An Everyday Journey
Self-Published
Community Rating
Description
Aalistor is just minding his business, living his life and protecting his rural town from monsters, when an interesting little adventure arrives at his doorstep.
Information
- Status
- Completed
- Year
- 2020
- Author
- Tigersight
Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 4.1/ 5.0
- Followers
- 6
- Views
- 1,455
Chapters(3 total)
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Community Reviews(1)
- nabRoyal Road★★★ 3.0The central problem with this story, in my opinion, is that there is little point to it. The purpose of the journey is completely mundane. Fighting with monsters provides some action, but there is no feeling that the fights accomplish anything beyond the monsters’ being obstacles to ordinary travel in this fantasy world. There is little depth to the protagonist’s relationships with other characters. The ending does not suggest that the events in the story will have serious, lasting effects on the protagonist’s life. I’m left with a feeling that the author neglected the question, “Why is this story worth telling?”
The amount of time spent on world-building is excessive for a short story, where most of the information serves little or no purpose because the story is over before the information has a chance to become important. Worse, much of the world-building is in the form of characters discussing things that readers do not have the background to understand, requiring readers to read between the lines trying to figure out the background knowledge behind what the characters are talking about.
The quality of writing is good enough that I don’t regard the story as bad in spite of its deficiencies. But there are plenty of other, more interesting stories available.