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

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.

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

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.