When the shattered fragments of the Black Moon collapsed onto planet Earth, splitting continents apart and flooding them with raging oceans, Darkness descended onto our world. The eruptions of hostile energy from behind the Edge distorted the laws of the physical world, creating new life forms which now threaten to take over the planet. The last remaining vestiges of humankind, too desperate for their own survival, have nothing to offer against their advance.
So it’s time to activate Incarnation: the last instruction issued by Project Stellar. In a situation when there’re not enough living beings to protect planet Earth, the dead fighters will have to rejoin the defenders’ ranks.
My Opinion: 563 pages, $3.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
A slice of life post-apocalypse sci-fi LitRPG.
The main character (MC) wakes up without a memory of his past and as a ghost like entity that can possess a recently deceased body as his own. The setting is definitely more post-apocalypse sci fi. The MC starts with a futuristic gun and armor. He fights mutated monsters, aliens, and augmented humans in a destroyed cityscape. He uses tech and modern items. He also has the ability to upgrade his host body using Azure and the genetics of the monsters he kills while he tries to survive in this new world and unravel the mystery of what happened to humanity and how he's supposed to restore it.
On the game mechanic side of things, there are lots of notifications that are shared with the reader: upgrades possible item descriptions, messages from his snarky AI companion, quests, ability lists. He gathers Azure instead of XP from monsters and from radiation sources to create tech upgrades and bio enhancements. More powerful upgrades require more Azure. When the MC dies, he can spend Azure to bring his host body back to life or he has to find a new host body and start over gathering resources and upgrades. So like respawning versus starting a new character.
Overall this was an enjoyable action focused story that followed the MC as he tried to figure out the world, got in lots of fights, decided how to collect more Azure for upgrades, and peeled back the world lore on how the world got into such a state and what how he was tied to it. There are hints at big factions, intrigue, and other large plots, but this story is mostly a good slice of life action adventure.
Score: 7.6 out of 10