A litRPG novel, where we follow Zoe through her narration.

I think the novel was pretty slow at times and at others I found it very hard to follow. I do wonder if this would have been easier to read through an actual novel so we can actually see the full details of what is happening.

This book seems like a good start to a series. I appreciated the plot and characters that the author spent time crafting within the storyline. The author seemed to have a good sense of humor that conveyed well into the characters. I wish there had been more suspense built within the plot line. I think there is room for improvement in the last half of the story and I hope that the author provides more details in the next book.

Murder Medic 1 follows Zoe as she wakes up in a new world after dying to find that she’s been given another chance at life. ‘Life’ may be stretching it though, and she may have been counting her blessings too soon, when the whole gamification of this new world forces Zoe down some interesting choices. It’s not her fault she woke up in a ritual site where a cult was in the midst of performing a dark ritual. As expected our protagonist finds herself in the midst of this ritual and in the end, the focal point of it. The result of which is Zoe becomes a demon-vampire-healer of some sort whose mind is also inhabited by the soul called down from the ritual.

What follows is quite a decent story where we find Zoe learning to harness her powers while also coming to term with this new world around here. This involves a lot of killing, blood, and leveling up. All this while trying to keep her demonic side a secret from everyone, hiding from the very good looking cultist who performed the initial ritual, while also trying to understand this demonic entity that seems to be hanging around in her head.

Decent pace, very interesting world setting, nice characters, and a fairly interesting plot that found me frustrated that the book got over. While several litrpg tropes are very present, the protagonist still managed to feel like a breath of fresh air so that was a pleasant surprise. I look forward to reading the following books in the series.

Massive Thanks to NetGalley and RBmedia for an early copy of the audiobook for Murder Medic 1 by E.C. Krueger.

Let me start by saying the narration in this audiobook is absolutely stellar; Jess Young breathes so much life into the story that I’d almost recommend experiencing it in audio format over ebook/print.

Here we follow Zoe, our FMC, who wakes up from a coma only to find herself thrust into a nightmare; she’s in an unfamiliar place, with no idea how she got there; from there, the story takes off with plenty of dark, chaotic energy. Zoe’s voice is engaging, and the tension in certain scenes had me completely hooked; there were moments where I couldn’t stop listening.

That said, the book isn’t without its flaws. Some dialogue felt unnatural, pulling me out of the story at times, and the characters lacked depth, making their motives hard to believe. The pacing also stumbled in places, slowing down when it should have ramped up.

Despite these issues, the strong narration and high stakes premise kept me invested.

Chapter 8, 13:48 there is an error. “When she did it….. when it did”

Will continue to listen and will update my review when I’m finished the book.

Omg this was a fun fantasy with dnd inspiration I had so much fun listening to zoe learn this world and Change and evolve

So I went into this book with high hopes the premise of the book a girl gets Isekai'd into an RPG world. I was excited because I love books like that for example SVSSS, however this book didn't really get going until about 80% of the way through where if I wasn't listening to the audio form of this book I would've DNF it instead of listening fully. The main character can be insufferable at times and the writing is repeating itself a lot. 2 quotes I would like to show this is "She had to kill monsters of the same core type it was obvious the quest said 250 monsters of the same core type." along with "then again a lot of things were unexpected recently that was why Zoe wasn't surprised even though Zoey didn't expect it." like the repeating itself got to be a bit aggravating because I would think my wifi or something was bad but no it was the writing. Along with the writing maybe it was because I was listening to the book but the amount of POV switches would confuse me especially the first time it happened and it kept confusing me throughout the story. Overall even though I know it's going to be a series the plot of this first book was just level up, like she didn't really complete any big major quest and even when I thought it was going to get good of the main bad guy becoming a guard he just threw her in prison like I thought we would get some tension of him having to guard her or slowly manipulate her but no he just threw her in prison. Like I'm sorry but this book does not leave me wanting to read the next book it left me saying finally the book is over. It would've been an even harder read physically. But the premise of the book is good but the execution of the book just wasn't it.

I was excited about this story since I feel like the LitRPG genre lacks female main characters.
This story follows Zoe who has awoke from her medically induced coma in a strange place and stumbles upon a strange cultist ritual. This ritual summons a demon and Zoe intercepts this ritual and summons the demon herself. That’s how the story kicks off. Now what happens next is a bunch of traveling and yep… The plot falls off majorly, my main thought while listening to this was “So, what is the goal here” I never understood what any character wanted to do, they were just doing things. The characters were also quite flat to me, they had no personality.

There was a part, where Zoe, passes out in front of group of random people. When she comes to her first thought was comparing her appearance to another woman’s. Then saying she was more attractive due to her being blonde. After this line it went down hill for me.

The narrator really brought this back for me, she had a smooth voice that boosted the story well. This story had a strong premise but i just didn’t fully connect with it. Just okay to me, but I would listen to the next in the series as I do think this has the potential to get better as it felt like we left off at strong place where the plot was coming together.

Thank you so much to RBMedia and NetGalley for this audiobook of Murder Medic 1.

I enjoyed the concept of this book, but I feel like it got very overwhelming with all of the stats. It was hard to keep track of what was happening and I felt a lot like Zoe, I had no idea what was going on. I personally think it would be much more enjoyable as a physical book.

I did enjoy Zoe and her inner monologue. There was a good mix of humour and darkness. I felt like the narrator captured her personality very well.

I want to give this one another try as a physical book and hopefully I will enjoy it more. I definitely think if you like dark humour and LitRPG, you will likely enjoy this one.

Great for TTRPG and similar nerds. This LitRPG is humorous and engaging. Would definitely recommend for my geeks and gamers!

This was my first LitRPG, but it definitely gave me anime vibes- Minus the MC being broken & super OP off jump lol. Although, Zoey does scale quite a bit- She’s still considered lowkey low ranking!!
I loved the sassy system, reminded me so much of the system in “That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime”, except sassier. As for how the system actually works, it was a tad bit complicated keeping up w/ everything, I feel like it’d play out way clearer visually. The characters & story overall could’ve been a bit better as well, but I see the potential 🤌🏽 Jess Young was such a fun narrator!!