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Fayroll #3
Winds of Fate
Harry’s back! The even more anticipated third book from the best-selling Fayroll series is here. With even more epic battles, challenging quests and even rarer items. Following on from ‘The Road East,' Harriton’s work has been very well received, and his new bosses are pleased with him. Seemingly everything is going well, as he enjoys visiting Fayroll more and more and spending time with his new girlfriend, Vika.
But is everything as it seems? Can things stay so positive with him? After a visit from his ex-girlfriend’s brother and a meeting with Raidion’s Security, it seems the real world might be much more of a dangerous place for him than ever before. He will begin to question how deep he is in this whole project, but with support from his new girlfriend and his team working on The Fayroll Times, maybe everything will be fine? However, this is just outside of the game.
In the game, he joins ‘The Hounds’ on a quest through the Northern Mountains and through the mines filled with terrifying and deadly creatures to continue his quest to find the Dryad Sisters, but not before making even more in-game enemies, meeting royalty and saving kidnapped princesses.
Winds of Fate continues the best-selling and ever-popular Fayroll series with the author’s great sense of humor, adventure and storytelling skills. This book carries on developing the Fayroll world and also further develops life in the real world. This story has an equally seductive balance between the real world and virtual world, where both settings smoothly complement each other.
Vasilyev is showing how much of a writer he is. Every Fayroll book gets better and better. His characters continue to develop and become more real to the reader. His attention to detail and cinematic descriptions have also developed giving the reader a captivating and entertaining read. Winds of Fate is certainly a boundless mix of action, dialogue, humor and colorful descriptions.
Andrey Vasilyev started writing in his late thirties, because, by his own admission, “he ran out of things to read.” However, after his first two books gained nearly instant critical acclaim, he had to give serious thought to giving up his banking career and went on to become one of the top authors in the relatively new, yet insanely popular, LitRPG genre that brings together cyberpunk, classic sci-fi, and fantasy. Fortunately for his readers, who had voted his debut novel More Than a Game the “Best Book of the Year 2014,” he never looked back and continued working on his now-bestselling Fayroll series.
But is everything as it seems? Can things stay so positive with him? After a visit from his ex-girlfriend’s brother and a meeting with Raidion’s Security, it seems the real world might be much more of a dangerous place for him than ever before. He will begin to question how deep he is in this whole project, but with support from his new girlfriend and his team working on The Fayroll Times, maybe everything will be fine? However, this is just outside of the game.
In the game, he joins ‘The Hounds’ on a quest through the Northern Mountains and through the mines filled with terrifying and deadly creatures to continue his quest to find the Dryad Sisters, but not before making even more in-game enemies, meeting royalty and saving kidnapped princesses.
Winds of Fate continues the best-selling and ever-popular Fayroll series with the author’s great sense of humor, adventure and storytelling skills. This book carries on developing the Fayroll world and also further develops life in the real world. This story has an equally seductive balance between the real world and virtual world, where both settings smoothly complement each other.
Vasilyev is showing how much of a writer he is. Every Fayroll book gets better and better. His characters continue to develop and become more real to the reader. His attention to detail and cinematic descriptions have also developed giving the reader a captivating and entertaining read. Winds of Fate is certainly a boundless mix of action, dialogue, humor and colorful descriptions.
Andrey Vasilyev started writing in his late thirties, because, by his own admission, “he ran out of things to read.” However, after his first two books gained nearly instant critical acclaim, he had to give serious thought to giving up his banking career and went on to become one of the top authors in the relatively new, yet insanely popular, LitRPG genre that brings together cyberpunk, classic sci-fi, and fantasy. Fortunately for his readers, who had voted his debut novel More Than a Game the “Best Book of the Year 2014,” he never looked back and continued working on his now-bestselling Fayroll series.
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About the author
Andrey Vasilyev
61 books146 followersAt times, I feel I was meant to be an innkeeper someplace on the outskirts of Bree in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. However, in real life, I am a much-celebrated Moscow-based author, as well as one of the originators of the relatively new, yet insanely popular, LitRPG genre that blends cyberpunk, classic sci-fi, and fantasy.
I started writing in my late 30’s and only “because there was nothing handy to read,” but after my first two books gained nearly instant acclaim, I had to give serious thought to changing my current banking career to that of a professional writer. Fortunately for my readers, who had voted his debut novel More Than a Game (link) the “Best Book of the Year 2014,” I never looked back after that.
Over the next few years, I continued work on the now-bestselling Fayroll series, maintained a blog, and participated in various multiple-author projects. I am also the author of The Raven’s Flock and The Arch series, which will soon be available in English.
I started writing in my late 30’s and only “because there was nothing handy to read,” but after my first two books gained nearly instant acclaim, I had to give serious thought to changing my current banking career to that of a professional writer. Fortunately for my readers, who had voted his debut novel More Than a Game (link) the “Best Book of the Year 2014,” I never looked back after that.
Over the next few years, I continued work on the now-bestselling Fayroll series, maintained a blog, and participated in various multiple-author projects. I am also the author of The Raven’s Flock and The Arch series, which will soon be available in English.
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March 22, 2018
Another in the series. At the very least the plot does seem to be moving forward at a regular pace, it's just that there isn't much to the plot. The guy is playing through the game with no real risk and not much real reward to it. There's a lot more Russian 'power adjacent' fantasy in this. Vasilyev goes out of his way to point out that other players are leveling faster than Harry and he's having a hard time advancing at all, while at the same time gaining more and more powerful things he can draw on for aid. A serviceable book, but again, nothing special.
August 2, 2017
This series is going down in quality fast.
I'm wondering if it's a translation issue.
There's absolutely no risk to the MC on anything that he does, everything works out and he continues to be pulled along by other people. This series is getting boring quickly.
I'm wondering if it's a translation issue.
There's absolutely no risk to the MC on anything that he does, everything works out and he continues to be pulled along by other people. This series is getting boring quickly.
October 26, 2017
Such a good book
June 3, 2019
This book was enjoyable, but it is obvious that the conservative male Russian mindset is held by the author. The main character treats women poorly at times and assumes the worst of them. He will just tell them what to do at times. He also makes jokes about gay people occasionally that kind of puts down gay people and makes them sound like something he would hate to be. There is also stuff early on about powerful groups killing people they don't like, and he seems to think this is kind of okay and something you should just go along with. The main character makes no attempt whatsoever to tell anyone about this or do something about it. It annoys me somewhat because he seems to be saying that it is futile to go against the powerful and that they can do whatever they like, with what they do usually being correct. Whenever he talks about the guy murdered by the company, he always refers to him as a rat and says bad stuff about the guy rather than saying that the guy was just a cheater within the company who should have just been fired and had legal action taken against him. Maybe it is not the case that Russians think it is okay to murder people who go against the people in power, but authors like Andrey Vasilyev perpetuate that idea. It is frustrating because I didn't see this sort of mindset in Russian books I have read from a few years before, and I hope this sort of stuff doesn't become increasingly more present in books out of that country. There are better LitRPG books out there, but this one was still entertaining at least.
June 11, 2019
So Sexist, So Sad
I have really enjoyed these little stories, but I am not sure how much longer I can continue reading them. Mr. Vasilyev writes his action scenes well and is wonderfully inventive. But every time the protagonist describes a woman- any woman- I cringe at the misogyny. Women are nagging, manipulative and good only for cooking and sex. It's probably a cultural thing, assuming Russian attitudes toward women are stuck in the 1950s, but I am not sure how much longer the enjoyment I get from the story line will outweigh my discomfort at being told I am a flawed human because I lack a penis.
I have really enjoyed these little stories, but I am not sure how much longer I can continue reading them. Mr. Vasilyev writes his action scenes well and is wonderfully inventive. But every time the protagonist describes a woman- any woman- I cringe at the misogyny. Women are nagging, manipulative and good only for cooking and sex. It's probably a cultural thing, assuming Russian attitudes toward women are stuck in the 1950s, but I am not sure how much longer the enjoyment I get from the story line will outweigh my discomfort at being told I am a flawed human because I lack a penis.
August 6, 2019
I actually had to stop this book early. Not a fan of the style of writing or the series. It had some good points, but it is just not for me.
A couple of things I did not like:
1. What I thought was humor about the MC stereotyping women, gets a little overboard.
2. There is no character progression.
3. The author doesn't give me a reason to care.
I hope others like the book and series, but I am looking for more books like The Land By Aleron Kong, Ascend Online By Luke Chmilenko, Awaken Online by Travis Bagwell, and Red Mage by Xander Boyce.
A couple of things I did not like:
1. What I thought was humor about the MC stereotyping women, gets a little overboard.
2. There is no character progression.
3. The author doesn't give me a reason to care.
I hope others like the book and series, but I am looking for more books like The Land By Aleron Kong, Ascend Online By Luke Chmilenko, Awaken Online by Travis Bagwell, and Red Mage by Xander Boyce.
January 20, 2023
Book 3 of Feyroll. This was a fun book in the series. Got to love adventures in the fridge north. If you love Vikings you’ll love this installment. An impossible quest and old acquaintances. The series has hit stride. Since we have been west, east, and now north the only way left is to the south. The game works in this appears to be based on our world, so I am expecting that we are headed for the Amazon. This was a good one and would still highly recommend the series.
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January 21, 2026
Tretí diel v sérii už dostal trhliny, ktoré sa mi nepáčia. Akosi až príliš rýchlo sa hrdina v reálnom svete vyrovnal so smrťou osoby, ku ktorej v zásade prispel. Alebo si to aspoň nepripúšťa, čo je vcelku zvláštne. Rovnako potom neskôr až príliš ľahko akceptuje násilie, nech už je motivované čímkoľvek a rovnako tak predstavu pomsty vedúcej až k smrti. Ale čo ja viem, možno je to v ruskej spoločnosti akceptovateľnejšie.
August 3, 2017
Can't wait to dive into Book 4!
Hagen is a real ass, and I have to say I love him for it. He's a common enough type of main character in LitRPG, but he's far less of a team player than the others. I really enjoy watching the gears turn and seeing what trouble he instigates next!
Hagen is a real ass, and I have to say I love him for it. He's a common enough type of main character in LitRPG, but he's far less of a team player than the others. I really enjoy watching the gears turn and seeing what trouble he instigates next!
October 14, 2017
Excellent
If this was written in Russian, I can't tell. The writing is excellent, the story is excellent. I cannot recommend this whole series enough . Everyone who likes litrpg should read this.
If this was written in Russian, I can't tell. The writing is excellent, the story is excellent. I cannot recommend this whole series enough . Everyone who likes litrpg should read this.
February 14, 2018
And on to the next!
Just finished another book of the series and I'm still eager for more! I have read many LitRPG books, and this series is quickly finding its way up into my top 10 series.
Just finished another book of the series and I'm still eager for more! I have read many LitRPG books, and this series is quickly finding its way up into my top 10 series.
March 5, 2018
Great, great and great! I got addicted to the series. The story transfered me in the Fayroll world. I was really excited to read this part. Also love the sense of humor that the author has. Great job LitRPG!
March 5, 2019
Awesome magic and sword play
This is book three in a saga of truly remarkable story writing about bravery sword clashes and a life of love and intrigue and fighting for your life and the lives of people with whom you love and fight for.
This is book three in a saga of truly remarkable story writing about bravery sword clashes and a life of love and intrigue and fighting for your life and the lives of people with whom you love and fight for.
March 11, 2018
Good book
So far I like the series. It’s a good mix of real and game worlds. Can’t wait to read the next one.
So far I like the series. It’s a good mix of real and game worlds. Can’t wait to read the next one.
April 12, 2018
Funnier
The adventures continue in the game and real life. A lot more humor in this one and as usual he always lands on his feet.
The adventures continue in the game and real life. A lot more humor in this one and as usual he always lands on his feet.
June 13, 2018
Book three
This one had more mistakes in it then the last two.
Still a fun read through.
I can recommend this book.
This one had more mistakes in it then the last two.
Still a fun read through.
I can recommend this book.
June 18, 2018
Hooked!!!!?
Well folks I'm hooked this is one the best story/series I've read in a long time not to boring and plenty of excitement and action to keep you interested?
Well folks I'm hooked this is one the best story/series I've read in a long time not to boring and plenty of excitement and action to keep you interested?
December 10, 2018
Author has lightened up on the sexism for this book which is good.
May 16, 2019
не осилил
скучно и неинтересно
скучно и неинтересно
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