Outrage of the Ancients: Part history lesson, part litrpg, all around great story

I don't even know where to start with this book and I mean that in the best way possible. Outrage of the Ancients is my first introduction to Jakob H. Greif and I am already looking forward to checking out his other series. I love the leatherette style cover with the gold accents, very clean and professional. For audio lovers this book is narrated by the excellent Johnathan McClain and I really enjoyed listening to him cycle through multiple accents. Just these alone are probably worth the credit but lets get to the story.

Set in modern day, the "System" has descended upon the world unlocking gamelit staple class system flood the world with magic and baddies. Unfortunately, our MC Tristan is not really equipped for a life of adventure but luckily for him his sister Mia is a bit more adept at combat and they manage to survive the first few minutes of the end of the world. The good news? The hero's of old have awakened from their slumber and are here to kick some major monster ass, Tristan and his sister just so happened to be near one. The rest of the story follows our MC as he helps his charge Dietrich von Bern navigate this new world while trying to survive the waves of chaos the System throws at them. The story goes through multiple PoV changes as we hop into the bodies of various heroes, thankfully this is handled really well (both by the author and narrator) so this enhances the experience instead of being a distraction.

All in all a really good first entry and it has me excited to hear more. I already queued up his Apocalypse Redux series and added the next book in the series to my wishlist. Highly recommend.

Review by: Tony Gallo

Note: I did win a code for this novel from a giveaway on the publishers page which can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/shadowalleypress/