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The Fifth Realm

A LitRPG Fantasy Series (The Ten Realms, Book 5)

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The Fifth Realm

By: Michael Chatfield
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
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After taking and defending Vuzgal, Erik and Rugrat have a new task to complete: build a city.

They have been racing through the realms at this point, but Vuzgal is a prize that they can't simply give up on. Alva is mobilized, as are their allies, to build out the new city.

It is time that they solidify their gains, working on their crafts, their fighting ability, and cultivation. As they expand their personal power, their gaze turns toward Vermire, to the dungeon. It's time they started to exert the strength they've built up.

Alva moves in the shadows, but to what effect? The answer lies in the Fifth Realm.

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as much as i like the city building there was too much the main characters got barely any progress

too much city building

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Loved getting back into this series. The background politics felt a little muddled, and over done to be honest, and even confusing and unclear as to who was on who's side at times, but subtracting that the rest was all good and fun.

Great, if flawed, continuation. On to book 6

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I enjoyed it but there's to much going on in the background and the mc's power ups didn't really seem to get used although I will say if they ever animate this it will be amazing.

Good but ro much politics

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I usually wait until I've finished a series before writing my reviews.
Books 1-5 in this series are excellent. Great character building and the narrator really brings everyone to life.
Books 6+, I'll never know.
The narrator changes and its hard to tell when a character is speaking or if it's the story being narrated.
Everything is the same. I couldn't finish book 6a (the shortest book in the series).

If you can accept not finishing a series and leaving on a high note, Books 1-5 are great.
If you want to listen to the entire series, listen to samples from Books 6 onwards to see if you fall asleep or not.
The story is still excellent but the narration completely kills it.

I can recommend the book, but I cant recommend the series as a whole.

Excellent

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amazing book as allways, really looking forward to the next chapter, want to see them fight a bit more like in the 4th book and the first

plz give me nr 6 right now

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One of my favourite series the ten realms had a good ballance of fighting to crafting. It has a well thought out world building, keeping the tension and stakes high despite the main characters power increase. Cant wait for the next book.

One of the best lit rpg i have listened to

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Amazing now I have to wait for the rest to come to audible this is my favourite series the detail is amazing

Amazing

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I gave 5 stars to books 1 to 3, but have to stay with 3 stars on this one.

20 hours in and so far it's side stories.
There's little to no arc of the story so far. A lot of side characters take center stage but even those are not very developed or well known to the listner. I would rather have a more focused story around 4 or 5 characters than constantly jump around getting only a quick glimpse of some event or another.
This tendency was present on the previous book but it's worst in this one.

An interlude here and there is fine, for context, but a compendium of interludes is quite borring.

Dropping quality

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First let me say as a series I love this one, but this book itself was a bit of a let down. Author seems to have forgotten that what people loved about it was that it was Eric and Rugrat exploring the Ten Realms and trying to reach the top. While you expect them to meet other people and them to become part of the story they shold not become a major distraction to the main characters and they utterly do in this one. Honestly, I felt like I was watching my favourite TV show but filled with twice as many adverts as normal that I didn't care about.

Also, the way it was written in a shotgun, scattershot method of writing where the characters swapped multiple times in in a chapter meant where they were doing something dull made it feel like it was just filler. I don't mind switching to one of the dungeon group if it has relevance to the story but otherwise most of the characters he switched to in this book are shallow, doing something often tedious.

It's a shame really, as there are good points to this book, hence it is a 3 star for me, but I truly hope he lessens the number of characters in book six and seven. He is trying to tell the story from too many characters point of view, which for me just isn't working. Based on reviews I'm not the only one that thinks so.

I shall hope with the two going up to the next realm or two in the next books that it will focus more on the two characters that made this series, and not the placeholder second tier characters. And please don't let this somewhat negative review take away from the series, or even this book. I was just disappointed I guess more than anything.

Lost it's way a bit this one.

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If the first book was anything like book 5, I would not have bothered with this series. The whole of book 5 felt like a massive filler with unimportant stories and characters. I found myself skipping chapter upon chapter, like wtf. I want a refund. hopefully book 6 is better.

A massive let down. Filler book

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