Mistrunner 3: A Cyberpunk LitRPG

Mistrunner, Book 3

By: Nicholas Searcy

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Driven by fury, wracked with guilt, a young woman's war to free Earth from aliens has devastating consequences, in this action-packed dystopian adventure.

Humanity's days are numbered. Earth is on a collision course with the one-hundredth anniversary of first contact with the invasive species that unleashed the Mist into its atmosphere. Spreading like a virus, these nanites altered the very air and soil of the planet, poisoning the land and mutating the animals. People evolved beyond their biology into superhuman beings, while scientific advancements in technology and weaponry shifted the hierarchies of the world's most powerful nations. While armies battle to create a new order, the aliens are left free to leech Earth's natural resources.

Standing between human greed and alien invasion is Mira Braddock. Augmented with a Tier 7 Nexus Implant, she's a cybernetic warrior capable of harnessing the Mist for her own ends. But she used her immeasurable abilities to destroy the megacity of Nova, killing millions of innocent people in selfish pursuit of vengeance. Three years later, she remains traumatized, with only the love of cybernetic engineer Patrick Ward to prevent her from sliding into an unrelenting mire of guilt and grief.

Now, events have escalated as warring alien factions continue to prey on humankind. The E'rok Tan have bred people as livestock. The collective known as the Pacificians indoctrinate humans to join their hive. And the Gomari Confederation, strip-mining Earth of its value, threaten to annihilate anything left alive. But no one is prepared for Mira. Fearless and merciless, she possesses enough power and willingness to exterminate entire populations of enemies . . .

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A very unique world.

Great world!
Story can be predictable at times.
Would be interesting as an actual RPG

20 hour Trauma Dump

I’ve enjoyed the series so far but this book was such a slog. The action parts were good and exciting but for every action chapter there seems to be 3 chapters of trauma dump and self loathing. I get that self reflection is a thing and it helps with character growth but this is insanely excessive.

The other thing that started to get under my skin was how she supposedly loves Pick yet it’s a blatant toxic relationship. She loves him and says she trusts him and his opinions but only as long as his feelings align with hers. Anytime he tries to talk her out of a dumb action she tells him tough, deal with it because I’m stronger than you, learn to stay in your lane. Eventually he doesn’t even try to voice his opinion and becomes a doormat. But he loves her because she tells him she loves him. Good grief if that’s not toxic I don’t know what is.

The narration is really good but the story is really lacking this time around.

Great LIT RPG and cyberpunk story

I have greatly enjoyed all 3 books that have come out. If you like cyberpunk or LIT RPGs you should check this out.

what happened to my girl.

I want to say book 1 and book 2 are very good and fun the mc Marigold has awesome powers and a foundation to be such a cool overpowered MC but in book 3 things changed.

Towards the end of book 2 there was a tone shift in Mari that I did not like and unfortunately it continued through the entirety of book 3 coupled with the fact book three also felt a bit aimless, it made the book a bit difficult to finish. I really liked the vigilante Mari who operated a bit like the Punisher chaotic good. But she is now whiny, coupled with question herself the entire time, and hating herself for thing she did not do, she also feels weak in power. Before she had all the tools to win no matter what situation she got into, she just had to think. In book 3 it felt like we gotta stripped down version of her which with all her new self reflection and self hate, it became off putting to spend time with her, as she is loosing fights and cannot use her full skill set because everyone happens to be able to counter her, all the while being lower their then her, makes no sense.

This book started off really strong with a heist, kidnapping, and forced do missions for alien organization, but after establishing the conflitct that is where it went off the rails. I hope this was just a young woman's growing pain and dealing with the loss and destruction of her world and in book 4 she operates with intention, or I feel I will not be able to continue spending the time in her head.

Great cyberpunk story and it keeps getting better.

Great action and world building. Im shocked there aren't more review on this book. I was taken back in the last book when she kills a whole city just for revenge i totaly had her as someone who would just rationalize and blame her actions on others, which she did, but this book brings her back as one of humanities best hope at surviving. The stakes get even more crazy when she blows a chuck out of the moon and starts a war with one of the three powerful factions that are garnering intrest in earth, while they await for earths time in isolation from the rest of the galaxy to run out and begin an invasion after intagration. Our girls kill count is through the roof with 7 million at the end of this book. After all she was trained to complete the mission, no matter what. An amazing performance by the narrator. This series is entertaining as always. Im looking foward to the next book and finding out how the story plays out.