Aaron, A Shadow Monster

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Description

Aaron is a boy who lives a happy childhood in a happy, rich family. Things take a turn for the worst as their family slowly start to crumble apart. In the worst of it all, Aaron's mom murders Aaron for insurance money, and Aaron is reborn in another world.

I am floating lazily through an empty void.

Where am I? What's happening? Who am I?

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Flashes of memories come to me. I begin to remember everything that has happened.

I died, haven't I?

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Aaron is a fourteen year old boy reborn as a Shade Beast. He explores the cavernous area he's been dropped in while getting stronger and struggling with the trauma from his past.

This story won't involve any harems.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2020
Author: Panini Trampini

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 217
Views: 32,195

Chapters(15 total)

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Community Reviews(3)

Droy17Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Ok this is awesome. The grammar's good. The story is pretty interesting not unique but interesting and he execute it splendidly. There's a certain depth in charcters of the mc. And I like the story.
Give it a go
JackhammrRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
"Aaron, A Shadow Monster" is one of the best fresh takes on the trifecta of non-human reincarnated LitRPG stories that I have read in a long time. It is also undeniably the most underrated. I'm hoping that this review will enourage other readers who love this story to also leave good reviews, so the author knows their work is appreciated.
The novel succeedes at blending the narrative creativity of a psychological story with the system-based creativity of a LitRPG story -- Aaron is generally gloomy psychologically, and his reincarnation is then literally gloomy. It strikes a good balance between plot progression (which is blazingly fast, for a RoyalRoad work!) and Aaron's inner monologue. I feel like I never lost track of who Aaron was, something that he himself works to ensure despite his situation's complete estrangement from his past.
More on characterization (spoils an early plot point):
Spoiler: Spoiler
Aaron is also characterized significantly by his tendency of inaction, especially in his human life (it's what leads him to die, for example,) and we later witness him fall into contact with the Voided (called Veiled in-novel), beings that oppose the world-creating gods because said gods sacrafice other worlds to do so; they also banish the gods of these old worlds, exiling them into the Void, and those that survive become the Voided.
This explicitly parallels Aaron's journey; he's sacraficed by some other power (his mother) for her personal gain (insurance money) only to come back unexpectedly. They've both been predated on.
However, just as Aaron often rejects this sense of emptiness and futility, so does he reject the offer from the Veiled to join them. Early on, as a human child, Aaron recognizes that his inaction is strange; whether this is simply cognitive dissonance or some early influence from Veiled is up to the author to clarify, or leave us questioning. What is clear is that Aaron views his nihilistic views themselves as a negative thing, something he
WisdomKingRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Hello,
Sorry, I'm not really good at writing reviews, so here are few things I noticed after reading the Prologue and the first chapter
1- The Mc seems to be a monster (it's in the title), a "Juvenile Shade Beast" in fact, So, Author you might want to put the "non-human lead" tag on the novel.😊
2- This might be just me, but I believe using past tense to tell/write a story makes it feel better.😕
For instance, I couldn't even read past half the first chapter, because the present tense just killed the vibe i felt after reading the Prologue.
3- The Mc seems a little bit too comfortable with what just happened to him, like, bro, you are seeing blue screens and sh*t, and you got no questions at all? no WTF reaction?🤔
Instead the Mc starts talking about Dungeons and Dragons... like, bro, for real? you don't even know where you are and more importantly, you cool with being a monster?
Anyway, it doesn't feel right to me, I feel like the author just skipped some steps. (this is my opinion)
4-Nice prologue, I really like it. I feel like you really took your time to write it, it set a nice background for the Mc.
Now he can either be a cold Mc or a moron who's looking for the love he never had from his parents. the choice is all yours author.😁
And sorry, English is not my native language, I might not have used the right words to express myself.