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Gaia has awakened, and the world will never be the same again. Rockland Barkclay has had a rough year. On top of everything else, his father has just passed, and Rocky has to go it alone on their annual trip. But his plans for drinking alone in Algonquin Park are rudely interrupted by a sea of cosmic energy that governs the universe. Ether, the driving force of creation, has returned. Now a confused Rocky must navigate odd hovering messages to survive. With the awakening of the very planet they reside on, humans are in a desperate fight to survive in an evolving world. If only Gaia hadn't woken up so very... very... unhinged.
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1 primary bookEther Collapse is a 1-book series first released in 2019 with contributions by Ryan DeBruyn.
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The premise of Earth turning into a harsh game system world is really neat and new to me, at least. I didn't have high hopes for the main character at his introduction: a former professional basketball player and current tabletop and computer gamer. Also his name is Rocky. I grew to like him and his knowledge from both backgrounds is relevant to this new Earth.
The RPG system of this book is very focused on combat skills and classes. There's a lot of fight scenes, mostly very similar, and I found myself skimming over most of them. Noncombat skills exist but few have much relevance. Presumably skinning level 20 is faster than level 1, but it doesn't effect the story any. A kingdom building sort of system is touched upon but will probably be detailed more in future books.
Environmentalism: High
Horniness: Moderate
Power Trip: High, Physical
Testosterone: Occasionally obnoxious
This book could have used another round of edits but is otherwise good.
Audiobook is done by Luke Daniels, so the female lead sounds way older than she probably should, but otherwise all the characters sound okay.
4.5 stars
Basically I love LitRPG.
But this is an another level, the idea of the new world is just wonderful. The ether & Gaia concept is so cool
The 0.5 less stars because, in the beginning it was little harder to get into and also sometimes have unnecessary paragraphs.
