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Akillia's Reign (Puatera Online Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Dawn Chapman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
*This is NOT Erotica* every time I ask for this to be moved they put it back.


Taking the day off work to surprise, Andy, with a ticket to the hottest fantasy VRMMORPG. Emma returns home to find him, *cough* with her sister. Throwing them both out, Emma sits slugging back the wine they’d just shared. Drunk and devastated she almost blows his gift, but watching the adverts for the amazing fantasy world depicting monster’s mayhem and adventure. Emma keys in her name and details – Akillia-F-22 and decides to take on Puatera Online.
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  1. Book 4 of 10
    Puatera Online
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    342 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    March 16, 2018
  5. File size
    2.3 MB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078H5S3DY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dawn Chapman (March 16, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 16, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.3 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 342 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

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Dawn Chapman

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Dawn Chapman has been creating sci-fi and fantasy stories for thirty years. Until 2005 when her life and attention turned to scripts, and she started work on The Secret King, a 13-episode Sci-Fi TV series, with a great passion for this medium.

In 2015, Dawn returned to her first love of prose where she revelled in the world of The Secret King, Letháo and First Contact, as an epic prose space journey over three generations.

This year her experience of working with others expanded. From Drama, Sci-Fi, Action, to LitRPG/Gamelit. Dawn’s built a portfolio of writing, consulting, publishing and audio proofing.

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Customers find the book well-written and easier to read, with positive feedback about its pacing, with one customer noting it serves as a stellar introduction to the universe. The story quality receives mixed reactions, with some customers loving the entire series while others find it frustrating.

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4 customers mention "Pacing"4 positive0 negative

Customers find the pacing of the book engaging, with one customer noting it serves as a stellar introduction to the universe and provides great information.

"I found the first three books in the series interesting and engaging...." Read more

"...In the near future a premium video game offers a complete immersive experience...." Read more

"...any of the books before this one that's OK it is a stellar introduction into the universe...." Read more

"...Loads of great information about how dice rolls work, actions, abilities, aspects, aptitudes, karma, and more. Lots of stuff...." Read more

4 customers mention "Writing quality"4 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the writing quality of the book, finding it well-written and easy to read.

"...harder when the story is in first-person perspective, but if the writing is good, that's fine...." Read more

"This was an easy read. In the near future a premium video game offers a complete immersive experience...." Read more

"Love this entire series. it is so well written!" Read more

"...But once I thought of it in those terms, it was easier to read. Overall, as LitRPG, this was supremely frustrating...." Read more

3 customers mention "Readability"3 positive0 negative

Customers find the book readable, with one mentioning they enjoyed the first three books in the series.

"...I enjoyed books 1-3 in the series with the main character, Maddie, an bad ass AI who becomes self aware and fights to break the expectations of..." Read more

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Customers have mixed opinions about the story quality of the book, with some finding it well done and loving the entire series, while others find it frustrating.

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  • Dannan Tavona
    5.0 out of 5 stars Change in perspective
    Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2018
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    I found the first three books in the series interesting and engaging. Sometimes it's harder when the story is in first-person perspective, but if the writing is good, that's fine. What's hard is when the first-person perspective changes to another character in the same world, just looking at things from a different angle. If a story is really good, then for me, the words disappear and I begin to see the story unfold visually in my head, like a movie or video. Because of that, it's harder to disengage when perspective changes.

    Dawn Chapman writes well, and I was able to work past my own particular biases and handicaps and become re-engaged. The story is well done and continues to move the story arc forward. The notion of alien intelligences being digital rather than corporeal is new enough to add to the excitement. If the series looks interesting, you can start with this one, but there's a lot you will have missed without having read the other three books. The first book is Desert Runner (Puatera Online Book 1). All four are recommended.
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  • Avid Reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars High Fantasy via Virtual Reality
    Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2018
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    This was an easy read. In the near future a premium video game offers a complete immersive experience. But there is a glitch in the matrix so this non-gamer girl has to learn on the run to save this virtual world and right her derailed life. In the end I enjoyed this story. What's keeping me from giving it a five was the incongruities in the beginning. This future seems much like today and the virtual world rules and play remind me of ancient RPGs. This is the future and intense virtual reality they won't be rolling dice, algorithms will be running that stuff in the background. But those concerns fall away as we're completely immersed in the game. I recommend this for any sci-fi or fantasy fan.
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  • Jacob Goodrich
    5.0 out of 5 stars Damn good read
    Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2018
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    This is my first foray into Puatera and wow am I glad I took the dive. Not only is it a fun and wild ride from the beginning of the book to the end but it's a masterfully crafted story to top it off. I really like the view of female Mc that isn't a pushover pansy and actually grabs herself by her boot straps and wants to be something.

    If you haven't read any of the books before this one that's OK it is a stellar introduction into the universe.

    I highly recommend that anyone looking for a book that can suck you in and make you walk in the MC's shoes then this is for you.
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  • Buck Duane
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome series
    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2019
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    Start at the begining and you will not be dissapointed
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  • Zee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love this entire series. it is so well written!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2018
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    Love this entire series. it is so well written!
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  • LitRPGPodcast
    2.0 out of 5 stars So frustrating I almost threw my kindle
    Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2018
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    This novel was so frustrating I nearly pulled my hair out. At one point, I just had to put the book down and walk away or my kindle was going to get thrown across the room.

    Part of my frustration may have to do with my expectations for the story. I enjoyed books 1-3 in the series with the main character, Maddie, an bad ass AI who becomes self aware and fights to break the expectations of others, and her own programming to accomplish a goal and save the dragons and the player she cares for. I could ignore some of the lack of RPG mechanics because she was an NPC and the world she lived in was just a world to her. There was still RPG stuff happening, she got quests and rewards for completing those quests including XP and levels. In book 3, you even get to see her character sheet as she finally gets access to it and spends all the points that had accumulated since her creation.

    Here, in book 4, the story is about a player Emma/Akilla. She has a bad real life break up. Her husband cheats on her on their anniversary and she uses the amazing VR gift she bought for him for herself. 6 months on an island playing a full immersion game that will feel like 2 years in-game. There’s hints that there’s also a romance thread that will develop, and it does eventually. But the story is about the MC rediscovering herself, building back up her confidence, and finding a way to be happy again (with the help of that hot dude of course). Those parts of the story are done well. The strong female lead, is also written well. She starts off feeling bad and lacks confidence but by the end of the story is leading a whole complement of warriors into battle.

    Where the story is supremely frustrating is in the game mechanic department. There’s a section early in the story 10-15% mark, where a bunch of game mechanics are explained in detail. Loads of great information about how dice rolls work, actions, abilities, aspects, aptitudes, karma, and more. Lots of stuff.

    Only none of that stuff really shows up in the rest of the novel. The most you get is one view of the MC’s character sheet at 47%. She spends some karma points a couple times. And there are lots of notifications in the early part of the story about her ‘discovering an action’ that really amount to a running gag. She discovers the actions: breathing, walking, jumping, and projectile vomiting. But even that aspect mostly disappears after the 30% mark.

    Combat is almost non existent most of the story, with a highlight early on being the MC slowly pushing a sword through a goblin-like creature’s chest as it stands there and doesn’t fight back. Combat picks up a bit in the last 10% of the story but this isn’t an action story.

    The most frustrating part of the story is how forced it feels and how things occur that just don’t make sense.

    --Spoilers ahead------

    Ex 1) This new player, for some reason forces herself into this big quest to get the magic dragon poop. And for some strange reason, becomes a decision maker for where they go and how many people are taken with them over the ocean. Never mind that the other NPCs that live there advise her to do otherwise. Then she decides to take a child with her for some reason on this dangerous journey, cause her ‘feelings’ tell her too.

    Ex 2) To get access to a ship, the MC must convince come cat people to take them across the ocean. The cat person she meets refuses to give her his name since a person’s name can be used in bad spells (not established in book by the way). Not two paragraphs later, the same being is telling her his name and announcing that she’s now part of their family so of course they’ll help her.

    Ex 3) Later the same MC saves the grandpa cat guy from a heart attack by telling his granddaughter to use her eclectic spell to jump start his heart. Only, the MC doesn’t actually know anything about how magic in the world works or if the grandpa is having a heart attack (no medical training, she works at a law firm). Of course it works.

    Ex 4) As a reward for saving his life grandpa then gives the MC a family heirloom, a special necklace whose item description says it lets the wearer talk to sea life and command them (A bit OP but ok). Then in the next scene, the MC used that same item to create a vast magic shield to prevent the ship that’s being put into the ocean from crashing and hurting people. Later this same item is used to contact the dead, speak with guardians of the land, and even talk to the game itself. All of which is not in it’s item description. Basically the necklace becomes the doo-hikey of problem solving.

    Ex 5) Things get so contrived, that even the other characters in the story have to come up with a reason why it’s all happening. At one point, the MC is thrown off the ship (she could have just talked to the sea creature attacking but she didn’t) and finds herself washed up on shore. Another player eventually finds her and confirms that he talked to the developers and that she should have died falling into the brutal storm raved sea full of monsters. But it’s explained away that ‘the game itself seems to be changing to keep her alive, because she’s the chosen one to save things and travel to a special place’. (Oh, also her cheating ex made a bet on her dying and she made a counter bet that she wouldn’t, so of course she can’t die.)

    There’s a lot more but I think you get the idea.

    To finish the story without pulling out my hair, I had to think of it as a fantasy story. Where any logic inconsistencies are just waved away as ‘magic’. Which for the record is also never described as a system and is just ‘I want a thing to happen, so it does’. But once I thought of it in those terms, it was easier to read.

    Overall, as LitRPG, this was supremely frustrating. Not only does that well described game stuff in the beginning disappear as the story goes on, most of the events just don’t make sense logically.

    As a straight fantasy story, it would maybe get a 6 out of 10.
    As LitRPG is gets a 4 out of 10.
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  • Jane
    4.0 out of 5 stars The game of life
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2018
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    This isn’t my normal reading fare at all, but I found it an enjoyable romp and it definitely merits a solid four stars. It might have edged it’s way into five if I hadn’t felt that the heroine seemed to slide out of trouble rather too easily. There would be something terrible looming and this girl, who is set up as a kind of innocent abroad, would too quickly find a way out of whatever peril it might be. That having been said I liked the characterisation, the writing was crisp and clean, and I found the cat people completely adorable. Recommended.
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