Death: Genesis 2: An Isekai LitRPG

Book 2

De: Nicholas Searcy

Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer

Reborn into a world of magical skills and superhuman abilities, a young man battles the forces of darkness, in this action-packed, post-apocalyptic fantasy.

On Earth, Zeke Blackwood was a star athlete who devoted his every waking minute to baseball . . . before his tragic death and the devastation of the planet. Eons later, he was resurrected in a magical realm known as the Radiant Isles. There, Zeke survived two years of unrelenting combat through sheer grit and determination. Battling trolls in a labyrinth of caverns, he gained superhuman abilities with every victory, ultimately equipping him for a war between good and evil.

Now, along with his companions—a beautiful archer named Abby and Pudge, a dire bear cub who’s become soul-bonded to him—Zeke engages in quests to help the defenseless against the monstrous creatures and near-immortal beings who prey upon them. But his latest selfless act has brought him into conflict with the Crystal Spiders, an assassins’ guild that’s been kidnapping people for some unknown purpose.

Before Zeke can unravel that mystery, he’s summoned by Silas Martel—a monk of the mighty Temple of the Sun Goddess and spymaster for its head priestess and ruler of the Radiant Isles, demigod Lady Constance—for a dangerous mission. He must rescue Constance’s daughter from Abraham Micayne, Lord of the Dead. The treacherous task will take Zeke, Abby, and Pudge through zombie-infested lands, with the Crystal Spiders in hot pursuit. And even though every brush with death only makes Zeke more powerful, nothing can prepare him for the macabre horrors of Micayne’s dominion . . .

The second volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series—with more than 700,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

©2023 Nicholas Searcy (P)2023 Podium Audio

Exhausting

Enough with the recycled moral dilemmas. Please, get back to flow and pace of book 1.

Good as the first

A must listen, if you got the first. If not, then get the first a you will love this one.

Better than the first book, but not by much

It's better than the first book, just because the first two thirds of the book is not just the narrator narrating as a onlooker following the mc like the first book. But apart that, nothing got that much better, the RPG part of the book got somehow worse when it was very "light" to put it mildly, it's there just for the tags, at least that's what it feels, there's no numbers or any precedent, sometimes they get "a lot of xp" sometimes almost nothing, how much do they need to level? who knows, how much do you get per what kind of mob or anything of the sort, who knows, it all feels just haphazard without any second thoughts about how the "system" that the whole world is supposed to be built around has no foundation to really get a grasp around it.

The constant second guessing of decisions already pondered to a stupid amount just to be re pondered in different words the following chapters doesn't make the characters complex, it just feels like the author thinks the listeners are so stupid they have to be reminded why the character is doing anything every 15minutes, and the constant goody two shoes to a stupid degree actions don't help either. Overall, it feels like poor writing, not bad, but not well thought out or very "realistic" as in what people in those situations would act like.

The narrator while not bad, just doesn't have the range of voices to do multiple characters, especially the female ones, both Abby and Talia sound almost literally the same 8 out of 10 times, not to mention they don't sound very feminine at all.

It’s amazing with one personal issue

I love the story. The action, character development and the world design. My only slight with it is the morality aspect. I know it’s supposed to further enhance the character development. But it’s hypocritical for the main character to have these lofty ideals while himself enacts them. His morality is flawed.

enjoyed the book, I think Abby is great personally

I don't understand all the Abby hate, I like the story and the direction is heading, looking forward to many more