PrimeVerse: Forced Login

PrimeVerse Series 1

By: R. K. Billiau

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's Summary

No matter how many times you die, it still sucks.

For Hudson, the virtual world of PrimeVerse isn't all bad. It's beautiful; much nicer than overpopulated Earth. It almost feels like a vacation except for the volatile wildlife, lack of any amenities, and - oh yeah - the inability to log out.

Exploring the world, learning his class, and leveling skills is all fun and games until a powerful rogue player with a vendetta shows up to wipe out Hudson and his primitive tribe. Thrust into a conflict he didn't create, Hudson is forced into a cycle of respawning where he learns that even death can be used as a tool. So much for that vacation.

It's not like he signed up for this. Or even went willingly. but when life hands you lemons...use them to kill the dog-size spiders that are trying to eat your face.

©2019 R. K. Billiau (P)2020 Tantor

One of the worst MC's ever.

I am not thrilled about the new trend of having idiots that make the same mistakes over and over and over as the main character in books like these. its unenjoyable.

Great potential

So this series has great potential but the story does have a few issues.

For example when they are worried about being wiped out why don’t they just all quit the tribe of the mc so his class does not get reset?


Now to be clear I enjoyed the story that’s just an example of a question I had. I’m looking forward to when the world gets more advanced.

Such a fun book!

I have read a lot of LitRPG and, listened to a bunch as well, this book stands out as just plain fun, with humor laced through it! It's a unique setting, no NPCs or cities or anything exist yet, the players have to do it all. The 'system' is great also, familiar enough to easily understand, but also different enough to feel unique. I don't want to give any spoilers, but the system makes it so players aren't stuck in whatever class, so they can try out everything eventually.

The plot was fast paced, and had some great twists that I didn't expect. There are a lot of moments that made me feel like "what if they did this, or that" which is great because it kept me thinking about the world as a whole.

The narration was REALLY well done, and made it a pleasure to listen to. All in all, if you are looking for a book that is just plain FUN, I recommend this one. I am looking forward to more in this series!

good first book

I really liked this book. awesome mechanics. great setting. characters feel pretty real and the plot keeps moving forward.
highly recommended. not a perfect book but really solid.

hello captain obvious

I was excited when I bought this book. I was hoping for a smart litrpg and you sorta get this in this book. but the problems in this book are so obvious to solve but not one character thinks of them. an example of this is the main characters are fighting zombies hand to hand. Wich is stupid when he could pick up a stick or make a club which he has the skills to do. another one is the mc throws rocks at zombies he has access to rabbit leather why not make a sling to launch rocks and make a bag to keep them in but not one character in this book thinks about crafting. this game has crafting classes please use them.
besides the obvious solution to problems this book is good I love the class system and it's progressing system. the character are pretty well done.

poor

Writing wise quality wise on the lower end of lit RPG books though at least this book does a pure is actually edited for grammar narration wise all the characters are supposed to be teenagers yet they sound like they're in their thirties 2 elderly why this particular nail arator was chosen was because somebody doesn't know their job

almost 3 stars

yes it's a decent story that really drags and the main character can be really dumb and his friends are dumb and the bad guys are smart and crazy.

Excellent and original!

I love this book! I'm pretty new to LitRPG but PrimeVerse: Forced Login really impressed me. I liked the characters, except the ones you're not supposed to like, I loved the setting and system, and I appreciated the originality.
I look forward to the sequel.

good if not for the hunter chick

Hunter chick is effing annoying ruins a lot of the freaking book because of her someone needs to punch in the face get her to stop.

could have been sooo much better!

this story's setup is interesting but I can't not help but feel if the author had spent a bit more time on introduction and on our characters past we would be able to better connect with them. I did like the beginning it drew me in and there were scenes that had me lol but I really wish more time and effort had been put into this series it could have been a real diamond in the ruff. I'm not gonna lie after a bit it was difficult to get thru and the biggest reason I stuck with it was because I had hope that it would surprise me. it did not. I like how the game world is setup, there is cultivation, magic, core magic a little bit of everything. this story just could have gone deeper who knows maybe there will be more to the series and it will surprise us.

Great book. Epilogue ruins it.

I have really enjoyed this book start to finish. The characters are great and I enjoy the story line. The one thing that has ruined it for me is the epilogue. I'm sorry to say but the way the female character has been built up for the next book has put me off buying the next book/audiobook sorry.

The main character doesn't fit the story.

This review has minor spoilers, you were warned.

I really like some of the ideas this book used but it seems as if the author wanted to mix too many things together. The MC gets a non combat class, a treasure hunter that by all means would be perfect if this book was about solving puzzles or even just a LITrpg ripoff of Indiana Jones series and not a primal earth, combat focused story it is. Don't get me wrong I like the idea of a game that's in such setting but it would have been so much more interesting if the main character actually suited the setting. This could have been a tribe-war kind of a story, survival story or even city building one but in the end it became what it is now. By that I don't mean it is a bad book as it can be really interesting, but it can also be a slog to go through especially when you have the MC, Hudson trying to do things so out of character (like fighting) and then complaining that he isn't good at them and I as the listener was just sitting there and going "Wow, who would have expected that a treasure hunter isn't exactly a combat master".
Besides that I liked the Arcon (if that's how you write it) theme, putting gods in a story can often backfire but from what I've seen up till now it's good. As long as it doesn't go the Gods sending their avatars everywhere/Holy War and crazy church/cult route it's going to be fine.
The narrator did a very good job, he wasn't monotone and the voices he made were different enough, one minor thing is that sometimes he made the MC sound really whinny and that really grinned on my nerves.
One last thing, in my opinion everything that happened after the fight with Tim was bad, the reactions of the tribe, the decision Hudson made, it kinda feels like most of the story was for nothing.

To conclude this review, this book was Ok, not more, not less. If you have a number of books you want to listen to I would advice to check what are opinions on all of them, cause this one here wouldn't be my first pick. It also wouldn't be the last cause there are definitely worse books out there. This one would be somewhere in the middle and sooner or late you can give it a try. One thing that can really help out here is book 2 if it comes out but the author needs to figure out what kind of story he wants and then make the character fit in a bit more.