Adelline

Self-Published

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Description

A teenage girl ends up committing due to a bad past and tragic high school experience. Death doesn't want her though, so in her limbo she meets her guardian angel that convinces her to give life one last chance. Before she can go back to her normal life (aka waking up in the hospital after the attempt), she has to find her body with the help of her guardian and go through numerous trials.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2025
Author: Pearlieee

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Followers: 2
Views: 983

Chapters(7 total)

What readers say about Adelline

“This pulled me in more than I expected. It's raw, vulnerable, messy and honestly, kind of beautiful in a way that’s hard to put into words. Plot-wise, the story centers on Adelline, a girl caught in the space between life and death after an apparent suicide…”
Nemo BlancRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Ok wow! Now I'm not usually one to cry alot but the starting made me shed a tear ( quite literally ) because I know how this goes ( not from personal experience but i knew a girl who went through the same path ) it reminded me of her and how I helped her ge…”
SoLiDsNaKEXLRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(2)

Nemo BlancRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This pulled me in more than I expected. It's raw, vulnerable, messy and honestly, kind of beautiful in a way that’s hard to put into words.
Plot-wise, the story centers on Adelline, a girl caught in the space between life and death after an apparent suicide attempt. She wakes in a liminal space and meets Shley, her guardian soul, who reveals that she’s trapped in a limbo between worlds. What follows is a winding journey through memory, identity, and cosmic lore that gradually blends the emotional and metaphysical into something pretty fascinating. The second half also introduces Shley’s complicated past with a demon named Miron, which adds depth to the worldbuilding and emotional stakes.
Stylistically, the writing feels like an emotional purge, sometimes breathtakingly poetic, other times chaotic. There’s a lot of stream-of-consciousness prose, which fits the dreamlike tone but could benefit from some tightening. Grammar and structure are definitely inconsistent; sentences can run long or be oddly phrased, and punctuation is often missing or misused. But weirdly, I found that added to the rawness. It reads like someone who needed to write this, not someone aiming for polished perfection.
That said, the story could seriously benefit from a second draft. There’s so much potential here, these characters feel alive, especially Shley, who’s both tragic and lovable in his awkward failures. The emotional beats hit hard, but they’d land even stronger with clearer pacing and more restraint in exposition.
In short, this is the kind of story I’d recommend to a friend who doesn’t mind a few typos if it means feeling something real. It’s messy, yeah, but sometimes life is too. And this story understands that.
SoLiDsNaKEXLRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Ok wow! Now I'm not usually one to cry alot but the starting made me shed a tear ( quite literally ) because I know how this goes ( not from personal experience but i knew a girl who went through the same path ) it reminded me of her and how I helped her get out of that void.
Now moving forward , Adelline isn’t a story that tries to comfort you. It’s painful, jagged, and deeply personal more like stumbling into someone’s journal than reading a traditional fantasy novel. But that’s also what makes it strangely compelling.
The story opens with Adelline after an attempt, slipping into a kind of spiritual limbo where she meets her soul guardian, Shley. From there, it’s less a linear plot and more an emotional unraveling. Themes of trauma, abuse, guilt, and healing run thick through everything.
The style is heavy on emotion at times poetic, at times raw. The writing shifts between first- and third-person in a way that can be disorienting, but also kind of fits the fragmented state of the protagonist’s mind.
There are grammar issues,missing punctuation but honestly, I didn’t mind. It adds to the voice. It feels like someone trying to claw their way toward meaning, not deliver clean prose.
Definitely not for everyone. But if you’re open to a messy, emotional, slightly broken story about a broken person… Adelline might resonate more than you think.