Road to Mastery

A LitRPG Apocalypse Adventure

By: Valerios

Narrated by: Jeremy Frazier

Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

Alone. Surrounded by monsters. Armed only with his fists... Time to fight.

Jack Rust was a disillusioned biologist with a PhD—almost. When an extraterrestrial AI calling itself the System invaded Earth and thrust it into a world of aliens, magic, and violence, Jack hoped to at least get some magic himself.

Nope.

Even worse, the System spawned a forest dungeon around him and a goblin in his face....

Armed with nothing but his fists, Jack must grow strong enough to survive hordes of monsters. He needs to return to civilization and find out what the heck is going on. He might even get magic—or not. Surprising himself, Jack discovers that violence is fun.

In this battle-ridden new world, Jack finds the life he always dreamed about. He won’t just survive. He will thrive.

Don't miss the start of this action-packed new LitRPG Apocalypse series from Valerios. Join Jack the brawler as he pummels everything that gets in his way with his fists on his road to mastery and power. It's perfect for fans of Primal Hunter, Defiance of the Fall, and lovers of all things progression fantasy and LitRPG.

©2023 Aethon Books (P)2023 Aethon Audio

Beware of the Is purple pronoun

In romance novels there's this thing called a propo pro pro now which is an overabundance of trying to describe a scene which can take Away from what you're trying to create in this case instead of a Romancing it's a fight scene and at times that just gets to a point where you sort of tuning it out It's wanting to skip ahead which is sort of a shame that because this is an amazing author Just needs to rain it back when it comes to this series concentrate more on the story less on the fights

Very unusual book in the end I liked it

When I started listening to the book i honestly struggled. The nartation is not bad, the written word is not bad. Little corny. Putting both together i was initially disappointed. Some where during the listen I started to enjoy the book. However when I started reading post this book I enjoyed it more.

Very repetitive

I'm about 7ish hours into the story so I'm hoping it'll get better. The MC has an almost phd but comes off as a middle school dropout more often than not, honestly i don't mind it. So far the story is decent, however the sheer repetition of the status screen is what I'm not enjoying. I understand it's a progression story and i get the need for it occasionally, but 7 ish hours in and I'm almost positive I've listened to the status screen for 30 of those minutes. Honestly like 2 or 3 times an hour and it isn't that much different. It feels like the author was just going for word count adding it in so very much. Overall it's a decent book so far and I'm going to listen to them both but I've caught myself rolling my eyes and complaining out loud every time the status screen comes up.

Not for me

Had some moments that were solid but I didn’t like the status structure and it was very campy for me. Not bad just couldn’t finish jt

Criminally underrated.

1st a formost this book is like 3 novels in one. The growth of the MC was fun to witness. Definetly looking forward to book 2. I hope the MC can catch a few breaks. I do think the author tried a tad too much humor, but it doesnt jeapordize the quality.

Narration was a master class. The ranges were amazing!
Every charachter had a distinct voice that match their personalities.

Might appeal to readers under 12.

Story could have been good but author’s characters were unrealistic and the dialogue inane. World building was painfully disjointed and unbelievable. I was being generous with the 3 star rating, please don’t hate me if you decide to pay to kill your own brain cells.

Good if you get past the silliness

Overall a pretty good book if not a little silly. If you can get past that and don’t take it to serious it has some really good parts. I don’t understand those giving it one star reviews.

the reviews where wrong!!!!

This is one of the best titles I've ran into so far I was holding off cause of the reviews but the reviews don't do it justice. The title was excellent and full of action definatly one of the better ones.

Entertaining story line

This book was action packed, entertaining and at times made me break out laughing at the things the main characters would say.

unexpectedly good

After reading other reviews I thought this would be one of the annoying hero who doesnt use his powers to the fullest or troll like characters.

While the book does have its silly parts like the spanking and pop fiction winks. For the most part it is serious.

Now agreed the start can get rough, especially when you want the MC to do better. However it gets better and better, especially the end tournament and dungeon last bit.


Also while their are roadblocks it's not like some books that just throw one thing atop another just for conflict without even resolving the first or second thing.