Umbral Savage

Post Apocalyptic Progression LitRPG (Nocturne, Book 1)

By: JD Glasscock

Narrated by: Wayne Mitchell

A man who was forced to become an Assassin is interrupted just as he was to kill the last impediment to get to the Senator who sent him down the path. Earth has been chosen for Integration into the Multi-Versal System and reality itself will shift to a post apocalyptic scenario. It will not stop him from keeping the promise to end the Senator and bring justice for the broken women he left behind.

Similar in scope and theme to Primal Hunter and Defiance of the Fall... Gideon Sho -- The Umbral Savage.

Excerpt from Book 1

A man of wealth and means sits at an ornate table in a high end luxurious hotel speaking into a cell phone, a malicious glint to his eyes as he closes another million dollar pharmaceutical merger. He is blissfully unaware of the man behind him, in a black leather trench coat, a hood obscuring his face in deep shadow, a pistol with a suppressor aimed at the back of his head. Both are frozen within the moment of moments, between a breath and sift of sand, one with the anticipation of a killer, the other, riding high upon the arrogance of wealth.

System Initializing…. -- Romance-- Progression-- LitRPG-- Multi-Versal Factions-- Gods-- GrimDark-- Classes, Levels, Skills, Abilities-- Dragons-- Dragonling Companion-- Horror

©2024 JD Glasscock (P)2025 JD Glasscock

Fantastic

The book was overall just amazing I loved the characters and the character building...the world building is really fun as well and on top of all that the way the system is set up is really cool I can't wait for the plot to continue in further books to see where it goes!

The insult the Texans in this book is horrible

The book is full of tropes while the writing is somewhat good and the art artistic this of it is fine. He basically uses every trope in the RPG genre over and over and over and over again. I am considering returning this book through Audible when I rarely ever do that if I finish the book I probably won’t but it’s not gonna be a recommended book from me. Wayne Mitchell’s always good so I gave five stars to the performance, but the story was horrible.

Imo would have been better as solo mc

I say that because i found the side characters very annoying especially the bond. Its hard to take mc seriously side characters are a distraction. Low self esteem former slave falls in love to easily . Mc been solo whole life and few days into tutorial he’s catching feelings. Anyway its not bad for what it is wayne gets a little crazy with voices ( though thats normal) but sometimes i felt like i was listening to silver fox or battle forged . The familiar was what turned me off and where i stopped

I will most likely finish on kindle.

The book is right up my ally however Wayne Mitchell's voices for male characters ranges from 4 stars to maybe 3. His female voices range from barable to get through the book becuase I like other aspects of it to "I want to stick knives through my ear drums just to make it stop." If a character has the latter voice is major character it becomes a problem. Dude can do good to okay male voices however should never, ever do female voices, Lucky the character with the unbarable does have to many lines. Yes the character that sets me off is the Dragonling Companion. I did manage to finish.

the narrator and weak story

the MC started off his pre system as being a smart calculating character that gets the job done. after the backstory happens he meets an Elf that snorts like a pig when she laughs, the demon/system voice sounds like a garbled mess. a lot of the other characters voice sound like straight Oscar the grouch mixed in the the garbage disposal running. He passes up loot, continues to lie to himself about having no fear but obviously fears when he companion and dragonling gets hurt or almost dies. I'm hoping the companion and her little annoying rat with wings dies. im hoping he wises up and stops being so passive about loot that will obviously help him get stronger. the story is kind of flimsy. I haven't returned it because I know it takes a lot for an author to write and I somewhat enjoy it. but damn does it have me wanting to smack some sense into someone. Hopefully they wise up and get another narrator to do the other voices.

has a some good momentsthen fall flat on face.

starts of with an "badass" character who turns out to not be badass but a simp for a tall alien eleven women with a deep voice who gets an annoying mini dragon pet. there where some good moments between the simping but I stoped listening when it turn into an eroctia about half way through.

Post-apocalyptic chaos & progression LitRPG!

Umbral Savage by JD Glasscock is an intense blend of post-apocalyptic chaos and progression LitRPG, narrated to perfection by Wayne Mitchell. "A man who was forced to become an Assassin is interrupted just as he was to kill the last impediment..." hooks you right from the start! The revised writing is fantastic, and the narration brings every dark twist to life.

Conflicted with itself

Spoilers alert it started so good I didn’t feel the MC was a waste of space nice action I like litrpg system things start to go downhill once he starts talking to his companion she was a slave and has slave mentality one of the side characters orders her to kill herself and she obeys no question but the MC stops her and pulls her to his side in maybe two more scenes maybe less she flips 180 turns into the quirky best friend with a dark past no slow build up or (unless I miss a scene) failed seduction on her part and he tells her to be herself and the narrator doesn’t do great women voices which made her character into something annoying then a dragonling familiar gets added and she’s a preteen she’s cute and adorable and these two make the story very cringe but the story is kind of grim dark so I don’t know if the author was trying to balance it out but he over corrected hard I’m just sad I this book would have been awesome

Good enough to keep going with the series...

I liked it, mostly. The main character is a badass but my problem is that he's constantly in conflict with himself, or thinking about shit that just doesn't matter. or he immediately shoves important things to the sideline and is surprised when it bites him in the ass later. Other than than that, I hope he has better character progression later on. The system on the other hand is annoying af, so is the dragonling. it's probably just the narrator tho, nothing against him as he does a damn good job, but damn those 2 are annoying

Annoying narrator

The different voices the narrator uses is pretty terrible. I don’t know who told him to make the system voice an exited old man but it was a terrible idea. I had to really focus on what the tutorial imp was saying. This narrator’s regular voice is good but he hot no range he might want to look in to start doing duo narrations with a female narrator. Im not done with the book but the story is good so I hope it doesn’t get ruined by the narrator.