Tag: #LITRPG

My first audiobook review! I recently finished Unmapped (The Completionist Chronicles, Book 13) by Dakota Krout. As with the rest of the books in the series it's narrated by Luke Daniels. The story continues the adventures of Joe the Ritualist in the realms of Eternium. Joe is trying to find a path forward in the wake of soul damage and shattered skills. Along the way he commits to helping one of the towers from Vanaheim to obtain a mystic core.

Overall it was a great addition to the series. One issue with LitRPG series (and any long running series) is they tend to slow down after the first few books and become formulaic. The Completionist Chronicles is no exception. With Unmapped the overall story is starting to progress again, but the book itself is still on the slow side.

The writing is what I have come to expect from Krout. Lots of puns and is generally pretty fun. He does a great job of diving into details instead of glossing over elements because its magic. Although the system and magic are starting to get more and more complex. Luke Daniels is a fantastic narrator. He does a great job of making the characters feel alive and distinct.

If you haven't given the series a try and enjoy puns and LitRPGs, then I highly recommend it. I will say the start of the story is a bit rough with the writing and dated. Some readers might not make it past how Joe ends up in Eternium, but the story gets better and the whole Elon Musk part is a small blip. I am excited for the next book in the series and see where the story goes. I give the book 7 out of 10 wheels of cheese.

It's been a while since I've posted anything, and a lot has changed since 2023. I don't have much to report from 2024, but 2025 has been pretty eventful. I got married, we're expecting our first in March, and we're buying a house.

This year I want to get back into the habit of writing. I'm setting a loose goal of 52 blog posts, one per week, though not necessarily posted weekly. Some will be short updates, others longer deep dives into projects.

On the project side, I built an 8-node Raspberry Pi cluster that's currently running Docker Swarm and Portainer. I've also been building out anchordns.io and sitery.io. AnchorDNS is a DNS management platform that also handles front-end proxying. Sitery is a container-based managed hosting platform for WordPress, and I'm in the middle of migrating all of my legacy hosting clients over to it.

Outside of software, I have a long list of boat projects planned for Suddenly. The biggest one is moving her to Nevada for a multi-year refit up on the hard. I also have plans for both bryanhaskin.com and this site.

Over the last two years, I've listened to quite a few audiobooks. Sixty-three in 2025 and seventy-seven in 2024. I've been reading more ebooks as well, but nowhere near the same volume as audiobooks. It's been a healthy mix of science fiction and LitRPG.