Tim

Admittedly book 4 triggered this review

Reviewed: 03-12-24

The problem I'm having with book 4 is the same I've had with this and the rest of the series... But it is kind of ramped up.

The MC is frustrating. Very frustrating. The story has a lot of things I like, about the system and whatnot. But the MC sees major problems where there are none, or minor problems at worst. He doesn't process obvious clues, I can understand not being able to put things together because you don't pay attention to it, but he will be trying to figure something out or find hints about someone or something, and just not figure things out until it is decided to have the big reveal. Then his interactions with most people are painful to listen to.

Then there is the making things much more difficult to make sure you know the MC is the good guy or is doing the right thing. Even if they ignore how he's hurting others along the way.

I don't like writing a review in rage, but at least I kept the ratings from when I was level headed.

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Mix bag

Reviewed: 01-20-24

First of all 4 stars because I'm interested enough to check out the next book.
This was a enjoyable/frustrating listen for me. I was enjoying, then the MC starts annoying me, then I go back to being able to enjoy, back to being annoyed, enjoy again and finally in what was probably the last paragraph or 2 I get annoyed.

It is incredibly difficult to word my complaints or suggestions without either spoiling, or having my review be incredibly misleading, making the issues I had sound much more than they actually were.

The character is called out as being an A-hole a number of the times he is in fact being one. But it does kind of read like the person calling him that is being petty to him. Yes he is right most of these times but he is also being quite a little turd to the person.

The haggling, I don't mind a bit of haggling, but the way he argues tooth and nail with every vendor is irritating, at least give him a haggling skill that he is being nudged that he can go a bit lower or whatever, the fight every time is already not worth the discount he gets, or at least fade to black for the haggling once in a while. That combined with the fact he isn't from a culture that haggles... anyways it ends up just rubbing me the wrong way.

Please adjust the MC's fear a bit, a lot of times it is like he is looking for something to worry excessively about. It is fine with the life and death stuff, but he seems much more relaxed about that than communicating what he wants with his partner.. If he didn't trust them it would be fine, but he claims he does but doesn't really show it. I guess it is something that can show character growth.

None of these were done too excessively, but I mainly listed them to vent and let the people that may easily be triggered by these know.

That said it is an enjoyable story to go along with the ride for. No real overarching goal or anything, just dropped in a world to explore.

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Excellent

Reviewed: 09-14-23

TLDR VERSION: you probably know what to expect from an apocalyptic story and/or a regression story, this one is great. If you've read the authors' other works, this is probably a perfect combo of the two. I have no complaints that I have had in their other works. I want book 2 now.
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I hesitate to start both these author's books, not out of dislike, but they tend to each overuse something that makes me struggle to finish or start the next one.

Not an issue here. at all. I feel like I could point out things that each author did, but they also seemed to balance each other out so perfectly. I am already awaiting the next book, and the series will be one of my high priority series. (I stop whatever I'm listening to and listen to it)

Now for an analysis. Is this the best regression story? So far, probably not, but I'd put it as one of the top ones. I am a fan of the genre/trope so I have gone through a lot, but doubt I could name 3 that I would consider better. (This is high praise)

Target audience: Probably Teen/family. I don't remember there being swearing though if there is it's minimal. There isn't gratuitous violence, but there is some, it comes with the apocalypse territory, I honestly kinda expect more in the future. And aside from some innuendo, or maybe even suggestive themes, nothing else questionable that I can think of.

Honestly I can't think of anything to add or that needs to be said, it was an excellent story.

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I was put off by the reviews

Reviewed: 08-27-23

I will have to do a clarification review here because I was put off by the reviews and hesitated getting/starting this story.
First they are technically true. (at least the ones I'm going to focus on, there might be others that I didn't notice, or just don't bother me)

Let's start with the Christian Hate, There is a guy in a small portion of the book (I think he might be in 2 chapters) that is a bad guy, and uses christianity and his position for his own purposes. It is actually pretty realistic in human behavior. The story isn't claiming he's bad because he's Christian, it is he is an a-hole with power, and he happens to be Christian.

The reviews made it sound more targeted than it actually was.

Second, was the gender identity stuff. Ok there is one character that shows up, and has a minor role in the story. I didn't like the character either. Honestly just spent the whole time crying while their young sibling had to deal with everyone. Actually I think it was handled decently. It was actually such a minor part of the story it shouldn't hold any real weight, except that they will probably be in book 2 and we will have to deal with them again. Like I said, I didn't like the character, I think the sibling was like 12 or something, and if you are going to make a kid take care of you because you are too caught up in your own head, I can't really like you. (Honestly should have been crippled or something so it would make sense.

That said, I enjoyed the story and the abundant casual references to other books. I rather enjoyed the journey with the MC. And while the idea of dealing with one character more is slightly irritating, it is nowhere near enough for me to drop the book or hesitate to continue the story.

It was tough to clarify things for fence sitters, and not do any spoilers.

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huge error

Reviewed: 11-08-22

the audiobook is messed up prologue is fine then it goes to a completely different book until chapter 23 it reverts back to this book. and its a different narrator too i think.

the other story is an adult romance and luckily the book pretty much finished by the time it reverts back to this book.

of course audible doesn't have an easy way to report issues like this.
11-8-22

EDIT: I rated it 4 stars because the other book seems pretty complete and I did enjoy it, though I was expecting the system to interrupt and throw everything off the rails lol.

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Kind of boring

Reviewed: 07-18-22

Honestly I know it is slice of life, and that tends to be a meandering day by day plot. I enjoy it in anime, I enjoy it in manga, and I think I enjoy it in light novel format, I just can't remember if I've actually read one in light novel format. However Audiobook just isn't for me, and I think that applies to pretty much any Japanese translated book, as I wasn't very enthused with Overlord. I just prefer reading those books, with or without pictures.

I did like that the narrator sounded Japanese enough that the Japanese names and terms used sounded correct (compared to what I read them as, and in anime I tend to not be able to pick out what each word means most of the time), however didn't have an accent while reading normally. there were a few minor things, but enough of them I docked a star, I would have done half a star if that was possible.

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noob and this book

Reviewed: 06-28-22

noob is a noun verb adjective adverb pronoun and probably used in other ways of which I don't know the term for. you might actually get sick of the word.

i guess the story is good enough to hold interest, however I don't know if I will get the next book.

don't expect a masterwork and about half way the story picks up.

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I might be biased

Reviewed: 04-19-22

I personally hate conartists and it made the story difficult to listen to. On the other hand things going wrong for him were very enjoyable.

that said I tried to review it without my personal feelings. The story is well written but slow.

I can't think of any complaints I had with the narrator so he gets full marks.

If you don't mind a scummy mc (he doesn't actually do anything scummy at least) and are ok with a slow base building story I do recommend this.

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This book made me sad

Reviewed: 04-15-22

When I got to the end of it I was sad, sad that I didn't put the book off til book 5 was out and I could binge binge binge.

Now all I can do is wait.

That is my review, now I'll let you know a bit about the book.
Currently there is no real LitRPG, but I think that starts the next book. (even if it might be a spoiler, it is in the series name and should be addressed)
It is not a part of his Ludenverse, or whatever its called.
It is a cultivation story mostly, and he is forced to go about it in unique ways. As the description didn't go further in, I will also keep quiet about certain aspects. That said this is the story I was looking for when I listened to another book with the main character in a similar situation. The beginning didn't really hook me, but once he started basically surviving on spite, that's when the story started drawing me in and kept drawing me deeper. Saying the beginning is slow would be wrong as it starts you in the middle of the action but I just wasn't feeling it until like I said, he showed his spiteful side.

This was by far the messiest review I've ever made.

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Excellent, but I already knew that

Reviewed: 12-29-21

I was going to wait on this audio book but some reviews complaining about the narrator caused me to be curious and move ahead with listening.
I'd say it is a 4.5/5 but the complaints I remember were girls sounding like children and random accents. The only people that sounded like children were the sister (9) the girl on the bridge (child) the boy on the train (starting the school so probably 13 or 14 but was shy which tends to sound childish) and novelty (10). so I can't criticize. as for the accents, the city has a ton of immigration traffic and people worldwide go to the school to learn (from my understanding) and the world gave me a victorian feel when I read it. So I can't criticize here either

Now the real review, this is like groundhogs day and harry Potter as others have said. arc 1 focuses on the character's growth more than anything else. if you are familiar with the menocht loop story, this mc is more likable at the start and seems to grow more as a person. this story was written first though.

there's a lot of information dumps, like something comes up then is explained then built on more gradually as the character learns more (generally not an info dump anymore). I feel it's only fair to warn ahead of time.

this story is like you are living through the loops as the character and there are time jumps, more as the story progresses, but for the most part is a slice of life story. not much action but there is some.

It is definitely one of my favorite stories.

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