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From Humble Beginnings

On Astral Tides, Book 1

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Berättare: Jack Smith, Anne Marie Lebeaur
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Chosen by the Gods, Akio must rise… or fall!

A Heavenly messenger warns of an upcoming apocalypse, thrusting Akio into a new reality filled with endless dangers and miraculous opportunities.

But those who dwell within jealously guard their wealth and power.

Accompanied by an enigmatic and beautiful Faerie princess, the only chance for Akio — and Earth — is to gather companions, level up, and become the unlikely saviours of both their worlds.

When you start from nothing, the only way to go is up!

On Astral Tides is a Light Novel inspired LitRPG containing territory control and alliance building, social aspects, relationships and romance.

©2025 Ship Teaser (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC
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aber leider ist dieses kindische gerede und schüchterne verhalten typisch kindischer Anime Serien wirklich nervig. Ansonsten super Buch. So viel unnützes Harem Getue hat das gesamte Buch zerstört. Es gehen Stunden um Stunden des Buchs für diesen Mist drauf.

eigentlich 5 Sterne ....

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At time of writing, I'm about half-way through.
Unfortunately, I'll likely be leaving it there.

I enjoyed the start, the first ~10ish hours, but at some point the MC's character started to feel like a doormat. As an example, when Kana comes into the picture, he lets her talk him into buying her food and rummaging through his purchases for no reason, depspite never having met her before. This is compounded by the book offering chapters from Kana's POV that show how much she apparently despises the MC.

And while the sections with Kana are annoying, I can stomach them in hopes of character development. What I cannot stomach after almost 20 hours is the narrators, particularly Jack Smith, butchering the pronunciation of Japanese terms and names. It is extremely grating when you know the proper pronunciation, and actually makes it hard to follow what is being talked about at times.
With the story being set in Japan and clearly being inspired by Japanese media, I am honestly a bit disappointed that the narrators didn't seem to have been given advice/notes on how to pronounce native words. Almost everything is pronounced in a very American way, with the few proper pronunciations only making the rest feel even worse.

So while I've often seen the story praised, and can imagine it growing into something good, this start is not it for me. Perhaps I will check out the ebook version, which at least will allow me to skim over sections with annoying characters more easily. Maybe the narration will get fixed, but at 40 hours, I can't imagine that being worth the cost.

Decent start, but the narration ruins it for me

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I have to say, that this is one of my loved series. I love the story and the characters. It's the first book so you have to expect much Slice of Life and Character building which is maybe not for everyone his cup of tea. But you have to see that it's a serie with, at this date, almost 2 million words and 10 books so it's important to set the stage right.
To the speaker I can only say that for me they were only okay. Some words or pronunciation were a little bit strange but overall was is a good job.
I can only hope that this serie gets more attention and even when you were not a fan of the speakers I recommend to give it a try to read it because it's overall one of the best serie in its genre.

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