Assassin Queen and a World on Fire

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Description

The Assassin Queen, feared nemesis of the slave-owning Zudrian Empire, has set foot on the Zudrian planet of Corona Eternus. Blood will be spilled tonight, but she isn’t the one hoping to burn the whole place down.

She looks to the skies, biding her time...

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: Andromeda's Prince

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 17
Views: 7,535

Chapters(18 total)

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Community Reviews(4)

Astralise.InkRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The author classifies it as science fantasy, and it is one. However, in my opinion, it skews more toward science than fantasy. That being said, I am a great lover of science fiction/fantasy, so this is my cup of tea.
In the shortest of terms, the story follows a group of rebels fighting against a tyrannical space-faring racist bigots regime.
Style: The style is masterful. It reads like someone telling you an actual story. The sentence composition is varied with a healthy dose of humor and sarcasm. The plot moved at a brisk pace and never turned into a slog. Good command over the language is important, but knowing how to bend and morph them into something that is a joy to read takes a master. And it will be remiss of me not to mention the action sequences. They are the best part of an already great experience. I have learned a lot from reading them.
Story: The story starts in medias res with several pieces already in motion. However, the narration does a good job of offering bits and pieces of the puzzle that will eventually form the big picture. For now, the motivation for our plucky rebels appears simple, but there are signs of things to come on the horizon. Also, remember that this is just the beginning.
Grammar: There is nothing to complain about. The author has a good grasp of the language and I was happy to see him bend the rules to serve the story. Which is highly recommended.
Characters: Our point man in the narration is Anastasia, the eponymous Assassin Queen. I loved her attitude, her wit, and her general perspective. There are also bits about her past that added layers to her character.
As for the supporting cast, it is too soon to say much about them. However, I have to mention a certain antagonist. He is someone you will love to hate.
Overall: I honestly feel the story's current rating doesn't reflect how well written this serial is. It has an interesting plot with an engaging protagonist, and the prose has a varied structure that reads extremely sm
MalevolenceMauRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Assassin Queen and a World on Fire is a story that starts off as if it's in the middle of a mission, and in the middle of a full-blown war within an entirely new world. Starting like a quick blaze is soon goes into a slow burn.
Style: Following the lead character, Anastasia the Assassin Queen, the story is a straightforward affair with no real extreme flair to its design. The beginning segment is a bit too quick in my opinion, with the MC seemingly running, hiding, and finding her way to her proper mission. This setup leads a lot of questions unanswered and creates a weird introduction section. After the first two chapters, we are then thrown into a dance that carries over 5 chapters, 2 to 3 of which are just the setting and dances themselves.
I would suggest that the first two chapters see a rewrite at some point since the chapters thereafter are far better at explaining and describing the world as well as what's happening.
Story: Diving headfirst into the world, we are given a bit of backstory to our character, the environment, and the current mission. The first two chapters I feel could have had more words spent on explanations and descriptions, we don't even get a good idea of what our protagonist looks like till the end of what is currently written. Anastasia is a superpowered assassin who seeks to free slaves and take down corrupt and racist peoples, with her allies talking to her all along the way.
Grammar: I could see a few missed or double spaces as well as repeated return spaces used. Aside from that, I found no real glaring grammar issues.
Character: It takes far too long to get a good visual description of our characters, leading them to become grey blobs which are very fitting for our grey-skinned MC. Outside of their actual dialogue, the characters use some strange text-speech that seems far outside of their personalities. Right now we don't have an in-depth look at all the characters currently explained to us, aside from the interactions from radios o
fknmzRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Maybe it's because I'm just reviewing it with regards to where it is right now, but there's something quite fascinating about the way this story is structured. It gives off, quite confidently, the feel of something in media res, where questions of what Anastasia and her group of operatives seeks to do is somewhat uncertain. There are greater ideological and political goals; the removal of the Zudrians, the liberation of the slaves, and the ultimate oft-mentioned "Revolution," but they seem incidental. In this sense, it seems like there's something bigger and grander on the horizon, that even in the sheer bombast of this story something much more nefarious will be coming their way. I think, in general, it works.
Style:
Assassin Queen and World on Fire is written in a really curious way. It has this clearly youthful, bubbly energy, interlocked between these quick and short-sentenced moments of bombast and these longer, descriptive passages where a lot of its imagery really starts to flourish.
Its prose is really chatty, and I think it's probably because the author may be writing their stories like a recitation: it makes much more sense spoken, and you get a good feel for how the paragraphs and sentences are paced when they're said aloud. If read in silence, there are some moments where it can feel odd:
“Architectural zudrian vomit”
But a description like comes off like the hateful stutter of someone with a very invested drive. In reading, it might have been better to write, "Zudrian Vomit" to describe the architecture, such as "The architecture is no more glamorous than Zudrian Vomit," but orally it doesn't have the same punch as "architectural zudrian vomit." So in this sense, the style makes sense.
One problem with the style that I don't really agree on is the inconsistency in contractions. Sometimes the same characters would speak without contractions ("they are", "would not"), and sometimes they'd use contractions ("the'y're"). This isn't a big deal in the scheme
themcflareRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
If you want a deep space opera that'll keep you on your toes, then you've got it right here.
'Assassin Queen and a World on Fire' is quite the grand sci-fi tale that doesn't cower away from discussing topics that may seem a bit controversial to some and presents characters that are neither good nor bad, but falling in that morally grey area. You can expect societal, political, and ideological ideas explored in this story and they are tackled in a pretty interesting manner.
Style:
The writing and structure are done in a weirdly interesting manner. It falls in between light and heavy, yet perfectly fit for a novel of this kind, the science fiction kind. There are a few minor faults, as is with every novel ever written, but it doesn't hinder the pace of reading. Structure is done well that you rarely lose interest in reading and keep wanting for more.
You might find yourself quite fond of the descriptions sometimes, as the author goes the extra mile by explaining some more of the technology and the world in greater detail.
The action and tense scenes are really written well and seamlessly transition from that to normal scenes and vice versa. Action scenes are known for being one of the hardest things to ever write in a novel so to see one that manages to somewhat grasp it and execute it well, that's a great talent.
It still could use more work but like mentioned before, it's nothing major.
Grammar:
Rarely any faults with grammar exist in the novel from what I've read, just a few bumps here and there that anyone might not even notice.
Story:
The story has a wonderful introduction that pulls right into the action. It doesn't take time to explain things first and then act, it explains things as it acts. It brings up to speed about its world almost immediately that you won't realize how easily you got used to the world until much later. There are the ups and downs, as is with every story, but it seems like something that might get better with time and more progress in the