Dark Matter Ascension: Book 2: A LitRPG Adventure

Dark Matter Ascension, Book 2

De: SerasStreams

Narrado por: Nick Flesher, Clara Rose

“I’ve got the power. It’s time to make them pay.”

After achieving Tier 3 as a Dark Matter Aspirant, Jace Seren and his allies—Priam Westerfold, Greg Bhastal, and Quinn Cipher—are on their way to Earth.

Their mission is dangerous: take down all five megacorporations to clear the way for the Star Council to instill their control over the world and lift Earth’s civilization to its pinnacle of possibility.

Corpo-mercs, cybered-up soldiers, lingering Aspirants, and Ascendants? That’s only the start of it. For the Nebula Alliance already has agents on Earth, and they do not take kindly to hostile takeovers.

Earth is not the only world with problems, however, and Jace will find himself embroiled with a cult, fighting for the very survival of the universe itself.

©2025 SerasStreams (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

I love the story but

I really enjoyed this series but the full status sheet every time they get an upgrade kind of slogs it like I get you know want to know exactly what the update is but I feel like you could have condensed it down to just the changes and then once every other time they getting upgrade read out the whole thing instead of the whole thing every single time

this is just insanely good.

good from beginning to end, with the exception of D's companions voice. that high pitched tremble voice got to me.

Good story but a little repetitive on the stats

I enjoy the pace of the story, and the universe building is very good. The skill and item system is interesting as well. The repetitive use of the entire character sheet for each of the characters feels more like fluff to increase the word count than actually useful information. The narrators are good, but the incorrect pronunciation of one of the characters class titles by the female voice got rather annoying. Still, I look forward to the next book.

Excellent world building, great cast of side characters written very well, heartwarming, enjoyable, a lot of story threads.

First of all, let me say what I like, the narrators are excellent. They do a superb job of bringing the story to life. The only problem I have is the MC‘s voice. Sounds like he has bathroom issues every time he yells out a spell. The story itself, has a lot of twists and turns and a lot of threads which gives it a lot of places to go. I like this author’s previous work so I decided to go ahead and read this one. Some of the side characters have their own motivations and are written very well. Don’t care for the Shark chick. I think that’s kind of creepy having sex with a fish. But I’m not the author. I just skip past those parts. The other thing I don’t like is the MC is kind of dimwitted, to say it nicely. You have all this technology in the book, but the author can’t bring the MC’s intelligence up to regular standards. he doesn’t have to be a tactical genius, but for the love of everybody, please give this MC some education. On the other hand, I like him to become a tactical genius. He’s definitely not like the MC in the author’s last book. That really takes me out of the story and my only major complaint. Nobody well maybe I shouldn’t say that, but most people are not gonna follow an idiot. The power progression is excellent. The world building is very good and it’s well worth the read. In fact I’m going to start the next book and hope this shortcoming that I don’t like will be alleviated.

Still pretty good

I really enjoyed the first book for the most part. This one was not quite as good, but was still fine. My main issue is with the sub par narrators. Half the males sounded like over the top characters from cartoons, and the female narrator is so breathy and airy it was like listening to that stupid asmr stuff (which makes me shudder). So I had to listen in short stints and then switch to something else.

Also the MC is the iconic give a angry teenager power and all he's going to do is make all the people he blame for ruining his life pay trope. No real emotional depth, or trying to see things from any point of view but his. Maybe we'll see more growth from him in later books.

Excellent

This was an amzing book and the naration was well done. So glad I bought this.

Lacking some realism

A good story but you mean to tell me a street kid wouldn’t be suspicious of an almost all powerful creature being WAY too nice and acting motherly? And the last confrontation between the two I thought we were going to finally get some good conflict between them but just because she started crying he just gave up on the fact she took HIS choices away and has been leading him around like a blind dog. Not plausible imo

Good book but way too many stats

Good book but way too many stats. If you level something up, just cover the level up. You do not need to recap the entire stat tree. How is how many food rations and canteens you have relevant. Also, if you level something to level 12, why cover the other 11 levels. ie level 1 (level 1 stats), Level 2 (all level 1 stats plus X) and so one. Just say what the effect is of level 12. It really got to me when the entire team leveled up back to back. The stats lasted almost 30 minutes. I know this because it lasted almost my entire way to work. Again good book. If I was reading it, it would not have bothered me because I could gloss through the stats. While you can fast forward, that does now help if your are driving and cannot safely look at your phone. in that case, you are forced to listen to the entire skill tree.

MC doesn't behave the way real people do

Any reader of this genre has a great ability to accept very implausible realities, but we do expect that people will act plausibly within those realities. When they fail to do that, our ability to immerse ourselves into a story sometimes collapses.

The author almost stretched my credulity to the breaking point in the last book when our MC started a romantic relationship with a member of another species. A non-earth species and not even a mammal. The probability of that being possible is zero, even if everything else in their universe was true.

In this book, the MC decides to replace most of his body with synthetic material, including his private bits, along with changes to make himself compatible with his shark-lady lover. Again, the probability of a male allowing any physician to tinker with a perfectly functioning manhood is zero, particularly when the changes are experimental.

I'm not sure I can listen to this book any further.

Some things that could definitely use fixing

I love the book and the character expansion. It’s great learning more about everyone and their affiliations. But why is the new character getting more voice time than Greg? That’s annoying.

What pissed me off most is Jace. He’s trying to get his little sister back, yet he keeps splitting the Stardust with all three of them even when they’re on different worlds. That makes no sense and goes against the core of the story.

Dee’s voice actor needs fixing. It’s way too high-pitched and over the top. I started skipping her lines, which sucks because I liked her at first, but the voice just ruins it.

Jace feels inconsistent now. His personalities clash, and his original goal from book one doesn’t even seem to matter anymore. Descriptions could also be clearer — if you’re not fully locked in, it’s hard to follow what’s happening.

That said, I already pre-ordered book three. I’m excited, but changes need to happen. When Jace changes his skin, why the hell are we worried about what Shiv thinks? Who cares? The only thing that matters is what his sister will think when she comes back. If she looks at him like he’s a monster, or doesn’t even recognize him, that’s huge. But instead we’re wasting time on Shiv’s opinion, which is dumb when the whole story is about him bringing his sister back.