Paperback, 340 pages
Published July 19, 2018 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
A side quest adventure in the best-selling world of Awaken Online!
Eliza's parents are relentless - forcing her to constantly take extra courses to prepare for college and medical school. Sometimes, it feels like her entire life has already been planned out.
Which is why she leaps at the chance to escape into a new virtual reality game, Awaken Online. What she wasn't expecting was to encounter a capricious god and his loyal "pet." Or to be chosen as this god's "avatar" within the game and forced to tackle a series of asinine quests.
Yet, she just can't shake the feeling that there is more to the irritating god than first meets the eye.
(This story is intended to be "Book 5" in the Awaken Online series. It should be read after Awaken Online: Evolution.)
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.
