Great news series.

Overall im enjoying this book quite a bit, but there is a few things that took me a bit to get used to. Also I would have rated this book 5 stars if it weren’t for the over explanation or items and skills, I generally skip these parts if the author carries on with an overly in depth explanation.

The one main thing that took a bit to get used to involves the type of work I do for a living, and of the type of people I work with, there is definitely some internal conflict with the plot of this series so far, but looking from the other-side im finding im enjoying this book and the authors point of view of this new world. Its well written and easy to follow, the only gripe I have is the over explanation of items and skills, but this is only a small issue.

If you are not closed minded im sure you will very much enjoy this book

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Really good!

Along the lines of the System Apocalypse. Binged it over the weekend and it was a great listen, hoping for lots more.

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Totally Relatable Protagonist

I loved this story. Our MC is quite relatable for me. Similar age (MC is 31), likes games, but work-game conflict was an issue. Naive optimist at start.
Also the world that the author has created is quite vast, detailed, but still has tons of room to grow and mysteries to come.
One word of warning: Stuff gets real. Not in a erotic/ gore way. But in the way that when things massively change bad stuff happens and people will die.
Definitely getting the next one.

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just wow

cant wate to see what comes next ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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Fun and fantastically written

l loved the idea, but the author censors the swear words, it kills the believability.

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An great start to an interesting universe

If you have read the System Apocalypse you'll be familiar with this setup. Similar to but less bleak and/dark than the before mentioned series.

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I cannot help but noticed you killed me.

As someone who was born and raised in Ottawa, a city currently around a population of one million people, was reduced to less then 10,000. Those are not good odds for me, my friends, and my family. Besides of being killed off in this book, I found found it good. There is a few plot holes, and a few perception shifts but it is a fun book. I would recommend it.

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Quite Entertaining

The book does not have a deep storyline but it has that light teenage action movie feel to it. Occasional humour adds to the charm. Perhaps the sequels will improve.

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More good than bad!

Great action, exciting fights! The background and reasons for why everything is happening is given as appropriate without any massive exposition dumps, as far as I recall. Although this does lead to Rocky never asking about the most basic parts of the system even when he has a chance until it somehow becomes relevant to the situation. Otherwise, the story itself is well-paced, has a number of very intense moments, and also some attempts at highly-charged emotional situations that unfortunately always fall flat because they're given in the third-person and distanced from the events actually happening.

Rocky is a terrible RPG-player, but he's somehow the most competent--and lucky--person in the world, but Rocky himself is likable enough if you don't think too hard about how he treats the people in his life. His only goal is to re-connect with his family, which becomes such a driving goal that when he finally finds his good friends that he regularly hangs out with, he promptly grills them for info on his family and then leaves them in the lurch, barely giving them a passing thought later in the story and not even trying to help them out afterward. But really, it's their fault because they're apparently not even good enough friends to believe or so much as try to listen to Rocky when he tells them that of course the leader of their settlement that forces them to go out hunting dangerous monsters with unreliable yet better-armed escorts that barely help them is evil. And, of course, his RPG-playing friends who are supposed to be legitimately better than Rocky at RPG's don't seem to understand the basic RPG mechanics that the world is now throwing their way.

There are FAR too many character sheet readings. Thankfully, they get more to the point by the end, but I was already cringing early on whenever I heard the deadpan voice begin to read out Rocky's stats yet again, in full, from start to finish, and without even so much as a small emphasis on the changes. Then Rocky, of course as these LitRPG heroes do, marvels about even the smallest of changes, so you didn't really need to hear the entire character sheet anyway!

There's also a maybe-incest-maybe-not romantic subplot that seems to have sided on the it's-going-to-happen-anyway line of reasoning. Spoiler: The generation gap is too large to scientifically matter, but social stigma is its own challenge.

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dumbest dad humour

I cant tell if the author meant for the mc humour to be terrible to the point I can barely keep listening or it's simply hes got zero talent at it but it would be best to avoid making large amounts of bad jokes instead of trying and failing so much. I also feel like an adult who drinks alone is likely to swear instead of using McDonalds references in the place of cursing very odd choices unless the author happens to be a child.

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