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Change (The Stork Tower Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Tony Corden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 978 ratings

Book 3 of 8: The Stork Tower

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Atherleah grew up in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. From the age of six, she decided that she wanted more, and with the help of her local gang-leader, Leah learned the skills to escape a life of mediocrity. On her sixteenth birthday, she was inadvertently implanted with a Neural Enhancement Chip instead of the free Government provided basic level chip. This mistake removed the limits placed on the AI that was uploaded, broke some of the Government controls and began making changes to Leah's body. Leah’s life rapidly becomes a battle, both in the virtual-multiverse and in real life. On the advice of the local ‘boss’, Leah began playing the virtual fantasy game Dunyanin to earn the money she needed to live and to help with her education. In 'Nascent' Leah, with the help of her rapidly evolving AI, thwarted attempts by the government to limit her and she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers. Co-opted by several Virtual Security AI, Leah helped shut down a virtual sweat-shop which used mind-controlled players to farm for resources. In 'Odyssey' Leah was coerced to meet the Matriarch of the crime family. Leah steals a spaceship which holds secrets the Matriarch desperately wants returned. While Leah evades her pursuers she finds the time to start a business, apply to college, earn a title in the Elven kingdom, become a landholder, visit both heaven and hell, and fall in love. 'Change' starts with Leah in her manor house which just happens to be the home of a clan of vampires she's befriended. She needs to continue her journey for she has quests to complete.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07897FF3H
Publisher ‏ : ‎ ; 2nd edition (December 14, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 14, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1001 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 ‏ : ‎ 519 pages

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- #3,806 in Coming of Age Fantasy (Books)
- #19,750 in Science Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Tony's jobs have included: runway model, teacher, farm manager, postal delivery, tertiary educator, house painter, and counsellor. He's climbed some of the highest mountains in Africa, cycled the length of Britain, skied Canada, and camped in the Sahara. He hates spiders, heights, and olives.

He also loves to read. All his life he has loved creating worlds and stories in his imagination. His family finally convinced him to let others read some of his work. He lives with his wife in Brisbane, Australia. They have three children and two children-in-law. He loves his family.

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Adurna

Suspense and reflection

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2017

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Once again a tale is delivered filled not only with well paced suspense but also with careful development of characters and themes.

Of especial note is Leah growing to reflect ever more on complexity of individuals and situations without falling into an angsty teenager trap. Add to that some rumination highlighting the main points and conflicts of both socialism and more laissez-faire attitudes and both choices and hesitation are put in light that showcases a well filled out and dynamic main character.

Nevertheless, there are some flaws of the story where it falls into comfortable old tropes although in an understandable and not necessarily bad way. Examples include a majority of characters around the protagonist not getting the idea of giving their AI the room and challenges needed for growth thus using their relative stupidity to showcase Leah's wisdom, and an antagonist that is shown as a somewhat cartoonist version of entitled and prideful evil. The first is mitigated by most other issues being more balanced in how much other characters add to development and the latter could very case be a result of point of view as the story is told from Leah's viewpoint and thus with her bias.

Overall, I find the novel to be one of my favourites particularly because of the warmth of the storytelling interspersed with light moments of humour, as well as for not adding unnecessary bias to Leah and instead letting her confront bias and mistakes that she has left even as an uncharacteristically unbiased character. The combination of suspense as she faces new threats and plots together with her clear head and sympathetic ideals like for an engaging read.

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Bonnie Schrader

Just as much fun to read as the rest of the series.

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017

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This third book in the series was just as entertaining as the first two. There are still more grammar and...not so much spelling, but word errors, than I would like. However, the story keeps me reading.

One of the previous reviews mentioned regretting reading this book when they got to the last part because it broke internal rules that had been followed up to this point (for the most part). I just wanted to say that I thought that was the whole point of it happening. This story takes place in the real world and several different virtual universes/worlds: what happened seemed consistent with the real world build up from all three books.

If you enjoyed the rest of the series, I recommend this one.

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Kivell

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2023

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This is book 3. I want to get to the next book very badly so all I will say is read the series you will love it

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Christmas came early.

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2017

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Dude, Sir, Master Storyteller, browsing through Amazon's Kindle books I came across this your third book in the Stork Tower series and I squealed like a little kid on Christmas morning. I love this series, I love all the characters, I love the idea of a personal AI, I just love your books.

I am a senior citizen in bad health and one of my biggest worries is that my time will end before I see this story arc come to a satisfying end. I have become a fan of the LitRPG genre and I am reading several series and following several authors and you are at the top of the list.

Keep writing well, keep your imaginations fresh if possible, and Thank You.

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Andycl

FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2018

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Another excellent book in the series. Well worth the money and the time to read. Really enjoying the shifting between different virtual worlds and the real life linkage that pushes the MC into many of those shifts.
The use of virtual exploitation by real world people is one that can only be considered a very real threat and something that could well arise out of a real/virtual world scenario. The villain is truly vile and yet may prove not to be the ultimate villain of the story.
Sigh at the cliffhanger and hope the author will soon deliver the next book in the series; without losing the quality that he has maintained thus far.

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larry

Nice continuation

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017

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An initial complaint for the book 4 teaser "cliffhanger"...

A reasonably well paced addition to the first 2 books, with good character and plot development. The main character has things going a bit too smoothly - it looks like that may change in book 4.

The main story is in real life - the multiple virtual worlds are spice, action, financial gain, and excitement. The concentration was a bit less on leveling and more on real life predicaments - becoming somewhat superhuman, and dealing with consequences from real life and game enemies. The main plot is a maze which the main character walks, virtually and in reality, with no apparent end in sight.

Not an overpowering read, but enjoyable.

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2018

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I want more!!!!!! This series is the first time I've read this kind of book. I now have high standards. I tried to read another book in this genre, but I kept wanting the main character to be more like, and the writing to be more like, and the energy to be more like, and the world building to be more like... You get the gist?
So thank you, dear author, for singlehandedly destroying my want for any other book in this genre. Soooooo... Where the Hades is the next book? You're responsible for my current angst. PLEASE FIX IT! 😂

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Harmony

Too many storylines, not enough focus.

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018

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The main character started book 1 as a hard working student and a natural athlete. In the third book she suddenly understood theoretical physics. She suddenly jumped from a believable girl to a Mary Sue. The additional plots started becoming difficult to follow. You have two virtual worlds for her to visit with a 3rd on the horizon, college classes a Harvard, and a bunch of real world problems. Multitasking will only get you so far. I hope the author prunes some of this down to a single storyline in the next book. Maybe do a spinoff series with another character to do the different virtual worlds.

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Bernardo Perico

Great book

Reviewed in Brazil on September 10, 2020

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Great book, really enjoyed reading it! Love the series, this book was a great addition! Looking forward for the next one!

RobertaR

I like how Leah is developing

Reviewed in Canada on January 10, 2018

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I'm not sure why #3 is KU when the first 2 books weren't. Got this book as KU first and then bought the book. I like how Leah is developing. Wouldn't mind having her companions. Hopefully the next book comes out soon.

David

Excellent continuation of the series. Make time to read it and its sister books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2018

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Continues to be we well written and thoughtful book. Twists and turns a plenty. Still a bit "Monty Haul" in that every quest in game is unique etc, which is not particularly feasible, but very well put together. An exciting set of game worlds and unlike most of this Genre it has a wel thought out and interactive real world component.

Main criticism is the MC, who is very well written and described is showing an incredible maturity for her age, which is not realist... but honestly it is a very minor criticism.

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Bitsa

Reviewed in Australia on September 18, 2019

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This books was not very helpful in the overall story arc but has a lot of variety. Nothing really accomplished but I enjoyed it.

Gazzmann

A great continuation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2024

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I'm loving the characters and story more each book and cannot wait to see what happens next. There are some mistakes here and there but they are just bumps in the road of a good story. Cheers!

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