Großartig

Ein wirklich tolles Hörbuch, das von Anfang bis Ende Spaß macht. Die Sprecherin schafft es, jeden Charakter unterschiedlich darzustellen, sodass man auch, wenn man sich die vielen Namen nicht gleich merkt, immer eine Idee hat, wer spricht. Die Charaktere sind interessant und sympathisch (Harrowhawk anfangs sicher etwas weniger, aber das ist ja Teil dessen, was die Geschichte ausmacht), die Geschichte selber durchwegs spannend.

Man merkt eigentlich sehr schnell, ob einem das Setting und der Ton gefällt, hier ändert sich im Laufe der Geschichte wenig. Etwas unerwartet war, dass sich der Ton zwar nicht ändert, die Geschichte jedoch gegen Ende ernster wird, was aber insgesamt gut in den Ablauf gepasst hat.

Der Humor von Gideon muss einem gefallen, persönlich fand ich sie sehr witzig und erfrischend.

Insgesamt ein fantastisches Hörbuch; definitiv empfehlenswert!

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Maybe get the physical copy as well

Audiobook is not the way to go with this, I really need the physical copy once they calm down with the price.
I don't know why so many reviewers hated the characters, I loved almost all of them. Sure, the names are mostly ridiculous, but they were all just so absurd and different and amazing?! I'm really looking forward to the sequel and I wish we had more characters joining us again because they were just such a joy to follow.
Gideon is hilarious and what I'd assume a normal person thrust into a world like that would be like, so I really appreciated her. Harrow was also just absolutely brilliant and I loved their banter.
I do think the world building could have been a bit better and it would have been nice to get a little more insight into everything.
The voice actress was great, so the only reason I'm saying this isn't necessarily the way to go is because there's just a lot of stuff happening and there are too many people with too many difficult names, so it's kind of hard to keep track of everything via audiobook.

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A necromancer & a swordfighter walk into a castle

This book is the best and most creative thing I have read in any genre in ages.

Also, It's very, very, very gay, so if you can't handle that, fuck off.

Gideon is the best sword himbo in the world & harrow is just a glorious little bone goblin. All hail to the Ninth.

Now go forth and listen to it, it's amazing and ridiculously funny.

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Großartig gelesen, tolle Story!

Jede Person wird schon durch ihre Stimme perfekt charakterisiert. Selbst wenn dies nicht einer der innovativsten SFF-Romane der letzten Jahrzehnte wäre: die schauspielerische Leistung hebt dieses ohnehin schon herausragende Buch in den Olymp.

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Fascinating story

A litRPG in a post apocalyptic space fantasy setting about a group of arch-necromancers competing to become a lich-like.
Mixed with Gothic horror, murder mystery,
and YA lesbian paranormal romance.

Told from the perspective of the slightly dim sidekick fighter who just wants to hit things with her sword.

And it is all glorious even if some of those elements aren't your cup of tea on their own.

Only downside is that the huge gallary of characters are slightly hard to keep track of in an audiobook format, and reading the character overview in the beginning of the book aloud isn't helpful and is a terrible start for an audiobook, hence -1 on total score.

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Depressing but fun

Gideon is a really fun main Charakter nd the whole story has a bit of a horror-vibe to it

It is OKish

To be honest, I think I will pass on the second book. Most characters are very thin. There are too many unimportant (most of them) characters and you will forget about them or what they did. Also story-pacing seems a bit off and it all feels somewhat unfinished. This is the author's first book so it's understandable. Don't get your hopes up too high. I think a lot of potential hides in this book rather unused. But if you are looking for some video-game-necro-fantasy-stuff to kill some time: go for it, I guess.

Just because I read some comments that it is very gay sci-fi-fanatsy:
It is less gay than the average Netflix production, so just replace the 'very gay' with 'normal feeling, definitely not over the top gay'. But I still like that it has some gay characters, since that is rare in the genre. There is no big gay love story, if you're looking for that.
It is somewhat sci-fi. But if you replaced the word "carriage" in any other fantasy novel with the word "shuttle" you will end up with the same amount of sci-fi.

Maybe I'll come back to this series when I don't know what else to listen to.

Entertaining, witty, fast ans fresh.

I haven't read such a fresh take on the sub-genre of supernatural science fiction in a long, long time. I haven't read such an enjoyable title in a long time. It's as great a surprise as the Imperial Radch was.

One warning: The author will make you care about and love the characters. And you might end up hating them for it.

THE best performed audiobook of all time.

nothing to add.
everyone who worked on this audiobook delivered the best possible work.
Narrator: perfect.
Writer: perfect.
whoever picks the narrator: perfect.
Editor: perfect.

Didn't put it down

Fun fantasy adventure woth great worldbuilding, fun characters and a fantastic voice acting performance. Listened through in almost one go