Black Anvil Mountain
Self-Published
Community Rating
Description
Two scavengers enter an abanded military base looking for loot but instead uncover a long forgotten secret.
Information
- Status
- Completed
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Mr Platypus
Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 2.5/ 5.0
- Followers
- 1
- Views
- 728
Chapters(1 total)
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Community Reviews(1)
- PrysmcatRoyal Road★★★ 3.0As far as grammar and spelling, this story's well above average and generally very smooth and clean. There are some places where the phrasing is a bit awkward and occasionally a similar but wrong word has been substituted. A couple of places had notable punctuation issues. Nothing that I found to be major.
When it comes to the content... well, it's a short story of less than 3K words, so I'm taking that into account. The setting is a fairly standard post-nuclear world, but it's described very well. We don't get much sense of the two characters, beyond the basic goal of scavenging for stuff they can sell. I'd have liked at least a little more depth.
The core premise, which I can't discuss without spoilers, isn't a new one, and I saw it coming halfway through. It wasn't approached from a novel angle or atypical perspective, and didn't otherwise offer anything thought-provoking about the subject.
Possibly because I was expecting it, the ending lacked any emotional impact for me.
So, not bad, but sadly, I can't rate it any higher.