Killshot Apocalypse

An Action-Packed LitRPG Apocalypse (Trace, Book 1)

By: V.A. Lewis

Narrated by: Marissa Parness

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

The world falls into chaos. Earth is integrated into the multiversal System. And all Trace has is a gun.

Trace Taylor was at a shooting range when the world was kidnapped by the alien species called the ‘Esvol’ to begin humanity's integration with the System. Each individual person is given a femtochip implant and a class to fend for themselves before being sent back to Earth.

Once Trace returns, she finds that the planet too is left scarred by this encounter. Faced with monsters, dungeons, an annoying AI, and a lot of insane idiots, how will Trace come to survive this newly-changed planet?

©2022 V.A. Lewis (P)2022 Podium Audio

Worth it

Worth the credit. It’s like the premise and characters in this series. Another series from this author to enjoy.

good book

I want to know if they got the guns back into the vault missed it

Love the narrator, the MC tho... *sigh*

I like the premise of this book and I like the author's other series. However, I am frustrated by this MC. I realize this is how the plot is, and the MC fits the plot, I just find it frustrating how shortsighted the MC is.
Blahblah growth of character, but I physically get upset and dissociate when she does what I consider to be stupid stuff. Actually sick to my stomach and have to pause and/or bang my head on the wall. I don't know if I can continue to the next book.

Narration itself is great! I really enjoy this narrator and was specifically looking up more of her works which is why I bought this audible.

I appreciate and enjoy the diff accents for diff characters, it clearly depicts their various origins, but not to the point of annoyance. The energy of each individual is also clear in their tones & they are distinct enough between characters that I don't get lost.
Moves thru stats pretty quickly compared to other litrpgs. I realize one can only do so much with the material they are given, she does admirably well by not pausing or lingering too long thru stats read outs.

Sometimes some of the slang emphasis is jarring. How she says 'No cap' doesn't sound quite right to my ear. (A little too try-hard, the enthusiasm is right for the character but it doesn't quite sound as fluid or natural as normal speak. It verges on a sarcastic interpretation of Liz's regular dialect.) The rest of the slang sounds fine.

35% Stats repeated over and over and over

I couldn't get past the fact that sooooooo much time is spent listening to the AI ramble on about stats... then the MC seems like a 12 year old throwing a tantrum half the time and a weird idea of what's ok and what's not... it's ok to not kill a bunch of rapist and murderers but it's ok to shot out the knee caps in a post-apocalyptic Era so they have to child feed someone while trying to grow food...

2.5 stars. Missing drive.

It started out on decent footing.

Yes the stat read was annoying and seemed meaningless. At no point did a stat upgrade translate into real world progress for the reader.

The MC has no drive. Which is lazy cool. But also the story has no drive. No real direction with any haste.

Not worth your time

This book is not fun. The characters are not fun. The MC is indecisive, whines, and really doesn't want to progress. So, I really do not understand the positive ratiings. The narrator is pitchy and does a horrible AI voice. Dialog is weak.

Just finished chapter 12 and there is no real story line, It feels contrived and forced.

Returning