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Welcome to Ludus

By: Blaise Corvin

Narrated by: Jeff Hays

Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

Henry and Jason led normal lives in Seattle before they were abducted to another world. Their kidnapper, the vain, self-styled god Dolos, refuses to send them back unless they can accomplish an impossible task. Oddly, Dolos doesn't seem to care if they succeed or not.

Luckily, Henry and Jason studied Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) on Earth. Unfortunately, a Japanese American EMT and a geeky IT programmer don't have many other useful skills on a sword-and-sorcery world like Ludus.

Stranded in the middle of nowhere on an alien world, the friends have no real direction and only a few possessions including magic-granting orbs from an apathetic god. Undaunted, the two begin their insane adventure to return home...but basic survival and eventually paying rent will have to take priority.

©2016 Blaise Corvin (P)2016 Blaise Corvin

Ludus, a great place for a family get away.

Welcome to Ludus was my introduction to Blaise Corvin, and my introduction to Gamelit stories. This man is a writing BEAST. He is like a runaway train powered by quantum level energy drinks! He hits the ground not running, but on futuristic sky cycles that have no mufflers. The story starts with an abduction from Earth to the planet Ludus, by the Great God, Dolos (Hail, Dolos!!). Henry and Jason, the abductees, find themselves in a deadly land they are completely unfamiliar with, must contend with magic, and discover their technology won't function because certain types of metal just can't survive on Ludus. In order to survive they have to eat a device so that they to can gain powers and survive in their new home.
From this point the story takes off like it was written in gasoline ink, and someone struck a match. Jeff Hays is that match. This man does voices better than Mel Blanc; that cartoony wuss Blanc couldn't do women's voices. Shoot, Hays makes you believe he has chicks dubbing their voices and letting him get the credit. Each character is distinctive, both male and female, and his emotional inflection is top of the line Dolby THX quality stuff.
This world is rife with beast men, elves . . . er, sorry Areva, orcs, goblins, etc. It takes old fantasy tropes runs them through a paper shredder, slaps that with some paste, and paper maches it into something modern, fun, and original. I loved watching Henry and Jason level up and meeting their party members. Dolos is the best. Gotta love the Great God. His shiny pate brings warmth and glory to the world. Just don't let him notice you.
Anywho. This entire series is fantastic. It's like they shot this book into outerspace, and it got belted with cosmic rays, and when it returned it had gotten super powers. It's that FANTASTIC. Soon the will be 4 of them in this series. Give your brain some candy, go listen to this audible book now before you die and miss out on all the greatness that is Ludus!!!

Good book but with some to much moralizing.

Good but the main characters are big baby's.
The author keeps talking about how they are smart and strong but all they do is stupid stuff.

When is the 2nd book?

At first I thought I wouldn't like this book but boy was I wrong. I'm actually hoping the next book would hurry up & release already lol

great!

I can't wait for the next book. a very nice change for the lit RPG genre.

Great book but feel like they moved the story to fast

So they could have made the series into 10 books. But they moved everything way to fast. Hoping the books get longer and they slow down on main story progression. Because at the rate it's going only by reading this book it will all be over in three books.

Very nice Story

Well thought out story. excellent narrator. Good explanation for starting the story and reasons for adventures.

Great book!

Awesome book, highly recommended. Well developed characters, great narration, can't wait to hear the next one.

Love it

Although it was not what I was expecting it was really good. It is a mixture of litrpg and fantasy. It was well written and I really liked the action scenes and seeing how the characters developed their powers.

So much better than I expected. Awesome story!!

Didn't take long to become invested in the story and the characters. Just the right touch of humor. I really liked the narrator as well! Great job with the voices.

So glad I got this book.

I was looking at the list of books on audible for a couple of days trying to figure out what to listen to. I came across this book and figured I would give it a try. Sounded interesting so maybe it would be good. Man am I glad I decided to get it. My wife and I both love this series and are desperately waiting for the third book to become available. Definitely one of my favorite book series.