Warbreaker's Rise: A LitRPG Adventure

The Connected System, Book 1

De: Troy Osgood

Narrado por: J. S. Arquin

The Connected System has come to Earth, bringing with it the apocalypse...

In an instant, life as it was known is gone, replaced by a System called The Connection. It doesn't come quietly as earthquakes rock the planet, the chosen survivors falling unconscious as the Connection takes their bodies and Adapts them.

Lochlan Brady and his family were on their way home from a camping weekend when the Connection appears. He awakens with a new Adapted body, finding his wife missing. Now Loch must survive and thrive in this new world with his two teenage daughters, Harper and Piper. All Loch wants to do is protect his daughters and find his wife.

A chance encounter with creatures straight out of myth will force the family to quickly confront the reality of their new lives, the changed world and give Loch a jump in power. But with that power will come responsibility and more danger.

Along with the attention of some of the most powerful beings in The Connected System.

©2024 Troy Osgood (P)2024 Dreamscape Lore

Loved it

Good twist on your usual book of this style I really like the family aspect kinda like a breath of fresh air

Struggles due to not assigning stat points

Very irritating when MC reviews his status and and it states each time there is unassigned stat points and he just moves on. I am only continuing to see at what chapter / level this the author finally assigns the stats and what stupid reason thing he says afterwards.

Level 9 and he assigned his stat points so he would get more benefit from the 5% bonus an achievement gave him.

good

this book is good just having a hard time getting through the children and the whole family thing is not going well for me.

Some really good, a lot bad

The MC is quite annoying. The system comes and he’s most worried about and frets over the small things that make no sense than the actual dangers. He also doesn’t seem to be all there as the most obvious alludes him and it seems like his teenage daughters are more intelligent than him and that’s a low bar. The kids are stupid as hell. They use basic words anyone would know or could guess due to context clues but that have no clue (like what it could POSSIBLY mean to “level up”). The system makes no sense as the life force, experience and fuel for all skills is the same which going by how they use it, they’d never level up as they’d use their energy faster than gaining. Lately, the fact that the narrator uses a different name for some other books REALLY threw me off for a while.

loving the world building

the story is really good and I'm loving the world building...only negative I have is they talk about their feelings too much before during and after a fight making fights last so long but if that's the only negative thing going forward I'm excited for the remainder of the series

Decent LitRPG

I was on the fence with this one. I don't know why but the "Connected System" "The Connection" really just bothers me. Every time it is referenced in the story it annoys me. Trying so hard to NOT call it "The System" like many other LitRPG/GameLit book... it's just so painful. Aside from this, the MC "voice" annoys me. I want to liek him but he's written in a way that I can't (completely) root for him. I do want to see more of how this world comes together, tho.

I think what I need to get past are the parallels in the story to Life in Exile by Sean Osgood. It is another LitRPG/GameLit book where a family gets Isekai'd. That series generally does the family dynamics plus ensemble story better.




[PS J.S. Arquin grated upon me, tho I love him for Path Of Ascension series.]

Grating author writing style combined with a narrator combined

Grating author writing style combined with a narrator combined didn’t allow me to immerse myself into the story

96% Enjoyable

I like the fact that, so far, even though the MC is fairly powerful, he's not immediately going into OP loner mode. The only real annoyance is how much time is spent in his thoughts where it details how he's excessively panicking or over worrying on things to the point that it slows down the pace.

It's probably not as a bad an issue in written format, where it can be skimmed when annoying, but, minor spoiler, in situations like when he spends three minutes of audio book worrying over following his daughters into a dungeon when there is no narrative reason he wouldn't follow them at that point, it gets tedious.

It's the apocalypse, and decision paralysis is an expected thing at that point, but the amount of times he goes into excessive detail on it can bog down the story when it's read aloud.

Good, but

The dad is, well a clueless dad. That isn’t a bad thing, except, he’s supposed to be a gamer and an ex military grunt. Given that I would have expected him to be a little more with it and a little less dumb.

For the way he comes off it’s like he was never in the military at any level and not really a gamer at all. This is fine and overall doesn’t matter much, it’s just the description and action done add up.


Overall though it’s a good story and a fun plot. I’m looking forward to the next book.

Too much introspection

The author has a cycle of worry he puts his MC through - Is my wife alive. Getting home to hopefully find my wife. Guilty over having his daughters fighting monsters. Guilty over leveling his daughters. This first book basically covers Earth’s induction into the system. The MC’s family gets separated right at the start of the book - Then MC and his daughters stumbling into a dungeon. That’s the whole of the book. The book does switches to the wife a couple of times, but the majority of the book is the family’s journey through the dungeon. The story has overly detailed fights which turns into a running fight(s) that span chapters. I understand fight scenes can be exciting, but not all the time. Less fight time more story time. Overall it makes for a shallow storyline.
I purchased the next book in the series hoping the author would be finished with his introspection on the MC’s behalf. Nope. I really don’t like stories that constantly repeats things - be it phrases or mental conversation with yourself. I see this type of writing as a way to increase your word count only. I managed to get almost half through the second book before I called it quits. I don’t care for this kind of writing style. If you don’t mind the repetition and a slower story than this series might be for you.