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Death's Mantle: (A Dark Fantasy GameLit Series) Kindle Edition

by Harmon Cooper (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Now a complete trilogy. Start the bestselling Death's Mantle series today!

Lucian North is supposed to be dead.

Suffering from a rare heart condition that doctors say should have killed him over a year ago, Lucian is playing a video game when Death finally comes. Rather than give in, Lucian pulls a gun on the Grim Reaper. As the two stare each other down, terrible demons known as injuresouls swarm into the room in pursuit of Death. Summoning courage he never knew he had, Lucian comes to Death's aid. And for his troubles, he is awarded Death's Mantle.

Transported to a spiritual world he could have never fathomed, Lucian finds that he is instantly powerful, able to conjure weapons from scratch and perform incredible feats. He introduces game mechanics to his new role, develops a carefully curated inventory list, and modifies a HUD system that allows him to better track his targets. It isn’t easy being Death, and Lucian will need just about everything he can get as he faces off against fallen angels, appalling parasites, demon-born injuresouls, and savage Death Hunters.

Regardless of his sudden strength, his newfound enemies, and his gamer ingenuity, Lucian can't communicate with the living, which wouldn't be a problem if he hadn’t discovered something terrible about his family... Lucian’s brother is scheduled to die, and only Lucian has the power to do anything about it.

Death’s Mantle is a dark fantasy GameLit novel that LitRPG, metaphysical fantasy, occult sci-fi, and thriller readers will love. Death’s Mantle is written by Harmon Cooper, bestselling GameLit author of Pilgrim, Cowboy Necromancer, The Feedback Loop and Monster Hunt NYC. It was inspired by the anime Parasyte, the comic book series Sandman and Spawn, the books On a Pale Horse and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

The Death's Mantle audiobook, narrated by Andrea Parsneau, is now an AudioFile Earphones Award winner.
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Thank you for making Death's Mantle a bestseller! 
Death's Mantle 2 will be out in January, and the audiobook, produced by Podium Publishing and narrated by Andrea Parsneau, will be released on December 17th 2019.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07YF1S28J
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Boycott Books, LLC (September 25, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 25, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6218 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 541 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 646 ratings

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Hello there! I'm Harmon Cooper.

Don't miss out on my latest releases—click FOLLOW on Amazon or Audible to stay updated. Thank you!

Originally from Austin, Texas, I lived in Asia for five years before settling in New England. I now live in Portugal.

I've written in the LitRPG, cultivation, post-apocalyptic, cozy fantasy, and progression fantasy genres since 2015, and I'm thrilled to introduce my newest series, a cozy LitRPG fantasy called A Pub in the Underworld. You can read the second A Pub in the Underworld book, and my next series, Reborn Assassin, on my Patreon.

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New releases:

Cowboy Necromancer 4

A Pub in the Underworld (The Cozy Abyss Book One)

Arcane Cultivator 2

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Ongoing series:

Arcane Cultivator - one more book planned, pre-order available

A Pub in the Underworld - two more books planned, pre-order available

Reborn Assassin - published on Royal Road under the pen name 'GoblinWrangler,' with advanced chapters on my Patreon

Way of the Immortals - One more book planned

Completed series:

LitRPG:

Death's Mantle

Monster Hunt NYC

Proxima Legends

The Last Warrior of Unigaea

Tokens and Towers

Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG:

Cowboy Necromancer

Cultivation/LitRPG/GameLit/Other:

The Feedback Loop

The World According to Dragons

Cultivation:

Pilgrim

War Priest

Cozy Fantasy:

Sacred Cat Island

Thanks for you reads and reviews.

Don't forget to FOLLOW my profile to be informed of my latest releases.

Yours in sanity,

Harmon Cooper

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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Totally Different Death Story
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Totally Different Death Story
Likes:1. The main character is reluctant, troubled, and responds to his circumstances with aplomb and creativity.2. The setting is modern, current, and uses features most anyone can find in their lives everyday.3. The themes are heartfelt, sincere, and add poignant realism to a story based in fiction.4. The locations are vividly described, well-researched, and support the plot.5. The story flows along with a deliberately uncertain progression. This is a literary feature missing from Cooper's harem and fantasy series. It is also refreshing to see him take this challenge - and succeed.6. Many aspects of death are confronted; morbidity, loss, relief, despair, hope. These features are nicely interwoven, leaving the reader to choose which emotions leave the deepest scars.Dislikes:None.Highly recommended.
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noobsybot
5.0 out of 5 stars Well that was interesting.
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2020
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Just finished this didn’t have a clue what it would be like. I had read “Pilgrim” and was suggested this book. And honestly I really got into it deeply. After reading ALL the way to the end, I give nothing away by saying this, how extremely sad I became learning that as this book was being written the authors father was very ill and eventually passed away. I can identify greatly with this having lost my mother in 2003 and my dad in 2015. I read how he got his inspiration, or life experience if you will, that gave him the ideas I read about in this book. I found it to be an interesting take on “Life & Death” say what you will about it, but I found this really interesting, and as soon as I click submit, I am going to start reading book 2. Give it a shot, if you have read other books by this author, and you loved them or not I think you would find this worth your time to read.
Ok deuces, I’m out!
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Liquid Frost
4.0 out of 5 stars Engaging Launch
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2020
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It's been a while since I read this book, so excuse the brevity.

As the protagonist, Lucian North, is dying from a heart condition at an early age, he sees Death in his living room. But it isn't just Death with him - he sees demons attack The Reaper and decides to lend a hand...and a gun. As he dies, he is 'reborn' with Death's Mantle, thus starting his new role as a death dealer.

Lucian has loads of questions and not a great deal of guidance. He treats it like a game - leveling up and crafting weapons - to gain strength. Slow and steady as he has time.

However, he visits his family and can see their death dates which expedites his need to grow stronger in order to kill parasites sucking off his brother (I don't want to write it another way, so let's see if that makes it past amazon autobots)!

Thus, along with learning his new role... gaining strength and experience...he also faces Life(Angels), and they are hell-bent on killing all the those with a death's mantle.

The read is pretty fast. There is character introduction and development, as well as action.

ARC provided. Read in 2020
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Daeleon
5.0 out of 5 stars Stop whatever you are doing and read this book
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2020
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Yes, it is that good. It's more than just a good story with interesting characters. The way the author introduces game mechanics while still leaving tremendous room for growth and creativity is brilliant!

The world is teased to the reader a small piece at a time but it is all done creatively and consistent with the developing story. The potential here is immense.

I especially appreciated the author's note at the end that confirmed many of my thoughts on influences in the story.
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J.R. Hernandez
5.0 out of 5 stars A nice start to a new series
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2020
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Lots of interesting ideas, solid and engaging characters, and a fresh setting. Lots of books miss out on at least one of those three elements, but Mr. Cooper has been handling all three in his books that I have read so far.

My only real complaint might be that some of the “leveling up” got repetitive in the middle of the book, but that was not enough to knock off the fifth star.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A job to die for.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2019
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This was a unique twist on the old cliche of the Grim Reaper. The characters are interesting and I enjoyed how the author worked to make them all flawed in some way so that the characters can grow and develop into strong unique people. The pacing was good and I enjoyed the fight scenes alot. Overall it was one of the authors best books.
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Asurathe13th
3.0 out of 5 stars Book wasn't bad, just not for me.
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2019
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Okay first off, this book was well written. It was a good addition to the authors resume and showcased his skills. The plot was very different from what I was expecting. And that was a good thing. But where the story lost me, is the main character. He frustrated me to no end. Yes while he was powerful, he was unwilling to use that power when it mattered. And he was very reluctant to accept his role as a embodiment of Death. And when it came time to fight his enemies, he ran. There were points where I nearly dropped the book because he refused to fight when he had every reason to. His enemies (the angels) would hunt him, and instead of fight, he'd try to make friends with them. Yeah, nope. I for one, wont be continuing this series. But if you like powerful, reluctant, emotionally and morally conflicted characters, this for you.
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Miss Mo
4.0 out of 5 stars Super unique
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020
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You know, I didn't really know what to expect when I bought this book, but I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised. A fourth of the way through the book I wanted to stop reading, but I stuck through it and by the halfway mark I begrudgingly decided to go ahead and finish it. By the end of the book however, I'd become a fan and am looking forward to book 2. So it took a while for this book to get a hold of me, but once it did, its hold was substantial.
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V. Gibson
5.0 out of 5 stars Author's notes at the end have meaning
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2022
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You should first read the authors notes at the end of the book. I believe that if you do that before starting the book it will give you a better understanding of the MC motivation, or at least why he's this way. I wish I had done that.
The fight scenes are dense and perhaps overlong. For the first 2/3rd I didn't have much feeling one way or the other. The last 1/3rd a lot new things started to come together that made me want to find out where all this was going. I'll be ordering book 2.
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Steph and Oz Locke
5.0 out of 5 stars So manga
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2023
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Love Cooper's work and this series is a cool af premise. A bit shorter but it's tightly written so it's all good.
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Scott Harris
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Reviewed in Australia on December 19, 2019
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Mike Powell
4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting concept
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2020
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A reaper who used game playing knowledge to equip himself as he endeavours to become better at his role. This isn't strictly a fight between good and evil, it's more about a personal journey to understand people.
Although this isn't the type of book I'd normally go for, it nevertheless caught my imagination and did raise a lot of thinking points.
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S. Reid
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fascinating Adventure
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2019
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Not since Terry Pratchett has Death been so well portrayed and been so ingenious a character.
In an increasingly mature and in depth writing style ,this books covers real world problems in a novel way.
How we see Death and Life may be forever changed as an entire realm of possibilities of Angels, Deaths and Demons are shown in an emotional rollarcoaster of fun, excitement and reader participation. The LitRPG style isnt too in your face and is one whete each time you read it again you fight more depth to the story as you imagine yourself taking on Lucians role as Death.
This is Coopers finest work to date and i hope the beginning of my new reading obsession.
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G T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Why did it have to end
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2019
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This story, I have been putting off reading for a while, I hadn't read very much in a long time due to various reasons, but I started it, and have not been able to put it down, sneaking a few pages here and there.

The story progresses along throughout the book, the plot expanding along with the ever growing inventory list.

Here's looking at you Q-daddy.

I completely recommend this book, even just the little bit at the back of the book after the story was over deserves 5 stars, if I could I would give it many, many more

Roll on book 2
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