THE ORDER OF ARCHITECTS (Book 3)

The Order Of Architects (Book 3) by Oleg Sapphire and Yuri Vinokuroff
Book 3 in The Order Of The Architects series
Narrated by Kevin T. Collins
Genre: urban fantasy / portal progression fantasy
Format: hardback, ebook & audiobook

About The Order Of Architects (Book 3):

It seems that my former power is gradually returning to me in my new body. I still have all my past experience, however, and everything is proceeding just as it should.

How quickly can I earn money and build my reputation? No, I'm not going to resort to killing and looting. I'm an Architect, after all! I'm going to craft and build things! That's how Architects work! The time has come to rebuild my empire. So… I might end up having to do some killing and looting, after all. I'm not short of enemies…

Source: Info in the "About The Order Of Architects (Book 3)" was taken from amazon on 02/05/2025.

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My Thoughts:

Another chunk of a bigger book with cliffhanger ending. Not recommended to be read on it's own.

Grimrock has arrived! I would love to know how this particular thread in the story would pan out...

In this installment we meet the Proudhearts and that is the little bit of plot that is "whole" in this this book. The rest of the "plot" was started in book 1 and presumably will be continued in subsequent books.

I also have an issue with the cover art. That chinese woman in Theo's store is more appropriate in book 2 than in this book because Lu Chen was in book 2 but there aren't any chinese characters nor lady(ies) in this book. So what is that cover art all about??!

Sometimes I still hear the distinct singsong of this narrator and it makes me wince.

Quantitative Evaluation:

Story telling quality = 4
Character development = 4
Story itself = 3
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 1
World building = 4.5
Cover art = 3
Pace = (9 hrs and 54 mins listening time)
Plot = 2.5
Narration = 4

Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 cherries

Books In The Order Of The Architects Series:

 

Meet The Authors

About Oleg Sapphire:

Oleg Sapphire was born in April 1993 in the city best known as “Little Paris”. He’s always been a good-natured banterer constantly in the thick of his fun-loving friends. This didn’t prevent him from getting two degrees though, in law as well as in IT. He used his expertise in both areas to pen his LitRPG series. His hobbies are archery and reading, but the one pastime that really moves his soul is coin collecting, hunting for rare specimens with quite a bit of history behind them. Ever since childhood, he’s been an artist at heart. His other passion is painting, and he’s made his way through an inordinate amount of books.

Oleg has been surrounded by pets from an early age, so animals take a large place in both his heart and in his books, much to his readers’ joy. Writing is his life and his livelihood; he relates to every moment of his characters’ journeys, sympathizing with them in both his heart and his mind.

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About Yuri Vinokuroff:

Yuri Vinokuroff was born in 1976 in Sevastopol. An avid reader from an early age, he was especially fond of fantasy and science fiction. Already back then, he knew he wanted to write books rather than just read them.

But as it often happens, all of his time and energy were consumed by his successful career, his family and his French Bulldog breeding kennel. His professional activities involved designing and constructing power plants and facilities, which couldn’t be further removed from his teenage dream of writing fiction.

Still, Yuri didn’t give up. Eventually, he began writing for Facebook and even created a small challenge for himself, completing 100 posts in 100 days. It was there that he gained his first fans. During the 2020 lockdown, he used the opportunity to enter a major LitRPG competition. Although his novel didn’t win, it still went viral, soon followed by the rest of the series.

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The Narrator

About Kevin T. Collins:

Kevin T. Collins is an actor, singer, and recording artist with a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has performed in numerous theater performances, including Angels, City of Angels, Paradise Lost, and on television in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, As the World Turns, and The Guiding Light.

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FTC Disclosure:
The printed book/ebook and/or audiobook were purchased with private funds.
No money received for this review.