Diary of Erica Kron

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2017

Author

spine

• Day 159
  Dec 13, 2018
• Day 158
  Dec 12, 2018
• Day 157
  Dec 11, 2018
• Day 153
  Dec 7, 2018
• Day 152
  Dec 6, 2018
• Day 147
  Dec 1, 2018
• Day 146
  Nov 30, 2018
• Day 126
  Nov 10, 2018
• Day 125
  Nov 9, 2018
• Day 124
  Nov 8, 2018
• Day 123
  Nov 7, 2018
• Day 113
  Oct 28, 2018
• Day 112
  Oct 27, 2018
• Day 105
  Oct 20, 2018
• Day 104
  Oct 19, 2018
• Day 100
  Oct 15, 2018
• Day 99
  Oct 14, 2018
• Day 76
  Sep 21, 2018
• Day 75
  Sep 20, 2018
• Day 73
  Sep 18, 2018

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• skaviouzRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Those "" and "" in chapter 77 and 94 are annoying.
  At first I wanted to write a review back around chapter 30, but I stopped and caught up to 137 before writting. I'm agreeing with the second reviewer, I can feel the love. The first reviewer says you don't make bi-daily updates... I've checked your progress over the last 2 months since that review as well as a month before, the person is crying over spilled milk... You are going great in the routine of regular updates. Thanks... Time for the actual review...
  I believe the work of the diary you have right now is fine... The sprite that's writting in the diary isn't a scholar. Having mistakes isn't going to make me look down on you, but I've noticed as these entries got longer and more energetic, the mistakes have lessened, which can be a representation of our MC's writting in her diary... If a day comes in the future where the entries become chaotic, the character better be drunk or have a broken hand, lulz...
  When I thought about each catagory, I fight with my self internally trying to decide what score I would give you, but ultimately because your story is in the form of a diary, I can't reduce any points from grammar... I can't complain for character development, because this is in the perspective of our silly MC... I really, really, really want to reduce something... I know, that style score, it's 100% of my opinion, so I'm going to give you a 4.5 because f**k you.
  Keep up the good work, I think the style is fine, but I think our MC would obviously like longer chapters, given how she writes an entry almost daily, but always keeps it short? It's like she wants to write, but just doesn't know what to say. I like all the corny thoughts she writes down, like uhh.. so that's it and uhh... good night diary? Like she isn't 100% sure she wrote enough... In reality, I'm fine with everything you got going, I'm rooting for you.
  Thanks for writting... I wanted to write more, but I am sure you had enough (LOL?)
• CaptainLoserRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I really really enjoyed this story and I'm also really sad that it ended now I am hoping for a book two or some Soch for those on the fence about reading this I would like to tell you to give it a go it's fun and unlike any other story I've seen
• Samael11Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This is among the best stories I've read on this site. If you don't feel like reading my full review, I hope you take that away at least. For more in depth thoughts:
  The decision to format this as a diary and stick with that was incredibly risky and has payed off amazingly. It allows for a very slow kind of world building, letting the reader learn about the world at the same pace as Erica herself. A lesser author would have cracked and put in a bunch of side stories from other characters' perspectives. To date, there has only been one of those and it was set before the beginning of the story so I hesitate to count it. This style was a massive experiment and I applaud the author for it.
  The major drawback is, of course, chapter length. There are some chapters that are of decent length, but most tend to be shorter than chapters of most stories on this site. I suppose I'm glad I started reading this story now, in 2020, as opposed to previously, because the shear amount of chapters currently out basically takes care of that problem, but I can see how it might have been annoying early on.
  Overall I love the story. There's not a ton of character development for characters other than Erica, mainly due to everything we see of them being from Erica's perspective, but the format makes it work. I will warn new readers that a little after the beginning of year 2 the tone changes rather sharply and doesn't really go back, but now that I've reached the current chapter (year 3 Day 154 as of writing) I generally think it was a good decision as it added weight to the story.
  I recommend this tory to anyone willing to put in a time commitment and go on an emotional rolercoaster. I honestly don't know where the story is going to go right now, but I'm incredibly impatient to find out.
• asy2202Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The story gets better as it progresses, there are few chapters which are short and can be skipped without taking any toll on the story but that's what you get if story is updated daily.
  Review atleast needs 50 words so here they are
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• cheesefaceRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  While initially i was annoyed with the fairly short chapters, the journel format makes it only make sense.  The story is very heavy in slice of life and very peaceful for the most part.  Overall it may be my favourate on the site.
• Brian BrunoRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  I've finished the whole story, and I can say that although the first year for me had more bad chapters than good, the later years, and the overall story was done well.
  The grammar is good for the most part, the word building is better than most stories you'll find here, meaning it is present and done well enough that it's not a flaw, characters are really well done and the story itself is okay.
  This is a major spoiler:
  A lot of the characters close to the mc die or don't interact with the mc after awhile and only two of the first people to visit the mc are still alive.
• kjoatmonRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  In this story, every chapter is short, like a diary entry would be, but they add up quickly. You see the progression of this many times overpowered character as she develops, suffers, wins, and is changed by internal and external forces. Well worth giving a try. The format is different enough to find it unique even when parts are similar to many other stories.
  This is a different sort of first person story. The typical first person voice story is hard because there is the issue where the author knows more than the character and accidentally gives that knowledge to the character. The Diary of Erica Kron avoids this by having the character forget things! It is a diary with the occasional quote of other people, so almost exclusively a single viewpoint. And, there is a recurring theme in those other viewpoints that the protagonist is clueless about her power.
  Erica Kron is a teenage girl that is sixteen going on sixty. Her position as a nature spirit that is tied to trees causes her to have a very different viewpoint than most people. All of this comes out nicely as she matter-of-factly talks about how she pulled some nobility into the ground to have them suffocate. Things like this make for a very different character that is immature but still world wise and cautious.
• Alex RaalRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  generally a good story but i am only going to talk about its bad points.
  first and foremost is the inconsistancies\ retcons that happen in the story. they are generally all details that don't effect the overall story like the number of hands on a clock, or a number of general character interactions with Thes, tibold(?), willow, azrezail(?), mest, or weather or not it is possible to effect what it for most intents and perposes a joke plant, and a half-dozen other little things every seventy-five or so chapters that do build up over and over into small plot holes. there is one however that i can niether forgive nor forget an that is the fact that Tibold's birthday is originally three days after the main characters not the day after.
  the second thing that i don't like is that the auther uses the main character to appologise for the miskes in his writing. it is painfully obvious that the auther is talking to the reader insted of the main character writing in her dairy. off the top of my head i can think of four instances and only the last one felt evan remotly organic.
  the third and final complaint about story that i have is the very sudden tone shift from around the four hundredth chapter. all of a sudden with in the span of like fifteen chapters like half of everything the stoy had built of around the main character is destroyed or leaves. narativlly i understand why the story whent the way it did but it felt like to many relativlly unconected bad thing happend all at once. afterwards the dark tone eventually fades partally and the story continues with but a slightly darker tone, and evan to the latest chapter the scenario feels a little arteficial.
• AlfaMartinixRoyal Road

  ★★ 1.5

  I managed until second year and around 160+- day and i think thats quite succes.
  It was fun for few chapters until it realy wasnt. I dont know why i kept reading so long. Concept is actualy quite nice but its realy badly offered. This shouldnt be called realy "Diary" while 85% of text ... Probably 95% are researches and studies + sentences like "Today i progressed ..." Or "Nothing else happened today" + Goodbay diary. Repeatism is real as hell here. Lets be honest funniest thing i read was "I read my earlier entries and i was so emotionless" bruh i literaly laughted at that. What i found actualy holding me long here were actual stories that "FIT" diary of side characters. Thes, Ment, Tasul, Per, Tiddol. These were nice. Each of them provided much needed life in to research document we were reading. Sadly two of them died, two were pushed literaly back except when big back story needed move and only fiery personality Tasul was replaced by freaking MC 2.0 with personality upgrade to feel like gatcha ball on leg where mc was literaly pulling that Tarzan around just to sometimes spit sometimg "usefull" for researche. Guy literaly managed to DOUBLE boringness of this "diary".
  Like biggest problems i saw was when actualy something interesting could be happening it was bonged under the rug in few sentences or "I dont want to write about it here"
  Synopse of this ... "Thing" apply for like month ? Before it goes brm brm for nuclear bombs ? Yea was hopping that her new bf die so maybe some actual emotion or shit happen so i went to end to find if .. yea no. Like how we went from "diary of sprite that want grew her grove, met new ppl and have peacefull life" to "record of authistic, manical spirit of nature inventing nuclear bombs and using them on cities"
  To be honest the more i think about it the less stars i want to give.
  Sadly this document actualy deserve at least one star for using "diary" idea a bit.
  And half because i like fox girls.
• GrekerenRoyal Road

  ★ 0.5

  Read until day 351.
  I thought this story was about the different characters and the protagonist interactions with them but it has descended into focusing heavily only on plant manipulation.
  The characters get a backseat in the form of status updates, with the same information with little variation given several days or weeks in a row.
  The plant manipulation in itself isn't really enjoyable and feels like watching someone trying to max out their crafting proficiency in an MMORPG.
  Side characters like the mage Mest often comment on how the protagonist has a dungeon core and she is ’the lord of the forest’. Conveniently her core is too young to do anything advanced yet and since the author hasn't really fleshed out the forest lord bit yet readers shouldn't get their hopes up.
  I know the writing is supposed to mimic a diary but shouldn't it reflect on the protagonist that she is has come a long way since her first entry? Shouldn't her entries be more structured? The day and weather should in my opinion be the first thing we get to know and after 350 entries someone should have given her a calendar or told her what year it is...
  The author also forgets to write the diary outro pretty often... But that is nitpicking but still annoying.
  To finish up this rant of a review il just say how vague everything in this story is. The characters, story and world feels like it has been stretched out further then it should and have lost most of its uniqueness and flair in the process.