Resurgence

The Rise of Resurgence, Book I

By: Joshua W. Nelson

Narrated by: Christopher James Mayer

Pay to play. Since the beginning of gaming this has been the norm; you pay the company and you can play their game. So, it's no surprise that Alex Stanton was living every gamer's dream. It was the opposite for him. He was getting paid to play.

The latest in virtual reality gaming, in both graphics and hardware, was being beta tested by the largest retailer of online gaming, AltCon. But before they could go live, they wanted serious beta testers. So serious, AltCon was willing to pay and ensure their lives revolved around the Beta, and the Beta only. And the company pulled out all the stops. If there was a heaven for gamers, it would look exactly like this game: Resurgence.

However, odd things start happening that Alex can't explain. But like every hard-core gamer, Alex has no problem ignoring them to focus on the big picture; winning the game. Still, in time, even the littlest of things can add up, and Alex finds himself asking, “What’s really going on in Resurgence?”

This is a new release of an edition originally published by Joshua W. Nelson.

©2017 Joshua W. Nelson (P)2019 Joshua W. Nelson

Great story, great foundation!

Great LitRPG story. This genre can be a mixed bag, but this is one of the good ones. The characters are believable and the group has good chemistry and balance. The action starts slow and builds up at a good pace. The only issues I have are more with the goals of the antagonist outside of the game. I am hoping that the antagonist's goals are not simply financially motivated and are deeper. There are some hint's to that in the first book, but nothing more concrete. Hopefully that will be fleshed out more in the coming books. Honestly story wise this should get a 4 or 4.5, but I enjoyed the book enough to give it a 5. The performance of the narrator was excellent. I look forward to the next book in the series and will pick it up as soon as the audio-book version is available.

Disclaimer: I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

incredible and fun

such a good and very very interesting story I liked Alex a lot as a character I liked the book you had a very funny moments in it and actually I didn't expect to chuckle so much it was an incredible audio to listen to the narrator it was very very good

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review

narrator audibly breathes in. con stant ly.

the audio quality is barely ok in itself. quite low range. hints of noise.

but the breathing in is intolerable. it is almost as loud as the spoken word. wtf?
how did this get a pass?

the narration itself is also just ok. barely.

overall 1 star to narration. mostly due to the breathing

Excellent!!

Such a fun book - great characters, great plot, many laugh-out-loud moments. The narrator did an excellent job making characters come alive. Highly recommend!

Almost to good

Its taken me far to long to review this,i love these lit rpgs, and this one is totes up my alley, i have wasted a lot of time thinking about where it is going next, im really stoked for a 2nd book!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.