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  • Life Reset: A LitRPG Novel

  • New Era Online, Book 1
  • By: Shemer Kuznits
  • Narrated by: Jeff Hays
  • Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (530 ratings)

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Life Reset: A LitRPG Novel

By: Shemer Kuznits
Narrated by: Jeff Hays
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Publisher's Summary

The best selling six-books series is now complete! In video games, players hunt monsters.

But what happens when a veteran player finds himself on the monster's side?  

Oren, a high-level guild master, wakes in the body of a lowly goblin. Cast out, betrayed by his most trusted advisors, Oren is stuck in New Era Online. However, there are advantages to being on the monsters’ side. Starting from scratch, he’ll have to build up a powerful monster clan to take revenge. But first, he'll have to survive long enough not to be someone else's fodder.  

Life Reset is the first book in the bestselling fantasy LitRPG series that follows a monster main character who wields darkness-based magic. Includes heavy elements of town-building, raising a monster clan, magic, powerful enemies, and asking the deep existential questions of what it means to be alive inside a digital reality. 

The Soundbooth Theater team for this production: Jeff Hays - Narration, Characters, Production Supervision Dalton Lynne - Proofing Alex Tate - Production, Editing, Mastering

©2017 Shemer Kuznits (P)2017 Jeff Hays

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Ok get ready to hold onto your shit as I bring you a tale of the best city build slash litrpg ever this book is what I want and need in my life ...
if you need a good read this is your book
If you need a great read this is your book
If your cat just died ... this is your book
No matter what this is what you need to make your life compleat omg yes all over my face

Loved it

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Amazing

what a great book. Got me hooked line and sinker from the first chapter.
Likeable MC and easy to follow the story. Really well written and the narrator killed it!

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nice

I got quite involved with the development of the goblin village. I didn't like the main character much, childish emotions

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fantastic LitRPG

If you like LitRPG stories that involve building bases and in-depth characters, then this is a story for you.

Brilliant character build up and following, the build up of the past and then the events that follow keep you hooked, I couldn't put this book down and can't wait for the next one to be completed.

I recommend this book and give it 5/5 as I haven't heard a story like this for awhile.

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Fresh perspective

I really enjoyed two main themes - an experienced "player" starting from the beginning with a completely different perspective. And all the trouble you can get into before Level 20. Finally the unrealistic expectations of new players who don't respect the whole role.
10/10 and a hunger for a follow up novel, well worth the experience and another author to follow.

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Fantastic

Really fun read cant wait for the next one. I like the twist of him being a monster nice variation to the genera

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Avid MMO fans will enjoy

I actually enjoyed this book (mostly) and I pay my compliments to Hays for bringing a cat off characters to life, but had to down rate the overall story for a number of reasons.
Primary among these is the frustrating and tediously repetitive nature of the style. I can imagine that as a hard copy book, looking over the protagonist's character sheet every few pages is something that can be ignored with momentary interest. Having it read and reread to you in painful detail again and again very quickly losses its novelty. The same goes for every user interface and ability description he gains, every level up, every point of damage dealt, etc. Even listening on 1.2 speed, I felt this severely slowed the progression of the story, and detracted from the action. The whole plot could have been achieved in half the words using a more conventional context.
I enjoyed the story enough that I will probably check out the next book in the series at some point, but not any time soon, and not for full price.

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Awful beginning

This might just be the single most contrived story ever written... and I realise all fiction is contrived. Half way through chapter 3 when the main character calls his never-before-mentioned distant best friend who happens to be a lead developer of the game, you just have to laugh. Nothing plot-related has even happened yet!

The main character lives a depressing life and has a depressing personality but is completely unaware of it. In the same chapter 3, the MC slams the table in a busy restaurant scaring people. Like... hello? Mental instability? How are you supposed to self-insert into a lonely, angry (but rich) dude locked into an MMO in his house? The answer is you can't - but for the setting to make sense, the character and backstory is contrived.

I have a feeling this story will actually improve once interesting things happen so I'll keep reading, but for the author's failure to establish a premise... one star. I've read so much 'amateur' litrpg web novel stuff in my life and this is soooo bad. Even the magic system. Three stat options to choose from and spells you can teach yourself by meditating? So dull. Where's the decision making?

I feel bad writing a negative review and would normally never do it but I can't believe anyone would charge for this. Sorry. I literally don't believe the reviews I read before purchase to be genuine. Or perhaps the reviews are just skewed by people who already read and liked it long ago. I should have trusted the mixed/negative reviews I saw on Royal Road.

Oh! And the goddamn reverb when skill descriptions are read out. It's so distracting. It feels like you can hear somebody talking in the background. The narration is not bad otherwise.

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Waiting for the next instalment, brilliant.

Well written, well preformed, great story and this is after Joe Abercrombie ‘s first law series, this is my most favourite audio book, Hurry up ,, get the next instalments on line,,

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Keep waiting

I read the whole book. The plot was fun, kept moving, and the narrator did a great job!

The MC... is the guy you avoid at parties.

That said, he is exactly the sort who would become a full time gamer, so A+ for realism. He is utterly self obsessed, thankless, grades every "female" entirely on hotness, sees his friends as tools and never has a single thought that isn't about what HE needs or wants.

But a punchable MC can be fun! He gets beat up a few times, and as stated above the plot is well crafted to keep you entertained!

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