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Swarm: An Army Building LitRPG / LitRTS Series (I Don't Want to be the Hive Queen Book 1) Kindle Edition

by ValetheHowl (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 627 ratings
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Survive. Build his Swarm. Dominate.

Think you've had a bad day at work? Marcus definitely takes the cake.

First, he had a horrible customer during his shift. Then he got fired by his boss. And after that, he got shot to death during a robbery. To top it all off, he awakened within the body of a weak and strange creature in a fantasy world full of deadly monsters.

And that's just Monday!

Now Marcus will have to find a way to survive as a Vex Queen, but to do so his own bravery and determination are not enough. He needs to build a Hive that will protect him and the monsters are only the first of many threats to come...

Experience the start of a LitRPG-lite adventure with a unique, Real-Time Strategy twist, like Starcraft meets Dungeons & Dragons. Perfect for the Halloween Season!

About the series: Follow Marcus's struggle to survive while also keeping his humanity as he leads a hive-minded race and builds an army in a hostile fantasy world full of goblins, knights, magic and dragons!
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B75RBHS6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aethon Books (October 25, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 25, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3714 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 558 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 627 ratings

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Frank
5.0 out of 5 stars awesome new Series
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2022
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Big fan of fantasy and RTS games, heard about this book via Facebook and decided to check it out. Was very impressed. Loved the characters especially our MC and all the others, even the villains were extremely well written. The world building was great and I look forward to more of it. The action scenes were very well written and I enjoyed everyone of them. I can’t wait for the next book!
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Andrew K
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but with some flaws
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2022
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As the title says, it is a good book. Let me get the flaws out of the way first.

- Multiple POV shifts that break immersion a fair amount. Some add context and flavor, but many are unnecessarily and not enjoyable.

- Possibly Triggering due to the heavy influence of LGBTQ+ themes, specifically the MC being reborn into a body of the opposite gender and suffering from body dysphoria. This may or may not be a deal breaker to some readers, but it IS worth mentioning. While it's an interesting concept for the book, it did feel...forced? At least partially. As if the author had an agenda writing it. More on this in the conclusion.

The pros
- well written, with few flaws
- interesting and unique story
- cool theme
- interesting characters and side characters
- great world building

Overall it is a fun and enjoyable read, and I'm looking forward to book 2 when it comes out. The flaws speak for themselves. For me personally, I felt the changing of genders to be both interesting, and also difficult to understand. This lead to a lot of difficulty in my part identifying with the protagonist as that is something I'm unfamiliar with and have never given great thought to. The more annoying side of it felt forced, like Marcus could have just built a spawning pool, but instead was forced to become a new gender. Conservative people will find this book difficult to connect with for that reason, as well as most cis gendered folks like myself.

All that said, I do recommend giving this a read.
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Frak
5.0 out of 5 stars It's not a sissy fantasy, so far...
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2023
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First things first, I was SO freaking worried that this would turn into a weird sex thing and the first book (while with some justifiable and funny awkwardness) did NOT do that. It doesn't look like it will either, which is fantastic, because the story itself is EXCELLENT.

Honestly, it is far, far better than I could have hoped. Every facet of the story has an extra layer or two, with the main character having several important added layers rather than a simple, man-now-girl/monster capable if spawning armies. Truly, a good and worthy area.
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Richin109
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book. Not litRPG
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2022
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Just a warning. I would not consider this a LitRPG book in any sense. Not levels no stats at all. At no point does anyone level up. The only thing LitRPG is a man getting killed and travel to another world. I almost gave it 4 stars because it is not LitRPG. I did even had to stop a few time to make sure it really had LitRPG in the title.

But I didn't because it is a good book. Love the world the base building etc. Cannot wait until the next book.
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EmeralDragon
5.0 out of 5 stars Almost
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2022
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I love a good hive queen story. This one was almost there the as he called creative swearing was not needed. I don't mind swearing in a book but the over the top dramatically long sentence swearing is highly annoying to me personally. The MC hook up on not wanting to lay eggs and create a army to keep himself alive really holds up the story as well as the continuous denial that he is still human. For him to be a human previously he is rather naive. The author tried to create timelines to Peril but fell short a bit. Was never any consequence to the Mc he could just move to a new place and build back 5 times faster. I feel the Mc never really grew much at all. Overall I did enjoy the book wish it was a little better but I will still read book two.
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Donald Wheeler
3.0 out of 5 stars Good book but NOT LitRPG
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2023
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One thing that I *really* liked about this book was the 'viewing from a different perspective'. Having a male MC from the perspective of a Hive mother was very interesting and well done. Other than that, the plot was interesting, and the descriptions were quite vivid. As an Isekai-light, this was a good book.

My main issue with this book was that they billed it as a LitRPG when it is not; there is no crunch and the very closest thing to such was the 'design' of the offspring, which would have easily fit into a more-fantasy oriented story. I like the book and would recommend it IF you understand it is not LitRPG; I'm rating this as it's advertised, which was inaccurate
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Mason
4.0 out of 5 stars It's alright
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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I liked the hive queen style, it's fun to see it in action. The whole human side was frustrating though, considering I came to see a hive queen, and got a lot of human viewpoints and a town defense
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Camron Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars First series in a 2-3 months that made me so excited
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2022
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Okay so this is a FIRST for me…maybe not for some of yall out there but for me, buying a book when i got to read it for free on kindle is a first as i usually dont feel that excited about a series to do so…this book has explained and to me at least seems like the author took the time to actually think of the backstory and how things would fit…thought the Vex i can sorta see how they fit as they are too remote to have been seen. But ya i cant (can but dont want to) wait until the next book cya there.
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Maan
2.0 out of 5 stars Medicore story
Reviewed in Canada on August 18, 2023
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The story had too many plot holes and naive concepts. One of the biggest flaws they have gunpowder yet no cannons for city defense concept of catapults but again no catapults. The people are so polite
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bostjan
5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2022
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The book is full of action and genuinely

inventive with set up

You will read it from start to end without rest
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Norbit
4.0 out of 5 stars was not expecting it to be this good!
Reviewed in Australia on July 29, 2023
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This turned out to be much better that i thought it was going to be the diversity of nations/races and the scope of the world just keep growing and growing in a manageable and easy to digest way its definitely worth a read
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good but with some flaws
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2023
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It's an interesting take on the reborn in another world with an interesting MC but it does as some have pointed out have him relying a bit too much on profanity to express his displeasure and not particularly creative swearing. Some of the POV changes are a bit lengthy and really should have been summarised or had more cut backs to Marcus because we have no investment in these characters yet.
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