Robert Blaise Audiobooks

1% Lifesteal: a long-running fantasy serial built for deep-end listeners

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.8/5 average

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Who is Robert Blaise?

Volume four is where a series stops proving itself and starts trusting its readers. That is the stage 1% Lifesteal has reached, and it says more about Robert Blaise than any cover blurb could: here is a writer with an audience following along instalment by instalment.

The title reads like a game statistic and the shelving backs that up, with fantasy, science fiction and general fiction all laying a claim. That combination usually signals stories where the rules of the world are part of the pleasure, and where progress is something the listener tracks alongside the characters.

Long instalments are the norm in this corner of fantasy. It is fiction for people who want to live somewhere rather than visit.

Robert Blaise in audiobooks

The volume listed here runs seventeen hours and fifty-five minutes, read by Daniel Wisniewski, whose task across a stretch that long is keeping a large cast distinguishable without ever showing the effort.

It carries a high early rating, though from far too few listeners to call it settled. Newcomers should know they are joining a sequence already in progress; returning listeners simply want to know it has arrived, and it has.

Scroll on for the audiobook and its sample.