The Clan

I thought the first book was ahead of the pack, and the second keeps the pace! There are some things that may not click for American readers (references to famous WWII Eastern Front sieges, for instance) but for the most part the translation is spot on. Dragons, starting a clan, working on behalf of the God of Darkness are enough to fill the book with interesting situations. Then there are the smaller touches that you can discover for yourself. I had to buy this book but found that the next one is free on Prime, so away I go!

I was totally amazed at how much I liked this story. I would never have thought in a million years I’d love to listen to how a character progresses in an MMORPG but somehow the author has reeled me in. I am going through the books now and they keep getting better. If you like MMORPG’s then you will like this series of books. Give it a try, you will most likely not regret it.

NO SPOILERS: This is the story of Max, who ends up living inside an MMORPG and the story centers around him roaming around the game world, leveling up, earning game cash, making friends, and completing quests. It is really a MMORPG game turned into a first person story. Yes, it sounds dorky and you probably think you won’t like it because games are meant to be played, not read about…I know, I felt this way too, but take a chance. Try out book one and you most likely won’t regret it.

This is a translation, with some localization efforts as well. Use of American idioms is off-set by direct references reminding the reader this is Russia in the real world sections of the story. Michael Goldstrom gives maybe one character a hint of a Russian accent, and that’s probably because it’s one character that hasn’t had any of the Russian system of patronyms scrubbed in the localization efforts.

Expect a lot of repeat tics, such as an internal greedy pig, interjections of onomatopoeia in the vein of Bam-bam from the Flintstones, and infantilisms that are difficult to attribute to the writer or to translation / localization effort.

I give this 3 stars because of a few reasons (if you havent read the first book then spoiler alert)
1. It was frustrating to hear the mention of his Greedy little piggy) about 1 1/2 times every. single. page. Over and over again! It was so annoying!
2. For someone who is supposed to have a god like memory due to now being one with computers, the main character sure does forget ALOT. Case in point? The very ending of the book could had been solved by a single granted to him since hes the first priest…
3. MC is a fairly nice dude but for some reason has moments where hes a total D- bag and lashes out violently to others and animals.

I started this series really on a whim, figured since I like RPGs that reading a book about them may be fun especially since shows like Sword Art Online and Log Horizon are so interesting.

This series hooked me, it didn’t let me down, and I’m really excited for Dmitri and his translator to finish the next books in the series. The story is engaging, and believable, and tragic, and fun, and invokes an entire array of feelings and really gets you interested and invested in the main character and his journey into being a Perma and beyond.

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