Deadman Running: A Cyberpunk LitRPG

Slumrat Rising #3

by Warby Picus

In the epic third installment of this urban fantasy series, an ambitious and powerful young man incites a revolution at the end of the world.

If Truth Medici has learned anything it’s that the country isn’t neatly divided into safe and dangerous zones. Everywhere is a battlefield and a hunting ground. Everyone is both predator and prey, slumrats on the run from bigger rats. And Truth is finally one of the bigger rats, so elite that ordinary people can’t even see him. But though he may be a walking ghost, he’ll be acknowledged one way or another.

Truth holds the power to slay the very oppressors who made him what he is. And he’s resolved to wield this power toward a righteous end. His next smash the System and fashion himself as a mastermind, pulling the strings of rebellion. With the help of old friends and new, it’s time for him to level up and prepare to do anything in the name of freedom.

But uprisings, explosive anarchy, devastating chaos, and collateral damage are just the beginning. Because the war isn’t only being waged on the ground. The rulers of Heaven and Hell are in on it too, their ancient animosity more nuanced than anyone dares believe. And standing and fighting between them is Truth . . .

The third volume of the hit cyberpunk fantasy series—with more than one million views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

Genres: Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Urban Fantasy

319 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 27, 2024

Reviews

[Dee · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don’t know what happened between books two and three but the story fell off a cliff…

Rating: 1/5
Cover: 1/5
Narration: 5/5
Favorite line: NA

[Alastair McDermott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoying this series

Clearly an intelligent author, this is one of the best series I’ve read in the LitRPG genre. Head and shoulders above the majority of works.

[Smoke · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is not as bad as book two, but still is not the type of series we were promised in book one.
I got through it, but everything is happening for a very tenuous reason, a reason which was drawn out for the entire book instead of just part of it. The main character has to draw out big bad guys from place X, so he is going to murder everyone in A through W and hope for the best, that’s the whole book in a nutshell.
There is less generic YouTube philosophy and religion debates, but they are still there, and they honestly serve no purpose. I get how some who have never actually thought on their own may find this high brow literature, but it is an overly deep dive into a very basic part of philosophy, and it drives me crazy how much weight is put on the debates and simplistic ideas.
I want to know what will happen with the actual plot, but I don’t see how it is worth slogging through another one of these books to find out.

[Timo Tuominen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This series just keeps spiralling downwards. This book and the start of the fourth one (Have read about one fourth of it so far) are mostly just pseudo-deep philosophy babble. It gets harder and harder to understand the decisions of once interesting MC. Anything interesting is buried under a endless word salad. Plot hasn't really moved forward on the last few books and I don't have high hopes that it will change in future. But... I still bought the fourth book, so at least some of the draw from first book is still there.

[Tony Hinde · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, this is better than book two... less theology and philosophy. Sadly the violence seems mostly undirected. It's just not clear how these grey moral acts will help the world. Thus our hero is edging into antihero territory.

[Morten Mogensen · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are fewer and fewer reviews of this series the further you go. It makes sense as the plot progression gets slower and slower. It feels like the author did not know where to take the plot and so just added a whole lot of filler to make up for the slow progression.

[M Hamed · Rating 3 out of 5]

what's with all of the philosophy .