Strange but entertaining.

My first encounter with Victor Alucard’s writing and I enjoyed it a lot.

This has got to be one of the oddest litRPG novel I’ve ever listened to. As with many similar novels, it starts with select humans being spirited-away into another realm to then pursue adventure-y test and quest stuff. However, unlike any other novel, they aren’t re-imaged as virtual beings able to select their species and beginner attributes. No, that would be cheating. Rather, they are materialized as single-cell amoeba and forced to evolve in a survival of the fittest fashion. The odd thing is that each of them retain their previous human personalities, skills and intelligence. From there, they form into a group and claw, fight and connive their way up the DNA chain, losing most of those who were part of the initial group.

Travis Baldree is an extremely talented narrator and is one of a limited number of such artists that I use as a search term on the Audible site when in search of a new novel while waiting for other preferred authors’ next offerings. A new talented writer would blessed to have Travis pick their book as its narrator.