Cherry Mischievous: UNINTENDED CULTIVATOR: VOLUME 4

Tuesday, 12 May 2026

UNINTENDED CULTIVATOR: VOLUME 4

Unintended Cultivator: Volume 4 by Eric Dontigney
Book 4 in the Unintended Cultivator series
Narrated by Adam Verner
Genre: fantasy
Format: ebook & audiobook

About Unintended Cultivator: Volume 4:

Time is a cultivator’s greatest ally, until it isn’t

Emerging from the deep wilds, Sen is now aware of the dangers of his body cultivation method. A method he doesn’t know how to progress. With time running out until his body turns against him, Sen travels to one of the only places he might find the manual that could save him. A place he never wanted to go. The capital.

Of course, the heart of the kingdom holds dangers of its own. Sen is inexorably drawn into the convoluted web of power that controls the vast city. He must navigate court politics, ambitious sects, and the unwanted attention of a criminal cultivator organization.

As he races toward a lethal showdown with cultivator and mortal powers alike, dangerous secrets will be revealed, Sen’s resolve will be tested, and the name Judgment’s Gale will finally be earned.

Source: Info in the "About Unintended Cultivator: Volume 4" was taken from amazon on 15/02/2025.

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My Thoughts:

Another middle chunk of a bigger book. That means the beginning was in book 1 and the ending is a cliffhanger.

This book picks up just where the previous book left off.

At 16 hours plus of listening time, this is the longest installment in this series, thus far.

It is always intereting to see what new twist in Sen's cultivator growth will develop to, next.

Another thing I like about this book is that I get to see retribution come to Lan Zi Rui and the very small shoe!

At the start of this book, we were given a hint of how the story is going to go by the Clear Spring Sect patriarch when he recounted to Sen his choices of obtaining the manual he seeks and that is exactly the trajectory that the book took.

I can't help comparing this series to James Haddock's books. Like the storage rings. The ability to build houses from the ground up with Sen's earth qi. The idea of the Five-Fold Body Transformation... Very familiar.

I wonder if Eric Dontigney had read any of James Haddock's books...

All throughout this series thus far, it has been challenging for me to keep track of the names of the characters. I am never good with foreign languages and Chinese names seems like to be all the same to me, they are difficult to pronounce and remember. So keeping track of who is who and the characters, slowed down my reading speed even with the convenience of the audiobook format.

Again, Adam Verner did a wonderful job of bringing this book to life!

Quantitative Evaluation:

Story telling quality = 4.5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 4
World building = 5
Cover art = 4.5
Pace = (16 hrs and 8 mins listening time)
Plot = 3
Narration = 5

Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5 cherries

Books In The Unintended Cultivator Series:

Meet The Author

About Eric Dontigney:

Raised in Western New York, Eric Dontigney has lived in New Mexico, Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. He currently resides near Dayton, OH. He is a fan of photo-realism and impressionist paintings, coffee, and well-made food.

Not wishing to tarnish the good names of writers who have come before him, he refuses to name influences. He will admit to reading Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand, Stephen J. Cannell, Jim Butcher, Kate Chopin, Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, Camus, James Baldwin, Tim O'Brien, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Stephen King.

The Narrator

About Adam Verner:

Adam Verner is a full-time narrator and voice talent with over one hundred titles recorded. He is the recipient of AudioFile Earphones Awards for Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck and The Big It by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Adam earned his MFA in acting from the Chicago College of the Fine Arts at Roosevelt University.