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Alpha Physics! #1
Wagga
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…
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…
470 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 14, 2021
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About the author
Alex Kozlowski
17 books98 followersAlex 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.
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.
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May 5, 2021
No, just no.
I barely got through fifty pages. The premise is overly complex. The writing is muddled. The mechanics are a mess. This whole thing is a mash up of ideas poorly put together. The main character is boring. There is nothing here to salvage. So, to summarize. No, just no.
I barely got through fifty pages. The premise is overly complex. The writing is muddled. The mechanics are a mess. This whole thing is a mash up of ideas poorly put together. The main character is boring. There is nothing here to salvage. So, to summarize. No, just no.
March 5, 2023
This story is okay. Yes, faint praise, yadda yadda. The world is interesting and the background makes a smidge more sense than you'd expect from a system apocalypse LitRPG. And everybody having different interfaces was interesting. And the monsters were a good mixup of weird, formidable, and creepy.
But Adrian is kind of a slow putz. He ponders endlessly over simple things and his emotional resilience is nearly zero. I get it, your wife and kids are a thousand kilometers away. Do we really need all the crying, though? And it isn't helping that there's a scene where he can't really help a family being hunted by a thing. But his dithering and hand-wringing about it was so extreme I wanted to smack him a bit until he pulled his head from his nethers. And then he'd refer to it again periodically like the author couldn't come up with enough new angst so he'd default back to an old favorite.
And don't get me started on him botching
All that said, this was an interesting take on power fantasy and I'm skipping all the good things Adrian manages to do. Plus, his interface mocks him in all the ways he needs mocking, so that's a draw. I'm going to call this three stars and note that I'm cautiously heading to the next in the series.
A note about Chaste: Adrian has a wife in Melbourne. He's a completely devoted family man and has no interest in fooling around. And the people who indicate willing are good-enough at taking hints that it never became an issue. So this is pretty chaste.
But Adrian is kind of a slow putz. He ponders endlessly over simple things and his emotional resilience is nearly zero. I get it, your wife and kids are a thousand kilometers away. Do we really need all the crying, though? And it isn't helping that there's a scene where he can't really help a family being hunted by a thing. But his dithering and hand-wringing about it was so extreme I wanted to smack him a bit until he pulled his head from his nethers. And then he'd refer to it again periodically like the author couldn't come up with enough new angst so he'd default back to an old favorite.
And don't get me started on him botching
All that said, this was an interesting take on power fantasy and I'm skipping all the good things Adrian manages to do. Plus, his interface mocks him in all the ways he needs mocking, so that's a draw. I'm going to call this three stars and note that I'm cautiously heading to the next in the series.
A note about Chaste: Adrian has a wife in Melbourne. He's a completely devoted family man and has no interest in fooling around. And the people who indicate willing are good-enough at taking hints that it never became an issue. So this is pretty chaste.
August 15, 2021
I found this one by looking through reviews and decided to give it a go. So far, every Aussie LitRPG had dealt with a post apocalyptic scenario. I don't know what's going on down there, but their outlook on life seems a bit skewed :)
We start the book with Adrian going through a mana storm after human scientists created an alpha particle. It really doesn't matter why the apocalypse is happening, just that it is. The mana storm gives him a unique template for notifications and leveling, and all his numbers divided by ten versus everyone else.
Still, Adrian's got a decent head on his shoulders, and he adapts to the situation quickly. He'd been at work when it happened, so now he's got to deal with a portal that showed up and spewing imps across the Australia countryside.
So far, so good.
Book 1 is pretty good. It does drag at times, especially when Adrian is trying to figure something out or is fighting with his interface, but there is enough action to keep the story moving.
After facing the imps, he walks to Wagga Wagga and hooks up with his friends and others who are fighting the sudden invasion of bad beasties. There is some town building going on, but again, there is enough action to keep my interest high as the story evolves.
At some point this book will be turned into an audiobook, and that's where things are going to go wrong. The tables, the notifications, the updates and more are voluminous. At times they make Aleron Kong's tables look pitiful, that's how big they are. How a narrator will read that, I have no idea, and I hope the author figures out that while tables are fine, they are difficult to narrate.
We'll see.
Overall, there is enough happening to keep the book interesting and offset the interludes of overthinking that Adrian is prone to.
Having said that, this dynamic will change in book 2.
Recommended 5/5*
We start the book with Adrian going through a mana storm after human scientists created an alpha particle. It really doesn't matter why the apocalypse is happening, just that it is. The mana storm gives him a unique template for notifications and leveling, and all his numbers divided by ten versus everyone else.
Still, Adrian's got a decent head on his shoulders, and he adapts to the situation quickly. He'd been at work when it happened, so now he's got to deal with a portal that showed up and spewing imps across the Australia countryside.
So far, so good.
Book 1 is pretty good. It does drag at times, especially when Adrian is trying to figure something out or is fighting with his interface, but there is enough action to keep the story moving.
After facing the imps, he walks to Wagga Wagga and hooks up with his friends and others who are fighting the sudden invasion of bad beasties. There is some town building going on, but again, there is enough action to keep my interest high as the story evolves.
At some point this book will be turned into an audiobook, and that's where things are going to go wrong. The tables, the notifications, the updates and more are voluminous. At times they make Aleron Kong's tables look pitiful, that's how big they are. How a narrator will read that, I have no idea, and I hope the author figures out that while tables are fine, they are difficult to narrate.
We'll see.
Overall, there is enough happening to keep the book interesting and offset the interludes of overthinking that Adrian is prone to.
Having said that, this dynamic will change in book 2.
Recommended 5/5*
June 11, 2021
Couldn't push through
The first four chapters.... That's how long the author spent going through irrelevant flashbacks and poorly written explanations that could have been condensed in to a single page. Seriously.. The writing is all over the place. It feels like the author has a jumble of ideas but lacked the skill to share them. I give it two stars because I have seen a LOT worse in this genre.
The first four chapters.... That's how long the author spent going through irrelevant flashbacks and poorly written explanations that could have been condensed in to a single page. Seriously.. The writing is all over the place. It feels like the author has a jumble of ideas but lacked the skill to share them. I give it two stars because I have seen a LOT worse in this genre.
July 23, 2022
Rating 4.0 stars
This was a good addition to the genre. It started off pretty slow for me. The MC was alone for the first couple of hours of the audiobook and he isn't the most interesting of characters. It does get better over time. I rate these type of books based on categories. World building, magic system, characters, action. I would say the world building was above average and the magic system was average to above average though it did get better towards the end of the book. The characters are a little below average. The MC is a 40 year old with a wife and kids that are over 1000 km away when the world changes. He doesn't know how he is supposed to reach them. I should feel more empathetic to him and he brings this up a lot during the story but I just didn't care that much. The author wrote him as a little simple IMO. He saved lives but felt he wasn't doing anything. He gave away a lot of his loot because other people needed it but he didn't want to be thought of as a hero. He was written in a way that I think people would like to act but I know nobody would really act like that.
The story itself is that because of the experiments with physics an alpha particle was found. When this happens the world of physics is completely changed. This has happened multiple time on multiple worlds and a system has been devised to help these new worlds survive. An interface is given to every person on the world to help them advance/survive. During the mana storm that the MC is caught in, the interface helps him by guiding his advancement. It helps him get younger, get stealth skills and magic understanding. As the story goes along we find out not all interfaces are the same. Some are generic and some are special The rest of the story is him getting stronger, getting back with his friends and helping the town survive with the future goal of going back to Melbourne to find his family. Overall I enjoyed the book and will continue the series.
This was a good addition to the genre. It started off pretty slow for me. The MC was alone for the first couple of hours of the audiobook and he isn't the most interesting of characters. It does get better over time. I rate these type of books based on categories. World building, magic system, characters, action. I would say the world building was above average and the magic system was average to above average though it did get better towards the end of the book. The characters are a little below average. The MC is a 40 year old with a wife and kids that are over 1000 km away when the world changes. He doesn't know how he is supposed to reach them. I should feel more empathetic to him and he brings this up a lot during the story but I just didn't care that much. The author wrote him as a little simple IMO. He saved lives but felt he wasn't doing anything. He gave away a lot of his loot because other people needed it but he didn't want to be thought of as a hero. He was written in a way that I think people would like to act but I know nobody would really act like that.
The story itself is that because of the experiments with physics an alpha particle was found. When this happens the world of physics is completely changed. This has happened multiple time on multiple worlds and a system has been devised to help these new worlds survive. An interface is given to every person on the world to help them advance/survive. During the mana storm that the MC is caught in, the interface helps him by guiding his advancement. It helps him get younger, get stealth skills and magic understanding. As the story goes along we find out not all interfaces are the same. Some are generic and some are special The rest of the story is him getting stronger, getting back with his friends and helping the town survive with the future goal of going back to Melbourne to find his family. Overall I enjoyed the book and will continue the series.
September 4, 2021
I don't even know why I try LitRPG books. This one, like every single one I've tried, is just horribly written, featuring infuriating and immature characters and cringe-worthy plots. LitRPG is like gamer vomit on the page, and as a gamer myself I'm always so embarrassed to see how enthusiastic other gamers are about crappy writing.
The only good thing I can say about the entire subgenre is that it has gotten people who would never pick up a book to actually read something. Hopefully these readers will graduate to other genres and realize just how much better other books can be, because holy shit. I understand reading comfy, trashy books -- I do it too when I need a mental break -- but man, I really hope they read other things and expand their horizons beyond cringe-filled, grammatically crappy books.
The only good thing I can say about the entire subgenre is that it has gotten people who would never pick up a book to actually read something. Hopefully these readers will graduate to other genres and realize just how much better other books can be, because holy shit. I understand reading comfy, trashy books -- I do it too when I need a mental break -- but man, I really hope they read other things and expand their horizons beyond cringe-filled, grammatically crappy books.
July 6, 2022
I really want to know how the author came up with this name, I guess I will find out.
It seems Wagga is "wagga wagga", a place in Australia, so the book takes place in Australia.
I can't read anymore of this book. I don't know if it's because the author implemented his plot poorly, or if it's just that boring. But this book is a slog, and nothing is happening so far to justify me sticking with it.
I'm sixteen chapters in, and I'm willing to give it one more chapter, but I don't see it changing my mind.
If I was to describe it, this would be called a "mechanical" story.
It just feels so emotionless. It's like the author saw what was popular and tried to stitch together his own story.
With a name like Alpha Physics, you would think the protagonist would be exploiting things with his understanding of physics, nope (at least not by chapter sixteen).
I skimmed through a few chapters (sad that the book was so bad that it forced me to do that).
The book actually improved somewhat about ten chapters later (when he met other persons at the factory). I will give it a few more chapters.
The stats are absolutely horrible.
I've finished the book (with a few paragraphs skimmed over).
I will not continue the series, nor read anything else by the author.
1.5/5 Stars
It seems Wagga is "wagga wagga", a place in Australia, so the book takes place in Australia.
I can't read anymore of this book. I don't know if it's because the author implemented his plot poorly, or if it's just that boring. But this book is a slog, and nothing is happening so far to justify me sticking with it.
I'm sixteen chapters in, and I'm willing to give it one more chapter, but I don't see it changing my mind.
If I was to describe it, this would be called a "mechanical" story.
It just feels so emotionless. It's like the author saw what was popular and tried to stitch together his own story.
With a name like Alpha Physics, you would think the protagonist would be exploiting things with his understanding of physics, nope (at least not by chapter sixteen).
I skimmed through a few chapters (sad that the book was so bad that it forced me to do that).
The book actually improved somewhat about ten chapters later (when he met other persons at the factory). I will give it a few more chapters.
The stats are absolutely horrible.
I've finished the book (with a few paragraphs skimmed over).
I will not continue the series, nor read anything else by the author.
1.5/5 Stars
June 12, 2021
One of the best random Kindle Unlimited recommendations that i've read in a while.
It's a System Apocalypse ,caused (not important to the story) by a Atoms Collider (did i call it right?)
I liked it ,just like i enjoyed it in "The Last Physicist", it's an interesting way of answering the fermi paradox and as good as any way of introducing the system.
But that's where the similarities end.
The MC is likeable, i loved the lack of dialogues in the first third of the book,the slow ,but not bad ,"imp arc", and mostly the non-nonsensical characters in a fantasy world.
In lots of others Litrpgs the dialogues and "witticisms" and gamersh!t can be off-putting also the " beta male thing"that also plagues this genre.
All in all , i liked the writing, the MC , the world, the system.
It was a fresh breeze for me that i've been swimming in these waters for a while, Just what i needed after another Eric Ugland book. haha
There was a berserk reference somewhere in there ,I think, I wonder what the author will do with this character.
Best wishes for the author and his family.
It's a System Apocalypse ,caused (not important to the story) by a Atoms Collider (did i call it right?)
I liked it ,just like i enjoyed it in "The Last Physicist", it's an interesting way of answering the fermi paradox and as good as any way of introducing the system.
But that's where the similarities end.
The MC is likeable, i loved the lack of dialogues in the first third of the book,the slow ,but not bad ,"imp arc", and mostly the non-nonsensical characters in a fantasy world.
In lots of others Litrpgs the dialogues and "witticisms" and gamersh!t can be off-putting also the " beta male thing"that also plagues this genre.
All in all , i liked the writing, the MC , the world, the system.
It was a fresh breeze for me that i've been swimming in these waters for a while, Just what i needed after another Eric Ugland book. haha
There was a berserk reference somewhere in there ,I think, I wonder what the author will do with this character.
Best wishes for the author and his family.
July 8, 2021
It was... okay.
The was a okay book. More than a few editing issues. While the "system" and stats were different from what I'm used to, it wasn't bad. I just gotta say that the book lost me around the 30% mark. It didn't at all go in the direction I was hoping. When the mc was gain his interface, there weird things that kind of hinted at becoming a predator of some sort. All most nonhuman, but that didn't happen (which was disappointing). Another thing that kind of didn't work for me were the fights. They were terribly dragged out. All while the mc inner monologues. ( It actually reminded me of Dragonball Z, where a single attack, lasted four episodes). I schemed entire chapters to just get to the point. I wont be reading book 2.
The was a okay book. More than a few editing issues. While the "system" and stats were different from what I'm used to, it wasn't bad. I just gotta say that the book lost me around the 30% mark. It didn't at all go in the direction I was hoping. When the mc was gain his interface, there weird things that kind of hinted at becoming a predator of some sort. All most nonhuman, but that didn't happen (which was disappointing). Another thing that kind of didn't work for me were the fights. They were terribly dragged out. All while the mc inner monologues. ( It actually reminded me of Dragonball Z, where a single attack, lasted four episodes). I schemed entire chapters to just get to the point. I wont be reading book 2.
April 20, 2021
Book one
Mistakes: While this is a good story there are so many errors that I can't rate this book better. The author says that this is the edited version. I say edit again.
Plot: System Apocalypse.
Characters: The MC has cool abilities, he also cries a lot.
5/10 Edit again and do a proper job of it and this becomes a four star book.
Mistakes: While this is a good story there are so many errors that I can't rate this book better. The author says that this is the edited version. I say edit again.
Plot: System Apocalypse.
Characters: The MC has cool abilities, he also cries a lot.
5/10 Edit again and do a proper job of it and this becomes a four star book.
July 21, 2022
This was a hard read for me, I couldn't for the life of me like the MC in this series, and some elements of the story the author is using, can in the future come crushing down hard on it.
April 17, 2021
Very enjoyable read
Not sure what to say about this one honestly. It is a great start to a series and I really look forward to seeing where it goes. The characters are relatable and developing nicely. A must read if you like the game apocalypse genre.
Not sure what to say about this one honestly. It is a great start to a series and I really look forward to seeing where it goes. The characters are relatable and developing nicely. A must read if you like the game apocalypse genre.
August 25, 2021
The MC is meh!
I gave this book a 3 because I love the genre. The MC is extremely difficult to like. He's a 40ish year old man due to theme of the book is given a younger 20ish body but ends up still being too damn neurotic. Not once has even acted his age. The first half of the book was very difficult to follow. I've read hundreds of litrpg books and the system used for the main character is confusing and not easy to follow. The MC inner dialogue is frustrating to follow and at times I wish someone would just slap him to get him thinking clearly. If you're going to make the MC overpowered with his skills and gifts and be heroic, he can't keep flip flopping between being a coward, a basket case and then all powerful and brave. It gets quite annoying especially since he prided himself at being smart but does a horrible job of showing his intelligence. I love the storyline but the MC is meh!! Either he's a hero or a pussy! Being both at his age is too much of a disconnect for me as the reader.
I gave this book a 3 because I love the genre. The MC is extremely difficult to like. He's a 40ish year old man due to theme of the book is given a younger 20ish body but ends up still being too damn neurotic. Not once has even acted his age. The first half of the book was very difficult to follow. I've read hundreds of litrpg books and the system used for the main character is confusing and not easy to follow. The MC inner dialogue is frustrating to follow and at times I wish someone would just slap him to get him thinking clearly. If you're going to make the MC overpowered with his skills and gifts and be heroic, he can't keep flip flopping between being a coward, a basket case and then all powerful and brave. It gets quite annoying especially since he prided himself at being smart but does a horrible job of showing his intelligence. I love the storyline but the MC is meh!! Either he's a hero or a pussy! Being both at his age is too much of a disconnect for me as the reader.
November 6, 2021
Absolutely Awesome
A stealth mage using a crowbar to fight in the Outback, brilliant. The ex project manager who has a non standard interface can be idiotic sometimes, but is a decent MC.
A stealth mage using a crowbar to fight in the Outback, brilliant. The ex project manager who has a non standard interface can be idiotic sometimes, but is a decent MC.
June 12, 2021
Great read, want more!
Complex, realistic, very human main character caught in a fascinating, newly created world. Creative and original. Can't wait to see where the author takes the series.
Complex, realistic, very human main character caught in a fascinating, newly created world. Creative and original. Can't wait to see where the author takes the series.
June 12, 2021
Excellent Story
Well thought out and palpable background for this story with plenty of action, with no VR/Game in sight. And down under as well!
Well thought out and palpable background for this story with plenty of action, with no VR/Game in sight. And down under as well!
June 11, 2021
Good old Litrpg
Amazing book with even more promising future! Can’t wait for another epic adventure on Adriens way to Melbourne. Definitely something you “must” read!
Amazing book with even more promising future! Can’t wait for another epic adventure on Adriens way to Melbourne. Definitely something you “must” read!
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July 20, 2021DNF - What’s the point of making a system if it’s not the same for everything? The levels don’t matter and nothing is quantifiable, it’s utterly illogical. Really cool way of introducing the apocalypse though, might be my favorite.
December 26, 2023
DNF , not a great start , was not for me.
October 26, 2021
Good Book
Interesting take on the litrpg apocalypse, and god knows those can be hard to find. Also has a subtle but great joke that takes a couple hundred pages to build that I appreciated the effort on.
Interesting take on the litrpg apocalypse, and god knows those can be hard to find. Also has a subtle but great joke that takes a couple hundred pages to build that I appreciated the effort on.
October 17, 2021
An enjoyable read
The story and game/world mechanics were intriguing to learn about and kept you wanting to know more. The abilities, pathways, and interfaces provided additional depth that made the world and story feel unique.
The story and game/world mechanics were intriguing to learn about and kept you wanting to know more. The abilities, pathways, and interfaces provided additional depth that made the world and story feel unique.
July 22, 2025
Wagga (Alpha Physics, #1) – Alex Kozlowski
Overall Impression
Pacing & Structure
Character & Emotional Stakes
Worldbuilding & Mechanics
Writing Style & Execution
Conclusion & Rating
Overall Impression
This debut makes a bold attempt at LitRPG apocalypse, but stumbles under its own ambitions. It starts slow, pretends to be gritty, then quickly resorts to overwrought introspection and system dumps.
Pacing & Structure
The first third drags interminably. Essential info—like the protagonist’s job, age, and family—lands so late the reader is left adrift. Details arrive piecemeal, making early chapters nearly unreadable.
“Getting a grasp on the who/what/where took too long. The pacing feels padded, like the story is chasing depth but delivers delay instead.”
Character & Emotional Stakes
Adrian, our MC, is so emotionally disconnected it’s exasperating. He mulls over his kids and wife incessantly, but without ever developing genuine attachment.
“His dithering and hand-wringing are so extreme it's hard to care. There’s more angst than action, and yet very little actual heart.”
Repeated reminders of his longing for family ring hollow. Their names are barely mentioned, and we never feel the emotional reality he's supposedly tortured by.
Worldbuilding & Mechanics
Yes, Australia is the setting, but geographical inconsistencies undermine the believability. And while the System is central, it often feels like fluff—stats are dumped frequently but rarely matter moment-to-moment.
“Too much screen time is spent staring at numbers. It’s more spreadsheet than story at times.”
Writing Style & Execution
Prose is mechanical at best. The writing habitually tells instead of shows. Self-doubt becomes repetitive wallowing. Editing is uneven—early chapters in particular feel like rough drafts.
“The tone is dry, the tension forced, and the emotional arcs fall flat. You keep waiting for it to start delivering—but it never quite does.”
Conclusion & Rating
This book tries to blend hard science, gamelit, and family drama into a cohesive apocalypse narrative—but succeeds in none. For readers who demand emotional depth or tight pacing, it’s a slog. The occasional clever idea doesn’t outweigh flat characters and stylistic missteps.
Rating: ⭐☆☆☆☆ (1 / 5 stars)
🛑 Skip unless you're desperate for post-apoc LitRPG with slow pacing and minimal payoff.
📉 Fails to deliver on the emotional, mechanical, and narrative fronts.
😑 Dispassionate storytelling undercuts its own stakes.
Verdict: Wagga wants to be thoughtful and character-driven—but it ends up bogged down by stats, repetition, and missed opportunities. A rough start to the series.
October 14, 2021
fresh and fun
It’s an apocalypse type system book but just enough different to be refreshing. I enjoyed it very much and look forward to more
It’s an apocalypse type system book but just enough different to be refreshing. I enjoyed it very much and look forward to more
October 7, 2021
Amazing literature
I love this book, it has a lovely scientific and realistic feel to a world of fantasy. It is definitely not the most joyful of books I have read and it shouldn't be. Life isn't always rainbows and sunshine and when it is you should enjoy the moments when it comes. The humor always had me cracking up it was well timed especially if you started feeling a little too dark. 10/10 Would definitely recommend this book to others. I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
I love this book, it has a lovely scientific and realistic feel to a world of fantasy. It is definitely not the most joyful of books I have read and it shouldn't be. Life isn't always rainbows and sunshine and when it is you should enjoy the moments when it comes. The humor always had me cracking up it was well timed especially if you started feeling a little too dark. 10/10 Would definitely recommend this book to others. I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
May 18, 2021
4.5. Not quite awesome, but a good read with a reasonably relatable MC. MC spends a bit more time than I'd like whinging about how he isn't capable of solving all of the world's problems, but usually snaps out of it in time to get the job done. The interface/leveling system was more complex than many stories of this type, but that is relevant to the plot so it works. I'll be checking out the sequel.
February 25, 2022
KU Review
I keep getting sucked in to these Aussie apocalypse stories. This one is really fun so far. The torture of being so far away from loved ones with no easy way to reach them gives the story a weight keeps you rooting for the mc’s success.
As the title says this is a review for Kindle Unlimited and as such is a reflection of my enjoyment of the book and in no way reflects cost to value analysis.
I keep getting sucked in to these Aussie apocalypse stories. This one is really fun so far. The torture of being so far away from loved ones with no easy way to reach them gives the story a weight keeps you rooting for the mc’s success.
As the title says this is a review for Kindle Unlimited and as such is a reflection of my enjoyment of the book and in no way reflects cost to value analysis.
May 10, 2021
I liked it
It’s not flawless. The MC spends a lot of time alone and gets all kinds of bonuses. He also made me quite frustrated at one point. But overall, it is a decent System Apocalypse style novel, with potential for a good series.
Decent prose, and family friendly to boot, as long as the family can handle some pretty horrific carnage.
I look forward to the sequel.
It’s not flawless. The MC spends a lot of time alone and gets all kinds of bonuses. He also made me quite frustrated at one point. But overall, it is a decent System Apocalypse style novel, with potential for a good series.
Decent prose, and family friendly to boot, as long as the family can handle some pretty horrific carnage.
I look forward to the sequel.
June 18, 2021
Wow
This is one of those books that not so very subtly just ups the whole game. You want the apocalypse? Lets make it bigger. You want magic? Lets make it raw and understandable and logical. You want monsters? Lets make the world possibilities endless and fear palatable. Great book. Cant wait for the next. Worth your time
This is one of those books that not so very subtly just ups the whole game. You want the apocalypse? Lets make it bigger. You want magic? Lets make it raw and understandable and logical. You want monsters? Lets make the world possibilities endless and fear palatable. Great book. Cant wait for the next. Worth your time
April 19, 2021
I try to read at least 150 books a year and I have to say this is probably the best book I've read in at least the last 100 and the list is tight but I think I want to squeeze it in my top 20 books of all time somewhere. I should point out though that this book is right in my strike zone being Post Apocalyptic with the added bonus of LitRPG, The reason It's taken me a few days to review it is I immediately had to go check out the authors RoyalRoad to read the second book I got that hooked and couldn't focus on anything else. All of that praise out of the way I have to say the book isn't perfect and the first 5 maybe 6 chapters almost put me off, I'm glad they didn't but yeah if that happens to you keep going it gets better. Following the first few chapters the first 30% or so of the book is methodical slow grind and repeat almost like old school Everquest > Wait until its safe, pull, kill, wait, Loot, wait, repeat. I hope that isn't a spoiler but as safety first is a big part of the book because it's "hard core" or "One life" I have to put it out there. After that there is lots of off and on action and preparation for the climactic battle at the end of the book and in the end it all feels very well tied together and satisfying. The author seems to be using two different systems he made himself using both stat based format and some cultivation that I think might be inspired by the memory cores from Divine Dungeon and maybe even a little Materia from FFVII if you took that system in a dark and bloody direction, overall it works out well and the author has the system even more cleaned up in the second book. So in the end if you like any or all of the following > Post Apocalyptic, LitRPG, Survival books / Games, or old school hard core MMORPGs I highly recommend this and like i said if the first few chapters jumping around puts you off the entire book isn't like that and it gets much better fast.
February 22, 2023
How does shit like this keeps getting 5 books, while good stories are ended too soon.
The book is boring ah hell, i never thought a apocalypse can be made this bad.
The starting of the book is just way too slow, explaining stuff that no one cares, and doing it in a way that takes freaking 4 chapters, are you serious mate.
Then when we come to the action, who taught you to write action scenes, freaking explaining energy coming up through muscles and going into the hand through pathway, wow cool right, but then imagine it being done over a million times, and man the mc, oh boy the mc, too plain , too dumb(especially when he is a self professed smart person), too many people at the starting point, a jumble of plot, too much of just interested stuff, that might sound logical and you will get the feeling that "hmm that seems like it could happen in the real world", well then put a since fiction tag, not a litrpg tag, bloody hell, this book is what I fear when I pick up a litrpg, this book is what happens when a writer tries to do the "smart" things and tries to make a logical sence of the chaos, and then you get this bland shell of ideas that are too scared to go big for the fear of being unrealistic and end up being too restrained for it own good.
I would seriously recommend anyone reading this review to pass this book, bit because it bad, and that the problem, it's boring and by the time you realise that there is nothing interesting going to happen, it will be too late, and you will be left with a sour taste in your mouth.
The book is boring ah hell, i never thought a apocalypse can be made this bad.
The starting of the book is just way too slow, explaining stuff that no one cares, and doing it in a way that takes freaking 4 chapters, are you serious mate.
Then when we come to the action, who taught you to write action scenes, freaking explaining energy coming up through muscles and going into the hand through pathway, wow cool right, but then imagine it being done over a million times, and man the mc, oh boy the mc, too plain , too dumb(especially when he is a self professed smart person), too many people at the starting point, a jumble of plot, too much of just interested stuff, that might sound logical and you will get the feeling that "hmm that seems like it could happen in the real world", well then put a since fiction tag, not a litrpg tag, bloody hell, this book is what I fear when I pick up a litrpg, this book is what happens when a writer tries to do the "smart" things and tries to make a logical sence of the chaos, and then you get this bland shell of ideas that are too scared to go big for the fear of being unrealistic and end up being too restrained for it own good.
I would seriously recommend anyone reading this review to pass this book, bit because it bad, and that the problem, it's boring and by the time you realise that there is nothing interesting going to happen, it will be too late, and you will be left with a sour taste in your mouth.
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