Monsters and Legends
by Ivan Kal
About This Audiobook
Zach and Ryun were best friends. Then the Framework hit Earth, Ryun destroyed the world, and Zach gathered humanity's last nine souls to kill him. Monsters and Legends opens after all of that, with both men ascended to the Infinite Realm and the story of their falling-out doled out in flashbacks — Zach leveling through the Framework, Ryun walking a cultivation path, two power systems and two philosophies on a collision course. It's one of the most thought-through advancement systems in the genre, played mature and straight. The dual-POV structure builds real dread, because you know where it ends and still want to see how. Cons: walls of character-sheet text and some filler valleys, and a few readers find Zach flat next to Ryun's intensity. Phil Thron keeps every POV switch clean across 34.5 hours, which is a big part of why the structure works at all. 4.8 from a small but loud 1.3K ratings.
