The System Apocalypse Books 1-3

The Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG Fantasy Series

De: Tao Wong

Narrado por: Nick Podehl

The end of the world with dragons and Levels

The world ends in a slew of blue notification boxes, bringing with it a game-like existence including monsters and Classes. Now, John has to make his way from Kluane National Park in the Yukon to Whitehorse through monster infested forests. But, that's not enough; because he'll need to help rebuild civilization itself around the System, aliens and monsters. And, as always, humanity will be its own greatest enemy.

This collection contains the first three books of the highly rated System Apocalypse series (Life in the North, Redeemer of the Dead and the Cost of Survival) and completes the first arc—Whitehorse and the Yukon and the first year of the apocalypse.

The System Apocalypse contains elements of games like level ups, experience, enchanted materials, a sarcastic spirit, mecha, a beguiling dark elf, monsters, minotaurs, a fiery red head and a semi-realistic view on violence and its effects. Does not include harems.

©2019 Tao Wong (P)2024 Starlit Publishing

Great performance by Nick

Nick Podehl did a great job, this story is a big hunk of…. Coal, it’s not shiny and is only good for burning.

During combat the whinny protagonist will speak in platitudes about the facets of nostalgia and adventure, rather than details of the fight, and when there are details it’s very minimal.

The protagonist whom the writer wanted to be a brooding loner is more snowflake teenager with a big stick, and will ignore, others and then be completely flabbergasted he knows nothing of what’s going on.

I honestly missed 1/4 of the book because I got so bored I would space out. I’ll give it three stars because I liked the production, but I knock off points because characters are stereotypes and dull.

Very Political and Introspective

I can't say this was a bad series, but for all the complaints that he doesn't like politics he is embroiled in it in every book.
Additionally, he spends the vast majority of the series sulking around talking about how much he hates the System.

Nick Podehl was one of the first narrators that pulled me into LitRPG audiobooks, his performance kept me listening, but the amount of political intricacy was too much for me to really enjoy.

My final complaint is that throughout the series he relied so heavily on one time use equipment rather than skills and abilities. The economics of the shop overshadowed the litrpg theme

it's ehh

Starts really slow and took me some time to get into. Even once I got into it, I wasn't gripped or excited. It's just a decent time killer if you like the gamelit genre and you've already read all the good stuff. It's not gonna top any charts though. Ok worldbuilding but nothing super cool. It's MC is kind of annoying and has a lot of emotional problems that dont always make sense. Decent plot though. Doesn't spend too much time reading character sheets or system messages which is nice. Books are a bit short but the 3 for one credit is a good deal. Solid 3 star books, not great but not terrible either.

great litrpg

A great pick for your next litrpg. I wanted something good and I found it. I can't wait to listen to the next book.

not bad, not great

the universe was fun and enjoyable. I enjoyed a majority of the systems mechanics and how they're explained. my biggest gripe with this book was that the author over uses certain words/scenes to the point it started making my skin crawl. specifically the word "snarl" and the frequency the MC eat chocolate. honestly if the rest of the books used these words less I'd continue the series but after 3 books I don't see that changing, so I probably won't listen to anymore from this series.