Mistrunner: A Cyberpunk LitRPG

Mistrunner, Book 1

De: Nicholas Searcy

Narrado por: Soneela Nankani

Imbued with superhuman power, a young woman becomes the ultimate weapon, in this post-apocalyptic cyberpunk series from the bestselling author of Death: Genesis.

Ninety years ago, Earth was consumed—and irrevocably transformed—by a cloud of alien nanites known as the Mist, bestowing humanity with uncanny abilities and enhancing technology far beyond early twenty-first century science. But these advancements came at a high price: Billions are dead. The planet has been overrun by vicious monsters. And alien overlords await the opportunity to swoop in and exploit what remains of Earth and its people for all their worth.

Mirabelle Braddock was born into this much-changed world. In the megacity of Nova, built above the flooded ruins of New Orleans, she lives a privileged, though isolated, life as the niece of Jeremiah Braddock. Jeremiah survived the onset of the Mist to become one of the planet's most dangerous men, and he intends to use his hard-earned power to accomplish a single goal: train Mira to withstand Earth's imminent Integration into the larger galaxy.

Soon, the alien factions waiting in the wings will descend and strip the planet bare, leaving little more than a wasteland. To ensure Mira's survival, Jeremiah has given her a unique Tier 7 Nexus Implant, granting her abilities heretofore unseen. Further augmented with cybernetics and an arsenal of advanced weaponry, Mira has the potential to become the most powerful being on Earth—and possibly even save the world from its seemingly inevitable destruction.

The first volume of the hit cyberpunk LitRPG series—with more than 500,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

©2023 Nicholas Searcy (P)2023 Podium Audio

Good story but a lot of stat reads

Overall, this is a well written book with nicely filled out characters and good world building. The "system" elements, powers, skills, etc. are well thought out and make sense. The level and skill progression requires training and experience, it's not just magically attained immediately when the MC gets introduced to the system. In my opinion, this makes it much easier to get immersed in the story. In a lot of similar books in the genre, the MC is completely overpowered from the minute they get their power, and barely have to work to level up. That really pushes my ability to get into a story. I'm grateful to this author for my not going that route.

My only complaint is the stat and skill read throughs. The author does a complete description of all the MCs stats anytime the MC thinks about stat or skill. These readings come fairly often and are very long. Even if the MC is just wondering about a single skill or the possible future progression of a skill, the author goes through the whole detailed list of everything. This gets really repetitive and tedious. The book is good enough to listen to despite this, but I'm hoping the author trims it down in the next book. If you are a fan of the genre, but don't like the stat reads, then this might not be a good fit for you.

All told, I really like the book and would recommend it to fans of LitRPG and sci-fi/fantasy. The narrator does really good as well. She doesn't do a lot of voice changes or thick accents, but she does enough that I had no problem differentiating between characters.

a cyberpunk adventure

the main character was a full human, with fears and foibles, and only a few times did I wonder why something happened, only for it to be explained later with consequences. solid.

Very good

I really well-thought-out setup for a future. Of a technique is taking on the world harshness of her new reality. Very strong, interesting character with a lot of adventures in her future..

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Not perfect, but pretty damn good besides..

I would say that this is one of the more realistic litrpg's i have heard/read. the action is horrifying and gruesome, the MC acts like a real teen girl and not the over the top parodies that they usually get depicted as. Sure she has some dumb, or selfish moments but who didn't at that age? It is helped that she quickly grows beyond it. I really enjoy the whole horrors of war aspect. Many of Mira's enemies are often victims themselves, yet she must fight them or be consumed by them. I also love that while it is very dark at times, it is not without it's genuine lighter moments. Most of the character are quite likable and their motivations are sympathetic even if you don't entirely agree with their actions. Overall if you want a hard as nails story with consequences that stick this book just might be for you.
All that said there are some minor annoyances, for one the story gets a bit predictable after a while once you catch onto the theme. It often feels like this whole story is actually just a very long prologue. There is also some annoying inconsistencies with abilities working or not working depending on what the plot needs. Also the numbers start to blend together and become gibberish that i found i could just skip and not really lose anything in the story. Though to be fair Mistrunner is hardly unique in this problem. Litrpg authors really need to figure out how to keep track of their numbers and powers. Still while i did roll my eyes and sigh a couple times it wasn't really enough to take me out of the story and i quickly went and pre ordered the next one as soon as i was done.

In the end if you want big guns big explosions, big stakes, beg personalities and even bigger monsters this book is definitely going to scratch that itch.

Nice twist of the litrpg

I like that It is realistic to a certain extent of what would actually happen during a litrpg apocalypse It is also pretty dark instead of having human CEO overlords pretty much we now have alien CEO OVERLORDS I enjoyed listening to it and I like how there is a period of time that the aliens don't come to Earth but not out of kindness of their hearts instead it's a quarantine so they are sure to not spread diseases or other things But there are aliens that break these rules and break the quarantine to do illegal stuff very realistic

Good

Overall I enjoyed this story. Four stars because of the repetitiveness of the writing. After the 4th or fifth time, we understand that her Constitution and [combat utility] are allowing her to keep going. It seemed to get better as the book progressed, so I am continuing this series.

Im really loving the litrpg cyberpunk series

Im so upset that it took me this long to find this gem of a book. Its real good, the action, story. All of it. Its good to see the author still got it. A fan of the other book so i thought i would give this a try and im not disappointed, 5 stars.

My god the stats!!

I like the story line but listening to 10 minutes of stats and talking about the skill tree is too much…..and it happens a lot. There is zero reason why it should be included in the audio version. If it’s like that for the rest of the books there’s no way im going to purchase them

Awesome

Really great start to a new action packed series. Loved the concept, narration, characters and storyline.