LitRPG and Fantasy Author
Nathan Ameye
... is writing crazy stories full of demons, redneck Wizards, and dice rolls.
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What my readers say about the Fae Nexus series.
Great LitRPG that starts in the forest, near a small hometown, and avoids the old "sucked into video" game trope. Crunchy number rolling for those of us who like the math! Told from a main character's viewpoint, but feels more like reading from a party perspective. For people like me, who grew up playing tabletop RPG, while camping, super fun story to read! Only book one, but can already tell diverse character building, including women not all having the same personalities and men not all being tanks. Looking forward to continuing the series!
Enjoyable, unpredictable (which made it better), good chracter development. Steady plot advancement. With a good story telling feel to it. If you like a mix of gamelit, cultivation, planar issues and a good story, then you should thoroughly enjoy this book.
Most of this very enjoyable suitably crunchy story takes place in what is called a system or LITRPG apocalypse. Two estranged brothers and their lifelong friend meet up in the mountains near their home and the world is suddenly engulfed in a catastrophe involving demons, stats and classes. The setting, in bootlegger country, and the characters with the author’s RL hunting experience, is different and feels very authentic.
I've been waiting since I finished the first book in the series for the second book in the series. Now I shall have to wait for the third book. Agghhh, the pain.....pew, pew.....oh, Redneck Stitches....well, I feel better now. Quick, deft tossing out of cool ideas (lots of them). Love the background. The magic system is neat. There are just a ton of ideas in this book. Did I mention that already? Because there is.
I gotta say, I marveled at Book 1 for its near perfections, and Book 2 picked up right where the first left off. This is such a good story of trust and faith and hope and devotion to family and friends against unrelenting and bizarre evils. The characters are even more fully developed, good guys and bad guys alike, as they continue to learn to play the game and increase their powers. The story is compelling and the action nonstop, and Nathan Ameye never leaves guys like me in the dark just because I have no experience with such games. I have no doubt Book 3 will take us even closer to perfection.
One of the best of this subgenre. Love the characters, and tho I'm not a gamer, this author made even the hard core gaming aspects of this novel fun. The action doesn't swallow up the character growth or prevent meaningful relationships from advancing, and the worldbuilding is killer.
