Respawn: Lives 1-5

Respawn, Book 1

By: Arthur Stone

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell

You are no one. Level zero. Empty of mind and memory. Even your past has been stripped from your brain by the inscrutable System.

A long, difficult road lies between you and remembering any part of who you are. A road punctuated with one death after another. You are too puny to survive by might alone. Information is the single resource that might keep you alive, but the brainless “digis” have none of it. Only those with experience can give you what you need, but most care nothing about you or your plight. In fact, some make it their mission to kill you.

So die you will, again and again, your life counter clicking lower and lower. Even the creators do not know what happens when your counter reaches zero, but many are sure that your last life here is just that. No more respawns.

You are not the first player in the world of STYX, and you will not be the last. You can only hope luck will be on your side. The luckiest players are those who find a vulnerability in the System. Those they call cheaters.

Perhaps cheating is the only way to win.

Enjoy your game.

©2018 Arthur Stone (P)2020 Podium Publishing

Basic story

undetailed basic story almost no character development and lacking comprehensive details to fill in the world

Instantly captivating

I was hooked in the first five minutes. The way it starts out instantly made me start asking questions. I needed answers as much as Rockie did. So on the journey I went.

If you've ever seen Sword Art Online, an anime, then it's kind of like that. The descriptions of everything is very well done, especially some of the more gruesome scenes. I really enjoyed feeling like I was immersed there with them. Some of the NPC enemies they fight even made me nervous. You'll either absolutely love or hate Kitty.

Finding this has now given me another series I will have to buy. Take all my money!

Fantastic

Loved the story that ending was fantastic and never would've planned that so completely
I greatly recommend this book What does

Really interesting premise

Looking forward to book 2, sometimes annoying olit spoonfeeding of the protagonist.. hope it gets better as he levels a bit

Fun

I thought this was a fun book, a good book to listen to and a good LitRPG.