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Reality Bleed #5-8
Reality Bleed Series: Books 5-8 (Season 2 Boxset)
So Begins the Fall of ManContains books 5-8 of the sci-fi survival horror series Reality Bleed, written by best-selling authors J.Z. Foster and Justin M. Woodward.
The Fall of Man, Book 5
Hail the New Age.
Hail the New God.
Hail the Fall of Man.
It's been five years since the Mars Felicity incident, and the Cold War has only gotten worse. As countries venture forth to try and gain an edge in the global struggle, accidents are sometimes made…and new enemies appear.
World at War, Book 6
The World has gone to War.
The world has been a tinder box for years—all it needed was a match.
Now it burns.
As armies form up, and march, is there still time to face up against the enemies from beyond our world?
Hold the Line, Book 7
The world may soon be lost…
America watches with a growing anxiety as one-by-one the countries begin to fall. Old grudges now look petty in the face of the walking plague of alien beings hell bent on extermination.
It might be the end of all unless new alliances can form and Hold the Line.
Earth Siege, Book 8
War comes home…
The alien invaders have spread across the entire globe, and the bloodiest battles have yet to happen. As humanity struggles to adapt to an ever changing enemy, what extent will they plunge into in order to survive?
How much must the world give up in order to win?
The Fall of Man, Book 5
Hail the New Age.
Hail the New God.
Hail the Fall of Man.
It's been five years since the Mars Felicity incident, and the Cold War has only gotten worse. As countries venture forth to try and gain an edge in the global struggle, accidents are sometimes made…and new enemies appear.
World at War, Book 6
The World has gone to War.
The world has been a tinder box for years—all it needed was a match.
Now it burns.
As armies form up, and march, is there still time to face up against the enemies from beyond our world?
Hold the Line, Book 7
The world may soon be lost…
America watches with a growing anxiety as one-by-one the countries begin to fall. Old grudges now look petty in the face of the walking plague of alien beings hell bent on extermination.
It might be the end of all unless new alliances can form and Hold the Line.
Earth Siege, Book 8
War comes home…
The alien invaders have spread across the entire globe, and the bloodiest battles have yet to happen. As humanity struggles to adapt to an ever changing enemy, what extent will they plunge into in order to survive?
How much must the world give up in order to win?
732 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 6, 2022
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About the author
J.Z. Foster
29 books130 followersJ.Z. Foster is an Urban Fantasy / Horror writer originally from Ohio. He spent several years in South Korea where he met and married his wife and together they opened an English school.
Now a first time father, he’s returned to the states - and his hometown roots.
He received the writing bug from his mother, NYTimes best selling author, Lori Foster.
You can follow his writing progress on his Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/JZFosterAuthor/
Now a first time father, he’s returned to the states - and his hometown roots.
He received the writing bug from his mother, NYTimes best selling author, Lori Foster.
You can follow his writing progress on his Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/JZFosterAuthor/
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January 3, 2026
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The story continues it's juxtaposition of different moral philosophies. In season 2, Endo takes up the abstract mantle of Dr. von Braum. Making cold decisions based on facts and highest probability to achieve the goal - consequentialism. With stark difference between the two in their psychological maturity. While Braum had lived a long and eventful life, thus having lived through the stages of grief when confronted with self doubt, moral implications of his actions. Endo has just started experiencing those and psychologically is yet to reconcile with the reality what it is he physically does. Endo:
"They were all the same. They all died the same. Men died. Only Endo was different. He was dead, yet still lived."
Alice Winters continues her role from season 1, being pushed onward by moral obligation and sworn duty - deontology. Concluding season 1, noted world needs more men like John Winters, glad to see readers' get to experience more story from his pov.
The author, J.Z.Foster, continues to illuminate the inside working of circus of horrors that is the soviet union in "Reality Bleed". Minor character pov stories (Sokolova, Katya Andrev) showcase the delusional thinking that being bombarded with state propaganda 24/7 indoctrinates into regular citizenry in a war glorifying, military obsessed society. Utter lack of introspection and humanity molds one's mind to the delusional axiomatic doublethink of constant victimhood mentality while simultaneously performing inhumane acts on/abusing anyone weaker. Orcs truly are incapable of critical thinking.
While a bit on the nose. Zavar's and the propaganda broadcasting radio station in east Germany comparison to Felicity station makes one think how many such places exist. Places where few (un)lucky survivors are surviving through the horror akin to what took place in books 1 - 4 in Mars Felicity station.
Still not sure what are the roles of Marat Ivanov and Miles Westwood. Westwood, a down on his luck ex-dark travel series main host and star. Kevin Albrook is to be Westwood's duo. Of note, Kevin is enthusiastic to confirm the rumors and values uncovering truth. While Miles' TV personality seems to be what inspired Kevin, in reality Miles is apathetic to surrounding world and is more interested in dulling his feelings with substance abuse. Seems to be a mending of sheltered positivity and world weary negativity into a middle path. As one experiences the horrors of reds, death of innocence, and other sees his lost naivete in younger self, pursuing greater purpose.
Sergei Garen, standing grand martial, a man of duty and honor, for what it's worth from a red. "Tough decisions would have to be made. So was the way of war." "Those things and those places are not our people. They are not our culture. We are. We have a duty - to survive. [...] If we survive - our people survive, our language and our history survive. If we act as fools now there will be no [...] tomorrow." A man wasted on maintaining the diseased corpse of oppressive regime.
"China will do as it always has done, it will see to itself." China ambassador to USA. Lei Zhao, the chairman and de facto leader of China, has changed course of the nation "Where strength fails a keen mind prevails." This time pursing quantity over quality. Erkin Khan's story shows the cost of chinese(han) expansion. Han chinese oppression of other ethnicities. Sinicization politics. 5 years of "re-education". "He would obey, but he would not break!" "Why continue to live and dig holes?" "Chinese commandments of citizenship: There is not many there is one. One nation, one goal. Our integrity is unbreakable. We stand against our enemies, a unified people. For the glory of our people, for the glory of China. We will not fail!" all the while a person dying is being tortured to death and screaming to have his misery ended quickly in the background. Whatever happens after "The death of one god, birth of another." to China, it has brought it on itself! Unfortunate, prediction, that it will spiral to negatively affect regional neighbors and world at wide.
Conclusion: 4/5. Listened on Audible bought for 1 credit. Narrated by: Tom Taylorson. Audible sells Reality Bleed: Season 2 (book 5 - 8), for one credit, the length of the book and the quality of the story, an amazing purchase. Introduction of the cronux and the ridden to the Earth. Predominantly new cast of characters with couple old dogs whose personalities have changed following events in Season 1. Endo is experiencing life in full i.e. to live is to suffer. "There was no beauty now, no reason nor purpose for things." "Teacher had offered no lessons in morality. Only in servitude." Scarred archon has been poisoned both physically, by all manner of chemicals, and psychologically, by the individuality of humanity. "It's sad that all it takes for us is money" - Rolls. "Pursuit of the least amount of misery." what a doom and gloom way to look at world. Formulated like the opposite of the utilitarian "greatest happiness for the greatest number". "Earth Siege", Iran cp.12, 18., 21. "Those strong enough to break the eggs first. Typically savaged the others." "The brood would die so the strongest would survive." Arab archon was not strong, but he was wise. Will arab archon have set precautions in the hive mind to help Alice or to have transferred spark of divinity to little Eli John Winters, enabling him to become humanity's archon? And of course "Eat shit fat beef!" - Morat. Bad value for the length of the book - 1.65 $/hour ( 39.99 $ / 23 hrs 45 mins ).
Values:
Terrible: >1.66 $/hour
Bad: 1 - 1.66 $/hour
Good: <1 $/hour
Dream: 0.4 - 0.27 $/hour
Stars:
1 - Not worth the resources to reproduce/preserve this title.
2 -Bad
3 -Good
4 - Personally, love it
5 - Recommended to everyone
The story continues it's juxtaposition of different moral philosophies. In season 2, Endo takes up the abstract mantle of Dr. von Braum. Making cold decisions based on facts and highest probability to achieve the goal - consequentialism. With stark difference between the two in their psychological maturity. While Braum had lived a long and eventful life, thus having lived through the stages of grief when confronted with self doubt, moral implications of his actions. Endo has just started experiencing those and psychologically is yet to reconcile with the reality what it is he physically does. Endo:
"They were all the same. They all died the same. Men died. Only Endo was different. He was dead, yet still lived."
Alice Winters continues her role from season 1, being pushed onward by moral obligation and sworn duty - deontology. Concluding season 1, noted world needs more men like John Winters, glad to see readers' get to experience more story from his pov.
The author, J.Z.Foster, continues to illuminate the inside working of circus of horrors that is the soviet union in "Reality Bleed". Minor character pov stories (Sokolova, Katya Andrev) showcase the delusional thinking that being bombarded with state propaganda 24/7 indoctrinates into regular citizenry in a war glorifying, military obsessed society. Utter lack of introspection and humanity molds one's mind to the delusional axiomatic doublethink of constant victimhood mentality while simultaneously performing inhumane acts on/abusing anyone weaker. Orcs truly are incapable of critical thinking.
While a bit on the nose. Zavar's and the propaganda broadcasting radio station in east Germany comparison to Felicity station makes one think how many such places exist. Places where few (un)lucky survivors are surviving through the horror akin to what took place in books 1 - 4 in Mars Felicity station.
Still not sure what are the roles of Marat Ivanov and Miles Westwood. Westwood, a down on his luck ex-dark travel series main host and star. Kevin Albrook is to be Westwood's duo. Of note, Kevin is enthusiastic to confirm the rumors and values uncovering truth. While Miles' TV personality seems to be what inspired Kevin, in reality Miles is apathetic to surrounding world and is more interested in dulling his feelings with substance abuse. Seems to be a mending of sheltered positivity and world weary negativity into a middle path. As one experiences the horrors of reds, death of innocence, and other sees his lost naivete in younger self, pursuing greater purpose.
Sergei Garen, standing grand martial, a man of duty and honor, for what it's worth from a red. "Tough decisions would have to be made. So was the way of war." "Those things and those places are not our people. They are not our culture. We are. We have a duty - to survive. [...] If we survive - our people survive, our language and our history survive. If we act as fools now there will be no [...] tomorrow." A man wasted on maintaining the diseased corpse of oppressive regime.
"China will do as it always has done, it will see to itself." China ambassador to USA. Lei Zhao, the chairman and de facto leader of China, has changed course of the nation "Where strength fails a keen mind prevails." This time pursing quantity over quality. Erkin Khan's story shows the cost of chinese(han) expansion. Han chinese oppression of other ethnicities. Sinicization politics. 5 years of "re-education". "He would obey, but he would not break!" "Why continue to live and dig holes?" "Chinese commandments of citizenship: There is not many there is one. One nation, one goal. Our integrity is unbreakable. We stand against our enemies, a unified people. For the glory of our people, for the glory of China. We will not fail!" all the while a person dying is being tortured to death and screaming to have his misery ended quickly in the background. Whatever happens after "The death of one god, birth of another." to China, it has brought it on itself! Unfortunate, prediction, that it will spiral to negatively affect regional neighbors and world at wide.
Conclusion: 4/5. Listened on Audible bought for 1 credit. Narrated by: Tom Taylorson. Audible sells Reality Bleed: Season 2 (book 5 - 8), for one credit, the length of the book and the quality of the story, an amazing purchase. Introduction of the cronux and the ridden to the Earth. Predominantly new cast of characters with couple old dogs whose personalities have changed following events in Season 1. Endo is experiencing life in full i.e. to live is to suffer. "There was no beauty now, no reason nor purpose for things." "Teacher had offered no lessons in morality. Only in servitude." Scarred archon has been poisoned both physically, by all manner of chemicals, and psychologically, by the individuality of humanity. "It's sad that all it takes for us is money" - Rolls. "Pursuit of the least amount of misery." what a doom and gloom way to look at world. Formulated like the opposite of the utilitarian "greatest happiness for the greatest number". "Earth Siege", Iran cp.12, 18., 21. "Those strong enough to break the eggs first. Typically savaged the others." "The brood would die so the strongest would survive." Arab archon was not strong, but he was wise. Will arab archon have set precautions in the hive mind to help Alice or to have transferred spark of divinity to little Eli John Winters, enabling him to become humanity's archon? And of course "Eat shit fat beef!" - Morat. Bad value for the length of the book - 1.65 $/hour ( 39.99 $ / 23 hrs 45 mins ).
Values:
Terrible: >1.66 $/hour
Bad: 1 - 1.66 $/hour
Good: <1 $/hour
Dream: 0.4 - 0.27 $/hour
Stars:
1 - Not worth the resources to reproduce/preserve this title.
2 -Bad
3 -Good
4 - Personally, love it
5 - Recommended to everyone
December 25, 2024
How did we get from the first boxset I rated 5/5 on Goodreads to... this?
The first boxset is claustrophobic, atmospheric, gory, spooky at times, tense and distant because it's set on Mars.
The second boxset is the complete opposite. I wouldn't even call this a scifi horror book. Definitely not a horror book that's for sure. This is an action story set in a World War 3 drama with a very minor monster side story.
The first three books in this boxset are impossibly boring and tedious to go through. The only fun bits are the POVs of Alice (survivor of the first boxset) and the scarred Archon (the prince monster). Sadly their POVs are ~10% of the first three books in total.
The fourth book kinda tries to focus more on them and attempts to recapture what made the first boxset so much fun, but it doesn't succeed.
Boxset two is very very repetitive, all of the new characters are uninteresting and annoying, the political drama is copy pasted from so many other novels that did it better. Action scenes are a big downgrade from the first boxset. The gore is almost completely gone and the horror is absolutely gone.
Predictably, the USA in this book naturally suffers from the main character syndrome. Every other country in the world is evil or incompetent and needs the USA to babysit them.
In retrospect, I should have stopped after the first boxset. That way I would have avoided this disaster that might have actually ruined the first boxset for me now.
I don't think I'll continue this story with the 3rd boxset, which I don't think is even out yet. And that in on itself is odd. They apparently released 8 of these in just 2 years. From 2020 to 2022. We are in 2024 now and the last 4 books still haven't been written?
The first boxset is claustrophobic, atmospheric, gory, spooky at times, tense and distant because it's set on Mars.
The second boxset is the complete opposite. I wouldn't even call this a scifi horror book. Definitely not a horror book that's for sure. This is an action story set in a World War 3 drama with a very minor monster side story.
The first three books in this boxset are impossibly boring and tedious to go through. The only fun bits are the POVs of Alice (survivor of the first boxset) and the scarred Archon (the prince monster). Sadly their POVs are ~10% of the first three books in total.
The fourth book kinda tries to focus more on them and attempts to recapture what made the first boxset so much fun, but it doesn't succeed.
Boxset two is very very repetitive, all of the new characters are uninteresting and annoying, the political drama is copy pasted from so many other novels that did it better. Action scenes are a big downgrade from the first boxset. The gore is almost completely gone and the horror is absolutely gone.
Predictably, the USA in this book naturally suffers from the main character syndrome. Every other country in the world is evil or incompetent and needs the USA to babysit them.
In retrospect, I should have stopped after the first boxset. That way I would have avoided this disaster that might have actually ruined the first boxset for me now.
I don't think I'll continue this story with the 3rd boxset, which I don't think is even out yet. And that in on itself is odd. They apparently released 8 of these in just 2 years. From 2020 to 2022. We are in 2024 now and the last 4 books still haven't been written?
February 26, 2023
Great story, almost gave it a 4 because it is a page turner like the last few books. Wish I could do a 3.5 or 3.75. I struggle with the transition from the space station to earth and picking up a large portion of the book focusing on politics. I was hoping for something closer to the Alien earth war books. That may yet to come in the next season though. JZ does a great job with character creation and making you like them, could do a better job of world building with making you feel like you are there. Either way really looking forward to the next few books want to wait until there are a few more so I am not waiting on them to be written. Highly recommend the series.
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