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Lonnie-The GreatNorthernTroll-Moore

Gack, how do I review this one...

26. Juni 2019 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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How do I review this one? 2hrs into the book, I put it down... and almost didn't pick it up again, due in part to the fact that I was having trouble reconnecting with the characters, but mostly because of Josh Hurley's over the top narration. At the time, it just seemed like too much to take! To be fair, I quite enjoy these authors, and I had enjoyed their first book in the series, so I put "Bastion" away, thinking that maybe I'd just listened to too many LitRPG's recently, and needed a break from the genre... Finally, a month later, I was ready to tackle it again, so I girded my loins, and picked up the book again (Josh's narration now being a known consequence). I discovered that within just a few minutes, I'd been sucked into the action packed adventure.
The story picked up exactly where book no. one left off, and again follows Roxxy (aka Tina) and her brother James... but surprisingly they're not together as I'd expected. A difference of opinion created a rift between them as they each had separate goals. I really enjoyed seeing the character development of the other members of Roxxy's raiding party, but boy there was times when all I wanted to do was to slap some sense into Roxxy! She's just so damn stubborn and pigheaded! My son (who's an avid gamer) pointed out that her rock-headedness was built into her nature as she's both a Tank, and she's wearing her character's Stonekin persona...
... And yeah, the ending is sorta a cliffhanger, but as with the first tale, I'm not too angry, as the main story's ARC finished on a high note...
Will I pick up the next audiobook? Yeah, especially as my son is enjoying the heck out of the series, and I've proved that I can put up with the narrator (while my husband makes fun of the narration, from his lofty position in the peanut gallery! ).

Story solid 4 🌟's
Narration 2 1/2 🌟's

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Bookwyrm

It’s dangerous to go alone…

2. Mai 2019 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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Tina will protect her brother James, his brother, and her Roughnecks to the bitter end. And the end is surely coming. As the players enter Bastion, their hope of salvation, they are crushed to find there is no sanctuary. The King’s Knights are slaughtering players, the undead are on the move, and the Once King is marshalling his forces as the players desperately join with any like-minded players they can find and they’re not above saving some NPCs on the way. Each faction must recognize the humanity of the other if they are to survive. But will it be enough? Can Tina overcome the fear that she has instilled in her guild members in the hard drive to reach Bastion? Can her brother prove to her that he’s not the slacker he used to be? Can they find any NPCs in Bastion who don’t want to slaughter them? Can any of them live long enough to reach the portals home before they are all betrayed to the Once King’s forces?

Last Bastion is even more enjoyable than the first book in the series. While the FFO books are much darker than Rachel Aaron’s/Rachel Bach’s other books, they’re well-written with her signature depth and characterization. I can’t decide if my recognizing so many fights and bosses from different games I have played is a good or a bad thing, LOL. In the first book, part of that hindered my read, since I’ve been that guild leader trying to get a raid together after everyone who claims they just HAD to raid squirreled and didn’t show at raid time. Same for dealing with haters, griefers, GIRLs (GuysInRealLife) masquerading in bikini armor, and all the negativity that can be in the game.

Shoutouts to iconic quests, bosses, and NPCs add a bit of levity, from the Headless Horseman to Hogger. And, yes, I recognize that tank-as-you-walk-backward-blindly-in-circles technique from my very first try at tanking when someone conned me into helping them with a raid because they were short a tank. It was going to be easy. (Gosh, that was an embarrassing nightmare I will never forget. Thank you very much, but I’ll stick to healing from now on.)

But even as there are so many good folks in the gaming world if you look beneath the stereotypes, there are many doing good in Aaron and Bach’s FFO, and in Last Bastion, that goodness moves to the forefront. Siblings with fractured relationships, friends with secrets, top-tier raiders, kick-butt PVPers, lowbie players, and auction house moguls all join together to be the army that they need to survive the coming holocaust. Many of them were the best in the world when they played, now they have to be the best when it’s back-to-the-wall hell in this world where death is permanent. If they’re all alone in this world, at least they have each other. Well, and a few well-planned gathering and crafting quests won’t hurt.

Aaron and Bach never let you forget the peril whether it’s in details of the thick of battle or quiet reminders of NPCs with their own struggles and trials. The world-building continues as the mythology behind The Nightmare and the world’s current nightmare threads around the stories of players doing their best to survive while regaining their humanity and honor. Highly recommended to fans of Rachel Aaron fans, gaming, fantastical worlds, and great storytelling.

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Ken Hughes

Worse than an army of skeletons -- a city that thinks you're demons

8. Juli 2019 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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I picked up the latest from some favorite of mine: Rachel Aaron and Travis Bach, LAST BASTION. Rachel's been one of the more simply fun writers I read, but good at challenging what I expect too. Seeing her and Travis (her unsung husband) venture into LitRPG books like this is a pleasure, with the obvious joy they take in the trapped-in-a-game setting spelling out game tactics and character insights. Here in the series's second book, our heroes have fought their way to the titular capital city-- meaning that compared to the first, the native populace is a lot larger and more able to take revenge on players for the "Nightmare" they'd been trapped in as NPCs, and the lead player Roxxy is in no mood to back down either. And of course there's an undead horde and plenty of play-by-play maneuvering in the mix, but the real experience is watching Roxxy, her brother, and her much-too-loyal second in command start to take up different sides in a city gone mad.

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ACFlory

Even better than book 1

24. Mai 2019 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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It's not often that the second book of a series is more fun to read than the first, but in Last Bastion, the authors really hit their stride, fleshing out the main characters even more and bringing a couple of secondary characters further to the fore. One character, in particular, had me wanting to know more, and that was SilentBlayde.
There is something almost tragic about Blayde and the hints about his real life situation really piqued my interest.
Will he turn out to be a good person with a broken past? Or is he 'broken' because of something /he/ did in the past?
And then, of course, there's the whole real-worlds-turned-into-a-game-and-back-again mystery.
Simply put, I can hardly wait for book 3. Very highly recommended.

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