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I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.I lucked out when I was approved for a copy of Pendulum Heroes, the first YA fantasy adventure book in a new series, by James Beamon. It's my second LitRPG novel (my first was Radioactive Evolution by Richard Hummel) and this one is a lot of fun. In this story, a group of friends playing an RPG when they get sucked into a fantasy world as their game characters and the only way they can get home is by saving their new world. The no...
This was a DNF for me, but I am mostly the problem with this book. It’s not written for me, so I don’t think I should be the one to critique it. However, I did get to about page 65 and I’ll let you know what I learned about the story while reading:This book reminded me of the latest Jumanji movie, where the characters get sucked into a video game. However, part of the mystery of this story is why and how they got sucked in — the characters don’t even know. The opening scene is of the main charac...
This book confuses me in that it feels like it was written for a young audience in its writing style but not in its topics. The humour was not for me, and kind of felt like it was trying too hard too be funny all the time. The action scenes felt rather rushed to me. I did like the inclusion of some of the downsides to being a woman in this book, and I liked how the relationship between Rich and Melvin changed throughout the book.
I received this book for free through Voracious Readers Only.Pendulum Heroes is a quick fun fantasy read. A group of guys gets magically pulled into the board game they are playing, and have to learn to deal with their characters' quirks and abilities while they are thrown straight into the action of a fantasy world. Their decision to just travel to the nearest village quickly devolves into a zombie encounter, the group gets split up, and things just get more and more out of hand from there. The...
I received a free copy of this eBook in exchange for an honest review.Melvin, Mike, Jason and Rich are playing a Fantasy PC RPG game when they are suddenly transported inside the game. The only way they can get home is if they fix their mistakes and save the world they are now in. Will they succeed or are they trapped forever. Read on and find out for yourself.This was a pretty good action-packed fantasy read which is the first of a series. I look forward to checking out book 2 in the future. If...
This was a fun read for me, even though I’m not familiar with fantasy lit and its challenges; in particular, I get easily overwhelmed by an abundance of characters, objects, and events---in fantasy world, there’s no clear separation between these concepts, apparently---named "Aian", "Megryms," "Weagre," Ballztowallz," "Nasran hexation," "Onesource," "Celestial All," and "Nasreddin," among others. I googled, expecting them to point to some modern version of Chess, but failed, so it seems they all...
This book was either slow or super fast paced, there seemed to be no in-between. I enjoyed this book for the most part, especially toward the end. Though, I feel like the way it wrapped up was too hasty and didn't answer enough questions. I expect there to be a sequel coming out to do that. It seems to be set up for that. -My MAIN issue with the book was the blatant issue of how he was treated as a woman. There were some uncalled for things mentioned in this book. I understand that he is stuck i...
A different kind of D&D StoryThis was fast paced and made for a quick read. Read it on a whim, but was pleasantly surprised. Sort of reminds me of a coming of age story.
Friends go on a questThe 'In-game' universe is almost convincing. Almost because the characters motivations didn't quite ring true.The cast have both thier in-game and their real characters, casting dimensioned characters is hard enoigh without compounding the difficulty.I like fantasy and SciFi it seems to me it misses bothh of those boats but for all that its not a bad read.
3.5/5.0“Pendulum Heroes” takes four gamers where they never thought they would be, or they would have been more careful when planning their avatars. Read full review in the 2018 holiday issue of InD'tale Magazine.
Happy to say that I was an early reader for James's novel. It's fun - a classic gamers-enter-fantasy-world style story, but done really well. The twists will keep you guessing, but there's real magic in the character interactions.Keep your eyes out folks, this guy can write!
Mishaps happen. Big ones too. And Pendulum Heroes starts off with one of the largest. Four guys - three teens and a wayward adult - intend to play a fantasy board game, but before the first move they are transported to that actual fantasy world.Melvin Morrow, his brother Mike - on leave from military service in Afghanistan - and schoolmates Rich Bates and Jason Streible find themselves in the middle of a forest. Their would-be characters, respectively, are warrior woman Zhufira, a 4-foot-tall me...
Review of PENDULUM HEROES(PENDULUM HEROES #1)This novella is hilarious! Laughing out loud occurs practically on every page. It is well-written and compelling, and I am certain will be a big hit with YA's who game (video, PC, or RPG). Certainly the characters are engaging and easy to empathize with. You have to feel for a batch of adolescents who are at one moment gleefully engaged in a Role-Playing setup, and at the next moment find themselves quite literally “in character,” literally “living th...
love, love, loved it!
A great romp though a fantasy world that's a combination of D&D and Jumanji, with the added fun of tehe consequences of choosing the wrong things for your character to wear....
What do four unprepared heroes have in common? One fantasy world that's constantly trying to kill, date, or maim them. When it's not messing with their heads or trying make them clean up its own mess. If you like your adventures fast paced and hilarious, blending High Fantasy magic with a dash of Steampunk and Cyberpunk, you're bound to enjoy it as much as I did. Just don't let the Rift Pendulum suck you in...
Several male friends find themselves inside the fantasy software game they have been playing and are now on a quest in search of the Death Null. FYI: the boys have become them, their alter ego's in the game, so Melvin is now a Warrior Hot Fighting Girl and another a Wizard... With that said, there was plenty of joking around, many interesting fight scenarios, some wicked cool monsters plus a whole slew of humanoid creatures that will become friends or foe to our band of brothers. I felt this was...
I don't generally read LitRPG, which this arguably is (it's the old "D&D players drawn into the world of the game" premise, which goes back almost as far as the game itself). I decided to give this one a shot, though, because the blurb intrigued me - particularly the teenage boy stuck as a warrior princess in a chainmail bikini - and I recognised the author's name from a writers' forum we both belong to. (I don't think we've ever directly interacted there, and I don't believe this connection inf...