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Melee
What was once virtual, is now reality.
Trapped in the middle of an alien invasion, Logan James, a down-on-his-luck dollar store cashier, discovers there’s only one way out…
Compete in an alien-imposed game, a global battle royale called the Melee.
Forced to fight with his best friend Dwayne and a cute cashier named Alicia, he finds that the rules are simple: battle against the other participants and an army of the galaxy’s worst monsters and villains, level up, amass experience points and loot, and use any means necessary to reach the center of the Earth in 19 days.
Hundreds of people will live.
Hundreds of millions will die.
Trapped in the middle of an alien invasion, Logan James, a down-on-his-luck dollar store cashier, discovers there’s only one way out…
Compete in an alien-imposed game, a global battle royale called the Melee.
Forced to fight with his best friend Dwayne and a cute cashier named Alicia, he finds that the rules are simple: battle against the other participants and an army of the galaxy’s worst monsters and villains, level up, amass experience points and loot, and use any means necessary to reach the center of the Earth in 19 days.
Hundreds of people will live.
Hundreds of millions will die.
350 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 6, 2019
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October 7, 2019
Book one
Mistakes: I found two. C4 is a stable explosive and can’t be set off by shooting it. The tongue grabbed the lady by her legs and dragged her into its mouth. Her friends would have been unable to grab her legs, arms maybe, but not legs.
Plot: Kill to survive as aliens turn the world into a giant life or death game.
Characters: The MC is an interesting character. Why was he healed but not those at the hospital. Even his buddy was healed of missing bones in his foot.
6.5/10
I would like a story just once where the MC is disabled and earns being healed, not just given it at the start.
Mistakes: I found two. C4 is a stable explosive and can’t be set off by shooting it. The tongue grabbed the lady by her legs and dragged her into its mouth. Her friends would have been unable to grab her legs, arms maybe, but not legs.
Plot: Kill to survive as aliens turn the world into a giant life or death game.
Characters: The MC is an interesting character. Why was he healed but not those at the hospital. Even his buddy was healed of missing bones in his foot.
6.5/10
I would like a story just once where the MC is disabled and earns being healed, not just given it at the start.
April 27, 2020
Wow! Unsure whether the LitRPG genre is relatively new as this was the first I had not only read (listened to the audiobook version actually), but also ever heard of it. With my recent exposure to the mashups of CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) books as a kid and Text Adventure RPG games on the mobile app platform-see Magium for what I believe is among the best examples, I first thought when seeing the LitRPG tag that this book was another example of Magium where along with the mobile app, an actual novel copy of the book could be found as I did so on Amazon. Though that wasn’t the case, I still found myself being transported into this intense, yet often gruesome in Savage’s unapologetic graphic description of events in the world I found myself easily drowned and immersed in, especially with Luke McKeel’s incredible narration and voice acting talent that helped give distinct voices and personalities that only aided and enhanced this RPG experience where the reader, me in this case, could only spectate, but between the author’s good handling of prose along with a good grasp if how people really talk currently in our day to day lives and McKeel’s impressively realistic delivery of virtually all the dialogue put me smack dab in the middle of the chaos surrounding this chaotic “Melee” that all these characters find themselves thrown in with literally only one way out. It was a blast to read!
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January 22, 2022THis book was amazing I really loved it.
January 24, 2022
Decent story
This was an interesting read and kept me engaged for most of it. It is a little rough around the edges but has a charm that shines through.
This was an interesting read and kept me engaged for most of it. It is a little rough around the edges but has a charm that shines through.
January 17, 2020
I try to see the best in every book because a 1 star for me might be a 5 star for someone else. However, this book is just badly written. The basic structure of story writing has just crumbled into a mess.
It is just kind of a uninteresting unfocused mess of a book. I was really off put by how boring and bland the characters are first off. They just seemed emotionally removed from every situation. The stories flow also felt unfocused and was very confusing. If this was a movie I would think the director and editing crew were out to lunch the entire production. It seems that for the most part grammar and spell checks were ran, but otherwise nothing was done.
The disability the MC had also seemed to be used more as a plot tool and kind of disappeared when it wasn't needed. If we didn't get a reminder about it every 5 minutes I might of forgot he even had a disability.
It is just kind of a uninteresting unfocused mess of a book. I was really off put by how boring and bland the characters are first off. They just seemed emotionally removed from every situation. The stories flow also felt unfocused and was very confusing. If this was a movie I would think the director and editing crew were out to lunch the entire production. It seems that for the most part grammar and spell checks were ran, but otherwise nothing was done.
The disability the MC had also seemed to be used more as a plot tool and kind of disappeared when it wasn't needed. If we didn't get a reminder about it every 5 minutes I might of forgot he even had a disability.
November 4, 2019
This is everything
So fun and fast and gritty and and and loved this so much can’t wait for the next book, loved
So fun and fast and gritty and and and loved this so much can’t wait for the next book, loved
January 9, 2020
Entertaining
I liked it, it is very fast paced. The action starts and doesn't stop till the end. I don't know where the next book will go, but I will try it
I liked it, it is very fast paced. The action starts and doesn't stop till the end. I don't know where the next book will go, but I will try it
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