Oblivion

Hazard Online #1

by Jaeger Mitchells

A freak accident leaves childhood friends Aiden and Scarlet dead and stranded in Hazard Online, a VRMMORPG.

They're pushed to the brink of their sanity as they awaken with the knowledge of their death and are thrust into an experimental expansion, which only further threatens to tear them apart.

They ally with two young women who seem to know much more than they're letting on, and an AI Overmind, who offers them a deal. But perhaps it's better to let some secrets stay hidden, and sacrificing their humanity may be the only way to survive...


NOTE: Contains explicit sexual situations, foul language, polygamy and all that other goodness you expect in a LitRPG novel! Only for 18+, so read at your own risk.

PS: 15.11.2018, the new, edited and reworked version went live.

Genres: Fantasy

442 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 19, 2018

Reviews

[Dana Herriing · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good read but...

While I did enjoy the book and had no issue with the all the action. It was a bit too negative at times. I would have liked to see deeper character development. It felt like the characters jumped from scene to scene. I will read the next book but if it is like this one , I would have to this k very hard about continuing the series.

[Craig Willis · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting world, but populated with only broken characters.

While I finished this story, I found it quite a difficult read. Every female character in the book is broken and messed up, almost every male is just as bad. The MC is basically raped within a the first few chapters, and literally raped after that.

Things do get better at the very end of the story, with so characters toning down their issues a little, but it's such a dark set of people the book focus on that I really had to force myself through a few chapters. I do understand that some of the issues the characters are facing are explained in the story, but it did feel a bit much.

However, the world is interesting and detailed, I enjoyed the combat and descriptions, and the opening battle really sells the world and the game, I found myself quite drawn in with the intrigue.

I will probably read the second to find out more about what is actually happening behind the scenes.

All in all I did finish the book,and did enjoy quite a bit of it. If you can get past the dark and broken people surrounding the MC, then there is an interesting story under it.

[Brian Carter · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is my fault, I have been in a LitRPG phase and have been burning through credits on Audible. I did no research, I was on the road and clicked a suggested book, this book, when I should have called one of my parents or a sibling. The universe knows I should’ve called home so I deserved this. I listened to the Audiobook. The narrator was Maximillian Breed, and I didn’t like his interpretation and maybe some of what I didn’t like was him. I realized it was terrible early on: plot was not compelling, characters were not well-developed, relationships between characters just did not seem natural or human, dialogue came across like the author had never interacted with human beings before. I had hopes that it would be so bad that it would be good, but that didn’t happen. This book was from 2018, so I’m not saying to stay away from this author or narrator…maybe they’ve grown in their work…but damn I wish I had my audible credit back.

[Sean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely not what I was expecting. It was written in the Russian style of gamelit novels, with less crunchiness than most. The character's emotions were completely wild and bipolar, but it was actually realistic for people who had just died and ended up in their situation. The MC got everything handed to him on a silver platter, but that was what tipped him off to the experiments the big baddies were doing to him. The plot was good and since we only lived about 3 days in the book it was more about emotional reckoning than moving through to a goal. Once I understood what the MC was going through I thought that his actions and his friends actions lined up with what could be expected, but each of these people is extremely flawed so don't expect societal norms. This book also has a lot of happytimes explicitness so don't read it unless you're ok with adult situations.

[Drew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable

I did enjoy this book but there are a few grammatical errors which are frustrating and a good editor/proofreading may have spotted.

Interesting premise and there seems to be a good plot like e developing so will continue to read. There is a strong adult element which is fine but seems a wee bit jumbled at times.....maybe the proofreader was overwhelmed 😉

Time to find the next in the series...

[Gary Bruner · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dumb again

Ok, I am tired of back stabbing of friend to friend. Really???? Read the history of the Spartans on honor, glory and strength of body, mind and spirit. I keep looking for something like in these narratives, oh no! From opening page it was obviously the friend. Oh well nice try but no score.

[Sam · Rating 2 out of 5]

This could have been good but personalities and interactions between characters are so terribly unbelievable they boarder on the absurd. Has the author actually met people?

[Simon · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book until the fed up ending a boss literally in front of his employees saying he is going to rape and her no one blinks and is ok... just a fucking stupid ending.

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The psychological stuff wasn't really my cup of tea

[Richard · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is bland and confusing to me. There was nothing in the book to suck me into the narative and make me want to read the second book. So this is it for me for this series.

[Lenron Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was pretty badass. Oh that ending was quite fucked, but I am not surprised. After all David was insane.