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The Idle System
There's a single ambition no man can reject: Immortality.
For John, death was merely the beginning. Transmigrating into a new world granted him an opportunity to change his view on life.
With power and immortality as new goals, he is willing to pay any price. Unfortunately, there are those willing to take advantage of him and his unfamiliarity with a new world. Shadows behind the curtains, unwilling to reveal themselves, will trick him into doing their bidding.
Now, John faces an entire kingdom on his own. Deceived? Conned? They don't care. His actions carry a sin none of them are willing to forgive.
With the world as an enemy, John will fight to accomplish his goals. His path will be stopped by no one.
Read this novel to enjoy a journey of self-discovery, ambition and revenge. Inspired by classical LitRPG, Xianxia and Fantasy, Idle System is a new take on these genres. If you've enjoyed novels like Ready Player One, Main Character Hides his Strength or Dodge Tank, then you're bound to love this book
For John, death was merely the beginning. Transmigrating into a new world granted him an opportunity to change his view on life.
With power and immortality as new goals, he is willing to pay any price. Unfortunately, there are those willing to take advantage of him and his unfamiliarity with a new world. Shadows behind the curtains, unwilling to reveal themselves, will trick him into doing their bidding.
Now, John faces an entire kingdom on his own. Deceived? Conned? They don't care. His actions carry a sin none of them are willing to forgive.
With the world as an enemy, John will fight to accomplish his goals. His path will be stopped by no one.
Read this novel to enjoy a journey of self-discovery, ambition and revenge. Inspired by classical LitRPG, Xianxia and Fantasy, Idle System is a new take on these genres. If you've enjoyed novels like Ready Player One, Main Character Hides his Strength or Dodge Tank, then you're bound to love this book
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First published May 25, 2018
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April 15, 2019
I could not finish more than the first few pages. This is TERRIBLE. The game system was too convoluted and the main character was a MORON. Who would possibly believe that someone could walk around, climb boulders, walk down a mountain and NOT notice they are naked. Seriously, look down, you are naked. What the hell was the author thinking.
August 27, 2019
Wow. This book is something else. Seriously. I haven't done a decent review for a long time, but this time the urge is stronger than me.
You may be wondering what am I talking about. Bear with me and I will give you a hint.
It starts with sharing one paragraph. Word for word:
"John was full of confidence right now. What's that old quote again?
The world is against me. It wouldn't be fair otherwise.
John smiled and charged straight into the middle of the mass of soldiers. He clothesline all the people in the straight line and came out behind the army. Spinning, he turned around and went a different direction doing the same trick. His arms were just that powerful. He was taking the head off of each person he crossed. He did this in different directions and after about ten minutes most of the army has scattered. John was picking them off as fast as he could. Another ten minutes and John had killed all 7 hundred thousand people. He left one of the leaders of the army alive, specifically to question him..."
Ignoring the story line content itself, let's focus on simple logic. 700.000 people killed by one (admittingly quite powerful) man with bare hands in 20 minutes. That is 1200 seconds. That is on average 583 (rounded down) people per second. People that are scattered and running in different directions. 583 people killed per second. By one person. With bare hands. People running away from that person. Decapitated by hand. Spread your hands, run around and remove heads of 700.000 people.
Let it land.
Yes, that is a lot of heads.
Let it sink.
With this speed and spread arms, one would think that such a man could fly off the ground. But no, that would be ridiculous. Seriously.
What can I say? If you want to know the reason behind this epic (maybe even legendary) battle and what had the leader of the army told to John (oh, you will certainly like that part), please get the book and read it. I will not reveal more...
Aren't you intrigued?
No?
I am telling you, you are missing a great adventure.
You may be wondering what am I talking about. Bear with me and I will give you a hint.
It starts with sharing one paragraph. Word for word:
"John was full of confidence right now. What's that old quote again?
The world is against me. It wouldn't be fair otherwise.
John smiled and charged straight into the middle of the mass of soldiers. He clothesline all the people in the straight line and came out behind the army. Spinning, he turned around and went a different direction doing the same trick. His arms were just that powerful. He was taking the head off of each person he crossed. He did this in different directions and after about ten minutes most of the army has scattered. John was picking them off as fast as he could. Another ten minutes and John had killed all 7 hundred thousand people. He left one of the leaders of the army alive, specifically to question him..."
Ignoring the story line content itself, let's focus on simple logic. 700.000 people killed by one (admittingly quite powerful) man with bare hands in 20 minutes. That is 1200 seconds. That is on average 583 (rounded down) people per second. People that are scattered and running in different directions. 583 people killed per second. By one person. With bare hands. People running away from that person. Decapitated by hand. Spread your hands, run around and remove heads of 700.000 people.
Let it land.
Yes, that is a lot of heads.
Let it sink.
With this speed and spread arms, one would think that such a man could fly off the ground. But no, that would be ridiculous. Seriously.
What can I say? If you want to know the reason behind this epic (maybe even legendary) battle and what had the leader of the army told to John (oh, you will certainly like that part), please get the book and read it. I will not reveal more...
Aren't you intrigued?
No?
I am telling you, you are missing a great adventure.
June 20, 2019
This feels like a book written by an engineer or statistician. The author spent a lot of time thinking out the mechanics of his system, but not much for anything else. He lampshades the lazy location naming, his avoidance of giving other characters names, and the like but it doesn't change that those things aren't there or aren't very good.
There's also a lot of lazy writing techniques used. This book is absolutely riddled with time skips and lazy explanations instead of a standard narrative. This is unlikely to get better, as this book was limited to a 6 year time span, where future books could have more than 10,000 years to skip through.
Worse, though, the MC John is a complete psychopath. He's the very definition of a D&D murder hobo, quickly getting to the point where he wants little more than to murder humans on mass. He also seems to have no personal interests beyond those murders and getting stronger. I don't think I'm going to continue this series.
There's also a lot of lazy writing techniques used. This book is absolutely riddled with time skips and lazy explanations instead of a standard narrative. This is unlikely to get better, as this book was limited to a 6 year time span, where future books could have more than 10,000 years to skip through.
Worse, though, the MC John is a complete psychopath. He's the very definition of a D&D murder hobo, quickly getting to the point where he wants little more than to murder humans on mass. He also seems to have no personal interests beyond those murders and getting stronger. I don't think I'm going to continue this series.
October 21, 2019
4/10
De los peores libros que he leído en bastante tiempo, lo he terminado porque era en inglés y estoy intentando mejorar mi nivel de lectura en este idioma.
La evolución del personaje es un sin sentido continuo, por ejemplo, quiere subir de nivel, ya que este libro está basado en un estilo de juego Idle como dice el titulo, pues el protagonista dice, voy a matar a 3000 osos salvajes, y va y los mata...Otra vez decide subir de nivel, matando como a un millón de hormigas gigantes mutantes. Si a eso le unes que el protagonista también parece un poco estúpido a veces y que casi nada tiene sentido, pues eso.
No le pongo una estrella porque al menos me ha servido para mi propósito, una lectura rápida en inglés para seguir mejorando. NADA RECOMENDABLE
De los peores libros que he leído en bastante tiempo, lo he terminado porque era en inglés y estoy intentando mejorar mi nivel de lectura en este idioma.
La evolución del personaje es un sin sentido continuo, por ejemplo, quiere subir de nivel, ya que este libro está basado en un estilo de juego Idle como dice el titulo, pues el protagonista dice, voy a matar a 3000 osos salvajes, y va y los mata...Otra vez decide subir de nivel, matando como a un millón de hormigas gigantes mutantes. Si a eso le unes que el protagonista también parece un poco estúpido a veces y que casi nada tiene sentido, pues eso.
No le pongo una estrella porque al menos me ha servido para mi propósito, una lectura rápida en inglés para seguir mejorando. NADA RECOMENDABLE
December 26, 2019
Clearly amateur, overall bad but I personally like some details about it.
*SPOILERS*
I don’t even know how to start because there are so many wrong things with it, but it doesn’t mean it’s the worst though.
The start of the book gave me a lot of hope in the development, even the first characters the MC met were rather decent personality-wise.
As the book continued I clearly see it is HEAVILY focused on status, which is nice if you know how to work it out (which the writer didn’t). Some terms came to be confusing, and even after reading again and again it was hard to me to gasp every single aspect of the system. The system itself was well built, but I can see that sometimes the writer just started adding random features just to fill up the story, such as the resistance to debuffs, poison, and mostly everything you could find in ‘senses’ and other categories.
The history is flat, the characters most of the time don’t have a personality or even reactions to the main character’s deeds, even though he’s a rare existence. The main character itself doesn’t have a full personality, his only ‘personality trait’ is that he is always tired.
And let me start on the multiple gaps in the history; there are so many that I will let rhetoric questions here instead. How does a human being, even though possessing the power of a army, kill almost 500.000 beings in a short period of time, using his on hands, and come out as the same person, without having his mental state changed a bit, and not struggling to fit within society? How does he spend 2 years in the forest and come back with little to non-change in power after fighting the bears? Is there really a need to evolve the character this fast? Why the scenery around the character doesn’t change a bit even after his accomplishments?
I can comment for an era and not be done , but I will let the last points of my critiques lay down here:
- Personality traits don’t shine through the characters, main character has non to little change around the space he is in, there are no mysteries in the story (they are all given), there is not even a single character who can defy the main character, the math is totally off (one example is the 7 centuries after fighting the ants, it was clearly something just to speed through the story), nothing is well explained, some dialogues are seemingly childish, long term plots such as the king of the north one are totally predictable and with a lot of holes in it. Overall the: scenery, characters, plot, dialogues, and every single aspect are amateur and it shows.
The only reason why I’m giving 2 stars is because I really enjoy stories heavily based on RPG systems and fast developed through and through.
I really hope the writer have gotten better in his next books, which I’m definitively buying.
( Those are not all my critiques but just some of them )
( I’m not quoting good parts of the story because I cannot see any, I definitively like a fast paced story but that’s my personal opinion on it, so I wouldn’t say that as a good critique to it )
*SPOILERS*
I don’t even know how to start because there are so many wrong things with it, but it doesn’t mean it’s the worst though.
The start of the book gave me a lot of hope in the development, even the first characters the MC met were rather decent personality-wise.
As the book continued I clearly see it is HEAVILY focused on status, which is nice if you know how to work it out (which the writer didn’t). Some terms came to be confusing, and even after reading again and again it was hard to me to gasp every single aspect of the system. The system itself was well built, but I can see that sometimes the writer just started adding random features just to fill up the story, such as the resistance to debuffs, poison, and mostly everything you could find in ‘senses’ and other categories.
The history is flat, the characters most of the time don’t have a personality or even reactions to the main character’s deeds, even though he’s a rare existence. The main character itself doesn’t have a full personality, his only ‘personality trait’ is that he is always tired.
And let me start on the multiple gaps in the history; there are so many that I will let rhetoric questions here instead. How does a human being, even though possessing the power of a army, kill almost 500.000 beings in a short period of time, using his on hands, and come out as the same person, without having his mental state changed a bit, and not struggling to fit within society? How does he spend 2 years in the forest and come back with little to non-change in power after fighting the bears? Is there really a need to evolve the character this fast? Why the scenery around the character doesn’t change a bit even after his accomplishments?
I can comment for an era and not be done , but I will let the last points of my critiques lay down here:
- Personality traits don’t shine through the characters, main character has non to little change around the space he is in, there are no mysteries in the story (they are all given), there is not even a single character who can defy the main character, the math is totally off (one example is the 7 centuries after fighting the ants, it was clearly something just to speed through the story), nothing is well explained, some dialogues are seemingly childish, long term plots such as the king of the north one are totally predictable and with a lot of holes in it. Overall the: scenery, characters, plot, dialogues, and every single aspect are amateur and it shows.
The only reason why I’m giving 2 stars is because I really enjoy stories heavily based on RPG systems and fast developed through and through.
I really hope the writer have gotten better in his next books, which I’m definitively buying.
( Those are not all my critiques but just some of them )
( I’m not quoting good parts of the story because I cannot see any, I definitively like a fast paced story but that’s my personal opinion on it, so I wouldn’t say that as a good critique to it )
December 16, 2019
In the beginning, the system was interesting enough that I kept reading. It's a standard the person who can use the system becomes over powered. The characters are flat and uninteresting. The main character is self absorbed, rude, and as a whole, uninteresting. The book is riddled with grammar problems (including at least one sentence that starts three times before continuing) and plot problems. The dialogue, some situations, and the MC are childish and awkward at best. I recommend passing on this book until the author revises the book to at least fix their grammatical problems. I gave this book more than a fair chance before writing this review, hoping that the character would grow some and make me care about him or that the grammar would magically improve throughout the book.
Please note that I did not finish this book. I put this book down ~50% of the way in due to grammar errors and the uncomfortable dialog.
Please note that I did not finish this book. I put this book down ~50% of the way in due to grammar errors and the uncomfortable dialog.
September 24, 2019
Book one
Mistakes: I didn’t find any, but the writing style felt off to me.
Plot: Guy dies. Wakes up in another world, he has regressed in age to 15.
Characters: I don’t like the Mc. He is rather stupid and apparently has no emotions as nothing fazed him.
5/10 I couldn’t suspend belief enough that a 15 year old could rip apart a full grown bear with his bare hands either.
Mistakes: I didn’t find any, but the writing style felt off to me.
Plot: Guy dies. Wakes up in another world, he has regressed in age to 15.
Characters: I don’t like the Mc. He is rather stupid and apparently has no emotions as nothing fazed him.
5/10 I couldn’t suspend belief enough that a 15 year old could rip apart a full grown bear with his bare hands either.
May 9, 2019
The MC is too powerful and the story doesn't really have a plot. The system and world are interesting but I don't know... It was a chore to finish.
July 15, 2019
Unbelievably poorly written.
November 15, 2018
Different but great
After having read a lot of books this was a little different than what I would usually expect out of a litrpg but it worked brilliantly the balance between action story development and time skips make this a great read
After having read a lot of books this was a little different than what I would usually expect out of a litrpg but it worked brilliantly the balance between action story development and time skips make this a great read
July 21, 2023
Recently I've run out of good books to read on kindle, so I went through my library looking for series I might have forgotten about where the author has put out new material while I was reading other stuff.
Came across idle system on my shelf and reread the synopsis which set up a great litrpg hook few authors have tried. Since there were a few in the series I didn't have yet and it's a short book I re-downloaded it and started reading...
The idea of an idle system that helps you grow stronger while you're barely paying attention to it is a great idea for a power fantasy.
OK, now that the good points are out of the way I can start talking about the bad points.
It is a SHORT book compared to what I usually buy (this should be under good points but you'll see why it isn't) but it is so excruciatingly painful to read that so far its taken me three days to get half way through (for reference, I'll finish books that are twice as long in a single day). I can't go 5 paragraphs without wanting to put it down.... I'm only keeping reading it cause none of the books I'm waiting for will be out for the next mo th or so and I'm trying to figure out how I finished it the first time.
The mc is stupid and one dimensional. He is so bad he makes keystone cops look like Schindlers list. Everything about him once he has entered the new world is unbelievable because of how stupid he is. For example: wakes up on a cliff jumps around rocks for a bit, climbs down cliff, fights a bat, gets dead rabbit that was killed by other bats, does all this not realizing that he is buck naked except for a pair of boots.... unless your visual range is less than the average fps game and you have no tactile sensation at all... how do you go hours without noticing? Oh, and since he doesn't have a knife to skin the rabbit he ponders if the right way to prepare it is to pluck its fur off like you would the feathers of a chicken. Next example: goes back to woods to kill a bear, bare handed, punches into the bears chest and crushes its heart, gets trapped when bear falls on him, so uses the free hand to rip the bear to shreds (he has 10% extra punching strength so this makes sense somehow)also biting his way through, getting covered in blood, spends time in woods, comes back to town ,ate at night, doesn't realize he is absolutely covered with dried blood, head to toe covered hair matted clothes stained, but he doesn't even notice until someone screams.... and then he is confused why they are screaming and pointing at him. Next example: pays for a wilderness survival class, totally ignores most of the class and randomly leaves halfway through because the only useful thing to him (he's already mentioned he doesn't know how to survive in the wilderness) is how to skin an animal. There are many more examples if you want on just open to any page and the mc will be acting like a complete idiot (unless it happens to be one of the many pages where the "skills" are being listed)
Every single character is one dimensional or less. Yes, there are many characters that are ,essentially than 1 dimensional. Like the screaming lady (at least she got a name for no reason) or the librarian who is strictly there to tell mc he's only allowed in one section of the library and to say "library closes in ten minutes", in fact he has so little dimension that mc even says "there's no point in even describing him" despite having "gotten to know him on a fundamental level"
Math.
He uses lots of math. In detail. And half the time his math is just complete crap and totally wrong. Like when he plans out his genocide of a bear population, first day he goes out to woods, kills bear, climbs tree to sleep, second day he calculates it should take him 2 years to kill all the bears. Next paragraph starts "one month later" next paragraph starts "4 months later" next paragraph which is also start of next chapter "9 months later", from this point on every character says "wow it's been two years since I saw you last" 2 days + 1 month + 4 months +9 months does not = 2years it equals 1 year 2 months and 2 days "but what if years aren't as long in that world... you'd be right because pegaz already told us that, in this world days are 24hrs and there are twelve months to a year but each month is 28 days.... 2d +1m +4m +9m = 14m2d or 1y2m2d not 24m or 2y. Thats not the only time math he gets weird with, the current year is ninety thousand twelve, it is written 90,12 because its the 90 thousandth year after the founding of society and 12 years past that point.... i get what he means to say and the correct way to write that mathmatically would be 90,012... "maybe he just forgot a 0" nope, next sentence he says that the current calender goes to 90,9999 before it will switch to the ninety first thousandth year. And then there is math he uses in weight that he gets way off, remember that bear from earlier that fell on him, it weighed a ton. Remember that genocide of bears I mentioned, he put all of them into his storage space after he killed them then transfers it to a bag and says the bag weighs about 2 metric tons. How many bears did he kill? Nearly 330,000... at an average of 1 ton each.... weighs a total of 2 metric tons according to pegaz. You think I'm just being picky on the math? Pegaz shoves tons of random quirky math which doesn't work quite the way he says it should at you constantly because he feels the need to show that mc is smrt despite all the stupid decisions he is making left and right.
Mc constantly makes over the top bluffs which makes whoever do exactly what the mc needs at that moment, often making statements he would have no reason to even think of using.... like accusing the guild leader of newbie Town (yes that is the name of the town, because it's in a low level area it must make sense for people to call it that) of lying to him and using him, and that he's already been told the truth they tested the oath and there is a loophole that you can tell siders and it won't affect the oath..... why would he think there is an oath that prevents people from telling siders things or that there is someone else who knows what the guild leader is keeping secret? There is zero believable reason for him to burst in and use this accusation..... oh wait pegaz needed the guild leader to tell mc he has to make the choice to be a Saint or a demon and then for the guild leader to die dramatically so the mc can make an out of character dramatic attempt to show everyone how much he likes the now dead guild leader so mc doesn't get charged with murder.... and yes it is over the top, 180degrees from everything he has shown the townspeople, idiotic but somehow nobody questions him immediately taking a mission to the next town despite him being the only suspect in a suspicious death.
In the new town, after a mission or so the assassin/thieves guild contacts him. They offer him missions to kill or steal. He ponders "I haven't tested to see if the system rewards me for killing humans yet, I should if they deserve it" (yes he has thought about just murdering random people several times, but always immediately after says "but I'm not that kinda guy") so he asks about one mission and asks if the guy deserves to die and says he'll do it IF THEY PROVE HE IS GUILTY, so the assassin rep says "he's a lord with lots of guards including a high ranked one who is just as guilty" and mc immediately goes "get info on all the guard and I'll kill the ones who are guilty" then proceeds to accept the mission to kill this noble. What crime is he guilty of? Who knows, the assassin guild that took the assignment from someone says he is so that's proof enough for me.
Throughout the book, literally in every instance where the mc is a complete idiot there is plenty of chances for pegaz to fill the characters and world in and make them less stupid. Take that assassin example, the rep could have given him a story of all the evil deeds the (or even just 1) that the noble has committed, maybe he kidnapped another nobles daughter and raped her and is keeping her locked up in a dungeon.... then you would have a reason for the guy who is supposed to be "not a killer like that" to want to kill rather than every time he sees someone who annoys him (even by being polite) wanting to kill them.
I'll finish reading this book again, just to see what the hell got me to read it all the way through last time (it was probably because I try and finish any book I start) but I will not be buying any other book pegaz puts out again.
Came across idle system on my shelf and reread the synopsis which set up a great litrpg hook few authors have tried. Since there were a few in the series I didn't have yet and it's a short book I re-downloaded it and started reading...
The idea of an idle system that helps you grow stronger while you're barely paying attention to it is a great idea for a power fantasy.
OK, now that the good points are out of the way I can start talking about the bad points.
It is a SHORT book compared to what I usually buy (this should be under good points but you'll see why it isn't) but it is so excruciatingly painful to read that so far its taken me three days to get half way through (for reference, I'll finish books that are twice as long in a single day). I can't go 5 paragraphs without wanting to put it down.... I'm only keeping reading it cause none of the books I'm waiting for will be out for the next mo th or so and I'm trying to figure out how I finished it the first time.
The mc is stupid and one dimensional. He is so bad he makes keystone cops look like Schindlers list. Everything about him once he has entered the new world is unbelievable because of how stupid he is. For example: wakes up on a cliff jumps around rocks for a bit, climbs down cliff, fights a bat, gets dead rabbit that was killed by other bats, does all this not realizing that he is buck naked except for a pair of boots.... unless your visual range is less than the average fps game and you have no tactile sensation at all... how do you go hours without noticing? Oh, and since he doesn't have a knife to skin the rabbit he ponders if the right way to prepare it is to pluck its fur off like you would the feathers of a chicken. Next example: goes back to woods to kill a bear, bare handed, punches into the bears chest and crushes its heart, gets trapped when bear falls on him, so uses the free hand to rip the bear to shreds (he has 10% extra punching strength so this makes sense somehow)also biting his way through, getting covered in blood, spends time in woods, comes back to town ,ate at night, doesn't realize he is absolutely covered with dried blood, head to toe covered hair matted clothes stained, but he doesn't even notice until someone screams.... and then he is confused why they are screaming and pointing at him. Next example: pays for a wilderness survival class, totally ignores most of the class and randomly leaves halfway through because the only useful thing to him (he's already mentioned he doesn't know how to survive in the wilderness) is how to skin an animal. There are many more examples if you want on just open to any page and the mc will be acting like a complete idiot (unless it happens to be one of the many pages where the "skills" are being listed)
Every single character is one dimensional or less. Yes, there are many characters that are ,essentially than 1 dimensional. Like the screaming lady (at least she got a name for no reason) or the librarian who is strictly there to tell mc he's only allowed in one section of the library and to say "library closes in ten minutes", in fact he has so little dimension that mc even says "there's no point in even describing him" despite having "gotten to know him on a fundamental level"
Math.
He uses lots of math. In detail. And half the time his math is just complete crap and totally wrong. Like when he plans out his genocide of a bear population, first day he goes out to woods, kills bear, climbs tree to sleep, second day he calculates it should take him 2 years to kill all the bears. Next paragraph starts "one month later" next paragraph starts "4 months later" next paragraph which is also start of next chapter "9 months later", from this point on every character says "wow it's been two years since I saw you last" 2 days + 1 month + 4 months +9 months does not = 2years it equals 1 year 2 months and 2 days "but what if years aren't as long in that world... you'd be right because pegaz already told us that, in this world days are 24hrs and there are twelve months to a year but each month is 28 days.... 2d +1m +4m +9m = 14m2d or 1y2m2d not 24m or 2y. Thats not the only time math he gets weird with, the current year is ninety thousand twelve, it is written 90,12 because its the 90 thousandth year after the founding of society and 12 years past that point.... i get what he means to say and the correct way to write that mathmatically would be 90,012... "maybe he just forgot a 0" nope, next sentence he says that the current calender goes to 90,9999 before it will switch to the ninety first thousandth year. And then there is math he uses in weight that he gets way off, remember that bear from earlier that fell on him, it weighed a ton. Remember that genocide of bears I mentioned, he put all of them into his storage space after he killed them then transfers it to a bag and says the bag weighs about 2 metric tons. How many bears did he kill? Nearly 330,000... at an average of 1 ton each.... weighs a total of 2 metric tons according to pegaz. You think I'm just being picky on the math? Pegaz shoves tons of random quirky math which doesn't work quite the way he says it should at you constantly because he feels the need to show that mc is smrt despite all the stupid decisions he is making left and right.
Mc constantly makes over the top bluffs which makes whoever do exactly what the mc needs at that moment, often making statements he would have no reason to even think of using.... like accusing the guild leader of newbie Town (yes that is the name of the town, because it's in a low level area it must make sense for people to call it that) of lying to him and using him, and that he's already been told the truth they tested the oath and there is a loophole that you can tell siders and it won't affect the oath..... why would he think there is an oath that prevents people from telling siders things or that there is someone else who knows what the guild leader is keeping secret? There is zero believable reason for him to burst in and use this accusation..... oh wait pegaz needed the guild leader to tell mc he has to make the choice to be a Saint or a demon and then for the guild leader to die dramatically so the mc can make an out of character dramatic attempt to show everyone how much he likes the now dead guild leader so mc doesn't get charged with murder.... and yes it is over the top, 180degrees from everything he has shown the townspeople, idiotic but somehow nobody questions him immediately taking a mission to the next town despite him being the only suspect in a suspicious death.
In the new town, after a mission or so the assassin/thieves guild contacts him. They offer him missions to kill or steal. He ponders "I haven't tested to see if the system rewards me for killing humans yet, I should if they deserve it" (yes he has thought about just murdering random people several times, but always immediately after says "but I'm not that kinda guy") so he asks about one mission and asks if the guy deserves to die and says he'll do it IF THEY PROVE HE IS GUILTY, so the assassin rep says "he's a lord with lots of guards including a high ranked one who is just as guilty" and mc immediately goes "get info on all the guard and I'll kill the ones who are guilty" then proceeds to accept the mission to kill this noble. What crime is he guilty of? Who knows, the assassin guild that took the assignment from someone says he is so that's proof enough for me.
Throughout the book, literally in every instance where the mc is a complete idiot there is plenty of chances for pegaz to fill the characters and world in and make them less stupid. Take that assassin example, the rep could have given him a story of all the evil deeds the (or even just 1) that the noble has committed, maybe he kidnapped another nobles daughter and raped her and is keeping her locked up in a dungeon.... then you would have a reason for the guy who is supposed to be "not a killer like that" to want to kill rather than every time he sees someone who annoys him (even by being polite) wanting to kill them.
I'll finish reading this book again, just to see what the hell got me to read it all the way through last time (it was probably because I try and finish any book I start) but I will not be buying any other book pegaz puts out again.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 4, 2019
The over all story is pretty interesting, I'm not used to encountering Idle game style stories. Which gave it some bonus points.
That said, the reasons its 3/5 instead of 5 are as follows:
The writer is very unclear in the beginning as to what idlers actually are. It took me quite a while to realize that they're basically construction units for building queues. Due to how long it took for me to realize this simple thing, I did not gain any immersion whatsoever until he hid the first town.
After that, whilst I gained immersion, the whole thing felt a bit like a summary with snippets of text in between. It read like a sort of fanfiction of someone who does not really know how to write character interaction. I don't mind that at all actually, but I do miss the in the moment stuff that got replaced by summaries such as: He goes continuous bear hunting for two years. Which of course makes sense that you don't write it all down but it becomes more and more summary like as you progress in the story.
That said, I liked the story for its originality and concept.
That said, the reasons its 3/5 instead of 5 are as follows:
The writer is very unclear in the beginning as to what idlers actually are. It took me quite a while to realize that they're basically construction units for building queues. Due to how long it took for me to realize this simple thing, I did not gain any immersion whatsoever until he hid the first town.
After that, whilst I gained immersion, the whole thing felt a bit like a summary with snippets of text in between. It read like a sort of fanfiction of someone who does not really know how to write character interaction. I don't mind that at all actually, but I do miss the in the moment stuff that got replaced by summaries such as: He goes continuous bear hunting for two years. Which of course makes sense that you don't write it all down but it becomes more and more summary like as you progress in the story.
That said, I liked the story for its originality and concept.
May 16, 2019
Refreshingly different
I enjoyed the math... somehow the rational approach worked and I wasn’t bored. After a while, I tried to see if I would have done anything differently. Only found one spot where the math was done backwards.
I get it, who wants to read a book about stats and leveling etc. Thing is, the story was interesting, our MC kind of fun, and the path he took was fun in its own way. The author succeeded, I think, in writing something unique and true to its form.
I enjoyed this. And, if you are deciding if you might, I’d say give it a shot.
I enjoyed the math... somehow the rational approach worked and I wasn’t bored. After a while, I tried to see if I would have done anything differently. Only found one spot where the math was done backwards.
I get it, who wants to read a book about stats and leveling etc. Thing is, the story was interesting, our MC kind of fun, and the path he took was fun in its own way. The author succeeded, I think, in writing something unique and true to its form.
I enjoyed this. And, if you are deciding if you might, I’d say give it a shot.
February 3, 2020
This is pure wish-fulfillment, but I like it. There's even a certain moral ambiguity to the protagonist, which I normally don't like. I can't explain why it feels good to read this story. It just does.
NOTE: If you can't stand grammar and vocabulary mistakes... stay away.
NOTE: If you can't stand grammar and vocabulary mistakes... stay away.
March 28, 2021
We’ve all tried idle games and applying this concept to LitRPG sounded intriguing.
I like it when the story gets going without too much build up. I don’t want to know that the main character’s cat is dying so he enters the game to win the big prize money despite his girl wanting to marry him, his boss being a jerk and his personal hygiene being questionable and all of this takes three chapters to explain. In this book the main character is walking to his car, feels a tightness in his chest, collapses into unconsciousness and wakes up in another world. All of this happens within the first page. Excellent!
He then doesn’t contemplate his situation but immediately realizes that he is in a idle system game and starts playing. What? No. Nobody responds like that. If he had chosen to go into the game then fine, but he had no idea what had happened yet almost immediately he is happy to play the game??
Ok maybe I was being too critical and the book would improve. After all LitRPG is stats. Lots of stats! Yeah!
I wanted to like this book but the narration killed it for me. My biggest peeve was the pronunciation of miscellaneous as “misk-a-llaneous”. And miskallaneous is used a LOT in the stats. I couldn’t make it past the first listing of stats.
I returned this book unfinished for a refund and will not recommend it to anyone.
I like it when the story gets going without too much build up. I don’t want to know that the main character’s cat is dying so he enters the game to win the big prize money despite his girl wanting to marry him, his boss being a jerk and his personal hygiene being questionable and all of this takes three chapters to explain. In this book the main character is walking to his car, feels a tightness in his chest, collapses into unconsciousness and wakes up in another world. All of this happens within the first page. Excellent!
He then doesn’t contemplate his situation but immediately realizes that he is in a idle system game and starts playing. What? No. Nobody responds like that. If he had chosen to go into the game then fine, but he had no idea what had happened yet almost immediately he is happy to play the game??
Ok maybe I was being too critical and the book would improve. After all LitRPG is stats. Lots of stats! Yeah!
I wanted to like this book but the narration killed it for me. My biggest peeve was the pronunciation of miscellaneous as “misk-a-llaneous”. And miskallaneous is used a LOT in the stats. I couldn’t make it past the first listing of stats.
I returned this book unfinished for a refund and will not recommend it to anyone.
July 6, 2025
I was mostly curious about a book with an idle system included, and if I'd like it. It was entertaining.
This book is firmly between 2 and 3 stars for me. The story goes way too fast and has little fleshing out included. The worldbuilding is minimal, and the characterization none too solid. It reads more like an extended outline for me rather than a whole book.
That said, I do enjoy the (way too fast-paced) story and am curious enough to continue for a bit, though I have to admit I wouldn't buy them. Since they're included in Kindle Unlimited, it's fine.
Not too excited about the main character, and his character is all over the place. The side characters don't feel too fleshed out either, but I'm not sure if they're supposed to. There's no real challenge for the main character either. Everything is easy and effortless, with only minor bumps in the road for him. We'll see how long this holds my attention.
This book is firmly between 2 and 3 stars for me. The story goes way too fast and has little fleshing out included. The worldbuilding is minimal, and the characterization none too solid. It reads more like an extended outline for me rather than a whole book.
That said, I do enjoy the (way too fast-paced) story and am curious enough to continue for a bit, though I have to admit I wouldn't buy them. Since they're included in Kindle Unlimited, it's fine.
Not too excited about the main character, and his character is all over the place. The side characters don't feel too fleshed out either, but I'm not sure if they're supposed to. There's no real challenge for the main character either. Everything is easy and effortless, with only minor bumps in the road for him. We'll see how long this holds my attention.
October 10, 2018
Good story here, and a rather unique skills/progression set too. If you like the ais running the game sto be snarky, you'll like this one, and if you just enjoy a fresh look at skills and progression, you'll want to read this one too, I really like the progression in this one, though it seemed a little odd at first, I got used to it quickly enough, and while there is a bit of the overpowered hero in this one, killing everything in sight, it's used more as a plotline device than most books of this type tend to use it for, Rather than just getting powered up as quickly as possible for no particular reason, this story shows the main character actually thinking about and using his progression to accomplish specific concrete goals, and that makes all the difference. Most LitRPG fans should enjoy this one, but if op characters irritate you, then this one may not be to your liking, even though it does contain a decent storyline to go with the character development.
August 6, 2021
Lots of stats little story.
I found this book a little slow going at times and difficult to really get into. There very much is a greater focus on levels and numbers rather than the back story. I am hoping the next few books will grow and be stronger now the initial growth is out of the way. John feels a little flat and just very unaware making it hard to really like or feel sympathetic towards him. There were a couple of times when I almost gave up with the book as he just seemed a bastard. I am going to give the second book a go but am not holding out huge hopes that it really drags me in.
I found this book a little slow going at times and difficult to really get into. There very much is a greater focus on levels and numbers rather than the back story. I am hoping the next few books will grow and be stronger now the initial growth is out of the way. John feels a little flat and just very unaware making it hard to really like or feel sympathetic towards him. There were a couple of times when I almost gave up with the book as he just seemed a bastard. I am going to give the second book a go but am not holding out huge hopes that it really drags me in.
December 29, 2021
A New life in the Idle System
This was a very enjoyable read from cover to cover and I couldn't put it down.
When starting a new life in a new world normally a gaming system has helpful hints, but not here until you find errors or bugs in the system. Then it lets you know something and rewards you, but still no hints. Until finally you understand your basics then it helps.
The MC, John, is smart enough to learn what is needed and the calculations needed to improve his own stats. He goes from a very weakling to nearly Immortal.
His challenges and battles are just so cool to read about.
I'm already looking forward to the next book.
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This was a very enjoyable read from cover to cover and I couldn't put it down.
When starting a new life in a new world normally a gaming system has helpful hints, but not here until you find errors or bugs in the system. Then it lets you know something and rewards you, but still no hints. Until finally you understand your basics then it helps.
The MC, John, is smart enough to learn what is needed and the calculations needed to improve his own stats. He goes from a very weakling to nearly Immortal.
His challenges and battles are just so cool to read about.
I'm already looking forward to the next book.
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April 27, 2024
Author doesn’t understand amounts. Like at all.
Like as far as I can tell (didn’t put the time in to check calculations) his math is fine but he throws around huge numbers to make feats impressive when they should be impossible. Like time wise impossible.
He’s killing hundreds of thousands in 2 years… it comes out to like 510 kills a day when he’s “low level” and during this he’s skinning and butchering. Even worse is 102,000 werewolves in 28 days. Which would require like 2 per minute 24/7.
Then there’s the walking into town with large bags… because theatrics.
Weight of items are nonsense. I wanted to like it but too many dumb failures.
Like as far as I can tell (didn’t put the time in to check calculations) his math is fine but he throws around huge numbers to make feats impressive when they should be impossible. Like time wise impossible.
He’s killing hundreds of thousands in 2 years… it comes out to like 510 kills a day when he’s “low level” and during this he’s skinning and butchering. Even worse is 102,000 werewolves in 28 days. Which would require like 2 per minute 24/7.
Then there’s the walking into town with large bags… because theatrics.
Weight of items are nonsense. I wanted to like it but too many dumb failures.
October 21, 2018
Different take
This tale was about a man who was killed and transported to another world about 30 years younger. His life depends on him getting stronger and try to make his way in a world that tries to use him. Unfortunately, a little difficult to understand the idler system so it detracted a bit. Also, consistently writes lied down when it should be lay or laid. Characters, backstory and world-building need more detail. However, the concept is interesting. Await the next book.
This tale was about a man who was killed and transported to another world about 30 years younger. His life depends on him getting stronger and try to make his way in a world that tries to use him. Unfortunately, a little difficult to understand the idler system so it detracted a bit. Also, consistently writes lied down when it should be lay or laid. Characters, backstory and world-building need more detail. However, the concept is interesting. Await the next book.
April 3, 2021
Decent, but very crunchy
Huge amounts of stats and levels. Not a lot of character development, but things move pretty briskly.
Some odd word choices. By that, I mean complex words were used in situations where they felt like the wrong choice, but they weren’t. “Prerogative” was used to indicate choice, but it wasn’t really the best way to describe the choice being made.
I did read the whole book. And I will likely read the sequel. But I don’t feel this will be to everyone’s taste. Especially as the ending seems to be abrupt.
Huge amounts of stats and levels. Not a lot of character development, but things move pretty briskly.
Some odd word choices. By that, I mean complex words were used in situations where they felt like the wrong choice, but they weren’t. “Prerogative” was used to indicate choice, but it wasn’t really the best way to describe the choice being made.
I did read the whole book. And I will likely read the sequel. But I don’t feel this will be to everyone’s taste. Especially as the ending seems to be abrupt.
April 11, 2019
Fun read with a lot of math
One of few original takes on the lithographs and cultivation world stories. Interesting way of telling the story too, the author is not afraid to skip the monotonous parts and that is great.
The gaming stats are presented is a lot of detail which can get cumbersome if you decide to focus on the details, but I tuned them out for the most part and paid attention to the summaries which were frequent and well done.
One of few original takes on the lithographs and cultivation world stories. Interesting way of telling the story too, the author is not afraid to skip the monotonous parts and that is great.
The gaming stats are presented is a lot of detail which can get cumbersome if you decide to focus on the details, but I tuned them out for the most part and paid attention to the summaries which were frequent and well done.
June 3, 2019
A little bit different LitRPG. I have to admit, even with a great explanation of the idle system, I could not fully grasp it. Loved the story, how it was written, the characters. For me, the idle system explanations were used a little too much. I probably feel that way because it was just beyond my understanding. The story sure made me curious about idle system games. And I want to see what happens in the continuing saga, thanks for the chance to read your story Pegaz.
January 2, 2020
It's a great concept! Which is why 4 stars. Three books in, I'm discontinuing this series because it has devolved even more into a stream-0f-consciousness rather than any discrete end. Sure an author might not know where a book is going, which is a valid writing style, but this series devolves into something like no editing or fleshing out whatsoever. So, take from that what you will, but know that you may end up setting the series down before the last volume arrives.
April 14, 2019
Grinding - Kung fu hustle style
I didn't know if I'd like this based on the description. The skill and grinding system added to the story for me. Over the top action. Starting a large prison fight just to level faster gave me a chuckle. Sure it's overpowered. I didn't care. I had a great time with all the mayhem.
I didn't know if I'd like this based on the description. The skill and grinding system added to the story for me. Over the top action. Starting a large prison fight just to level faster gave me a chuckle. Sure it's overpowered. I didn't care. I had a great time with all the mayhem.
June 4, 2019
Entertaining and engaging
AA different take on the litrpg system. I also like the idea of people getting a “second life” through transference to a game-like world. I’ve seen it a couple of times and it’s at least differ from “I’m stuck in a game”. I enjoyed watching the MC grow and the plot twist at the end was also pretty good.
AA different take on the litrpg system. I also like the idea of people getting a “second life” through transference to a game-like world. I’ve seen it a couple of times and it’s at least differ from “I’m stuck in a game”. I enjoyed watching the MC grow and the plot twist at the end was also pretty good.
December 2, 2021
I'm three chapters in and nothing makes sense. Maybe I'm suppose to play these "idle games" to understand?
I finished the book and I still don't really understand what this idle system is (maybe it's stats?), but the story was entertaining.
I will pick up the sequel sometime in the future.
3/5 Stars
I finished the book and I still don't really understand what this idle system is (maybe it's stats?), but the story was entertaining.
I will pick up the sequel sometime in the future.
3/5 Stars
January 24, 2022
Fun read!
This is a very good read if you like the idea of the MC getting super overpowered very fast! Very different from other litrpg in that aspect, and I enjoyed it a lot. Grammar is a bit off, not sure if it's a editor problem or possibly english not being a first language. Didn't distract too much from the story though. Can't wait to see where the story goes!
This is a very good read if you like the idea of the MC getting super overpowered very fast! Very different from other litrpg in that aspect, and I enjoyed it a lot. Grammar is a bit off, not sure if it's a editor problem or possibly english not being a first language. Didn't distract too much from the story though. Can't wait to see where the story goes!
July 1, 2018
Story was ok. The editing was not very good. The author always wrote 'brought' instead of 'bought', 'of' instead of 'off', etc...which was annoying. Formatting was not very good. Chapters did not start on a new page, some spacing issues, etc...
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