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The God Machine: An Isekai LitRPG

The God Machine, Book 1

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The God Machine: An Isekai LitRPG

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A scrappy young off-worlder fights for his life while searching for his missing family in this thrilling LitRPG fantasy series from the author of Ascendant.

When Luke Bennet wakes in a world where time flows differently than it does on Earth, he discovers his family, gone missing over the last year, has been dead for a hundred years here. Left to survive in the wilderness as marmots, murderous goblins, giant spiders, and a two-ton raccoon all try to kill him, Aros's latest off-worlder must depend on his newly acquired system to help him level up and live to fight another day.

When Luke finally wends his way to civilization, the locals think he's a Guardian—whatever that means. Soon he's brawling in a fight club to earn his keep and hone his skills. But danger finds him both in and outside the ring, and now the dreaded inquisitors are on his tail. With the beautiful, sharp-tongued Zea by his side, he'll have to up his stats and locate the God Machine as quickly as possible if he wants to bring his family back.

But nothing's as it appears in this new city, and Luke's own system seems to be trying to manipulate him. If he can't trust it, who can he trust?

The first volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with more than 600,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

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I enjoyed the plot of the book. It moved quickly and Luke is a nice guy. No, he isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, but he is able to overcome that handicap. I'm part way through book 2 and it is continuing to be full of action and getting stronger. Definitely a good read.

Good story

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But it started getting crappy after new characters get introduced. Won’t get the next one.

First half was great

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Despite the interesting premise and some twists in how “the system” operates in this world the book is really just another murder hobo story, lacking any character development, a shoehorned sexual romance between the main character and the first female to treat him nicely, and an over reliance on certain turns of phrase (especially “it was all he could do”), demonstrating that while this series might have its fans it lacks any real editorial insight to help deepen the story, characters, or just overall writing style.

The narration was fine, but occasionally the narrator is guilty of reading literally what is written rather than providing the appropriate audio interpretation for what the author intended (generally in the stats and status moments).

For a Podium Audio it was sadly lackluster

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Found myself laughing more than once like some demented kid. I pretty much only listen to litrpg and this was a wonderful and unique plot that I really enjoyed

Great take on the genre

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Im Sick 🤢 Not All that Good on Everything Average book It's Story ok on me system Got Heat Is All

im Sick 🤢 Every body Sense Xp

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took more effort than I expected to ignore how imbalanced the mechanics were for the stats, I started making up reasonings for the mc to stat the way they did, too many things were horribly under tuned.

system mechanics were painful

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Best system "fairy", helpful all around. Mc had so much time to game and fiddle with the system, yet didn't. Continuously ignored his guts/signs/senses/advice and gets in trouble, gets saved by plot armor skill. So much wasted potential, maybe author is dumbing down mc for drama? Could've been done better. Narrator is decent and had a pleasant cadence.

Has potential but marred by "plot armor"

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The others reviews are correct, this MC is a total moron and he has way to much plot armor. Let me give you a couple examples 1 ) He decides to sleep out in the open of a hostile world 2 ) He keeps attacking the Goblins when they outnumber him greatly 3 ) He trusts this super predator bird way to much. 4 ) The system even told him that his brother was killed by them and he was 15 levels higher than the MC.

Then you have the author that didn't want to flush out any Magic system and keeps the MC as a melee meat head.

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The story is ok but the MC is too stupid to live. He makes mistake after mistake and never learns.

He is from another world and is trying to hide , keeps using language from another world, dose t take advise . To be honest I began wishing he would just die.

The MC is an idiot.

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It feels like the author tried too hard to dumb down his protagonist. Why someone would do that deliberately, I couldn't say.


There are just too many times in this story where Luke would say or do something so unbelievably stupid and naive that it would completely draw me out of the narrative. It contrasts so drastically with how he is 70% of the time that it feels forced.


It doesn't help that he's always bitching and moaning - one of the ugliest, insufferable traits a protagonist can have.


Basically, we've got a protagonist put in a world with such a hilariously overpowered set of abilities and boons that are completely outweighed by his lack of guile or basic intelligence. He's the kind of naive that I'd feel it irresponsible for a parent to let him out of the house without an escort, less he walked right into a stranger's van.


I'd have honestly rather he had NO advantages, but just wasn't an idiot.

Started off pretty decent, turned frustrating

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