Hal Dix was stuck in an unlucky life. His wife is a successful executive while his IT help desk job leads nowhere. Even his daughter's daycare teacher thinks he's a loser. Hal can't catch a break.
Now a strange woman at a flea market sells Hal a bootleg release of a highly anticipated game. It is just what he wished for and he can't wait to play it during his long weekend home alone. His luck has finally turned around, right?
Hal should be careful what he wishes for.
Join the adventure in this epic fantasy gaming LitRPG trilogy box set. Play along with Hal and his new friends in Fantasma, as he becomes an accidental hero.
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CJ Davis is an American writer who lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife and two little girls. By day he is a marketing executive for a software company, and by night he writes novels. His artistic influences include: J.K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, George Romero, George Lucas, Billy Corgan, Max Brooks, and of course Tolkien, Koontz and King.
CJ has a BBA from The University of Georgia with a specialization in marketing, and has published many articles in several major industry publications.
CJ is an avid runner, and just ran his fifth marathon this November in Philadelphia.
I was listening to this on audio. The audio was good, so if you were thinking about that, go for it! I had to put it in the DNF category though 🥺 This is one of those that’s outside my reading norm, and I wanted to give it a shot because the audio was on sale, and it’s still fantasy, and I love gaming—it hits a lot of sweet spots for me. But, it’s just not for me. I really couldn’t get into it, which is just a major bummer. It’s well written and everything is certainly good enough, it just wasn’t for me. So I can’t rate it, BUT I think if you’re into this sub genre of fantasy you’ll probably like it a lot. If you haven’t read this kind of story before, it’s worth a shot, but it still may not be for you. But anything is worth trying once right? And you won’t know until you do 🤷🏼♀️
Accidental Thief - Hal Dix was an unaccomplished man having no luck whatsoever. His wife Mona, on the other hand, was a successful account executive bypassing his meager salary by leaps and bounds. This only added to his misery and depression. With a three-day holiday coming up he stopped at a flea market hoping to find a new video game to play while his wife and baby visited her mother. At the flea market, he met Tildi who gave him a bootlegged copy of a new game called Fantasma. Once home, Hal loaded the DVD, entering Fantasma. Immediately acquiring a companion due to some unforeseen circumstances, Hal found himself involved in his first quest. Hal was amazed by the realism of the game and became engaged in his class as a thief. The tale continues with multiple quests and successful levels up. The plot progression is rather linear and predictable but is still exciting. As the tale continues toward the later chapters it gets better. Some of Hal’s skill decisions were questionable but it was his choice. I hope the next volume will be just as clever and unique. Accidental Warrior – Hal was once again called back to Fantasma to discover what had happened to Kay. She had been on a mission but had not been heard from in the past four months. To follow Kay’s path east, Hal employed himself as a caravan guard but could not do so as a rogue. He was forced to change his class to warrior. Starting over at level one, he would not be able to use any of his rogue skills until reaching level eleven when he could dual-class. Onward to the city of Hyrah, the place of Kay’s last contact. During his journey, Hal learned of the prophecy of The Opponent. A great hero who would come from beyond the stars to Fantasma to help in their time of need against a great tyrant; the universal battle of good versus evil. Through deception, Hal finds himself in the Coliseum as one of the Gladiators and must find a way to escape. Contributing to his companions, Hal manages to escape with many of the slaves forming his army. Now it was on to defeat Baron Norak and his Imperial Army. Accidental Mage – Hal returns home only to find his wife and daughter missing, along with a note from the Emporer of Fantasma requesting his presence. Hal retrieved the old game disc, and opened the portal, returning to Fantasma. Hal’s new mission was to become a mage to defeat the Emporer. With Tildi’s help and the three other remaining mages, Hal needed to learn everything they knew; a rather impossible task but this is fantasy fiction. Beginning with ice magic, Hal needed to get his magic on! There are five magic elements in the world of Fantasma; Earth, Fire, Air, Water, and the mysterious Spirit. As the mythical hero, Hal would have to master all five to complete the prophecy. The story is a quasi-LitRPG at best. The skill system and the remarkable level of advance are true fantasy in themselves, but they did tie everything together in the amount of time the author desired. All-in-all I did enjoy the trilogy, although the numerous stat checks were annoying. Roberto Scarlato did a fine job as narrator.
So there's a type of book that a lot of people need to be aware of what happens is a big company sees a popular genre IE vampires, lit RPGs, sci-fi space travel, etc and so these companies hire small / unknown riders some of which are good but it's just mass produced books in the genre to make some money this is one of those books The writing is actually good The guy does a good job however this is not a lit RPG The guy who wrote this has no idea how they work there's constant inconsistencies with all of the leveling, skills and the equipment and all of the things that separate a lit RPG from a standard fantasy not to mention that the main character in this book is terrible person so while the writing is good it's not a litrpg it's a fanfic well written one but still a fanfic
At first, I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy this type of story. It didn’t take me very long to get sucked into Fantasma. Imaginative and exciting new world to explore. Well written with so many great characters. The narration was amazing. Roberto Scarlato, C.J. Davis & Jamie Davis absolutely nailed it. I highly recommend this book/series.
Lots of fun, a different system than most gamelit, and a character who managed to be lucky without feeling too overpowered. More of a fun 'how will he get out of this one' than a 'will he get out of this one' type story, but it's fun and light and thoroughly entertaining.
Binge worthy Did get a little stuck towards end of book two. Definitely worth reading. Happy to know saga continues in the next series "The Accidental Duelist”.
This whole series went by very fast for me. Loved Hal's character and his luck. I also enjoyed the change of the classes for Hal for each of the novels.
Easy to follow, fairly simple plot. Nothing major to say about this. There’s ups and downs and trials and tribulations which are overcome fairly easily by Hal.