A man comes to after another round of experiments, not unusual for him. What is unusual for him is his missing body.

(This story has transgender elements)

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UbermachtRoyal Road

★★★★ 4.0

Its a little odd at times but it's a enjoyable read so far and I'm excited to see more!
and for the sake of motivation and being your first review I give it a 4 stars, maybe in the future it'll become a 5 but who knows?
but for those reading reviews to see if the book is worth reading, so far it's a story about a more or less traumatized teen who died after years of torture in imprisonment and was reborn as a dungeon, struggling between the need to kill and the desire to befriend the delvers

Jason_BlunderRoyal Road

★★★★ 3.5

Updated due to getting confirmation from the author.
Honestly I liked the story. I can see some flaws that can be worked out with an editor but mainly I think the story is just getting started.
Warnings: dysphoria, kidnapping, torture(mentioned)
This is first person narration with pov changes. The author dose a great job at not mixing what the characters know while hinting at and expanding what the reader knows. This is a really well done and I hope to see it continued.
The pacing is a bit rough, it feels like stuff is constantly happening hopping from one item to the next.
This might be intentional but the sudo time skips both help remove the boring nothing that often slows down other books but it also removes any time or space to go through what's going on in the story.
Spoilers ahead
Flaws
The kobolds and spiders are more background than was expected. I believe this is due to the generals taking the spotlight that was originally on them.
The demon girl toes a dangerous line that I hope are fixed.
Power- this seems to have been fixed due to her losing to a dragon so maybe? But the sudden de-escalation of the invasion was off-putting and removed any worry of loss or death of important characters.
Removed part:
Fear of loli-con /child body romance has been removed due to confirmation from author that it won't happen.

luda305Royal Road

★★★ 2.5

So, to begin, this is predominantly a trans fiction. "Crack the egg" is slang for when someone realizes they are trans, and so the fiction title is clearly referencing that. Most of the first "book" is about that.
The dungeon aspects take a back seat to that. Little things are introduced, and then are forgotten and fall to the wayside. And what we do have isn't part of a coherent whole, but a bit of a kitchen sink of dungeon core stories.
There is also some traumacore aspects to the story. The protagonist's background is tragic to an extreme degree, and probably would have been even more tragic if they had realized they were trans and were bullied about it. But they weren't so, they only had three kinds of tragedy.
With respect to their background, this relates to the current synopsis. A teen boy who was abused by his parents and had no friends and a terrible time at school was kidnapped by an organization and experimented/tortured on for five years. They die and wakes up as a dungeon core.
On top of that, in the story itself, the protagonist regularly has to deal with those traumatic memories, on top of new traumas that they really are not ready to cope for.
Most of book 1 is just kind of an episodic kitchen sink approach, mostly relating to cracking the egg, then a bit of dungeon or trauma scattered in there. And a fair bit of deus ex machina when something must happen but no one present is capable to deal with it. Then the book ends on a bit of an odd (and traumatic) note without wrapping up several different plot threads.
So far, book 2 is about cracking other people's eggs.
Overall, it's a pretty bad trans story, and a very bad dungeon story. Still, I'm sure there's someone who is interested in something like this. And the writing style and grammar are both pretty decent.

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