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This is a mamoth series, of over 350 chapters released over the last two years. It’ll be published soon as multiple books.

The book blurb: The Butcher of Gadobhra

Life is rough. Jobs are non-existent. And far too many people live in poverty in the real world and can only find work online in VR worlds. And it’s getting worse. The old internet is unusable and hacked to pieces. The new system needs AI to run things, but most of them are destroyed. Now everyone is scrambling to get into the GENESIS ENGINE, as it becomes the new global market place

Everyone wants a piece of the new game. The guilds are competing to be the first to find the dungeons and kill the biggest monster. The corporations are claiming land and putting in their online market places. Ozzy and his friends just want a paycheck.

Four friends find they are locked into five year contracts as virtual serfs in a small village, and can’t go adventuring at all to gain money and buy their way to freedom. They don’t have many choices. They can work as a blacksmith, barmaid and shepherd for all those years….or they can cheat and find ways they can take advantage of the system.

When they give you a mop and not a sword, you have to find the loopholes and change the rules.

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My Review

This is the first book I’ve read by the Walrus King. It’s a classic RPG (Role Playing Game) set up: a dystopian world where the poor a placated by putting the in pods where they can spend all their time in a virtual game world.

A group of friends has played previous gaes and eavesdrops on a virtual conference about a new game from ‘The Genesis Engine. It’s more realistic than ever before, inseparable from reality. So the gamers all join together as some of the first players.

The company, Acme, rooks them by making it impossible to free lance and gain points. They have to work. The company has given the crazy strength and endurance and immunity to boredom and depression so they can work sixteen hours, sleep four, and be happy.

Most weapons are not allowed. Everything is stacked against them. But our intrepid band of gamers outschemes the schemers through sheer hard work.

You get the general idea of the characters and their approach in the first few chapters. They make steady progress, but hide it from the company.

Complexities ensue, as they get better and better at dungeon diving.

Highly recommended! Click here to start reading for free online.

Don’t miss this book or the series. 355 chapters, and he’s still writing.

Andy Zach
Author 10 books, 87 followers, October 31, 2023

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October 17, 2023

Fun Read. Andy’s take on Zombies is fresh, unique, and above all… entertaining. A group of zombies working for the US Government but not employed by the government get up to a lot of mischief taking out Crime Lords, more Crime Lords, and aliens. Who know that Zombies had hobbies like knitting and scrapbooking? The Korean adventure is a highlight of the story.

Brad Secrest

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Bodacious Creed: a Steampunk Zombie Western

The blurb:

U.S. Marshal James Creed has known loss, starting from the untimely death of his wife and daughter in a sudden fire. His work, chasing down and arresting outlaws across the Wild West, is all he has left to live for. Then one day, in 1876, the infamous killer Corwin Blake catches Creed by surprise and guns him down.

Creed awakes after a mysterious young woman resurrects him in a basement laboratory beneath a brothel. Half alive, Creed feels torn between his need for justice and his desire to fall back into the peace of death. Creed’s instincts drive him to protect the city of Santa Cruz, California, from the outlaws it harbors while searching for Blake.

He uncovers a secret criminal organization, likely protecting Blake, determined to use resurrection technology for its own ends. The former marshal, now faster, stronger, and a more deadly shot than ever before, must work with a brothel madam, a bounty hunter, and the remaining marshals to uncover the criminal syndicate before they can misuse the machines of rebirth and create more mindless zombies. Meanwhile, he must also stop Blake, before the outlaw kills the only people he cares about.

His own death can wait.

Your October SciFi Fantasy Review

After a slow start, this novel took off and I finished well-satisfied with it.

I didn’t care much for the characters at first, they seemed somewhat underdeveloped. Perhaps more backstory or flashbacks would have helped. But as they went through adventures together, you cared more and more about each.

I especially liked the last half of the book when author Jonathan Fesmire gave the villain’s point of view. This humanized them and made them seem more realistic.

I recommend this book for lovers of historical fiction and steampunk, mixed with magic and zombies.

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Where reporter Sam Melvin becomes an amateur detective specializing in zombies.

My Undead Mother-in-law

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My Undead Mother-in-law

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The zombies are sent around the world by Presidential decree to fight US enemies.

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I posted my most review the other day on Goodreads:

New Review – Mageling

September 14, 2023

Wow! This was my first exposure to J.L. Mullins and I can’t wait to read more!

He devises a world that is inherently magical and humanity must fortify itself within cities to defend against natural magic. Into this world comes a newly graduated mage, Tala. She was sold to a mage school by her impoverished parents to pay debts, so she graduates with a boatload of debt.

Tala foregoes the normal apprenticeship to a senior mage as a mageling and hires herself out as a full mage to a guild of caravan mages. She’s super cost and money conscious. She has a great deal of power and knowledge, but she is ignorant of much of the customs and economy of mages and caravans. But she learns.

That’s her best strength–learning quickly and diligently. Her greatest weakness is taking great risks. Her magic is focused on protecting her life–she has little offensive magic. But she’s very creative in using it.

If you like strong characters and magic, this one’s for you!

Andy Zach

Author 10 books

89 followers

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My Review

September 8, 2023

Seth Ring continues his RPG fantasy about Thorn, a Titan and his main squeeze Vellin, who’s a plant mage, among other things.

Both characters are ridiculously overpowered, but that makes it fun, as other characters continuously underestimate them. Also, I like seeing how Seth Ring dreams up new adversaries for them to fight.

They also get sidekicks, such as Alph, a the Mad Master Alchemist. He also gets a romantic interest in this book, but she loves him for his mind. You see, he kept casting intelligence potions upon himself. As he got smarter, he brewed a better potion. Rinse and repeat.

So much for the characters. The plot? They’re climbing this tower. They have more powerful characters arrayed against them. They have to beat them, and improve their abilities at the same time.

Rinse and repeat. Enjoyable, if you like this sort of thing.

Andy Zach

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First, I’ll cover my zombie turkey apocalypse parody, The Life After Life Chronicles.

Zombie Turkeys

Zombie Detective

Then we have:

My Undead Mother-in-law

Up next is Paranormal Privateers Click to listen

After that, you’ve got Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse

Following my Life After Life Chronicles, we go to my disabled teen superhero series, we have two audiobooks.

Secret Supers is available in Audible for free if you subscribe or if you’re from the United Kingdom.

The next book in the series is Villain’s Vacation, the second of my three Secret Supers books.

Finally, my third book, Secret Supers in Space, just came out this year!

Click here to get an autographed copy now.

Click here to get an ebook or paperback from Amazon.

For all free audiobooks, click here to get them from me.