Side Note: Mahanenko seems to have a strange issue with women. Here, though, there's regular grammatical oddities that, while perfectly understandable, are a constant bur in the story giving it an underlying irritation throughout the whole thing.

Natalia Nikitin did a really good job with his Shaman series in that respect. For Mahanenko's other books, I couldn't really tell they were translated where this one has some awkward sentence structures that make it clear that English wasn't it's original language. Really, the overall plot line isn't advanced at all until the last 1/10th of the book.Īnother issue is Alexandra Tusing's translation. Sure, broadly, the story line is still nominally about the impending restart, but functionally it's just doing quests without a clear narrative connection to the overall story arc. On top of that, the clear story line of the first book has given over to the much less focused open world. Unfortunately, the darker tone of the first book not only persists in this book, but intensifies. I have to admit, I wasn't super into the first book, but I do enjoy Mahanenko's Shaman Series so I gave the second book a try. Set in a space-simulator based world, the first book of the series in already finished while Vasily works on its sequel. Vasily's other passion is space exploration which is why he now works on a follow-up series entitled Galaktiona. The first book of the series has already been translated into English, with more translations to follow, aiming to make the Way of the Shaman series available to the English-language reader in its entirety. At the moment, the series boasts six novels with the seventh one in the works - this time the author expands on stories of Shaman's companions and those who helped and supported him in his trials and tribulations.

He used his more than ten years' experience as an ERP implementation project manager to approach his writing in a well-organized manner, working to a strict schedule, a set of deadlines and even a budget. His bestselling series combines fiction and video games, telling the story of Shaman and his friends stuck in the ruthless reality of Barliona. Vasily dipped into his college-days insider knowledge as a hardcore gamer in order to create a believable world of the virtual-reality MMO game. His Way of the Shaman series took Russian literature by storm in 2012. Vasily Mahanenko is a fantasy author working in the new genre of LitRPG - the MMO-based fantasy and sci fi. to get an alert whenever he has a new release, preorder, or discount! Be the first to know when Vasily Mahanenko’s next book is available! Follow him at.