Minute Mage III

By: Reg Rome

Narrated by: Brian Wiggins

The land of opportunity awaits.

For the first time since the start of the invasion, Arlan has found safety within the walls of the Empire. Others may use this opportunity to sleep in, eat good food, and get some rest. But Arlan has other ideas.

Because within the same walls that have comfortable beds and expensive restaurants, one can also find magical items, powerful allies, and plenty of high-level monsters to slay.

He may have found a moment of safety, but Arlan knows the Demons have not yet been defeated—not by a long shot. And he intends to make their next attack the worst mistake they'll ever make.

Book three of a new LitRPG adventure filled with time magic, three-dimensional characters, a crunchy LitRPG system, tactical combat, and power progression where level-ups are hard-earned and bring with them meaningful change in characters’ abilities.

©2024 Reg Rome (P)2024 Recorded Books

Surprisingly solid

MC time skill is OP but not his own self which makes it a nice non-anxious listen with action still. I like the way the demons are presented and that’s the most unique part of the book.

Too much F words

Basic concept is very interesting, but the constant use of the F word is just too much. The listing of the character's magical attributes at first is interesting, but after a while it gets a bit tedious. The idea of demons having really long names being an indication of their rank or importance is cute, but repeatedly listing them gets irritating. However, if book 4 is released, I will probably get it.

Fast paced, easy to follow, entertaining.

Very easy to follow entertaining series, first two books repeat stat choices and things like that a bit much but definitely a good series, look forward to book 4 that was a cliffhanger I saw coming but still great.

Skip This: Should Not Have Been Published

Rome had a decent premise and strong character potential. There were steady challenges and growth in the first two books.
This time around Rome decided to hit his protagonists with stupid sticks. This is on top of a meandering, pointless plot that went nowhere. Frankly it was obvious that Rome just stopped caring.
As for Wiggins, please work on the your timing. The listening experience was jerky with endless pauses and stops that were not warranted.
I understand this is a new author and narrator, but there is only so much suffering an audience should be asked to take.

The book that broke the series

In this book we are introduced to a common cleric and paladin spell that deals damage based on amount of humans killed. Obviously the author does not realize this, but this spell broke the system itself, the worldbuilding and the premise of the books. It changes everything from the very premise of war, and thus nation building and politics to the very fact that demons can invade at all. Thus the author has invalidated everything in their universe, the world can literally not exist in the way it has been described and with that the point of listening to these books has disappeared. Good job my dude...