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Endgame Earth #1
First Wave: A System Apocalypse LitRPG
The world doesn’t end with fire.
It ends with a notification you can feel in your bones.
Alec West was just trying to keep a remote communications relay alive when reality stutters—then rewrites itself. The sky fractures into a vast geometric lattice. The ground splits with impossible blue-white seams. And a force racing across the mountains—the First Wave—turns ordinary rules into a new kind of math.
Suddenly, Alec isn’t just surviving the collapse.
He’s being ranked.
A system he can’t see is measuring pain tolerance, instinct, aggression, efficiency. Power condenses into his palm like code made physical. A fire axe becomes more than a tool. And every decision—fight, flee, hide, help—feeds the same cold scoreboard.
But the Wave isn’t done.
Something is waking beneath the relay station. Something ancient, engineered, and hungry. If Alec can’t learn the rules fast enough, he won’t just die out here.
He’ll become part of the System.
FIRST WAVE is a high-stakes LitRPG apocalypse packed with progression, survival combat, and a world where leveling up is the only way to stay human—when reality itself is trying to patch you out.
It ends with a notification you can feel in your bones.
Alec West was just trying to keep a remote communications relay alive when reality stutters—then rewrites itself. The sky fractures into a vast geometric lattice. The ground splits with impossible blue-white seams. And a force racing across the mountains—the First Wave—turns ordinary rules into a new kind of math.
Suddenly, Alec isn’t just surviving the collapse.
He’s being ranked.
A system he can’t see is measuring pain tolerance, instinct, aggression, efficiency. Power condenses into his palm like code made physical. A fire axe becomes more than a tool. And every decision—fight, flee, hide, help—feeds the same cold scoreboard.
But the Wave isn’t done.
Something is waking beneath the relay station. Something ancient, engineered, and hungry. If Alec can’t learn the rules fast enough, he won’t just die out here.
He’ll become part of the System.
FIRST WAVE is a high-stakes LitRPG apocalypse packed with progression, survival combat, and a world where leveling up is the only way to stay human—when reality itself is trying to patch you out.
324 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 12, 2025
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December 4, 2025
not a book
This is a short story, or the first couple of chapters for a book. Warning! Most of the series is not available to read. Would not suggest starting it until this is fixed.
This is a short story, or the first couple of chapters for a book. Warning! Most of the series is not available to read. Would not suggest starting it until this is fixed.
July 29, 2025
Don’t waste your time.
Nothing original. Nothing innovative. The only good thing about the story is that it’s short.
Five words to finish review.
Nothing original. Nothing innovative. The only good thing about the story is that it’s short.
Five words to finish review.
July 21, 2025
Apocalyptic Endgame LitRPG
Book starts off of Earth as many books in this genre normally do. The MC sounds like a recluse, with close family ties. Looking forward to seeing how his character develops, including his wife, mom and other close friends. So far I like where this adventure is heading, looks like a mix of technology, old manual weapons, with a dash of futuristic weapons.
Update 7/20/2025 - Above review was after reading the first book.
- I read the entire series because I'm a completionist, and I'll save you time and suffering. DO NOT BOTHER reading this series. You will be mad and pissed off for wasting your time. So many errors, and weird aspects to the series where the authors seems like they're writing a completely different book within the same book. He doesn't even bother to maintain the story line, and midway through almost every book from Book 2 onward, he starts telling a different story that doesn't follow along with what you've read previously from the previous books.
Final recommendation DO NOT READ. Waste of time, and for the love of God don't pay for his hot mess.
Book starts off of Earth as many books in this genre normally do. The MC sounds like a recluse, with close family ties. Looking forward to seeing how his character develops, including his wife, mom and other close friends. So far I like where this adventure is heading, looks like a mix of technology, old manual weapons, with a dash of futuristic weapons.
Update 7/20/2025 - Above review was after reading the first book.
- I read the entire series because I'm a completionist, and I'll save you time and suffering. DO NOT BOTHER reading this series. You will be mad and pissed off for wasting your time. So many errors, and weird aspects to the series where the authors seems like they're writing a completely different book within the same book. He doesn't even bother to maintain the story line, and midway through almost every book from Book 2 onward, he starts telling a different story that doesn't follow along with what you've read previously from the previous books.
Final recommendation DO NOT READ. Waste of time, and for the love of God don't pay for his hot mess.
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