Disregard Fantasy, Acquire Currency

Disregard Fantasy, Acquire Currency, Book 1

By: Nemorosus

Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski

Business magnate Willem dies at age 87, entirely alone.

Populists around the world generally cheer for such a sad fate, but his reincarnation into a world of fantasy would surely put a damper on their enthusiasm. Sword and sorcery, grand adventure, life-threatening monsters and calamities... Willem stands poised to enjoy a life of splendor.

Only, our protagonist doesn't care one whit about all of that. To him, there's only one magic: correcting an inefficient market. He long ago mastered that sorcery, and he's certainly not about to try to learn another when the old tricks work just as well in the new world. No matter how fantastical the world, one thing never changes.

Money makes the world go round.

©2025 Nemorosus LLC (P)2025 Podium Audio

Don’t judge a book by its cover.

It’s actually really good. If you’ve been listening to a lot of action LitRPG books with a lot of fighting, then this would be a great pit stop for you to relax and listen to. It’s funny and very interesting how the character navigates his new world and how he just doesn’t care about magic. Buuuuut I wish he did care to defend himself but that’s just me. Give it a shot you’ll be happy you did.

For once, actually good dialogue.

One of the biggest complaints I have with these types of stories is the lack of dialogue that feels like real dialogue, and the dialogue that does exist is often pointless, either only existing to info dump or adding very little to the characterizations. This book uses nearly ALL of its dialogue to further the story, to show character progression in a tangible, very well done way. The dialogue is witty and fun, I don't grow bored or roll my eyes at how campy it is, each interaction feels true to the character, and adds something to the chapter when they speak. The only complaint I have is that the VA's female voices blended together a bit after a while, but other than that he did great!

It's the banter

I have been trying to figure out why I loved this book. What makes it stand out from the other isekai slop you clicked through before you found this book. It's the banter. The supporting characters aren't just card board cutouts. They banter with the main character, tell jokes, become the butt of jokes. The supporting characters will tease the MC, the MC will tease them back. the supporting characters will tease each other, and the MC will notice or not. The author did a fantastic job writing funny dialogue, the narrator went above and beyond in giving voice to each character.

At time of writing, this book has 15 reviews. I'm honestly shocked I came across it while doom scrolling through Audible's frankly terrible book browsing system. Still, if you've listened to Primal Hunter and thought "man, the fight scenes drag on way too long but everything else is fantastic" this is the book for you. If you are looking for what to listen to after going through Beware of Chicken, this is the book for you. If you loved the constant comedy of errors that is Overlord, this is the book for you.

Overall, low action, lots of talking. But the talking is good and the voicework is superb. I highly recommend this book. Now go away! I need to listen to the sequel.

Not what I expected

My initial concern was that Nemorosus' story was going to be mostly focused on mercantilism which isn't one of my preferred genres; however, seeing that Daniel Wisniewski was the narrator and enjoyed his other performances, I decided to give this a try.

While there was a fair bit of mercantilism involved, that was more of a MacGuffin device than the primary emphasis of the story. No, the story really revolved around an industrialist MC upon death being Isekai'd from a modern urban world, presumably Earth, to another realm where magic existed. Further complicating matters, the MC's psyche overrode that of the psyche of a rather despicable princeling. Also, the economy was closer to a pre-industrial era where product development was slow and heavily depended on manual labor. The MC's industrial background knowledge immediately led him on a quest to modernize the economy by removing inefficiencies.

He was was also wrapped-up into political intrigue from within the kingdom as well as from another slaver kingdom.

In all, I enjoyed the novel and look forward to Book 2.

Great story. Great voice acting

Nice change of pace. Give a shot. You wont regret it. Funny and a different type of litrpg