
Bleeding Edge
EDGE Force, Book 1
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Heath Miller
EDGE Force: A clandestine organisation that leverages the best and brightest humanity has to offer to defend against the threats that can't be fought by normal means.
JD Rideout is a washed-up writer with the best years of his career behind him. Nursing the wounds of a marriage breakdown, his kids are the only thing keeping him going.
When JD wakes up on a tropical island in the middle of the Whitsundays on Queensland's Central Coast, chained to the ceiling, he knows something is very wrong. He feels like a character in one of his novels.
Those who fight for EDGE Force unlock the ability to level up and gain powerful skills to help them fight against threats to our reality.
JD is given a pistol and an axe, along with a new callsign: Hatchet. Uprooted from his life and forced to fight for the fate of the world, Hatchet may just be planet Earth’s last line of defence.
As Hatchet, he’s tasked with fighting back against a shadowy cult that has reappeared after 15 years in hibernation.
But fighting the cult isn’t the only thing that drives Hatchet. These cultists are using the essence of an ancient entity to reshape reality into whatever their twisted imaginations can bring forth. This entity is reaching out to Hatchet too, propelling him towards an epic showdown with the forces of the Fellowship of Cosmic Truth.
During the course of his mission, Hatchet encounters an unexpected ally–a German Shepherd dog named Kaiser–who might just be smarter than Hatchet. Kaiser has his own reasons for fighting the cult and the two form an unlikely alliance.
Bleeding Edge contains LitRPG elements including levelling up, skill increases, new abilities, and a deep crafting system. The book is written using Australian English, and contains Aussie slang.
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a great take on a multi-universe action book. where the mystery unfolds as the main character finds out who truly is on his side.
on the Edge of your seat
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ok but not great
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Where the book slows down is in its use of leveling up skills. The balance of game versus story in a LitRPG can be a difficult one and Barbeler doesn't have it quite right yet in this book. He spends much too much time on experience, skills, and levels, and it really slows the story down. He also finds a way for his character to maximize his skills very quickly which I think also lessened the tension of the story and created a too-powerful main character.
Entertaining
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Loved it.
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What if "Leon S. Kennedy" was a Shotgun Weilding Aussie Hatchetman, with a doggo?
Australian Resident Evil
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Started a bit slow became great
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Without spoiling anything, I'm not sure were you go with the power levels from here.
Fun story and good main character
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One thing I will note - this book is very crunchy, to the point that I was skipping over parts (and I am not opposed to stats or anything like that, it just felt like a lot in audio. Probably would have enjoyed those parts more in the print version). Not a criticism so much as a preference lol
All of that said, good writing, good narration, good ideas. 5/5.
Good - but very crunchy
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awesome
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It was awesome!!
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