supposed to sound the same and should not whistle. for the most part he sounds like he is eating while talking most of the time. his alternate voices all sound the same making it difficult to tell the difference between characters. I have listened to other books he has narrated and this flaw is standard for all his work unfortunatly. So be prepaired to be disappointment in the narrator for anything he does.

A decent story,

But the narrator took it behind the barn and shot it right in the face. I'll get the rest on kindle cause I really do like the story.

a suprise

i didn't think I would like it. but by the end i was eager for the next installment

Not bad, but not for me

the premise sounded great. I obviously do not like the genre of being a computer game with stats. level 3. et al. loved the history at the end of how ships and characters were named in the story. Parts were good, others were not.

4-stars of Potential, 2.5-stars of deliverable

This was an okay story, but had some issues:
1) I wasn't thrilled with the narrator. He was okay, but the secondary and tertiary voices were a bit annoying and a British guy playing an American soldier??? RC Bray or such may have been a better choice.
2) The editing wasn't great. I could hear what sounded like an old spool-to-spool tape recorder or mini-cassette light squeal on a regular basis.
3) The story was a bit forced addressing things as if they happened within hours or minutes where space is a big slow space. Other authors have handled the "hurry up and wait" that space combat would be in a much better fashion.
4) This really didn't fall into the class of a LitRPG. It was more like a story with an occasional read of a dungeon stat sheet and the author didn't really contain the story to a LitRPG structure.

There were positives:
1) For me, this was a unique spin on a LitRPG story. There might be thousands of them, but this is the first non fantasy/DND/Swords and Sorcery type LitRPG story that I've read.
2) The story has so much potential and a possible spin-off to a character LitRPG instead of a dungeon-core LitRPG as well.
3) Despite the failings, I really want to listen to book 2 to see if the author matures and/or the narrator is changed, but that will only happen if I find book 2 on a $5 sale.

Anyway, my takeaway for you is that this isn't a great book, but it's an okay book. Book 2 will make or break this series for me. If the author improves the story and/or the narrator is replaced, I may read more of the series. I definitely would not spend a credit on this, but it's not a bad $5 listen.