Save State Hero

Save State Hero, Book 1

By: William D. Arand

Narrated by: Stephanie Savannah

Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Have you ever woken up, rolled over, and thought to yourself, “I’m pretty sure I’m working for a Super Villain.”

If you haven’t, then maybe you’re not the type of person to work for a global corporation.

Edmund, however, is just such an individual.

He works for Legion: a corporation of unimaginable reach that he barely understands, a corporation that seems determined to put itself smack dab in the middle of a brewing civil war between Super Heroes and Super Villains.

That doesn’t even take into account the fact that the governments of the world don’t seem to be taking too keenly to Legion, either.

All of that is mostly irrelevant to Edmund, though. He works for the company and does all he can to make sure they succeed.

From cleaning up after a bad operation and disposing of bodies to providing hush money, getting rid of agents from opposing intelligence communities, or just helping an informant escape from a Super Villain, Edmund has done it all in this line of work.

That doesn’t fill up the entirety of his life, however.

The rest of it is trying to get a date with the woman he likes and looking out for his little sister while hiding the fact he himself has a superpower.

A superpower that lets him save and load the world whenever he likes as if it were a video game and subject to his personal whims.

At least, that’s what he thought in the beginning.

©2023 William D. Arand (P)2023 Podium Audio

very interesting

This reminds me very much of Quicksave from the book series The Perfect Run, which is also a good book so this is a compliment. It's interesting to think about the possibilities and how far back this goes and intertwines into the story. good if you're caught up with the current series interested to see how it ties into the other aligning book series

Challenging read, but fun

It was a little difficult to keep track of where or rather when things were, as I usually only listen to it on my drive to and from work. A fun spinoff.

End game for Runner

The first half is friend zone MC second half he saves all the universe in Runner / Ryker world. No harem in first book maybe the next one. A better story then OP MC if you no you no.

A great book

Super well written, great seeing another character arc great narration get this book you will enjoy it

This is not another typical book in the series

This is not a harem book and sex scenes are minimal.

There be spoilers beyond this line.

This I hope is the climax and primary conclusion to the series but not Edmunds story.

Edmunds revert state ability seems a reasonable way to resolve the series.
I hope there won't be back tracking.
This is not harem lit and the way characters are throwing themselves at Ed needs some explanation.
Ed comes off as too mature without showing enough how he got there.
I don't think Ed's suspicion towards Runner makes sense considering Zeus's behavior even with Ed's limited knowledge.
Maybe he's projecting maybe there's a plot device but I feel like that will be a big story element in the next book to keep the stakes high.

I think the limits on the power make sense and are about the best you can do and make the plot work.

There is a lot of words spoken as direct from the author to the audience.

While I say I don't want back tracking, super sales was my introductory series and the end of Andrea is hard. It cements stakes although it comes out of nowhere and I don't see it as clearly connected.

Zeus's lines left me with the idea that Zeus failing has consequences.
Dots behavior doesn't really make sense either.

I think it's a solid book though it isn't cookie cutter in line with the rest of the series that I love.
Ed's story is more like the first in a series than the last. I like that he is taking time and trying to make it work with Romina. It seems like resetting is slowing down his life and story.

It's a good story

I don't like how a few of the characters are voiced but that happens when you get three to five different narrators.

Another great book by William d Arand

I really enjoyed this new story and the main character is really fun. Stephanie Savannah does a great job narrating

dull mediocrity

a new low for the author. I had to give up on listening 4 ours into the book, as I could nor come up with a single reason to continue spending my time on this book instead of something else.

Had Potential to be better

There was potential for this to be better than it was, but it felt like the author lost interest, and wanted to wrap this up.

Wonderful offshoot story.

I wasn't sure what to expect with this book.
And I'm not surprised that I LOVED it.
This story follows a minor character in the 2nd trilogy of Super Sales for Super Heroes.
His power is going back in time to previously set "Save States" and it coincides with book 5 of the SSSH series.
It's kind of an important look into what was going on behind the scenes and beyond during book 5.
If you are jonesing for book 6 and need a SSSH fix, this will suit your needs well.
If this was numbered like Travis Bagwell's Awaken Online series, this would be book 5.5.
Amazing story and narration.
Thoroughly enjoyed it ❣️