Wow

I’m absolutely loving this series so far. Picks up and carries on just like no time passed. The OC is growing more powerful and is learning more about the system as well expected. At the same time some curveballs are introduced. Can’t wait for the next book!

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Fresh Take on a System Apocalypse Story

A good book to listen to over and over again. Isaac is the main character that is the last man standing after the apocalypse and gets the opportunity to go back to the beginning to change the fate of the world.

The system is a summoning system, where anyone can summon a monster to fight and level up. The catch is that humanity has to balance the need to get stronger against the risk that the monster they summon could kill the summoner and wipe out a city before it's stopped. Some choose poorly.

I like that the author addresses the fact that all the people he knew and fought beside for the last ten years, the people he watches die one after another, are gone forever. Isaac has to balance grieving for the friends and family that aren't just dead, but never even existed in this timeline against the young, unblooded man he has to pretend to be when he knows so much of the disasters that are coming.

Overall a great story and excellent leveling system with some nice surprises thrown in. I can't wait for the next one.

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why is this 4.8 stars?

I dont understand these reviews, I had to skip at least 2 to 3 hours worth of stats, system information and just down right useless chapters. what even progressed in the story?

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Good but fix skipped audio if able

Not too upset at the book itself, but there are recording glitches they missed. For example on ch 23 it skips some dialog mid sentence, a good chunk too imo. I believe this happened before but I didn't notice it or I overlooked it cuz the dialog may have fit the scenario and I didn't miss much. Though on that chapter I noted above it was really noticeable. Please fix.

Great Book!

I enjoyed this one a lot! It was very similar to the first book and was a good story.

A good continuation, but kind of felt like half a book…

The story was engaging and I enjoyed this book. However, in terms of the plot of the overall series it felt kind of short in spite of having a decent runtime.

For about half the book the MC gets wrapped up in a sort of “side quest” that ends up having lots of indirect implications for the future but really didn’t do anything to directly move the over-arching story forward.

If you liked the first one then it’s probably worth picking up this one, but if the next book doesn’t do a better job of moving the story forward I will be less excited about continuing the series.

Still, overall I did enjoy listening to this audiobook.

Time skip was worth it

Great story and the time skip was needed, only fault is that the author explains every little thing the mc is thinking to a fault. Maybe he doesn’t need to explain all that’s going in his head or make a battle last 30 mins. But great overall.

Boring. Tedious. Not continuing.

I don't think I've ever experienced a protagonist that likes the sound of his own internal monologuing more than this guy.

If tedious, expository dialogue - the epitome of Tell vs Show - if your thing, then this story is for you.

For me, I found it boring and tedious. The world is uninteresting, and the protagonist even moreso. He spends more time talking about what skills he won't get do, and why (after we've spend twenty minutes being told what they do) than being proactive and doing anything other than being a dutiful cog in the machine.

He's also so sanctimonious it's irritating.

I'm mostly just leaving this review so I don't get book 3.

Slow but solid

Good strong storyline...what good to me sometimes were the extensive summon information and stats...even when the MC wasn't going for that level...but OK I guess

character sheet, character sheet, character sheet

The character sheet readouts are far too boring. it waste time, perhaps limiting the reveal to just be the changes in stats rather than the entire character sheet every time ad nauseam. The narrator is not bad, but his female voices are just atrocious.