Antithetic: Spire of Wonder

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The world was never a fulfilling place for April Fallow, and she soon came to resent the fact that, like everyone else, she had just been going along with how society dictates lives should be lead. So, despite her adeptness in educational and social pursuits, April drops out of high school in search of an adventure to call her own—she comes up with the plan that she will travel across the country… Or so she thinks.

On the day of her adventure, April finds herself awakened inside another world without the ability to recall how she got there. Confusion and disorientation quickly convert to excitement and ambition as April steps forth with the goal of exploring and truly living within a new world. Her target: to sufficiently conquer a mountain of wonders and natural phenomenon that’s known as one of the world’s biggest mysteries.

This mountain—this Spire of Wonder—is recognized as a great, but relatively harmless, dungeon called Shelter Spire that has its completion parameters still unknown. Far reaching temperate forests. Beautiful cliff faces. A complex system of crystal-lit caves and puzzle-like ruins. April soon finds herself taking off on an adventure within one of the most awe inspiring landmarks of another world.NOTE: Amazing Cover Art Done By @Transflames on Twitter, Go Check Them Out.

Information

Status: Cancelled
Year: 2019
Author: Ganbara

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 105
Views: 21,843

Chapters(17 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

MrHrulginRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I am enjoying it so far, but the author's descriptions of social interaction feel entirely ripped from anime. That's not how people actually interact.
KorstRoyal Road
★ 0.5
I don't like being that guy that says they hate everything about a story but... there is no direction here. When it comes down to it the story is character is mysteriously teleported to another world, they pick a direction and then sh-stuff happens to them. While that can be interesting the over the top characterisation and aliteration, sound effects and random tangents that never get to the point are just too much for me to get interested. It isn't just that they're overwhelmin, they don't add anything to the story. I realize they're probably some form of an attempt at characterization. But there are better ways of going about that than giving us the entire first chapter(By that I mean the prologue.) where the protagonist essentially rants about how much they objectivly suck as a person, and then dies randomly. It's obvious the author is enthusiastic and that's good. But that enthusiasm needs to be controled and properly directed to make a proper story that doesn't feel like the authors gushing out whatever comes to mind without any sort of thought towards a plot or the structure of their story.
Who knows? Maybe the author gets better. There are only 10 chapter at the time I made this review so it's reasonable to assume they'll get better if they continue writing. At the moment however the only good thing I can say about this is that the grammar is good and things are properly space out not all bunched together like someone vomited word salad onto the page. So that's good.
When it come down to it I'm giving half a star because there was obviously no forethought put into this. If there was there either wasn't much of it or they needed a second opinion. The beginning was rather irritating to read and nothing happened in the first chapter, which is where you really need to set your hook to drag people into the story.
Regardless of how I feel; I have confidence the author will get better as they write, and I hope that in future they are willing to control their enthus