Andrew Seiple

Once upon a time there was a teddybear who had been kidnapped (bearnapped?) by pirates. It was supposed to be a proper princess kidnapping, but things went a bit sideways. Now Threadbare must play along in order to uncover who the mastermind is that has been working from the shadow to manipulate events and buy himself enough time for his friends to attempt a rescue.

The Phantom of the Lop Ear is the fifth book in Andrew Seiple's Threadbare series. The story has gotten complicated and follows several plot threads. Threadbare's is the most straight forward as he attempting to keep the status quo and keep the pirates from tossing him overboard. The group back in Sylvania is working frantically to find threadbare and mount a rescue. Plus there's PoV scenes from the conspirators from the first book for glimpses of what is happening in the background to cause these events to happen. Even with all that I'm still not entirely sure who the "bad guys" are though pretty confident it involves players. I'm looking forward to seeing how this all wraps up in the final book. I hope the elf is right and that they can heal two worlds.

As before, this includes characters from Small Medium but not much from Blasphemy Online yet. I assume that's still coming.… (altro)

Once upon a time there was a teddy bear who rescued his little girl, saved a kingdom and thought they had their happy ending. However, happy endings don't last forever. Trouble has returned to Cylvania as a hidden conspiracy seeks to overturn the new order of things. There's also something wrong with Celia and Threadbare is having trouble determining what the cause is.

Friends with Bunny Feets, the fourth book in Andrew Sieple's Threadbare series and the beginning of Threadbare's second story arc. Readers will want to have completed the original Threadbare trilogy and the Small Medium trilogy before diving in. There were no connections back to Blasphemy Online's story or characters so far.

The first half of the book is a rough/slow start with heavy politics and a tad depressing after how hard Threadbare and crew worked in the original trilogy. The kingdom of Cylvania has undergone great changes between books.

With all the background out of the way, the story moves on into a nice adventure and the second half feels like a Threadbare novel again. There are multiple story threads happening at once to set up for the remaining books. It was great being reunited with some of my favorite characters again. I hope for more of that in the next books. I also can't wait to see how Chase and Threadbare work together. Seems like a good combo for fun shenanigans.

It ends with an interesting twist for the toys and hopefully something to help Celia out. I'm looking forward to continuing the series.

I listened to the audio book narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds. He is absolutely perfect for this series. I'm glad he was kept on as narrator.… (altro)

Dragon Hack is the first in the Blasphemy Online trilogy by Andrew Seiple. The story centers around teenager Richard Royal, living in a church-controlled dystopia. Richard finds his only break from his broken home life and bullying at school in the online gaming. Introduced to a very illegal online game, Rich logs in for the first time and finds himself in a dragon body, a quest to see to pledge himself to an evil power and very little instructions. It's not long before Rich figures out there's a lot more to this game it appears as it seems to be affecting him in realspace too.

The series serves as an origin story for the world of Threadbare. It is vastly different from the Threadbare books, being more of a traditional litRPG, so make sure you go in with adjusted expectations.

The story has a rough beginning and is on the cliche side to start. Our "hero" being a teenage boy has the ambition of what I assume typical teenage boys want - to get laid. Since he has little prospects in reality, he thinks maybe this new illegal game may be his option. After finally logging in the story turned into a fun and intriguing adventure. Obviously Richard has been chosen for something else in Generica Online though that's not fully revealed yet. I liked seeing the early version of the world and from a whole new perspective. It gives background on the mysterious "players" from the Small Medium series along with a hint as to what may have happened to them all. The whole consciousness swapping plot turned out satisfactorily. Plenty of different ways this can go next.

I listened to the audio book narrated by Nick Podehl. I liked Nick's narration well enough so I was surprised to see that there is a narrator swap for the rest of the series. The new narrator does not get very favorable reviews so it's highly probably I'll be continuing this series on my Kindle. Assuming I can hold off from starting the second Threadbare trilogy first.… (altro)