An excellent book

This is a excellent book with plenty of humour as well as blood guts and glory. The characters are fun, diverse and well rounded. Luke dose a great job with the voices as always. Overall 15/15

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Exceptional litRPG

This was an absolute gem of a listen, as long as you don't want to think too hard. Savage dominion is heavy on the action and dumb-MC-for-laughs but within this very specific story type, it's near perfect. And, it's narrated brilliantly.

Without giving too much away, Savage Dominion revolves around the adventures of an ordinary idiot who is transported to a new world in the afterlife. He’s tasked by the gods with bringing order to the chaos that exists within it.

One of the things that I particularly enjoyed about this novel was the amazing voice work by Luke Daniels. I’ve listened to a bunch of his stuff before, but I’ve never heard the range or enthusiasm that he puts into each character here, making them sound absolutely unique. It’s marvellous and at the same level of quality as the ever amazing Jeff Hayes, for those Dungeon Crawler Carl fans here.

The book was also surprisingly full of humour. Don't get me wrong, it’s still very much an action novel, but there were a fair few laughs scattered through it, particularly when describing the sheer gung-ho stupidity of the main character. As a minor side note: this was also my one complaint about the novel. The character's personality before he died was written as your typical nerd with no hint of this. Then suddenly he’s transported to another world and becomes a bastion of stupidity, 100% committed to action before thought in every single situation. There was a level of dissonance in the two ideas that I struggled to combine.'

Fight scenes are written well, and there are plenty of them. Characterization for each of the two secondary characters and one primary character are unique and aided in no small part by excellent voice work. I don’t often enjoy 'party' novels as opposed to loner situations, but here it worked, with each character adding to the mix of magic that would eventually become the finished novel.

World building was on point - the world itself was interesting, and the magic systems were reasonable although I felt that they didn’t have a lot of depth. Perhaps this will come in future novels. To be honest the main character's skills and magics were all a little boring because they were heavily melee focused, but to give credit where it's due they were fantastically utilised and often in unique ways.

Overall, this is an excellent addition to the litRPG scene. It's not rocket science but doesn't pretend to be, either. As long as you enter prepared for copious fight scenes and very low brow humor, you'll enjoy the listen.

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fun enjoyable

great book, all in all surprised with the quality of the story and the speaker.

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the lore

well written, fantastic vocal performance.
interesting and engaging the whole way through.

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Quite enjoyable

I got access to this story as part of my membership. Saying that, I quite enjoyed the story. Really good characters. Well worth a listen.

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great story and outstanding performance

i knew i liked it because i hated the villains even the unreasonable characters - evoked emotion so that's good writing to me. the performance was also outstanding, my favorite was hownhe portrayed the spider monster deity thing.

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Ok but fairly boring

The book was ok. Unfortunately the story line is very thin as the story goes from one battle scene to the next. If all you want is battle descriptions and the one joke told over and over again then this is the book for you.
There are much better litrpg audiobooks out there.

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good bit of fantasy fun

good pacing , funny characters and epic world building with a rad pantheon. ,

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So good

This book was a surprise, it was a lot funnier then I expected it would be, I can’t wait to start book 2

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Fun and enjoyable

Narrator was brilliant. Story was a bit simple but very enjoyable all the same. Highly recommended for some easy listening.

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