Spoiled by poor narration

The story is a simplistic but entertaining Wuxia tale, with the main character combining unbelievable luck with hard work to achieve superhuman abilities. (3.5/5)

The narration is poorly paced, with frequent mispronunciation. For everyone who decides to persist with the story, I suggest you adjust the playback speed to 0.75 , which greatly helps with the pacing.The recording quality improved part way through the story, with what sounded like a new microphone. (2/5)

The book was reasonably long, especially at the reduced play speed, making it good value for money. (5/5)

Combining the scores for each category this gives an overall score of 3

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Great book poor narration

Listen on 0.9x speed. I truly enjoyed the book my only issue is that the narration

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A good story, with a few issues

It’s good, I recommend it, but you should know a few things first.

This is a wuxia story, which means it’s a translation of a Chinese web novel. These stories tend to focus on the main character gaining strength / chi powers at an unprecedented rate.

Because it’s a translation, you’re going to encounter some “odd” writing styles (from a western perspective) that are a result of societal context that (I assume) makes a lot more sense if you’re Chinese (such as the main character being referred to as “3rd bro” for a lot of the scenes.

This takes a bit of getting used to.

Then there’s the narration. I think the narrator has a lot of heart, but has a lot of room for improvement. I’d like to see them (singular) return for the second book, but after some elocution lessons, as they have a tendency to rush and mumble certain words.

If you like the general setting and themes, then give this book a shot, I think it’s worth it :-)

To Esther Merriken: I think you need to slow down and take the time to say the words at a comfortable pace. Also, try listening to Travis Baldree, Michael Kramer, Kate Reading, John Lee, Nick Podehl, Andrea Parsneau, Finty Williams, and Sean Runnette.

Notice how they express themselves in different scenes and see if there’s anything you could adapt to your style / voice. I believe in you!

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Can’t wait for book 2

Been checking for book 2 everyday since release. I agree audio a little meh but the story makes up for that and then some.

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a good start

I loved the story but the narrator could be a bit better but if you like it i do recommend a manga called panlong.
the mang it the exact same as the book but it goes further in the story its up to 158 chapters in.

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poor execution of a good book.

had to slow narratio down to 0.75x, it's like no efforts went in either, all monotone poor pronunciation throughout.

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Good story

The story was unique and relly good but the narator was not as good but when i put the speed on 0.85x it was ok (not good)

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Love the story - ruined by narration

The narrator sounds like they just want to get it over with. Really bad narration to what is essentially a classic of the genre.

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loved it

great story loved it nice to see more cultivation books coming on to audible look forward to the next one

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Good story, terrible narrator

The story is a solid cultivation novel and was very enjoyable.
Unfortunately the narrator has no pacing at all and ruins the structure of the book. Alongside this words like prescient get mistaken for persistent a lot.

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