Metamancer

Self-Published

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Description

One moment, Oliver Grace is mowing the lawn while his pregnant wife cooks dinner. The next, he's standing beneath an alien sky. His Marine Corps training keeps him alive and his father's heart calls him home… but it's the engineer in him that first recognizes just how powerful this world's magic can let him become.

Join Oliver on his journey as he kicks a few butts, rights a few wrongs, and shows two worlds what happens to the things that get in the way of a father going home – especially when that father happens to be a U.S. Marine wielding the power of science and magic combined.

Warning: Produced on shared equipment in a factory that also handles software engineering. May contain musings on the nature of mortality and consciousness, physics and dad jokes.Does not contain: grammar errors.

Slow-burn isekai high fantasy with LitRPG elements. No tables.

Release schedule: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8pm EST.

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2022
Author: ebonneville

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 1,238
Views: 445,486

Chapters(68 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

JHARoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Absolutely amazing story so far. 110% worth the read.
If you want a realistic Isekai, then this is it. Everything is consistent so far, the mc makes logical choices, there are no random girls being rescued and people in this new world act and feel like real people with their own experiences. Binged this story in one day. Would give 6 stars if I could.
Also wanted to mention that the story is not slow at all and there are no info dumps. The world building is also naturally integrated into the story.
Death-69Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Man, I'm loving this so far, truly a realistic take on getting isekaied to another world, nobody is ready for that, nobody, the magic system is pretty interesting and is essentially limitless in what it can do, considering that this story only has a few chapters and still manages to pull in so many people speaks volumes of the quality content being produced, looking forward for more, author!
DracioRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Fantastic story that is well written. Many characters have realistic motivations and reactions to events. Even side characters are as well fleshed out as could be expected for meeting a person in various circumstances. In real life, you could get to know someone pretty well over a few days with them but never see them again.
I've always enjoyed when hard sciences and analytics meet a magic system. This story doesn't get too technical but does acknowledge modern understandings when dealing with a more medieval society.
Absolutely encourage the read. It's short and complete from the main character's point of view.
QueenInRagsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If you are British, this book will probably appeal to you.
It is best comparable to a cup of black tea. Simple. Invigorating. And no nonsense.
Overall its a good novel with good writing that may or may not need just the littlest bit of extra seasoning to get through its initial arcs.
Grammar-wise, the story is solid. Though word choice could be a bit fancier, this author does amazing with a rather regular vocabulary and generic American writing style. It is written in the third person and is rather well structured.
Character-wise - Although Mr. Grace our MC is somewhat unique, he is somewhat also regular. But well written regular. There is nothing to hate on at all though, most MC's and most successful MC's are somewhat dull to allow an audience member to place themselves in their shoes. Though Mr. Grace does find himself running in loops now and then, he seems to have solid well thought out motivation. Though it's one I can't personally relate to, those in their middle age will probably enjoy him for what he is.
Plot - ??? Okay, so the plot is a bit vague at this moment but that's fine. The big thing is supposedly Grace's desire to get home and desire to stay and be powerful. To be honest, I've never been the biggest fan of the let's get home genre, but that's a personal opinion.
Tone - Also a ???? It's odd and tries to toe the line between survivalist / grimdark / success story / and thoughtful. The problem is that the tone mostly comes off as neutral. Honestly not something that is bad, not something that can hit you in the feels either though. Overall once again if you are a fan you are a fan.
Ideas - This book has teased some fresh ideas up to this point. Teased. But, I will give the author credit because I see what their doing. I think.
Overall 10/10 book author. The writing is good, you seem to have a target audience in mind, and you seem to also have an aesthetic as well. Though there is room for improvement you have hit the mark for good enjoyable writing
Papa LegbaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is going the be the shortest review ever because I can't think of a single thing I don't like about this book. I was crushed to see that this author doesn't have any other works on here but this is definitely an author to follow just in case because this cannot be a first work.
DraukuRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
As of this review, I've read through the first Arc and I am properly invested and interested in learning more about not only the world but the magic that seems to govern more than just this one setting. So far there has been enough teased that the magic system probably has the potential to make this one of the best features of the story.
Oliver is a likeable enough character. He has so far gone about acclimating to this new existence in a manner that swings between denial, obliviousness, and acceptance. I think that's rather appropriate considering his background. He has flaws and hangups, but has addressed some of those in a pragmatic manner. Granted, he also likes to stuff things he is mentally unable to process into mental constructs and shove them in a corner of his mind “to be dealt with at a later date (read, never)," but who doesn't do that? I find it realistic.
Grammatically, this does not live up to the author's claim saying the story "Does not contain: grammar errors" but nobody would really expect a story here on RR to be that perfect.
Give this story a shot! I know I'm really looking forward to more.
DanielMBensenRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I always appreciate learning things from books I read, so I appreciated that, after our hero has been transported to a fantasy world, he tries to make activated charcoal to render the local water safe to drink. I appreciated even more when he failed because he didn't have a good shovel and went thirsty. This novel has bite and knowlege, and that means I like it.
OrphicleRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The writing and grammar is good but the plot bugs me. I understand Oliver is thrown into an impossible situation, but he should be dead, dead, dead. For all the effort that is put into other people dying, he lives because mc and book needs tension and living mc. I dont ever see Oliver progressing to the point of wise old master or the book ever getting to the point he sees his family again. Too slow, methodical and full of introspection.
malekithauRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This story is well written but otherwise there's nothing here to really set this story apart from others in the genre. At least he's not transported in his pyjamas and there's no snarky AI or any sign of a M4 or .45. I'll be keeping an eye on the story but if you haven't grabbed my interest after 30ish chapters you probably won't. Patreon follow - Kindle unlimited rating? Definitely a KU read.
stemcelRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Strong case of "and then" storytelling so far. Things happen, then other things happen. Not "because" or "therefore" or "except", just... "and then". Makes it hard to feel like the protagonist is engaging with the world.
Speaking of MC, he's hard to read because he jumps from soulless robot to petulant child to self-sacrificing hero to sociopathic predator back to petulant child (so far that's the whole gamut) and I can't figure out why he'll be any one of these at any given moment. Flips between unreasonably risk adverse and stark raving adrenaline junkie. Just about dehydrates himself for fear of unknown bacteria in a stream (what?) and then the next moment he's assaulting an armed force that vastly outnumbers him- with his bare hands.
Finally, why is this called Metamancer? That implies someone working the meta. There are different systems in play here and we know that one of the dominant military systems in play was built/designed. What does MC do with this information?
Imagine himself as a DnD player with a character sheet. Then picks Fighter. Incredibly boring and unimaginative. "Incredible fidelity" in system that can alter reality and read his mind because.. his character sheet is dog eared and has a coffee stain? What?
When I hear "Metamancer" I want to see someone thinking sideways, exploiting systems etc. Maybe we'll get there, but I can't bring myself to push through more of this to find out.
Author please throw the audience a bone and demonstrate something to justify "Metamancer" title, earlier.
EDIT: As of chapter 35 we've seen some exploration of the meta, but by now I don't care very much.