Battleforged: Survivor

Battleforged, Book 1

By: M.H. Johnson

Narrated by: Wayne Mitchell, Kasi Hollowell

Length: 39 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

To do list for the post apocalypse:

1. Survive the orcs rampaging through your city.2. Survive the pod trying to steal your mind.3. Pull off the greatest heist of all time.

Eric was as shocked as everyone else when the apocalypse struck, but unlike his mother's movie, there were no chosen heroes destined to fight the beast hordes now overrunning the planet.

Just people trying desperately to survive.

Yet there was a glimmer of hope that humanity could hold on to. A chosen few really could level up in this brave new world, and embrace magic, adventure, and the potential for limitless power!

But the only way to find out if you were one of the lucky few who can level-up and grow stronger was to dare alien vegetative pods. Pods as happy to turn you into topsoil as give you any shot at mastering a System designed to benefit elite invaders, not fragile humans just trying to survive.

But Eric was all about beating the odds!

Along with a handful of new friends who happened to be rogues long before there was any System.

Friends absolutely intent on stealing a priceless fortune that their enemies are eager to claim, right out from under the noses of everyone trying to kill them!

Eric might not be able to save the world, but nothing says he can't make a killing! All he has to do is outmaneuver a thousand orcs, outfox an army of too-clever elves, and escape a war-torn city without getting caught!

Eager for a fast-paced adventure with a survivor determined to get the best of everyone trying to kill him and make a fortune while doing so? Then prepare to be blown away by some of the best voice actors in the business!

©2023 M.H. Johnson (P)2024 M.H. Johnson

It was very enjoyable!

I love this book and can’t wait for more ! He is ruthless, but still has humanity, which I feel like is very important in these books so I’m excited for the next book! Also, the readers does an excellent job of reading if you like the other series he does you’ll love this one, but I’m just missing the fox God!

Enjoyed it a lot. Long book. Some issues

I enjoyed this book, and the performance was great. Narrators style is a bit over the top, but after accepting I moved on. His energy is growing on me, after the initial shock. Great choice to add separate female narrator!

The story is also very good. It can get lost sometimes in between events and seems to meander with no direction and can frustrate. I caught myself a few times thinking can we just get on with it? This is a long book and almost feel like 2, so great value, but again seems stretched/ padded in parts?

Overall, very good, I'm on board and very interested and will get the next book. Not quite a 5 though.

weird convenient necromancy / narrator is a lot

Adding personality to the characters is great, however the male narrator overdoes it to the point that I think it ruins the characters. Especially around combat - makes the main MC seem more edgelord than I think he is intended to be. Female narrator is good. If you like overpowered MCs with convenient morality for their decisions then this is a book for you. Story is drawn out and repetitive in development. Author uses the same descriptors within the same breath which is - frustrating. Spoilers:



MC is a dark hero is who uses necromancy. Which already isn't my favorite however things fall into his lap extremely conveniently. MC tries thing - omg he is a prodigy. MC trains. MC trains. MC trains. Congratulations MC can now kill w.e he wants because he wants to. He eats orcs. I don't love it when people eat sentient beings but it's w.e. Author brings up harem creation by other humans and sex slaves (some of whom are children) and it's a little ick. Females are pretty much always sexualized when described.. Anyways - I think it needs to be your cup of tea and it's not mine. if there is a second one I will 95% chance not be reading it.

Good story!

Fast paced repeats some things over and over in different ways but i guess its the writers style. Worth the credit and some.

Do it!!!

Do it do it do it do it do it do it
Worth every penny the credit was worth buy it

The narrators are AMAZING

The book is written well with detail and explanation. THE NARRATOR IS AMAZING. He has a amazing voice perfect for the male characters. Morlecai (I def spelled it wrong) truly feels mysterious. DIFFERENT people with different personalities he brings them to life. The female narrator is equally impressive adding enough emotion and feeling in her lines to make them feel human like they’re basically living it.

great book

love this book little long bit keep your attention and leaves a lot for booke 2

Good book….

I love long books, but I have to admit, the introspection during a fight scene takes me out of the moment. Shows me the author has never been in physical fight or if he has I’m sorry but you don’t have time for dwelling on the past.
The long fight scenes with mediocre opponents that took a whole chapter was tiring and then when it came to the end of the book when he was fighting epic opponents he blasted through them and was of little regard in description. That I liked. That’s how you do it.
I love the author’s imagination but the stat reads should be separate chapters that you have the option to skip. Or just mention the one stat gain he gets without the whole thing at times.

Now that my complaining is done sorry MH

This book was awesome and the take was different than other apocalyptic books out there. The character development was amazing and the friends he made were believable. Love the fact there was no harem or overly dramatic romance.
Looking forward to the next book and The narrators killed it!
Silver fox and the western hero is one of my favorite series from this author and it’s worth the listen!

Delightful balance between heroism and despair.

This is a good book. Fun action and adventure but still has enough deep situations and outcomes to twig your drama depth.

Once again.

Once again another fast paced, entertaining and awesome story by MH Johnson with narration by Wayne Mitchell.