Life Reset

New Era Online: Life Reset, Book 1

By: Shemer Kuznits

Narrated by: Jeff Hays

The best selling 6-books series is now complete!

Once a powerful player. Now, a level 1 monster. And he must embrace that side to survive.

Oren was a dominant force in the bustling digital realm of NEO, commanding wealth, prestige, and high levels. But when fate deals him a cruel blow, trapping him in the body of a lowly goblin and depriving him of his ability to log out, Oren is forced to fight for survival.

Stripped of his immense powers and cast into a hostile, monster-ridden wilderness, with the constant risk of the game frying his nervous system, his only way out of the virtual purgatory is to win.

But it’s not easy starting from scratch as one of the weakest races. Preyed upon by both monsters and players alike, his only hope for allies lies with … other goblins.

Join Oren on a thrilling journey as he rises to the challenge of transforming the weakest of creatures into an unstoppable force. Delve into his quest to turn his level 1 fodder character into a boss monster powerhouse. Experience the thrill of watching Oren's journey to greatness unfold.

About the series: Life Reset is a best-selling LitRPG series that follows a monster main character who wields darkness-based magic. Includes heavy elements of town-building, raising a monster clan, magical crafting, mischievous AI, and contemplating the essence of life in a digital reality.

©2017 Shemer Kuznits (P)2017 Soundbooth Theater

Entertaining

Really enjoyed this book! 20+ hours and you'd expect a ton of filler, but surprisingly it was all story. Good story :)

Definitely a unique spin on the typical litrpg books I've read. A kind of "the player gets stuck in the game" but not exactly. No spoilers!

The main character is a likeable (not always good though) guy you can get behind. The narrator Jeff Hays, is amazing as always.

Worth a credit or purchase - absolutely!

Wow. Impressive.

This is my first ever litRPG. I just picked it up randomly. I had a hard time putting it down. I can't wait for the next book to come out! Please hurry!

And after the series has ended I'm coming back now and this is what I would say:

For you LitRPG fans, this series is super worth it.

I have over 250 audio books in my audiobook library and I've waded through countless books that are total trash, including way too many LitRPG books that are absolute garbage. This is not one of them. This is a very solid book for this genre and I have really enjoyed all of what Shemer has put out.

Do you like what I like?
Cradle (one of my favs)
Master Hunter K (true hidden gem)
Awaken Online (Plenty to sink your teeth into)
Life Reset (Shemer Kuznits' books in general)
Ready Player 1 & 2
Wheel of Time
Almost everything from Brandon Sanderson. Seriously. He's the best.
Michael J. Sullivan's books (The Riyria Revelations and spin offs - high epic / fantasy)
Red Rising (Tim Gerard Reynolds - futuristic / sci-fi)
The Path to Paz (YA fantasy)

More decent LitRPG stuff:
Noobtown (fun/light)
He Who Fights With Monsters
Irrelevant Jack (surprisingly decent and "clean", which for LitRPG is uncommon)
Ascend Online
Dungeon Crawler Carl

Currently listening to?
Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson.
Just starting this series and by chapter 10 I am really getting into it.

Why would I promote this and these other authors as well? I believe that good writing needs to be promoted. The more we support good authors, the more they will put out for us to enjoy! Simple as that.

A very non-escapist litrpg

I enjoy the LitRPG book types. When well crafted, they are the Saturday Morning Cartoons of audible books, fun and enjoyable and simple.

This is one of the better ones and has little of the Male Escapist Fantasy trope that others *cough* Chaos Seed *cough* are full of.

Ugh! Goblin MC!

That was my thought when I passed this series up for several weeks, what with an unknown author and fugly MC and tribe, even knowing it was performed by the renowned Jeff Hays. However, due to a lull in other interesting title offerings, I decided to give this series a try.

Seriously, if you're like me, I'm here to admit that I was wrong. Shemer Kuznits crafted a well-designed story, giving ample backstories to the MC along with many secondary characters. Honestly, Jeff Hays' performance of the sarcastic pet construct was flawless There is lots to like and little to dislike about this novel. As already mentioned, the backstory outlining was well-done but the author also included a number of story elements such as poignant moments, relationship hurdles to overcome, hilarious interludes to temper the slower parts of the environment building, &c.

There were also sections that considerably slowed the forward movement such as tedious resource gatherings for the lair construction and a too-often tendency to go into litRPG stat-bane mode which, for audio listeners such as myself, just moves me to the fast-forward button on my mp3 player.

Even with those drawbacks, I'll not wait to continue with the next book in the series and others most likely not either.

Mostly good

Overall a fairly interesting game world, and a fun story. There is a lot of focus on town building. Many of the characters are interesting. I think this could end up being a fun series.

There were a couple issues i had with the story, towards the end there was a bit of a tone shift where the story gets a bit darker and it kinda comes out of nowhere, like the author suddenly realized he needed to be more hardcore or the other authors are going to laugh at him. I unfortunately expect this new hardcore tone is going to continue and become the focus of the next arc.

Also the romance subplot was pretty clumsy,

I will get the second book but i don't actually have high hopes for it.