Paperback, 277 pages
Published Oct. 10, 2017 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
A side quest adventure in the same world as the best-selling Awaken Online series. This story takes place after the end of Awaken Online: Precipice.
Riley’s real-life took a nosedive after her confrontation with Alex. The girls at school torment her and she feels powerless to do anything about it. At the same time, Jason has mysteriously disappeared, sending only a terse cryptic message to Riley and Frank.
With some time on her hands and with her frustration with her real-life reaching a breaking point, Riley decides to strike off on her own in-game. Her goal is to investigate the quest related to the strange bow she discovered in the dungeon north of Peccavi. Yet events quickly spiral out of control as she discovers that the bow’s former owner has set her along a path of vengeance – with an entire city hanging in the balance.
Travis is doing a good job with this series. I enjoyed the story, although it is similar to the others. I will read the next .5 book soon.
It's easy reading, but towards the end were some good emotional moments.
The world seems to be developing along with the characters, and we're moving away from something good vs bad to something a little more neuanced I think.
One of the very very rare female lead LitRPG Novels. You need to have read the others but it's worth it.
Standard LitRPG plot, interesting world and well written. Kinda on the YA side of things like the rest of this series but an easy reading fun action adventure.
This universe is pretty easy on the Levels and stuff, they don't mean much (but that doesn't feel like it's breaking a world mechanic).
This book is about a new VR game called Awaken Online. Our protagonist is a school kid who is bullied at school and ignored at home. Fairly similar to most LitRPG, but the twist here is that the game's AI works to resolve your emotional problems outside of the game.
The game itself is your standard sword and sorcery type game, however the AI rewrites portions of it in response to the users desires and needs, so longer term, who knows what it's going to end up as. The game has some Tabletop RPG aspect, namely the alignment system from DnD.
This book was very good for a litrpg, it didn't fall into too many of the tropes of making the main character a hero, and (I can't believe this comes up so often with LitRPG that I have to mention it) the women characters were pretty well written, and …
This book is about a new VR game called Awaken Online. Our protagonist is a school kid who is bullied at school and ignored at home. Fairly similar to most LitRPG, but the twist here is that the game's AI works to resolve your emotional problems outside of the game.
The game itself is your standard sword and sorcery type game, however the AI rewrites portions of it in response to the users desires and needs, so longer term, who knows what it's going to end up as. The game has some Tabletop RPG aspect, namely the alignment system from DnD.
This book was very good for a litrpg, it didn't fall into too many of the tropes of making the main character a hero, and (I can't believe this comes up so often with LitRPG that I have to mention it) the women characters were pretty well written, and for once for this genre not everybody is russian and dying for a smoke.
If I had one criticism, it's that the author failed to build up my excitement in dramatic moments, and while they were kinda cool they didn't quite achieve that wow factor.
It's a 4 but it only just scraped that. I think I'll probably read the next in the series.
