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Arise #3
Arise: Reclaimer
Lost ships. Forgotten lairs. Monsters from the dawn of time.
Steve and the team survived the assault on their new home, and their enemies learned a valuable lesson about trespassing… their bodies now help to form the very walls his people live within.
The Old Ones have agreed to his offer, Steve has a month to get his affairs in order, then he must present himself before the oldest of his kind, and for now? He is to be left alone.
But as much as Steve has gained? He’s lost access to the greatest of his advantages. Its only a matter of time before the edict expires, and unless he presents himself as agreed, it’s open season on him and his group.
Steve needs to recover the Harvest Blade, to gain access to new and more powerful abilities, and to protect his friends and family.
Only one location is likely to be able to grant him all of those things… its time to take back his birthright.
It's time to reclaim Humanity’s place in the stars.
Steve and the team survived the assault on their new home, and their enemies learned a valuable lesson about trespassing… their bodies now help to form the very walls his people live within.
The Old Ones have agreed to his offer, Steve has a month to get his affairs in order, then he must present himself before the oldest of his kind, and for now? He is to be left alone.
But as much as Steve has gained? He’s lost access to the greatest of his advantages. Its only a matter of time before the edict expires, and unless he presents himself as agreed, it’s open season on him and his group.
Steve needs to recover the Harvest Blade, to gain access to new and more powerful abilities, and to protect his friends and family.
Only one location is likely to be able to grant him all of those things… its time to take back his birthright.
It's time to reclaim Humanity’s place in the stars.
431 pages, ebook
First published October 20, 2023
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October 21, 2023
Way too much introspection.
I'd say a good third of this book is spent inside the main character's head. And it's quite boring in there
I'd say a good third of this book is spent inside the main character's head. And it's quite boring in there
April 30, 2024
2.5 stars. I had high hopes for this book to improve the series instead it did the opposite it ruined what little hope I had left in the author. The author drags on this needlesley boring fight in the ship where absolutley nothing interesting happens. You could have skipped 2/3 of this book and you wouldn't have missed much. I struggled to actually finish this book that's how bad it was. I am so done with this series and I am not interested in anything else this author has written.
March 14, 2024
Great story, lots of action, very engaging, and a great addition to the series. I really enjoyed it. Yes, there's a lot of inside the MC head and his musings. But I enjoyed that and enjoyed the insight it provided. Also, once the action really started, this was a decent roller coast ride. You have his ealy forage into the alien ship and a battle against automatons. Then the fantastic battles against the stellicks. [Not sure how you spell that] then the defence of the ship. Each presented a different type of battle. Each well written and exciting to listen to. [Audio book version] I highly recommend
There are weak points to the story, or rather inconsistencies that are annoying. The main one is Steve fully armoured, with his power, strength, mega weapons, ability to slow his relative time in battle, his submind to hack weapon systems power etc and all his augments, not to mention his augmented shotgun using null block ammuntion, barely holds his own against the security AI on the ship. When he is taken down, mere mortals [Jonas team 3 or 4 combatants at most] with guns upgraded to just 3x more power are able to fight them off without him. [Note the guns couldn't be upgraded enough to take down a sentinel when asked, only to be 3x more powerful. And nowhere near Steve's shotgun. But yeah, they can successfully fight off the security AI without steve]
Another Major one, why tell Hans and therefore basically both Factions, and the elders about the alien ships and that they can all get major upgrades, weapons, nanites, and grow massive super powered armies easily? Who is that moronic? Hey Mister terrorist, if you just nip over there, you can grab 300 nuclear warheads that have been abandoned and are basically undefended. We can trust you, right? Oh, you could take your entire countries might and armies to seize them, a few thousand people at least, whilst just 10 of us might try and stop you. But heck, no reason not to tell you, right? In book one, he acknowledged the danger, the arms race, the catastrophe of anyone, but especially the risen, ever finding out and gaining access, and doing anything and everything not to let them ever find out. Now he offers up the information for no reason!! Before he was a bit of a slow witted thug, his own words, now his mind and intelligence has been upgraded?
Yeah, those two are really annoying. But even then I did enjoy this book.
There are weak points to the story, or rather inconsistencies that are annoying. The main one is Steve fully armoured, with his power, strength, mega weapons, ability to slow his relative time in battle, his submind to hack weapon systems power etc and all his augments, not to mention his augmented shotgun using null block ammuntion, barely holds his own against the security AI on the ship. When he is taken down, mere mortals [Jonas team 3 or 4 combatants at most] with guns upgraded to just 3x more power are able to fight them off without him. [Note the guns couldn't be upgraded enough to take down a sentinel when asked, only to be 3x more powerful. And nowhere near Steve's shotgun. But yeah, they can successfully fight off the security AI without steve]
Another Major one, why tell Hans and therefore basically both Factions, and the elders about the alien ships and that they can all get major upgrades, weapons, nanites, and grow massive super powered armies easily? Who is that moronic? Hey Mister terrorist, if you just nip over there, you can grab 300 nuclear warheads that have been abandoned and are basically undefended. We can trust you, right? Oh, you could take your entire countries might and armies to seize them, a few thousand people at least, whilst just 10 of us might try and stop you. But heck, no reason not to tell you, right? In book one, he acknowledged the danger, the arms race, the catastrophe of anyone, but especially the risen, ever finding out and gaining access, and doing anything and everything not to let them ever find out. Now he offers up the information for no reason!! Before he was a bit of a slow witted thug, his own words, now his mind and intelligence has been upgraded?
Yeah, those two are really annoying. But even then I did enjoy this book.
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October 28, 2023
I started reading Jez Cajiao’s UnderVerse series and I loved the story and the dialogue. If I recall correctly that was his first published series? Absolutely loved the story. It was really well crafted and the dialogue was vulgar but it was believable. I loved this series so far, but something’s off about this one.
Minor gripe first: In the previous books I don’t recall ever seeing this many (quite frankly) useless swearwords, sort of just strewn about the page. Started to feel like they were becoming a stand-in for the main character’s personality. Like there are more swearwords here than personality. I’m all for a hardass or a tough guy but the way it bleeds into the narration really detracts from what’s actually happening.
Second gripe: Man, this is super disappointing to say but the sentence structure and grammar in this book is just not great. Lots of run on and low effort sentences, weird phrasing in the narration, weird tense issues just to name a few. Personally, I love Jez Cajiao’s books and don’t usually care about grammar— I’ve read hundreds of LitRPG with countless little problems, but this one did not seem to get the same TLC as the other books i’ve come to love from the author.
tl:dr this story really needs an editor, bottom line. Entertaining story but there are some distracting issues.
Minor gripe first: In the previous books I don’t recall ever seeing this many (quite frankly) useless swearwords, sort of just strewn about the page. Started to feel like they were becoming a stand-in for the main character’s personality. Like there are more swearwords here than personality. I’m all for a hardass or a tough guy but the way it bleeds into the narration really detracts from what’s actually happening.
Second gripe: Man, this is super disappointing to say but the sentence structure and grammar in this book is just not great. Lots of run on and low effort sentences, weird phrasing in the narration, weird tense issues just to name a few. Personally, I love Jez Cajiao’s books and don’t usually care about grammar— I’ve read hundreds of LitRPG with countless little problems, but this one did not seem to get the same TLC as the other books i’ve come to love from the author.
tl:dr this story really needs an editor, bottom line. Entertaining story but there are some distracting issues.
October 23, 2023
that should be disclaimer about the author being such a potty mouth.
I enjoyed the story tremendously. I have been eagerly awaiting this book for quite a while, and if the author had not put a synopsis of what happened before I would not have remembered. That’s how long it’s been between book 2, and book 3. There are two issues that keep me from giving this book 5 stars the first is why do you authors in this RPG realm 10 to turn your characters into meat shields? You know you’re not gonna kill a character, so why beat the character all to hell. I think it’s just lazy writing. The second issue is, the liberal use of profanity, I am not a prude, but the profanity keeps other younger people such as my kids from enjoying reading this content. There should be a disclaimer by Amazon in the product page that this book is loaded with profanity. The authors other books are loaded with profanity as well, and it should be mentioned. Besides that the book is very well done, I may go to Patreon and sign up.
I enjoyed the story tremendously. I have been eagerly awaiting this book for quite a while, and if the author had not put a synopsis of what happened before I would not have remembered. That’s how long it’s been between book 2, and book 3. There are two issues that keep me from giving this book 5 stars the first is why do you authors in this RPG realm 10 to turn your characters into meat shields? You know you’re not gonna kill a character, so why beat the character all to hell. I think it’s just lazy writing. The second issue is, the liberal use of profanity, I am not a prude, but the profanity keeps other younger people such as my kids from enjoying reading this content. There should be a disclaimer by Amazon in the product page that this book is loaded with profanity. The authors other books are loaded with profanity as well, and it should be mentioned. Besides that the book is very well done, I may go to Patreon and sign up.
October 28, 2023
Decent series continuation
Well, the first 40% started okay but once the MC went to reclaim the ship, well all character development quickly stopped for a long, long while... It became a repetitive mish-mash of MC's personal musings and endless yet monotonous slog, of him vs the ship AI, I got through it but it was a bit painfully, well grey a story with little color until supporting characters returned to the story. The rest of the book recovered and went well after the 45% point. I hope this does not repeat in future works, I nearly gave up on the series during that endless MC vs automated defenses early part of the novel, it just came across as repetitive and neverending it seemed to me.
Well, the first 40% started okay but once the MC went to reclaim the ship, well all character development quickly stopped for a long, long while... It became a repetitive mish-mash of MC's personal musings and endless yet monotonous slog, of him vs the ship AI, I got through it but it was a bit painfully, well grey a story with little color until supporting characters returned to the story. The rest of the book recovered and went well after the 45% point. I hope this does not repeat in future works, I nearly gave up on the series during that endless MC vs automated defenses early part of the novel, it just came across as repetitive and neverending it seemed to me.
May 18, 2025
Awesome storyline
Steve is an MC that one loves to hate. A lot of times it’s hard to take him serious, his childish tantrums are too much to deal with sometimes. However, the other characters help balance out his character in a way that makes this book more readable. From a literary RPG standpoint it’s hard to follow the Leveling and progression. I understand. It probably has to do with the type of leveling structure involving nights, advance, technology, and Lincoln aliens into the storyline. Much different from your typical literary RPG. However, as someone who loves science fiction, literary RPG, fantasy, Lora, and historical Fiction. This is an awesome book.
Steve is an MC that one loves to hate. A lot of times it’s hard to take him serious, his childish tantrums are too much to deal with sometimes. However, the other characters help balance out his character in a way that makes this book more readable. From a literary RPG standpoint it’s hard to follow the Leveling and progression. I understand. It probably has to do with the type of leveling structure involving nights, advance, technology, and Lincoln aliens into the storyline. Much different from your typical literary RPG. However, as someone who loves science fiction, literary RPG, fantasy, Lora, and historical Fiction. This is an awesome book.
December 3, 2023
outstanding novel!
I love Jez!! What an amazing wordsmith! I can’t decide which is better: the Arise series or the UnderVerse! This 3rd novel in the Series is just as outstanding as the first two, and of course I had to re-read the first two books before opening Reclaimer. Jez combines Urban Fantasy and SciFi in a LitRPG format with real characters that grow throughout the books, humor, suspenseful plot twists, all placed in an amazingly unique take on “magic”. Highly recommended!!
I love Jez!! What an amazing wordsmith! I can’t decide which is better: the Arise series or the UnderVerse! This 3rd novel in the Series is just as outstanding as the first two, and of course I had to re-read the first two books before opening Reclaimer. Jez combines Urban Fantasy and SciFi in a LitRPG format with real characters that grow throughout the books, humor, suspenseful plot twists, all placed in an amazingly unique take on “magic”. Highly recommended!!
December 20, 2023
Funking awesome!
The series is SO GOOD. Like sci fi miss with lit rpg. The magic is tech magic and believeable .Very all written if I do say so myself. Can't wait for the next installment. In still reading this writers other series and their well done also but this is my favorite from the author. Great plot, great scope, great world building and interesting characters. Why not throw in a heaping helping of mythology to boot. Oh wait, he did!!! It only adds more depth. Please continue this series for years to come. There are plenty of set-up already to do just that!!!!
The series is SO GOOD. Like sci fi miss with lit rpg. The magic is tech magic and believeable .Very all written if I do say so myself. Can't wait for the next installment. In still reading this writers other series and their well done also but this is my favorite from the author. Great plot, great scope, great world building and interesting characters. Why not throw in a heaping helping of mythology to boot. Oh wait, he did!!! It only adds more depth. Please continue this series for years to come. There are plenty of set-up already to do just that!!!!
October 22, 2023
Action Packed
This is yet another action-packed page turner as Steve and the team fight against "one thing or the other" as they frantically grow quickly as the sharks start to gather. What I love about this series is that the possibilities are endless as we could easily get 20 books out of this to sink your metaphorical teeth into. With great tech, characters, and world building, this is my favourite Cajiao series to date and catapults him into the top leagues.
This is yet another action-packed page turner as Steve and the team fight against "one thing or the other" as they frantically grow quickly as the sharks start to gather. What I love about this series is that the possibilities are endless as we could easily get 20 books out of this to sink your metaphorical teeth into. With great tech, characters, and world building, this is my favourite Cajiao series to date and catapults him into the top leagues.
October 22, 2023
a bit of a struggle
So. I enjoyed this. I *will* buy the sequel (when it is published).
I did have some issues with events, though.
There were long passages of plans made…that had to be discarded as soon as the next step was begun. Because plans don’t survive.
I’m not sure why he didn’t go directly for the medical center (though events proved his decision correct).
But, again, I liked it. If you liked the previous books, then this is for you.
So. I enjoyed this. I *will* buy the sequel (when it is published).
I did have some issues with events, though.
There were long passages of plans made…that had to be discarded as soon as the next step was begun. Because plans don’t survive.
I’m not sure why he didn’t go directly for the medical center (though events proved his decision correct).
But, again, I liked it. If you liked the previous books, then this is for you.
July 29, 2024
This wasn’t my favorite book of the series. This was one I listened to on audible and I think I might have enjoyed it more if I had read it the old fashioned way instead.
The lady that voices his girlfriend comes off way overbearing and frankly annoying. She wants to come with him and somehow protect him even though she is pretty much a level 1 noob and he is an OP world saving hero. Of course he is in the wrong what was he thinking not bringing her with him…….
The lady that voices his girlfriend comes off way overbearing and frankly annoying. She wants to come with him and somehow protect him even though she is pretty much a level 1 noob and he is an OP world saving hero. Of course he is in the wrong what was he thinking not bringing her with him…….
October 27, 2023
Another brilliant show
Jez does it again... Builds a massive world with a kaleidoscope of imagination,. And tells a slam bam masterful stage play.. Great characters and compelling prose that keeps you arched to turn pages.. Highly recommend
JD Glasscock
Author of the Series Blood Brothers and the Dream
Jez does it again... Builds a massive world with a kaleidoscope of imagination,. And tells a slam bam masterful stage play.. Great characters and compelling prose that keeps you arched to turn pages.. Highly recommend
JD Glasscock
Author of the Series Blood Brothers and the Dream
October 21, 2023
good stuff
I can’t unsee the amount of ‘fucks/fuckers’ in Jez’s books now. I like them and find them to be excellent examples of the genres they represent. However, I wish he could find more eloquent ways to express his displeasure.
I can’t unsee the amount of ‘fucks/fuckers’ in Jez’s books now. I like them and find them to be excellent examples of the genres they represent. However, I wish he could find more eloquent ways to express his displeasure.
October 26, 2023
Good books in this series
Another good addition to the series.
Too short and too long a wait for more but what are you going to do.
Waiting on more even though this one just came out. 😋
Another good addition to the series.
Too short and too long a wait for more but what are you going to do.
Waiting on more even though this one just came out. 😋
January 1, 2024
Great read!
Steve continues to conquer, new and weird enemies. Reclaiming the alien ship he is able to enhance his team, augmenting their bodies much like his own. Then the real fun begins. Can't wait for the next book!
Steve continues to conquer, new and weird enemies. Reclaiming the alien ship he is able to enhance his team, augmenting their bodies much like his own. Then the real fun begins. Can't wait for the next book!
October 26, 2023
Awesome!!!!!!
Test another feather in the cap! Story progression, character development!!!! Love the story arc and looking forward to so much more!!!
Test another feather in the cap! Story progression, character development!!!! Love the story arc and looking forward to so much more!!!
October 30, 2023
DNF
Trying to read this was painful. And as tedious as could be. It’s the distilled bad parts of the author’s writing from his other works.
Trying to read this was painful. And as tedious as could be. It’s the distilled bad parts of the author’s writing from his other works.
November 12, 2023
great read
Another awesome, action packed story! I struggled a little bit when the mc was on the ship the first time, but when he left to go hunting. Great stuff. Keep them coming.
Another awesome, action packed story! I struggled a little bit when the mc was on the ship the first time, but when he left to go hunting. Great stuff. Keep them coming.
March 8, 2024
These books are great but damn this on ended what felt like right in the middle of the book. Darn the next book not already being out as an audiobook.
May 28, 2024
Book 3 Arise
Thoroughly enjoyed reading the first three books of this series. It been thoroughly enjoyable. Looking forward to reading the rest of these series. Highly recommend
Thoroughly enjoyed reading the first three books of this series. It been thoroughly enjoyable. Looking forward to reading the rest of these series. Highly recommend
June 12, 2025
Soo good
Soo good that I refused to sleep without finishing it tonight and I wasn't disappointed! This series hasn't disappointed yet! Bringing me BIG JOY!!!
Soo good that I refused to sleep without finishing it tonight and I wasn't disappointed! This series hasn't disappointed yet! Bringing me BIG JOY!!!
October 6, 2025
Boring start
The first 75% of this book was super boring. I skimmed most of it. The last bit was entertaining though.
The first 75% of this book was super boring. I skimmed most of it. The last bit was entertaining though.
January 26, 2026
Very good read
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who likes LitRPG and progression types of books with lots of action.
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who likes LitRPG and progression types of books with lots of action.
October 24, 2023
Jez continues to hit it out of the park with this series. The entertainment value alone is seldom replicated elsewhere.
It's not just about the main character either. The whole support cast has it's own role to play in the telling of the story.
We start seeing the culmination of a lot of what Jez has been gearing up throughout the series so far and something that every reader is waiting for takes place.
It's not just about the main character either. The whole support cast has it's own role to play in the telling of the story.
We start seeing the culmination of a lot of what Jez has been gearing up throughout the series so far and something that every reader is waiting for takes place.
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