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The Two Week Curse: A LitRPG Fantasy Series (The Ten Realms Book 1) by [Michael Chatfield]

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**SECOND EDITION**
Erik West is an ex-combat medic. He and his best friend, Marine recon sniper Jimmy 'Rugrat' Rodriguez, have been thrown into another world. They've become one of the "cursed." Now they have to figure out this fantasy world, where cultivation, skills, and abilities must be grown... or death awaits.

Ascension is just around the corner, whatever that means. But they'll need to master magic and temper their bodies to survive. In a world where your personal strength is your greatest value, Erik and Rugrat have to start from the bottom. But they've cut their teeth in conflicts all across Earth, and honed their skills over years of training while creating a bond and upholding their honors and oaths.

It's not a question of if they are ready for the ten realms, but instead are the ten realms ready for them?

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“You know the saying—the more you sweat in training, the less you bleed when the fight comes,” Erik said.
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Blaze didn’t know why, but he felt distinctly less safe after hearing Rugrat’s plan.
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Using a sword to do surgery, oddity fact two hundred and thirty-nine being in the Ten Realms. If it works, then it ain’t stupid no more.
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★★★★★ "I love this book" - Jesse★★★★★ "I couldn't put this book down. Ended up reading it in two nights and buying the rest of the available series." - Jayson B. ★★★★★ "This is one of the best books I have read, ever!" - PM★★★★★ "Dude, that was bloody brilliant! Just read this. Buy it or whatever" - Niel★★★★★ "Awesome start to a new must read series" - Bryan S.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07F7QQGZ9
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 2, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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International bestseller Michael Chatfield is an army veteran who enjoys long walks in foreign countries and some good beer with videos games at night!

He writes character driven fast paced series spanning Fantasy, Science fiction and LitRPG.

He focuses on bringing a realism and depth to stories that bring his worlds alive.

He is currently working on; the fantasy Epic Ten Realms, following two veterans dropped into a fantasy world and the science fiction Builder's Legacy, about a group of gamers playing in the biggest MMORPG of their lives.

He has several complete series such as the LitRPG series Emerilia, Space Opera The Free Fleet, Hard Military Science Fiction Series, Harmony War continued in the Maraukian War Series and humor filled Fantasy Death Knight Series!

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William Fisher

Just ignore the several elephants in the room.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2020

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Blunt spoiler free opinion.. So long as you don't mind applying a rather broad suspension of disbelief. It's an entertaining read.

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First, as long as you ignore that two military grunts some how have next level city building knowledge. You can kind of enjoy the story. I'm sorry, maybe I'm in the minority with this opinion. But the idea that "I've seen this on TV" or "I've watched/read this somewhere during my free time, so I somehow have the basic idea how to do this" doesn't work for me. I've spent eight years in the military, I'm sorry to say, but most don't know their left from their right. Let alone how to design a city from scratch.

I'm a real person. I've watch documentaries, I've read books, I've studied about ancient cities and ancient technology in my life. I still wouldn't be able to replicate in detail a single thing I've read about. Much less build an entire town from scratch, based off the small clips of knowledge I did retain, in JUST >10< days. (It wasn't even two weeks)

Another issue I had with that last "Quest" ark, was how, exactly, did he train everyone? Even assuming that the manuals and training material was next level information. How can they read? I have to assume that in the first realm books are horded by the rich and nobility. Therefore, farmer John in little town nowhere on the far reaches of society, isn't going to be able to read, how would he? Books are so rare he would never have had one. So how is he now suddenly able to read and understand the information?

Another thing I don't understand. Is during that "Quest" to rescue the town. How does that apply to every single student who entered into the trials? If each student went through the same EXACT same trials... Did each student get sent to a different real life town that was in danger and faced a wave of hordes? Or was that same town somehow magically used over and over again until someone actually saved it?

This book also suffers quite a bit from info-dumping and in the most cliché and arduous manner possible to read. It's literally, character X opens book and reads { insert page long info dump here } or "X asks Y how B works" Y Says, "{ insert page long info dump here } ". It's a bit boring to read, and to be honest. I skip/skim it as it really doesn't add anything to the story that I would be lost without.

And at the VERY end of the book. Another thing that kind of randomly stood out. Was when the two thought "but she was smart and she could think quickly". This doesn't make sense to me... They just met the girl minutes before hand and only talked VERY briefly. How can they deduce that she is "smart and quick thinking"?

In my opinion, I felt there were some rather large gaps in logic in the story.

This didn't make sense to me... I must assume that every realm has farmers, as everyone needs to eat in each realm. The farmers are arguably the least powerful in each realm. With each realm having billions of people.. If people can move between the realms, as long as they have monster cores or magic stones. Why wouldn't some nefarious farmer from say, the 10th realm, who wants to increase his lot in life, not move down to the first realm and utterly dominate everyone? Even the weakest farmer in the 10th realm would be more powerful than anyone or any monster in the lower realms, no? What's to stop them from going to the 1st realm and taking control?

Why would you want to be a poor farmer in the 10th realm, if you can be a rich and powerful king or ruler in the 2nd, 3rd ,4th ,5th realm and so on...? Maybe this will be explained later on, but it just really popped out to me... For that matter, why wouldn't ANY evil person with power, not just move to the lower realms?

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Great New series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2023

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I don't normally read this type of book. But I really liked it. The characters are interesting and the action was terrific. Great story as well.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2023

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I'd say there is really only one main character. I won't spoil it, but it looks like one will be set up to be killed later as he's generally in the background. Still a good book and I'll be getting the next.

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Incredible LitRPG type progression story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2023

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A multiverse type story that contains cultivation and progression. The story captures your imagination and continually moves forward, not getting bogged down or fluffy. The entire series continued to keep my (cant put it down) interest. continually waiting on Michael's next book.

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From a good start to a bad middle and an okay ending.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 8, 2018

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I was debating with myself alot about how to rate this book, finally i decided to give it a 3/5 because i liked Emerilia and based on that previous series i think the author will deliver a better second book in this new series and i am not ready to doom it yet.
But if i were to judge this book on it's own merits it definitely drops to a 2/5.

Erik and Rugrat both serve in a mercenary force in Africa guarding shady copper mine owners, they run into an ambush in which they get hit with a mysterious "two weeks curse" and Erik get's blown up with an IED.
This curse gives them interfaces like in a video game, stats, access to magic, healing powers and after two weeks teleports them and their surrounding area to an unknown place. standard LitRPG opening, nothing new..
Once they arrive to this new place then it becomes interesting, the fact that they are together with gear and expected to be teleported in the first place made this starting point unique.
I enjoyed the two characters synergy that was going on, them learning about the new world's and it's mechanics, deciding on their path together and later on trying to find ways to survive better as one unit while becoming stronger, it was great!

And then in the most interesting point of the book (just before the half mark) when it's all about to kick into high gear it grinds to a halt instead in one of the most unoriginal, uninspired and unnecessary "quest" that managed to contradict parts of the story and was completely unbelievable in how it was accomplished (for more details see the spoiler section below).
If the book would have continued on the same path of it's first half or if this quest was done in a believable manner it would have been a much more enjoyable read then it is now.

Another thing to be improved in this book is it's editing and errors, while it's not bad as to be even close to unreadable status it still could have used more time in that department.
I still intend to buy the second book in the series and give it another shot, it's an Okay read at the moment with high chances of improvement later on.

My Major Gripes With The "Quest" - SPOILER ALERT!
Erik and Rugrat get teleported outside a small backwater farming village that is about to be attacked by a horde of thousands of high level crazed animals with some intelligence and super strength.
The village has dirt roads, a wall that is made out of mud and buildings made out of "wood and dirt", it has a population of 181 farmers and village folk including elderly and children, some hunters, 20 guards that are not much better then the hunters and 1 Novice blacksmith.
They have total control of the village and the time of the attack is in TWO WEEKS.

In these mere two weeks, Erik and Rugrat helped the villagers to accomplish this:
- gathering food supply and water that will last for 4 months.
- fortifying the walls, make traps and obstacles and build watchtowers.
- heal everyone, fix sanitation and build latrines and showers.
- craft 100+ crossbows, dozens of spears and thousands of arrows FROM SCRATCH.
- gather enough wood for all the buildings and weapons (there was nothing on where and how they got all the metal from)
- form a military style militia force with officers, full training in weapons and discipline with different types of units that includes: range units, sharpshooters, heavy infantry, medics, mages and an elite quick response team.
- power level most of the village from an average level of 5 to an average of 10.
- have the villagers succeed in running most of everything on their own in a way that leaves Erik and Rugrat plenty of time to multiply their own power and levels while also advancing their chosen profession.

All in two bloody weeks, "how?!" you ask, very simple, books! not skill books in which the knowledge is instant and instinctive, regular books, called - MANUALS!
Never mind the fact that none of these farmers in this backwater village have even seen a book before, because books in this world are considered treasures, they are horded by the wealthy and the strong so it may only be passed and sold to other wealthy and strong individuals.
Never mind the previous mention in THIS book that most of the simple folk are illiterate, something that is very logical when a single book can cost years of labor in silver.
But all the residents of this very special "Village of The Savant Farmers" can not only read and write, they can immediately comprehend and act upon what is written in these manuals and pass the knowledge downwards like god damn robots.
"We need better weapons? no problem! let's just buy a few manuals for the blacksmith and in 2 days he will level up from novice to apprentice on his own"
"We bought 50 swords and shields for close combat, so let's buy some sword and shield manuals and give them to the officer in charge, he will read the manuals, pass the information downward to his soldiers via training and in a single day we have a full unit that knows how to fight with shield and swords together and even form shield walls and other formations.
Just buy a manual for every need that occurs, pass it on to a farmer that never seen a book before, and that farmer knows what to do in a day and will teach the others!

This entire part of the book (a good third of the book) was absolutely ludicrous while somehow managing to be both agonizingly slow in pace and feel rushed!
Just unimaginative, unbelievable and self contradicting quest that made me roll my eyes so much.

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Good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2022

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Was a fast read and kept me wanting to read. A lot of information, setting up a large fantasy world. Could have been slightly more in-depth but overall worth a read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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aren't most first books in a series a little bit rough?? i enjoyed the first book, but then again, friends and i came up with a similar premise many years ago during our d&d days. now that the series is complete i bought it all and am reading it for the 3rd time, again, this year. for me it doesn't seem to get old

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Great start to a series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 18, 2022

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Excellent read. Had a hard time with some continuity errors, a few times the characters would be going through something, then they'd jump back to something that must have happened hours before, then jump back to after the first thing happened. Other than that, excellent world building, and great character development as well. Looking forward to reading more!

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Spud

Impressively Dreadful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 24, 2022

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Yes, it's a blunt title. Yes, I read it to the end. Yes, this is 1 star even granting it considerable leeway for a niche fantasy genre not really known for high quality. It starts with fart jokes and plateaus there.

On the positive side, I liked elements of the world created, but they never felt lived in. Everyone encountered is about as intelligent and capable as the peasants in Monty Python. Every single one of them is “shocked” by the wisdom and generosity of the two main characters, on multiple occasions, to the point you may start to wonder if they would react with slack jawed astonishment that one of them sneezed. Nobody has ever sneezed in our presence before, all this time we’ve simply had to wait for our heads to burst from the built up pressure!
There is no individuality to the people they encounter, no dissenting voice among hundreds of people when complete strangers take over their town and conscript them for a battle only they know about. They speak in one voice, always agreeing with our illustrious MCs.

In the entire book I recall only one moment of peril, because all others are solved by extremely powerful and plentiful guns brought by our heroes into the world, or further weapons invented on the spot which are always entirely successful, or conveniently solved by items found in a massive cache of powerful equipment which they just stumbled upon. The MCs are immensely overpowered, and that singular moment of peril was a voluntary ritual to become even more powerful, one which for plot purposes could hardly fail and result in an ignominious death for our genius heroes.

The only upside is I can now assume the next book I read will be better than this one. Surely the only books I could find that are worse will be one of the its many sequels.

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S.L.Perkins

A rough start, but worth it later in the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 16, 2022

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A good read. I really enjoyed the isekai aspect - two men with little to lose end up taken to another world in mysterious circumstances and by virtue of a different perspective, succeed beyond most people's wildest dreams. Note, I have read the whole series (which is now complete) so my opinion is coloured by my experience with later books.

In general, the two MCs find the first few books relatively unchallenging - they are confronted with problems, but to a large extent they are underestimated and are able to therefore take their opponents by surprise. Later books show them faced with much greater challenges, and also shift to more dependence on other people than being able to 'lone wolf' everything. That said, the shift is done very well and the other characters are introduced in way that helps the reader get to know and appreciate them. The ending is satisfying, and the MCs have to learn just as much in later books as they seem to teach in the first few.

Some gripes I had were with the writing style. I'm not sure if the writer is not a native English speaker or has taken too much inspiration from Asian writers, but things like 'his eyes shook' or 'his eyes thinned' or 'his blood boiled' (in a context of excitement) irritated me every time I encountered them. The first few books especially had a somewhat 'rough' writing style as the author clearly learnt his craft. I would highly recommend the author reviews the first few books and perhaps has professional editing done - I was on the verge of giving up a few times because of irritation and that would have been a shame.

So, in summary, I would recommend this series for people who enjoy stories such as Defiance of the Fall and He Who Fights With Monsters, but be prepared to persevere through the first few books.

Jack Fitzgerald

It's weird. I haven't found any massive plot holes.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 11, 2021

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This is the first book I've read without any big plot holes for a long time. The classic offender is usually "I've gotten something powerful that could massively boost myself and/or my allies... but I'm just going to hold onto it for a few books for reasons that make no sense, cause allies to die, and make it obvious that the item is related to a later story arc that I have some how foresaw without any mention of future sight." So many books ruined by authors that want to build up excitement and are happy to make the protagonist a selfish moron in order to do so. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE BOOKS! Or at least not yet. No abnormal fluctuations of intent. No signs of supreme intellect quickly followed by bouts of illogical nonsense. It's genuinely a rare find in this genre.
There is some minor faults, humor can bit a bit forced at times for example. But honestly the relief from not having giant plot holes alone makes this book a cut above the rest. If I could give it 6 stars. I would.

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Meera

Medical LITRPG with fighting mixed in!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 1, 2022

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A very interesting and different take on the LITRPG setting. Rather than a go getting weakling these two have military experience. I will admit the first time through this book I struggled with the start of it yet the in detail look at healing. The focus on the knowledge base to experience being key it really made it far more interesting. There are some serious details into the healing and if you are squeamish then it is not for you.

For me this book hit quite a few nerd points. I love the interactions between Eric and Rugrat. The ease between the characters and the banter was fun and easy to listen to. The number of characters will expand massively throughout the book with a few different points of view but it will be interesting to see where it develops from here.

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A whole lot of fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 22, 2022

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This book was great! It's a masisve tome of a book(which I love!) But did have some technical stuff in there (which I didn't) but overall it's a great story. It's really nice to read about mature men in this type of book, with some of the knowledge they already have, instead of green gamer kids thrust into an RPG. Really nice change of pace. Eric and Rugrat are cool characters, written well, with the humour, grit and, determination that is recognisable from veterans. Will definitely be diving into the next book.

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