Stray Cat Strut: A Young Lady's Journey to Becoming a Pop-Up Samurai

Stray Cat Strut, Book 1

By: RavensDagger

Narrated by: Hollie Jackson, Pavi Proczko

In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich, and a hellhole for all the rest.

Catherine "Cat" Leblanc is an orphan that is about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already piss-poor afternoon.

Stray Cat Strut is a cyberpunk magical-girl alien-invasion LitRPG that's exactly as wild as it sounds.

©2021 RavensDagger (P)2021 Podium Audio

Non-stop fun!

Give yourself some free-time for this one! You won't want to stop listening. Worth the listen.

Loved the way the story was narrated!

Did not think I would enjoy the story as much as I did. Really fun story! The way the the narrative was done was awesome! Really enjoyed it, could not stop listening, Thank you Hollie Jackson a and Pavi Proczko for putting so much into it and making it so enjoyable!

so much fun!

I had so much fun with this book. The imagery is wonderfully written. The humor makes me laugh out loud. and as a bonus it doesn't have the teen angst that so many books featuring teenagers/young adults has. I look forward to more!

The voice actors did a great job of bringing the book to life!

really dug this story, waiting for the next one.

the MC is hard nosed without being cringy and motives are very realistic in an unreal world. looking forward for the next book.

action packed with a great sci-fi system for navigating progress

lots of blue collar idioms and good enough character development. Maybe a tad easy, but much fun nonetheless.

Well...

I love the setting, the story, and the writing. However, I found it very hard to suspend my disbelief when the protagonist who is missing an arm and an eye is told she can get prosthetics if she wants them...and it is four hours of listening before she even asks detailing about possibly taking advantage of that opportunity. and another two hours before she does so.

The entire time, she's is fumbling around with one arm and almost dying because of the handicap (and her crap aim with no depth perception). I find it ridiculous that she wouldn't immediately inquire about that, just for survival's sake, if not the very obvious "holy crap, I can have two arms again!" reason.

THEN, she basically ignores the new hyper-advaced robotic prothetics and acts like they're normal and not with thinking about, and acting as if it were no big deal. That SHOULD have been a massive plot point.

Other than that one glaring issue, and the fact that I don't care to hear about the sexuality of minors (the main character and her also-minor girlfriend), I really enjoyed this and will be buying the next one.

Anyone can become a hero

This was a fun story. Basically the main character is a disabled orphan, and tried to protect her fellow orphans during an alien attack. Because of this, a third party alien group gives her special powers and upgrades her to being a "samurai." This gives her powers, utilities, items and so on based on points. The more aliens she kills, the more points. Kat is a fun character because she both cares about other people, and also likes killing aliens in interesting ways. There was some hinting that she liked women throughout, but it wasn't entirely clear to me until the end. It felt natural and did not detract from the story. Overall I enjoyed it.

Just good fun

Follow the titular stray cat as she is suddenly dropped into the middle of an alien invasion and given the powers to shop from a series of alien catalogues which give her all the explosives, lasers, and general heavy ordinance to save her friends and family, and kick some alien butt while at it. If this appeals to you, then this is probably worth checking out. if it isn't then it aint.
The narration is good with no flaws that i could hear and nothing too spectacular either. I'd say the narration is above average in terms of quality.
The writing is also solid. Again, nothing is glaringly wrong with it but i didn't find anything overly spectacular either. Once again, for the kind of stuff i usually see for lit RPGs, this is above average.
Like i said, it's just some fun. So hop on for the ride and follow a stray cat into alien infested territory!

a good story so far

the only problem to me was the running account of points otherwise a interesting story

Perfect for listening to at work.

I first read this on Royalroad, and decided to get the audiobook to listen to while at work. it was just as good as when I read it the first time, and I can't wait for the next book to be made into an audiobook too! Hollie Jackson's voices are fantastic, and really add a lot of life to the characters, and Pavi Proczko does a great job on the opening segments of each chapter! Amazing job from everyone.