Reborn: Apocalypse
by L.M. Kerr
Narrator
Adam Stubbs
Duration
15h
Series
1 / 4
Released
2019
About This Audiobook
Humanity gets ripped out of reality and dumped into the Seven Layered Worlds: climb all seven and reach Heaven, or go extinct trying. Spoiler — they went extinct. Michael Care was there for the whole collapse, and not as some chosen one. He was a middling swordsman in Humanity's Last Army, the kind of guy who survives on caution while better fighters die around him. Then a chance artifact throws his memories back to day one, and round two begins. What hooked me is that Michael actually plays it like a gamer on a second playthrough with the wiki open. He knows which trials pay out, which choices doomed everyone, which people are worth saving this time. It's the Korean-style regressor formula wearing a LitRPG/wuxia skin, and Kerr commits to it hard. Adam Stubbs keeps the narration lean and urgent, which fits a story that's basically one long speedrun against fate. Fair warning: the prose shows its webnovel roots in places, and a few side characters are pure NPC. But I chewed through the 15-hour runtime in three sittings, and a 4.6 average from 3K listeners says I'm not alone. One of the better second-chance stories on Audible.
