8 The Infinite

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2022

Author

Cynical Stranger

• Bonus chapter: Dear Big Brother
  Nov 17, 2022
• Chapter 5: The Old Hedonist
  Nov 6, 2022
• Bonus chapter: The Queen of Maggots
  Oct 29, 2022
• Chapter 4: The sky cries for the dead
  Oct 21, 2022
• Chapter 3: The Return Of The Last Soul Hunter
  Feb 5, 2022
• Chapter 2: The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend
  Feb 2, 2022
• Chapter 1: The Suicidal Immortal
  Feb 2, 2022
• Prologue
  Feb 1, 2022

Reviews

Community Reviews(9)

• HomuroRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  I could relate to the MC very easily and the author obviously took the time to build the story. While there are only two chapters out so far I look forward to the coming chapters and seeing how the author unfolds the rest of this story. Congrats on a job well done!
• IanFlatRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  At first, this struck me as too self-consciously grimdark. Look how grim! Look how dark! But as I kept reading, the details and the larger-than-life characters grew on me. God, M7, Corpse, Angel. And the Chamber of Boredom: nothing is a worse torture than having to face your regrets, shames, loneliness. That's a nice touch, and tells the reader that there's more going on here than appears on the surface.
  I found the switch to God's POV interesting. That his second line is self-doubting--'was I too cruel?-'-contrasts in an intriguing ways with how M2 sees him. And while I'm not a fan of prologues, I have to admit that that this one does a good job of making me curious about 8 … and of making me aware that he's in trouble before he ever appears in his own scene.
  There are some inconsistencies--the 'random raiders' were thinking how 2 was lucky for his position, but the slaves were pitying him for the same--and maybe a passing issue with tense. But overall the style matched the story.
  Too dark for me personally, but the prologue is quick, and a brief peek at Chapter 1 drops the reader right into 8's POV … and 8 is already in a whole different type of trouble! So this moves along nicely.
• Daniel J HullRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Five stars for originality.  It seems like a very dark tale with the potential for a glimmer of hope.  It is well-written, but in terrible need of an editor.  Some of it seems intentional, as if the chaos in the story is so pervasive that it even attacks the prose.  If true, that's some cutting edged stuff.  To bring it out, the reader needs a point of reference.  Unfortunately, that has't manifested itself in the story just yet.  May a re-write of the prologue couold accomplish that.  Include more details about what is happening in this world to help the reader ground themselves.  Nothing spoiler-worthy, but a solid foundation of literature from which we can dive off into the protagonist's semi-insane POV.  I don't have any other critisisms.  It's a cool tale full of angst, darkness, and grit.  Nice job!
• Lord SputnikRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Please note, this story is very short and I am sure things will change as the author continues.  I can only give this a general review at the moment.
  Overall, I feel the author has a very unique story with an idea in their head of where they want to go with it, but they can't quite get it there.  At least not yet...
  The Good:  This author does an excellent job with painting a clear picture of how certain things look and the action is done nicely.  We are given enough lore that it is clear the author has an entire world in their mind for this story.
  The Bad:  I was lost with this...  Yes, it was easy to read and I feel like the grammar was decent, but I feel like they were using something like Grammarly.  If the author is using Grammarly, then tense issues are frequently missed unless they occur within a single sentence.  Nothing wrong with using it!  Just be careful since I feel like it inhibits style to an extent.  If the author isn't using Grammarly, be careful with the tense changes, it throws things into chaos.  While the action was good, I couldn't follow what the story was even about.  Suddenly snapping a guys neck was neat, but it seemed a bit forced or rushed.  (Not that snapping someone's neck wouldn't be.)  Like I said though, I got lost so I could've missed some things.  The lore dumps were a bit heavy too, something I need to work on myself.
  The Neutral:  I think this will get better as the author progresses the story and gives dumb people like me a chance to settle into the plot.  As of right now, it is a bit too chaotic for me.
• Simply GreenRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  The story overall is very enjoyable
  The characters we've been introduced to so far are all interesting in their own ways, 8 makes it somewhat easy to understand his point of view, although no one of us, the readers, lived that long and suffered so much (I assume?). Hunter, although a dick, is very entertaining, but he also feels somewhat invincible despite not being (I'm not yet sure how i feel about it). Bucket and Lucy are like a breath of fresh air, they are so wholesome. John is actually the one I'm most intrigued about, we have seen him feel what others feel, but as for himself, there's a lot we as readers don't know.
  The landscape and atmosphere is pretty solid, I am honestly a bit obsessed with the narrating desert, it is a shame it's so small lol
  There are some moments (especially in the last chapter) where I felt like the characters got over some challenges with too much ease, but that is my personal opinion and the writer shouldn't make them struggle just because I want them to.
  I would wait for the story to progress further, I feel like theres a great potential to it.
• greylyRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  This is a story brimming with personality. There's a lot of really interesting, unique concepts, and the author has a clear sense of what sort of atmosphere and tone they're going for. Personally I'm a sucker for stories about immortals, and I really like what we've seen of the world so far. The author has a knack for writing descriptions that evoke a reaction.
  There's some grammatical errors, mostly with the dialogue formatting and some tense shifts, but it's not a huge detractor, and it visibly improves with each chapter. My main critique is that the story can be a bit hard to follow. This is a very complex world, and the reader isn't given a lot of time to digest what's happening before the next thing occurs. Slowing down a little to explain more about the world would help, especially since this world is so interesting and very much deserves the extra time.
  That being said, despite those issues, there's a lot of potential here, and the story conceptually is absolutely fascinating. I've also noticed each chapter improves slightly on the clarity issues; if the story looks interesting to you, definitely give it a read!
• BullerRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  I do not like it when people use that kind of language. jUsT haViNg raNdOm lEtTerS be big makes it too hard to read. Or maybe the author WANTED IT ALL TO BE BIG WHICH IS JUST AS BAD IN THE LONG RUN. It gives the vibe of the older WP days where having it all in big letters was seen as the height of style. Now? Many in some cliques might still use it but RR is not that happy with it. And, seeing as I'm part of that group, I have nothing to say but stating that I disliked it.
  Grammar was fine overall. Personalities were average but not bad. Style, as said before, can use some work. 4/5
• nerdy_asian27Royal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS A REVIEW BASED ON THE FIRST 4 CHAPTERS OF THE STORY AS IT IS JUST STARTING OUT AND THE AUTHOR COULD ALWAYS IMPROVE AS IT GOES.
  First off, I'm only leaving a general review as the story isn't really too fleshed out yet and I want to be very fair.  The story is definitely unique and it seems like the author put in a lot of thought in regards to the worldbuilding and the fleshing out of interworldly concepts.
  The grammar in the story is also very fine and I never really found too many issues anywhere.  The characters also appear to have a lot of personality and I found moments of the MC to be quite relateable and cute.
  However...the style for me is what really tore away at my reading experience.  Starting with the initial chapters, there was WAY too much information to consume.  The paragraphs were huge, the tenses keep shifting, and the sentence flow was all over the place.  I believe the author was going for a somewhat chaotic, yet witty approach to their storytelling, but the chaos was too overbearing for me to follow.  Because of that, I was unable to understand what was happening within the story.  The descriptions were nice and detailed, but what were they even describing?
  Overall, I sense great potential in this story.  However, the story needs some serious polishing in the style department if you ever want idiots like me to understand what is even going on in the story.
• CKJ5Royal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  I hope people will keep in mind this review is based on only one chapter of the story: 8 the Infinite, and does not necessarily reflect the entirety of it. Okay, now that's out of the way, let’s get into it.
  The story opens up with a character returning after failing their assignment. It felt like the character could be the MC of the story, but that, unfortunately, is not necessarily clear.
  The author does a good job of not info-dumping to world-build, and from the first chapter, I got Mad Max vibes from the world, but perhaps a sentence or two of world-building wouldn’t hurt to ensure the setting of the world is clear.
  The story is written in first-person, making it feel personal, but with PoV shifts, it is difficult to know who is the main character. I am of the mind that first-person is better suited for a singular PoV.
  One small thing that bothered me about the chapter was there was a lot of inner monologuing in the opening chapter, and despite that, I learned very little about the world or the character we first encountered.
  Grammatically the chapter needs some work, especially with commas, capitalization, and tenses. From what I gathered, the author is aware they have some issues and has been working to fix them. Judging by some of the comments, it looks like the author already made strides in that area before I reviewed it.
  Overall:
  I thought the opening chapter raised questions and introduced what seems to be the main plot. I believe it would serve the story much better to clean up the errors and make the setting easier to understand. I was interested in what the first character encountered and the dynamics of the world as a whole, but it does need some polish.