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The Upgrade Apocalypse, Book 1

By: Charles Dean,R.A. Mejia
Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski,Elizabeth Plant
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Summary

When a group of former classmates gather for their 10-year reunion, old grudges resurface as old flames rekindle—and then things go straight to hell. As a shower of comets brings an invasion of reunion-crashing undead, the surviving alumni must band together in this litRPG apocalypse filled with dark humor, horror, and loot cards!

Join the survivors as they navigate a game of life, death, and more death, leveling skills and stats as a world-governing system urges them to struggle on for the sake of glorious battle.

Welcome to hell on Earth. Welcome to the Upgrade Apocalypse!

©2022 Ramon Mejia, Charles Dean (P)2023 Ramon Mejia, Charles Dean

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Didnt like the characters

Didnt finish the book as the characters were as annoying as it can get.

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Loved it

A surprisingly enjoyable apocalypse story. Loved every minute of it; Yes, even the sometimes eye rolling humour.

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Card upgrade system

Really entertaining LitRPG book
I especially liked how the author explores many different character builds, instead of just one sole overpowered character.
if this was made into an actual RPG game, i would definitely want to play it,

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Recommended!

A interesting start to a series with a apocalypse theme with a game mechanic leveling system, what makes this book so good are the characters that are so unique along with comedic conversations between them as well the drama between them.

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Great start to what could be a brilliant story!

I love a story with a solid fleshed out party and this did not disappoint even the random encounters had more context than most stories do.Narration was done really well.The action scenes were easy to visualise and god the humour in the party’s chatter was brilliant only niggling bit i found was a few audio errors where lines were repeated but all in all i loved it and will be looking out for book 2.

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great

Great start to what I'm hoping will be a long series. Very interesting system skills. The story flows beautifully between the different characters. The narrators do an amazing job on bringing the story and setting to life. Also really glad that it didn't end on as bad a cliffhanger as I thought it might lol

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  • Jared Bowers
  • 13-03-23

I want to like this but

The starting characters are way over blown characterization. Some get more fleshed out as it moves along but not really. It feels forced. There are times when people who are not with the group but are back in the parking garage are suddenly there and talking like they did not stay behind. Timer detonator suddenly became a remote control detonator. As for the voice work it was good. However the edits were really really bad. Sometimes you will get a line more than once. This happened a few times. It feels like a B movie script with B level production value but fun voice work.

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  • Tory Wilson
  • 25-03-23

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Due to health and other life issues finishing this book took me much longer than it should have so instead of finishing it up and reviewing it within a few days of release at most like I wish I could have here we are 2 weeks later. I ended up splitting it about 50/50 between reading and listening to the audio-book. I personally enjoyed this book, the system reminds me loosely of Genshin Impact and other Gacha games where you combine items (in this case cards) to increase levels and ranks of equipment though the rules in this are a little loose, so while I do recommend this to system apocalypse fans I withhold that recommendation if you don't like the Gacha equipment system (even if there are no character pulls). The characters don't really have a ton of time for growth with things going on back to back so they each come off their own type of extreme or stereo-types of daytime soap operas. Some of the skill choices may confuse or put people off but I'm pretty sure they were picked with book 2 and whatever the eventual end game is in mind by the author(s) and they make more sense in the last few minutes of the book. That being said for the most part the characters have unique skill sets in comparison to the rest of the genre. As far as audio-book narration goes Daniel Wisniewski and Elizabeth Plant did a fantastic job of distinguishing the characters, there are enough characters that might make distinguishing them difficult in text but their performance did that amazingly well, especially Lucy, where does one go to meet a girl like Lucy? Plot aside, if you enjoy or don't enjoy any of the particular mechanics I listed above you should be able to tell if this book is for you. I look forward to the next one.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 15-03-23

give a chance

needs some corrections on audio and proof listening but enjoyed story and overall performance

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  • Lisa Byington
  • 15-03-23

entertaining listen

Great story, the only downside is a lot of juvenile humor. and genital puns. ok

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  • joseph hill
  • 23-03-23
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freaking amazing

Holy crap was this book and story was amazing. kinda new to a card system but really worked. the narrators did an awesome job, and Lucy, by far, my favorite character, was the best comic relef I passed out, from laughing so hard.

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  • D McGraw
  • 19-03-23

5 stars

Well done, well written. I am looking forward to the next book from this author. The rest of this is just filler.

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  • anonymous
  • 15-03-23

some errors and bad start but good

the narration was great. There were some editing errors, such as rereading lines, but that's fine with me. the beginning seems a little too calm about extreme parts, such as a shot of nervous or adrenaline over taking them, which could be used as an excuse for the behavior

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  • Justin
  • 14-03-23

yaaaa...

The mc's are morons. The elevator falls and almost kills us no big deal .... lets go to the party. 5 mins later some random monster eats people in the next elevator .... no big deal lets go to the party. The system messages just told us something... oo I just figured out something and the system didn't tell me that. The narration was done well. Other than that DNF

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  • C. Curtis
  • 25-05-23

Would of been a 5 star….

This story is great but the women are just horrible people. When Lucy was about to die I got happy that I wouldn’t have to hear her character anymore. Sadly she was saved at the last moment and I had to keep dealing with her. Overall the story is good the women are not normal people but the men seem well adjusted to being in their late 20’s. Would of been a easy 5 star if it wasn’t for the annoyance.

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  • Jonathan Richardson
  • 07-05-23

Exciting start to a new series

Have you ever finished a book and still been thinking about it as you start reading the next book and realize that the new book isn’t part of that world?

This book was that good.