Accidental Reaver

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B1 is now on Amazon KU:here.

People vanished for years, and Luke is the last to discover why.

Unknown beings transported humanity in mass waves to a realm where they cling to the edge. Near-godly monsters, beasts, and mythical creatures dominate the best 'core' lands.

Luke, the last man on Earth one moment, finds himself in a monster-infested cave the next. His survival hinges on one decision: choosing a class. Drawn by nostalgia, he initially picks herbalist. A twist of fate sends him down a different path, becoming the next Reaver.

Catapulted into a class trial with his life on the line, Luke's heart gains a three-day timer. Steeling his will to escape the cave and possibly find his father, Luke battles for every breath in this relentless reality.

Last to arrive in a hostile new world, Luke must master the dark arts of a Reaver to survive.

Releases a chapter every Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 07:12 EST

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2024
Author: S.J Scarth

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Rating: 4.1/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

MinasbukowskillRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Love this story, thank God we're back baby! Missed this story badly on the off time. I look forward to every chapter drop. This author is freaking awesome. Great pacing, characters, the world makes sense and is unique. I hope we get to see a Dwarven city or outpost soon. Keep up the fantastic work you are a fantastic writer!!
GwalmeichRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Engaging characters: Caw! Awesome world building: Caw! Epic battles: Caw! Well written: Caw! If you don't read this story, you'll be cursed to be pecked by every murder of crow you'll encounter from now on! What are you wanting for? Give it a try! Oh, and make sure to pay tribute to Sooty, preferably in shiny things.
Zoe BRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Absolutely adorable corvid friend! Also I'm a bit curious about the fact that humans have apparently been slowly disappearing into another dimension. I really want to see where that plotline goes. And again, awesome birb! Also the talking compass has a lot of character. And of course, the main character is decidedly swell. It's a classic "boy and his dog which is actually a bird and an ornery old old man trapped in a dangerous nightmare cave system filled with horrific monsters with an undercurrent of comedy that adds levity, only to make the most dramatic and dangerous moments all the more impactful" story.
Ria CorvidivaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Our story begins when our hero Luke and his intrepid corvid companion, Sooty, find themselves brought to an otherworldly, fantastical dungeon through means which I will generously describe as 'somehow'. After a mishap leaves our hero choosing the mysterious ??? class, he becomes an Essence Reaver with the ability to steal the life force of his enemies and bestow buffs and debuffs to allies and enemies, respectively.
The story thus far is a little bare-bones, with our hero, his trusty sidekick, and the angry, swear-happy artifact compass Wayfinder forced to navigate deeper into the dungeon hoping to find a way out. As expected, there are any number of traps, monsters, and other challenges for our protagonist to overcome, and enough tension to keep the reader going.
However, where the story lacks, the characters provide in droves. The bond, the implicit trust between Luke and Sooty, the arrogant, sassy, smart-talking Wayfinder, and the trepidatious yet determined Luke. All of these characters, both individually and in their interactions with one another, are cute and amusing, and provide the necessary levity to keep the gritty setting from becoming too mired in grimdark despair. Wayfinder's heavy Scottish(? -- that's how i read it, anyway) accent is a bit tough to parse at times, but in my opinion, it's to the story's benefit that it's hard sometimes to figure out exactly what it (he?) is saying.
I do have to ding a little bit for style and grammar -- the story sometimes seems to try to veer from 3rd person to first person, and I'm not sure whether the story is going for limited or omniscient PoV either. There's also a bit too much filtering in some places, but it's not overly immersion breaking.
One other thing I didn't care for is that I felt the story and prose devoted a little too much time to the LitRPG component, with perhaps close to 10% of words in some chapters just describing various skills and showcasing the slight improvements that they gain as they
Kel121Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Story " is good, after chapter 50
Grammar : is good.
Character: MC is fine, two side Item's are annoying.
After chapter 50 he starts communicating with real people and the story actually picks up.
Early on the story was a slug fest, The first 50 chapters need to be condensed because it's just not good. The thing is you can skip 1-50 and still not really miss much, which is a problem.
I skipped 20-50 around right after he finishes the cave dungeon with no problems. It just feels like a different story after he rejoins civilization.
I'm not saying the story is bad, on the contrary it's good. The introduction is too long.
iron_feRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
A nice dip into the genre.
While at times the voice of the narritive can become muddled, overall
this is a fun story with some numbers that go up; without being a "hard"
style system.
The combat scenes are well written, if a little confusing at times.
Overall a good adition to RR, and a fun story to read.
Also, Sooty best birb.
MrD34thRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The story is alright. It's setting is more game like than I'd like (damage dealt hovers over the head of monsters among other not so clear things).
GRAMMAR, STORY TELLING AND STYLE
The author gives unnecessary details that mess with the flow of the story sometimes. I will give a general example, "i want to see my high spirited old man" instead of "I miss my old man" or "I want to see my old man.". This is the first time the old man in question has been mentioned. If the character is so familiar with him, why does he have to mention him using his character trait to define him? It's only used to describe someone to people who don't know the person their talking about. We are outside the story, not inside, so the choice of words harms more than helps. It just seems artificial when it's done too many times, which it is. It would have been great to add defining characteristics at the appropriate time, like when he's having a flashback at the brink of death. Then we get to know more about his old man from his perspective.
Speaking of choice of words, whenever his companion is doing something related to the Mc, the author says "her reaver". Weren't they together long before he got his class? Why not focus on their prior relationship and give room to naturally build on it? It just seems unnatural and forced. I sometimes think it's a narration instead of description. Is it third person story telling from the characters perspective? Or is the author telling the story from his own perspective? That's why the grammar and style score is low. It needs a solid direction of writing.
Another thing is the lack of details where they are needed. You thrust the character into a new area? Great. Describe the place. Don't just wait till he goes somewhere important and describe that instead. You see the Mc dodging and ducking into places that weren't mentioned before and you're like "That's oddly convenient". Taking the time to figure out what needs to be said and explained should be very
venormeRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
While the idea is nice, realisation is abismal.
MC is close to brain dead and need one of comic relief character guadance to not just stand still or remember to use any skills or literaly decide what weapon to use (its like he is damn illiterate). From story setup it was described like he was in the army and than was able to survive alone for a year somehow. It makes him look like he was lobotomised. And dont expect he will get smarter - his pet gets more character development than literal MC.
Expect third of text of most chapter to be forced comic relief dialogs that completly break immersion and add nothing to the story.
I'm 80% sure, I wouldn't be able to read so many chapters if I haven't started reading this when I was drunk.
AzoulasRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
The novel seemed decent and interesting with overall good grammar.
Sadly a talking artifact was introduced that constantly has dialog of attempted witty humor but it just comes off as annoying, if that wasn't enough a second talking artifact is added shortly after that does the exact same thing.
Eventually all the word padding and constant cringe/annoying dialog from the artifacts caused me to drop this novel.
I think if the novel is ever edited to majorly reduce the amount they talk or to not try and use them for word padding and comedy I might be able to come back and enjoy this novel.
If you aren't someone to get annoyed by what's mentioned above then you might like this novel.
CroddwynRoyal Road
★ 1.0
This guy was in the army? As what? A mop? A healthy adult army guy can't handle a couple of goblins? Seriously, we open with him running away from two goblins. And I'm sad to say that it doesn't get better from there. By the time I got tired of him, he was using his bird as a tank. Yeah...
And don't get me wrong, that's not the only problem here. It feels like I'm going through this looking through toilet paper rolls. The descriptions are sparse, is what I am saying. At one point there's a stage. In a cavern of some kind. I have no idea what it is made of, how high it is, if it has a natural curve or a straight edge and midway through the fight we find out it can fit thirty opponents popping in without being right up in our protags face. And don't get me started on the pillars that exist in a convenient space where they're sometimes blocked off and sometimes handy for blocking bad-guy over-commits.
So we have a wimpy "army" dude who throws rocks so his bird can tank walking around an ill-described world. The bird companion wasn't enough to save the story. Particularly with the weird artifact that talks endlessly about "me casing". Because it's Scottish or something.