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Ritualist (The Completionist Chronicles) Hardcover – February 21, 2022
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The decision to start a new life is never an easy one, but for Joe the transition was far from figurative. Becoming a permanent addition to a game world, it doesn't take long to learn that people with his abilities are actively hunted. In fact, if the wrong people gained knowledge of what he was capable of, assassins would appear in droves.
In his pursuit of power, Joe fights alongside his team, completes quests, and delves into the mysteries of his class, which he quickly discovers can only be practiced in secret. Ultimately, his goal is to complete every mission, master every ability, and learn all of the world's secrets.
All he has to do is survive long enough to make that happen.
- Print length348 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 21, 2022
- Dimensions6 x 1.06 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101637660553
- ISBN-13978-1637660553
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- Publisher : Mountaindale Press (February 21, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 348 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1637660553
- ISBN-13 : 978-1637660553
- Item Weight : 1.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.06 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,856,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,343 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Books)
- #31,558 in Epic Fantasy (Books)
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Author of the best-selling Divine Dungeon, Completionist Chronicles, and Full Murderhobo series, Dakota Krout was chosen as Audible's top 5 fantasy pick of 2017, has been a top 5 bestseller on Amazon, and a top 6 bestseller on Audible.
He draws on his experience in the military to create vast terrains and intricate systems, and his history in programming and information technology helps him bring a logical aspect to both his writing and his company while giving him a unique perspective for future challenges.
Publishing my stories has been an incredible blessing thus far, and I hope to keep you entertained for years to come! -Dakota
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Others have commented about the quality of the writing, characters, and story. I want to point out how refreshing it is not to have constant cussing and frequent adult content. This is the first LitRPG book I have enjoyed that I would actually allow my pre-teens to read.
The main character has some religious convictions which leads to some interesting inner turmoil and story depth at times. I liked these parts.
The book is not without flaws, and I do detail what I found to be notable issues below. However, they are few and far between, highly subjective and don’t detract from an overall good book. They do highlight that a bit more editing should go into future books, but the quality of the sequel Regicide and the side story Rexus seemingly indicate that this concern is moot. If you don’t want spoilers you can stop reading now.
The Prologue isn’t good and can be skipped without effecting the story in anyway. It’s hard to describe why because it’s not written poorly and fits the tone of the rest of the book. Honestly, it just rubbed me the wrong way. The oil exec was laughably evil. The scapegoated worker had to change his name and chose “Elon” vowing to get back at the oil company by removing the world’s dependency on oil. “Elon” does nothing relating to new energy sources and only mentions expy companies until deciding to finally analyze the core he got from that oil drilling that got him fired. That core references Dakota Krout’s other works, the Divine Dungeon Series. Aside from this reference the Prologue is completely unnecessary, which isn’t a good sign.
Joe’s marriage to Daisy has unfortunate implications. In Chapter 2, the divorce attorney states that Joe’s soon to be ex-wife was a twenty-year-old woman. Joe was deployed 2 months after they were married. When Joe first joined Tiona’s party in Chapter 6, he mentions that he spent the last few years as an active duty medic for the army; only stopping due to his helicopter being shot down. In a later conversation, after Dylan uses some slang, Joe thought to himself that it had been a decade since he was in high school. For all of the proceeding to be true, Joe would’ve married Daisy when she just turned 18 and he would have been no younger than 24. A marriage with no prior relationship seems extremely unlikely, which creates questions with no good answers. I personally accept the most gracious explanation that Dakota Krout made a mistake in Daisy’s age and no one caught it.
In Chapter 26, Tiona mentions that the pods help with mental conditions, highlighting Depression and Autism specifically. Tiona indicates that the pods reset the brain chemistry, however neither Depression nor Autism are solely caused by a brain chemistry imbalance. This mistake isn’t a big issue and would likely be glossed over by most readers who don't know about these conditions. Yes this book is clearly within the realm of science fiction and fantasy, but the other players are still from our world so better accuracy wouldn’t hurt.
In Chapter 28, the one human Joe and Tiona’s group save from being sacrificed is last mentioned weeping over his dead comrades. Absolutely nothing is indicated that the group escorted him to safety or that Joe gave him travel permissions with the fast travel system so that he could get back to Ardania safely. He could have disappeared into the aether, who knows.
Joe repeatedly asserts [Chapter 2; Chapter 16] that he is a religious man, but that’s it. There’s no demonstration of him being religious or how his religious nature affects him other than having his Pray ability renamed to Query.
but pushing through that leads into what is probably the best framing for a Sword Art Online style story. one of the hardest things for these is worldbuilding. the numbers and constant monlogues and info dumps to describe the systems and other world underpinnings, but Dakota actually handles it elegantly. and the main character, rather than being a Wes Crusher, is more a Watson. not stupid, but regularly seeing whats going a minute too late, but still managing to come up with a couple good ideas and clever plans
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Inside the game, Joe is a bit special (as are all LitRPG protagonists ha) as he is the only person to complete several days worth of tests to determine his best character class. He is offered an obscure class - the Ritualist - which he accepts; the Ritualist is like a cleric, able to cast healing spells, but with huge reserves of mana required to cast rituals, which are exactly like they sound with big chalk circles and blood and guts and whatnot. He has terrible combat skills but is very prized by a local guild in a world where magic is severely restricted and true magical healing is incredibly rare.
Joe joins a ragtag band of adventurers, completes a lot of quests (hidden or otherwise), and starts to really discover the secrets of the world of Eternia. What I loved most about the book was the indepth but not boring look into how all the skills function, how all of his abilities levelled up, and how Joe chose to develop as a Scholar and use his limited magical abilities in really unique ways. There's a lot of thought behind this novel and I loved it.



Tldr: Good story, well thought out mechanics, decent characters.
Spoilers may follow after this line.
We follow a mans journey through personal disaster into a brand new world of rules and adventure. The opening is reasonably standard fare, giving us motivation and justification.
The initial character interactions are a bit strange, and feels forced. Some of the npcs feel needlessly antagonistic. There seems to be only one other guild in the game, and they are essentially a nuisance.
The npcs are better developed, and their power structures are believable.
All in all it scratches the litrpg/gamelit itch, doesn't contain a lot of typos or grammar issues and gave good bang for buck.
4 stars.

Now onto book 2.