Dream of the Abyss

Self-Published

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Description

Elisa Mary Grant died in a hospital bed after being stuck in it for six months, and like any other, her soul drifted away from her husk when she passed.

For her, death was a release. It merely meant that she no longer have to wake up in pain, breathing through tubes and have doctors flood her veins with dubious chemicals for “experimental treatment”. Free from her mortal constraints and useless body, she felt… at peace, serene, even.

Death is bliss, after all, when objectively livingsuckedto the point of extreme.Therefore, there was no reason to mourn at all and she knew she definitely didn't.

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That was until, on her way for a proper reincarnation, she found herself rudely interrupted and left stranded in the great NoWhere.

“Wonderful,”she remarked as she floated in the [Beyond], “Just when I thought that suicideisthe answer.”

Author's note:

Updates every Tuesday-Wednesday, probably some time in between.

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P.S Notes: Contains existential questions and nihilistic themes, rather philosophical. Will be rather sluggish until the MC gets her shit together.

P.SS Notes: Story takes time to develop. And maybe uncomfortable. It's not gonna be action-packed or filled with battles, I think. Anyway, it is kinda unusual.

P. SSS Notes: It is not LitRpg. Don't be fooled.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2018
Author: StartingLine

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 547
Views: 264,644

Chapters(46 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

bionicnecromancerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story does not have many chapters for now but i am on the tip of my seat for more updates and has been expertly written with no errors in spelling or sentence composition.
This story has an unusual twist on the reincarnation trope and the descriptions are accurate enough but not too much to not leave anything over to the imagination.
Overall i find this fiction to be very interesting and i will continue following it until its (hopefully complete) end.
BansheePandaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A unique take on reincarnation and afterlife tropes. A bit slow paced, but very much intriguing and thought provoking.
Elisa is slowly being stripped down and made bare. A lingering human remnant transitioning into a monster. Her journey so far is one I recommend, especially for those fans of re: stories.
Thanks for the hard work, and please keep at it, Author!
DragonballsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Atleast once a month I come and check if maybe, just maybe a chapter has been posted, sigh when I see the Hiatus and wait again. I do not regret reading this book, even though it left me clinging to the egde called a cliffhanger and unsatisfied. I really enjoyed the story, the characters, the world building, the magic. I love the magic and world. It's so unique and interesting
The Mc is a sick girl who dies and awakes in another world (s?) as some spirit like thing. It doesn't take long for the eldritch abomination to be born and I was here for it.
Author, if you're still alive, thanks for writing such an amazing tale.
CasualEvilRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've got only a few things to say.
Grammar: one of the best on this site.
Flow: superb.
Style: a breath of fresh air.
And now, Story: as good as it gets.
Seriously Dreams of the Abyss is just up there when fantasy stories are concerned. It is a story that explores some deep psychological schmuck all the while telling a story. A good story.
Personally, I never get tired of Elisa's rants. They are there for a reason and boy are they deep.
YaBoiBoyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A synopsis of the chapters so far:
A perfectly good ecosystem: "Boy, this sure is a lovely day, absolutely nothing can go wrong in this perfect enviroment with it's lovely critters!"
The MC: "Evilly talks to herself will planning how to annihilate everything good in this world"
Overall, a very good story!
Meh PomRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Honestly the best paranormal fiction on Royal road. While the author sometimes gets lost in their explanations, for example repeating the same points multiple times in the same chapter, they got much better at portaying a real strange, breathing world in the as of now released chapters.
I'm hooked!
ZethuronRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Our mc is a normal girl that is withering away in a hospital, then release comes, but with it not oblivion as she would have expected, but a strange place, there something weird happens, and she is stranded.
The story follows her fall, from being a normal human girl who is dying, to becoming a supernatural spirit monster that feeds on other spirits. She tries to have some sanity, but the changes are just too great and she gives in to primal instincts, predating on others, and scaring the life out of them.
The author is good at writing this weird setting, with doing a decent attempt to describe the afterlife. One thing that i feel like the author has captured very well, is the supernatural setting of the story, and all the mysteries surrounding the situation of the MC. Theres also a decent pacing, although it switches in speed between arcs, with some being very fast paced, and others being slow paced.
This is certainly one of the most unique stories i have read so far on Royalroad, and i will keep following it, even through the uncertain release schedule of the author. And i do recommend others to read this also, even if just to get a view of how this story really is.
SandsforeverRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Ch30
Up until now it kinda feels like a prologue
Few if any errors(dont remember them)
The story and style were pretty good in my opinion
I'm goin to enjoy reading this
rorriMRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This oddly reminds me of kingdom hearts, more specifically the memory aspects
It both intrigues and disturbs me, to (mis)quote fulltilt
"It is too terrible that I must avert my eyes but too exciting too look away"
tchrkhRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
An initially fun story with a lot of potential, until the main character is suddenly replaced by a psychopathic split personality, which removes most of the reason I was reading in the first place. I don't know if the boring psycho is ever removed and I doubt I ever will, since all drive to keep reading is gone after that sudden change. Good luck with your story though, the early parts were very interesting.