Apocalypse Comedy

Gravity and Divinity System, Book 1

De: Hunter Mythos

Narrado por: Zeno Robinson

A jokester crashes the System, angers the gods, and becomes more powerful with every climactic battle.

Jay Luckrun has many interests: street dancing, anime, action movies, comedy, and dashing across rooftops to the point where his bullies nicknamed him Rooftop Weirdo. After struggling to confront his untouchable high school crush at her seventeenth birthday party, Jay adds another interest to his list—Dungeon Crawling in the face of the apocalypse.

Jay meets a divine creature who chooses him to become a Champion. Someone with a leveling System, stats, skills, access to other dimensions containing dungeons filled with supernatural loot, and magical powers that’ll alter reality as they know it.

Becoming a Champion comes with some issues. Global assassins want Jay and other Champions dead. Monsters are hungering to break out of their dungeons and raze Jay’s world. And Jay’s just one young guy trying to have fun with a Class that gets weirder as he evolves and masters his new gravity powers.

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great archetypes

Overall this book is pretty good too much teenage angst for me. The author does a good job of keeping the reader engaged in the action, if you're looking for a good world building book I would not recommend this one.

Meta-Narrative Slows Pacing

This book has a great concept. The main character is a strong young man who has overcome adversity, and the story is an interesting take on the apocalypse genre. While many books focus on the complete destruction of Earth, this one offers a unique premise where the main character is given a chance to stop the apocalypse from escalating. The system itself is also quite interesting.

However, the narrative style was not for me. The story gets bogged down by "meta" elements, where the main character "writes his own story" inside the book you're listening to. This can get a bit tedious at times.

There is also a significant amount of character building for the side characters, which I imagine is being set up for them to have their own storylines later on. While this is a good choice for the series, it does slow down the pacing of this first book.

Overall, this is a solid book for readers who enjoy a unique twist on the genre and don't mind a slower pace with lots of character-building.

interesting but plays pretty basic

the start was good the Mc takes a L at the start makes a play off brains instead of bronze kinda works then it introduces mcs dream girl a walking godlyling red flag then gets super basic he's just strong enough to do everything (even tho he had lost every human fight hard) bro just says ya I'm weird constantly even tho he's basic except does parkour without ever being weird in the way he implied gets annoying tho it does still have touches of personality it really falls flat to me will not be continuing

the main is a simp

nobody likes a simp. the personalities of the characters are trying to seem unique and interesting, but there 2 dimensional as hell. I could barely make it halfway through this story and had to quit, and I listen to a new fantasy book almost daily. If you like a new take on generic then get this book otherwise try hellgate.

Tropes and inside humor are well done

Well narrated. good start to a series. You get to know the characters as the story progresses. fun concept.

DEAR....SWEET.....GOD!!

Listen and listen closely for I can't explain this any better. It's basically He Who Fights With Monsters, but with teens and super otakus. This book is glorious and I'm basically mad I listened to it, because now starts the waiting and praying for a quicker release to the sequel.

story for for teens and maybe some YA

Could not continue listening to this “comedy”. Not something I enjoy. A note somewhere in description mentioning it’s for teens would be helpful.
Female voices sometimes hard to distinguish.

worth continuing

that sort of hyperactive self aware energy where the protagonists actively manipulate the narrative. some people hate that vibe, I'm not one of them. definitely approve

Did not finish

This was not, I repeat, HWFWM, not even close. This was not funny. The MC is frustrating as well as the main love interest. I guess I am not young enough or I am not the target audience. I tried, I really tried to like it. Just couldn't find myself finishing it.

Really good!

Entertaining story but i do have to say that the characters steal the show, especially the MCs mom she is awesome! The only major con i can think of is how long the dungeon took to complete it dragged way too long. but i will definitely be getting the next one