The Onset

A Student Wants to Live, Book 1

By: Boris Romanovsky

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

I'm a college student who watched with my own eyes as the world descended into hell. A Dark Sphere arrived on Earth, turning half the planet into zombies. They thrive on killing us—people—as every kill fuels their development and makes them stronger. Besides zombies, there are also mutants—mutated animals—plus monsters: bizarre creatures in possession of striking strength and abilities. Levels, skills, new yet unheard-of objects…our world has changed. We have only one hope of surviving: we need to fight. By killing zombies, mutants, and monsters, we're becoming stronger. And I, Andrew First, will be the strongest of them all.

©2023 Boris Romanovsky (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

wish fullfillment

Reads like a horny teenage boy wrote the story. This a translation, so ... Russians. narration was do well.

Interesting Story

the story is different compared to other litrpgs I have listened to so far. I like it but not a fan of the main characters behavior. He is just to egotistical, claiming everything is his from the beginning. not a fan of stories with a main like this.

I enjoyed it

those familiar with the litrpg genre: this is your typical Russian litrpg you know what I mean I'm sure. overall the mc is competent, smart, strong, and ruthless when needed.
single pov.
slightly op but not to much (you understand there are other people in the world that çan kick his a**). he still has to get a feel for his powers, hopefully thats in the next book because I like the books where the mc is the strongest.
it did have a couple weird parts however that was odd for Russian style and didn't add to the storyline. first is the introduction of a trans guy that never does anything but clean and nothing else he literally doesn't have any part to play in the book so it doesn't make sense and second was an out of nowhere scene where this biological brother and sister are groping each other and kissing. when the mcs group first met this pair earlier in the story the author made a point to point out the two had the same hair skin and eyes so much so that they looked like siblings but they said they were not and they were dating. overall just a weird part that never went anywhere. I hope this author is not going to take things in a weird direction since this book does have a bunch of potential.

Good book

i am not a big fan of LitRPG stories but this one was realy good nealy as good as the golden blood series by the same athour.

I liked it

I’m a system apocalypse junkie and I found this one a bit refreshing. First there isn’t any cultivation so all abilities are system generated and people have to make do with what they get. The mc is not what you’d imagine to be a blood mage at all. In fact he doesn’t really know what it is either but he’ll use anything to get ahead. The people managing him and blogging his triumphs are hilarious. I also like all the horny thoughts. It’s very real that at the end of the world everyone is thinking about hooking up. I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.

Fun start to a series

Great narration along with an action packed story. Can't wait for book number two to release.

I can see the potential

Truly liked where this is going, and cant wait to see how far blood magic will go. Might need a female narrator for the females characters, he's good just need alot of work on female characters. I NEED MORE THEN 9 HRS!!!! Especially for the price your askin, luckily i had a token

pretty good.

there are some definite cultural differences that are involved with reading a Russian authors book, but this one is pretty good. most importantly ignore the review of the guy with zero reading comprehension that doesn't understand the plot.

The plot is very straightforward I literally have no idea how he got confused. slight spoiler here but just proof of what im saying. yes mc left the school with a group, group immediately abandons him and he goes back to rescue a friend at the schools dorms who calls for help. that's it.

overall it's a decent story though with good characters. honest review is probably an 8/10

I like what your doings

the book has alot of potential your idea and power system is unique 👌🏿, but I can't get behind your MCs borderline Simp/retarded his downfall seems like it's going to be woman idk if your aiming for that but that's how it looks so far I personally don't like simp characters sets a bad image. also near the end when he says he didn't know there was going to be a reward for being first to do the thing, didn't make sense since fr the beginning it was established that the faster you did something the better the rewards, this is what I mean by being retarded. hopefully next book has less simping and more goal based action.

Solid

excellent start to a series. I love competent MCs and like how the characters went about the apocalypse so far.