Reborn as a Baron Lord 2: The Steampunk World of Gearnix, Book 2

Reborn As A Baron Lord is the first book in The Steampunk World of Gearnix series by Han Yang.Color me surprised, exalted, pleasantly entombed in enjoyment. This book was something I picked while hunting through LitRPGs to find something not quite the same but similar. I find myself happy to have met Baron Lord Bradley and see how the beginning of his second life unfolds.I love the steam punk world of Gearnix. That we still have only barely touched the surface of what the steambots and other crafted machines are capable of. I'm excited to see the evolution of these mechanical life forms with Duke at the helm of their evolution. It does make me wonder how much the machine at the core of this world is set to defend our MC. Or if it even is a machine, or just the physical representation the God of this planet can take to assist him in absolving a clerical error.I do enjoy when the author leans more towards family building, even if simply friend-families, than to the more prevalent harems or relationship centric LitRPGs. Those tend to mostly make me cringe into eternity. It's not only fun but enriching to experience the connections made between characters. Especially while exploring such a differing societal structure.I'm excited to see the future of Norn, but I'm mostly looking forward to the journey to reach an undefined utopia. It's no shocker that our MC has already stirred up trouble. With three, not likely, but possibly four, other city states as potential enemies in the way of this newly revitalized towns progression.The only part truly upsetting is how the author appears to confuse the characters occasionally. Calling Ginli or Joana by each other's names, which interrupts the flow while reading.There is more beyond just the building of this new world. There appear to be more worlds somehow connected or that affect Gearnix. Maybe more things to fear or prepare for beyond this planet alone..

I love reading these kinds of stories. This was a new author writing a steampunk book. Alright, color me interested just from steampunk. Except there is more to the book than just that.The Pros: The pacing was fluid, and a page turned. I should know, it's a fairly thick book and I finished it in almost one sitting. Yeah, I really became invested in Bradley. Without going to far into his character, I can say I like how the author created the twist. I'll leave it at that for Bradley.The world building was amazing. You get a bit of an overview, nothing too drowning in detail at the start. once you get into the book there is the experience with the main character. So this is a steampunk book on a steampunk world with a myriad of rules that keep the society where it is. This was explained well and sucked me into the book.The side characters, the pets, and the intrigue were all excellent. I was thoroughly entertained by each addition and it really help me keep flipping the page.The Cons: I really wish there was an image for each new character. I get it, they're expensive, but maybe add some later. Another proofread wouldn't hurt even if I found most of the novel to be well edited.Summary. A new twist on a great genre that I would highly recommend 9/10 and will read the next book.

3.75My review title literally sums up the story here it’s good but you’re going to ask yourself why are we doing this exactly? Why does this leveling system exist exactly? How do people upgrade exactly and what does that look like? I’ll give you an example in the story a person can literally augment their entire body arms legs everything except your head and your genitals the question becomes why? For strength you don’t really see strength to take hold in this book. You don’t see a strict statistic that matters when it comes to engaging enemies. You are given a character leveling system but you see it really doesn’t matter so you have to ask yourself why is it here?I urge you to go into this knowing the story is translated and it’s done fairly well. Now when I talk about the overall story it’s a really good story. When you sit down you got the basic facts it’s a really compelling story actually. Now the problem is somethings in this story all right actually unnecessary. I’ll give you an example the leveling system unnecessary. Now for a story that is going to be a LITRPG of sorts you kind of need a leveling system. In this book you might see the main character look at their stats a total of let’s say 10-12times. The thing is the stats the character looks like they don’t really matter. The one main stack that really comes into play and you will notice when it comes in to play if that’s all you’re worried about in this story then why have this leveling system. When you see the character progress in the story talks about items progressing they don’t tell you how or what that means. You get no understanding of how things have grown stronger the character has gotten better. In fact in this world the author created you are pretty much told anything can be thrown at you. They literally mention if you go out into the wilds of the world long enough and stay you’re just going to die something big will come and kill you. Literally meaning there are insurmountable objects out there that you cannot beat. The author even shows you times when the world overall just does what it wants to do. It’s not bad you don’t suddenly see major story plot swings or anything like that because the world just says we’re changing but it’s the idea that well this world where you’re supposed to progress and grow and have opportunities technically it really doesn’t exist of the world can just throw anything at you.Now I see all that to let you know the story is good all you have to do is ignore the leveling system. It’s not brought up much anyway when you see it just ignore it because it literally means nothing so far. Other than that you can expect a good translation you can expect a decent story are some cases where because of translation it doesn’t flow as well as it could but that’s minor. I actually can’t wait to read the next book in the series. I’m going to dive into it right now because I want to know what comes next. I do think they should just strip the leveling out of this book though you don’t really need it think that’s a major blow to a LITRPG though.

I definitely enjoyed reading this story and have the next two in the series already.Why Bradley, the main character, was brought to this world was interesting; I haven't heard of this same reason before. And, the story expands from there. While most of the animals are fully organic, some are cyborgs! I'm really interested to see how things progress in the next books, now that Bradley has gained some experience.There is a good balance of fighting, politics, shopping, the start of city building, and assassins and spies are starting to show up.Note: There are a small number of minor grammatical errors, which did not detract from the story.

Holy crap on a cracker dude that was Absofuckinglutley awesome I thoroughly enjoyed reading every page and only stopped because work got in the way of quality reading time I seriously can't wait for the next book many many many thanks for feeding my voracious overactive imagination 😁😁😁😁😁

A thoroughly enjoyable read that is decently written and well polished. I've read several works by this author and have not been disappointed.

A fantastic start to what looks like being a fabulous series.Plenty of action and lots of scope for future books. Can't wait for the next one to arrive.

An entirely unique and different set of world's with a good and credible understanding of people. The world's change but people are consistently unpleasant. The augments are a clever aspect and it's nice that the MC isn't another youth with a destiny.

Lots of fun and action going on, also hints of dark, behind the scenes godly skirmishing? Our hero, being more simple minded, misses this entirely! Or maybe does’nt care! 9/10