Excellent start to the series!!!

First off id like to address a common complaint with this book. Anger or rather the MC’s anger. Look, anger is a critical emotion, and its a great emotion if expressed/utilized for the right situation, and the MC’s anger issues are definitely justified considering what has happened to the human population and of course all the danger and not so smart humans he has to deal with. I would just be as angry as the MC if I had to deal with all that. I cant speak on the Mc’s previous anger issues pre world collapse as I don't care, and doesn’t drive the main plot of this book.

This first book is well written, great world building, great monster’s, good magic system, great character development, and I really like the shop system. Superb plot and plot pacing. There is a lot of hard grit and tuff times as well which I do like, its nice to mix it up with darker litrpg’s. Lots of interesting characters the MC interacts with as well. So far this book ranks up there with Chaos Seeds, not quite as good but still great.

If you can understand and don't mind the MC’s anger at times you will enjoy this book.

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Loved it

MC oggles others like a weirdo but doesn't over do it too much like other books. Seems to be explained through the Charisma stat.
Great book! Absolutely getting the next two.

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Temperamental Hero

I enjoyed how volatile the hero could be, and how acting that way had consequences.

I also enjoyed how it felt like the world didn’t revolve around the MC.

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Love this series!

I think I listened to all of Tao's books before I got to this series, all because I didn't vibe on the cover. Old saying.....Don't do it. This book is great and the series is amazing!

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Very very good

The author did a fantastic job and the voice actors did too. I recommended this book to a lot of my friends. Buy it.

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hard to like the mc

he's interesting at first but then his faults outnumber his pros. then his self improvement regiment fails him. so completely its hard to follow him after. a little too tharpy at times. hard to be entertained when it goes realty tv on ya. but others may like this book.

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Meh

Its a litRPG. I love the idea of this genre. I just felt like the main character was hard to warm up to, very ragey, and made dumb decisions.
Also felt like this story had more drama and colorful description than it needed. Im mostly a nerd, and want a litRPG to be about the stats, the leveling, the skills, the rules, and the owning. Didnt feel like there was enough 'numbers' updates.
(spoiler) Also a few things that seemed inconsistent with the new rules like: "paying for a scan of human survivors within X square kilometers" didnt exist. Not much talk of or use of radios or any other communications.
Also, compared to the previous 3 litRPGs i read before this, it was quite a shorty. But who knows. Maybe this would appeal to other litRPG lovers.

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Tao Wong is a copyright troll

He had other authors wih completed works demonitized and is trying to copyright "system apocalypse" even though he didn't invent he term and allowed others to use it for years.

It won't hold up in court but self published authors cannot afford the fight.

Supporting Tao Wong hurts the litrpg industry as a whole.

Nick Podehl is an amazing narrator and you should check out other works that he has done that arent written by Tao Wong

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not worth the time

this is a shit book, and I don't recommend it. You would be better off bashing a rock into your face.

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