Ryan Rimmel Audiobooks

The Noob Returns: comic gamelit adventure from the Noobtown sequence

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 3.0/5 average

2 listener ratings

Who is Ryan Rimmel?

The vocabulary gives the game away. Noob is a word borrowed straight from online play, and an author who builds a series called Noobtown around it is stating the terms of engagement before a single chapter begins. This is fantasy written in the gaming idiom: levels, stats, quests, and the comedy of someone hopelessly out of their depth trying to work the system.

Ryan Rimmel operates in that hybrid corner where adventure meets progression fiction, and our catalogue files The Noob Returns under fantasy and general fiction accordingly. The tone these titles promise is light rather than solemn, which in a genre prone to portentousness counts as a selling point in itself.

Ryan Rimmel in audiobooks

Seventeen hours is a proper stretch, and comic fantasy at that length lives or dies on the narration. Johnathan McClain takes it on here, and timing is the whole craft: a joke landed a beat late is merely flat on the page, whereas on audio it takes the listener down with it.

Ratings have barely started, with too few in to signify anything yet, so the panel below rather than any average is the thing to watch.

As for where to start, the title itself indicates that this instalment expects some familiarity with what came before, so anyone new to Noobtown may prefer to pick the sequence up at its beginning. Listeners who enjoy a long, funny, rules-driven adventure will recognise the territory at once. What we currently hold is listed underneath.