The Wandering Inn

The Wandering Inn Series, Book 1: Parts 1 and 2

By: pirateaba

Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau

The Wandering Inn , Book 1, has been rewritten by pirateaba and re-recorded by Andrea Parsneau. This revised edition includes new scenes and perspectives.

"No killing Goblins."

So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.

It's a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn't belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.

In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn. She's an [Innkeeper].

This audiobook edition of The Wandering Inn includes both The Wandering Inn (Book 1, Part 1) and No Killing Goblins (Book 1, Part 2)—newly published as individual books in ebook and print.

©2019 pirateaba (P)2019 Podium Audio

This.. this is an immortal start.

I have read all my life. loved books, loved characters. felt heartbreak, and been awed by fantastic worlds. I've cheered hundreds of protagonists, hated more than thousands of villains.

The Wayward Inn is right at the forefront. I sit here, feeling. living. churning with so many emotions I can't JUST give a simple review.
I'll preface with the cons though:
some plotholes, mostly minor.
Erin is a little aloof.
Rioka takes getting used to.
depending how you feel about pacing can be a slow burn.
From what I've come to find out about This story though is it's the weakest of the volumes.
Calling this the weakest? I can barely fathom how much better the rest of the series is then.

Every character is a person. the world is realized. Not a single moment is filler and everything matters. Things seem to come out of nowhere only to make sense when you think about it. Moments happen that even if you foresee then you hold your breath for HOURS wondering. This is not a child's book. it's not vulgur or explicit. It is hard though. it's as hard as real life.

Good. Erin and Rioka.. and even the ancillary characters go through LIFE. life in a harsh world. Even the secondary and tertiary characters matter. every thread has points of importance and connect in the massive web that many high fantasy authors can't even make well. Aba is beyond most in their class. something special is in this story. and it's spoke to me. I LIVED and BREATHED this book. I hated this book,
and I loved it because it made me hate it.
I love this book. I truly love it.
And I wish I had the energy to even TOUCH upon Andrea's amazing performance. it's a masterclass. But I'm just wiped. I'm exhausted in the best way possible because I experianced my own immortal moment. one that lasted 43 hours that to me will never fade away even when I'm old and grey. Try this book. return it if you don't like it.. But try this book.

Awesome

Love the narration and the story is amazing best use of a credit ever!!! Highly recommend

Main character is absolutely incompetent

This doesn't seem to bother most listeners so take it with a grain of salt but for me it was painful to listen to from a certain point on. Not in the good way where I feel with character but in a way like watching a little child being all alone and failing miserably at almost everything they try.

At the point I'm at right now she spends almost all of her time either complaining, crying of being a total asshole to everyone that tries to help her.

I guess if you can identify with her the book is a pretty good read and I like the world building but it definitely isn't the right book for me.

WORTH IT!

This is hands down one of the most gripping books I've ever read.

About 5 hours before the end, this story turns into one of the most terrifying horror stories ever. And that's after spending the entire book falling in love with all the misfit characters to clutching my blankie for comfort. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT IN THE SERIES!!!

I'm so ambivalent to this book.

The good:
The world intrigue me and is the most interesting thing in the listening. The reader is awesome.

The bad:
Characters are so shallow. They lack depth and come a cross like 9 year old girls with feminist indoctrination colouring everything they think and do, feels like kids being afraid of cooties. At the same time as their own actions are tyrannically self centered, un logical, slow and often totally dumb. You just want to tear your hair out waiting for them to connect the easiest dots. And the whining, their thoughts are like un ending whining.

Is the bad bad?
As my headline I am ambivalent and had a hard time to decide if I would get the next in the series.
I really love the world so far, it is exiting new in so many ways and I just want to explore it, even if I have to bee dragging two whiny girls along. Actually as it makes me feel so strongly I actually want to do it just to challange myself. And I can ignore the poorly hidden wokeness of the author away as well as the many sexist anti male comments.

So I bought the second book, listened to the interlude and regretted buying it soo much. 28 minutes thrown into a chat full of trolls spewing out American politics and superiority, along with all the woke/based politics and unhinged anti-humanistic dravel..... I should have skipped it. Do I mean the interlude or the book... I do not know yet.

/Jacob