Completed Series - 6 books. This box set covers the first three novels.
In the apocalypse, the first weapon he’ll have to upgrade is himself. The end of the world as we know it couldn’t come at a worse time for Adrian.
One minute, he’s an operations manager who’s overseeing a construction job in the wilderness. The next, an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself, from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain. The earth’s surviving inhabitants, its environment, and the very laws of physics have all undergone fundamental transformations.
Many of those changes aren’t pretty. Plenty of them are deadly.
Luckily for Earth, this has happened to other species before, and everyone receives an interface that survivors of similar events have used to navigate through an alien landscape.
Adrian’s going to need every advantage he can get. He’s stranded in the middle of nowhere, there are days, maybe weeks of travel between him and his family, and in a world full of monsters and mayhem, survival means beating the learning curve…
Alex first fell in love with both computer games and writing when he was on a scholarship completing a Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics. After graduating and getting a job, I put the whole being a novelist to the side while that pesky thing called life got in the way. A career in banking project managing the delivery of complicated quantitative applications resulted. Very stereotypical; • Boring job as a banker - tick, • Suburban home - tick • Three kids - tick • Two dogs - tick • You get the point. A little thing called a global pandemic then came along and gave Alex a chance to return to his dream of becoming a writer. Having recently read a variety of LITRPG books, it was a genre that he was excited to explore in order to create a world that readers could immerse themselves into. With the familiarity of the gaming world gained from playing WOW, Skyrim, Fallout amongst others, there is simple joy in creating an imaginative magic filled world that is at everyone’s fingertips. In his writing, Alex aims to capture the feeling that he loves of being able to put yourself into a gaming world, develop your character and exploit the rules to the fullest.
If you like shoot ‘em up computer games this is the book for you. Meet monster, kill it/them. Meet monster, kill it/them and repeat. Together with collecting “attributes” and level ups. Not my thing. Therefore skipped probably ninety percent. The three stars are because I do want to know what happens in the end...
Over all I loved the premise of the book, this was one of my first LitRPG style series and I can definitely say it one of my favourite styles now. And the fact that it’s an Australian based plot starting in the town of Wagga that I am very familiar with was awesome. Great story, characters and themes 10/10.
Imagine a world were the physics, change . You can be anything you every dreamed it takes time and study. Creatures abound everywhere. Pay attention, magic is real now...
I like the system and story line. I have a few issues with how the author is very inconsistent with how experience is forgotten about a lot of the time. I will finish the series though.