Misadventures Incorporated [Volume 2 Stubbing April 21]

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A dark but whimsical LitRPG progression epic that respects the speed of light for 6.82 books.She had always despised her puppetmaster's strings. For six long years, they'd bound and controlled her. When opportunity finally knocked, she didn't hesitate for a moment to sever them at their roots.Derailing her scheduled sacrifice, Lady Claire Augustus, scion of the Goddess' Spear, broke from her fetters and sought her first taste of freedom. Alas, it was not paradise that awaited beyond the horizon, but a mind-bending dungeon filled with mythic monsters and silly fae foxes. Armed with nothing but a tattered dress, her thirst for adventure, and a gaggle of potentially imaginary companions, she must rely on her wits to break free of its bounds.The dungeon siphons her sanity with every trial and curse. Only the gods know her fate: with enough time, with enough fury, Claire will devolve into the heartless, heaven-breaking weapon that her blood demands... assuming she ever gets over her daddy issues.Updates every Wednesday and Sunday.Book 1 has been stubbed and is now available onAmazonandAudible.For related content, see theprequel

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: Spicy Space Squid

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 2,503
Views: 2,815,271

Chapters(512 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

AgentMCRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I thorughly enjoyed the writing. It is not a typical fast-paced action-packed ranobe, but rather a good story of changes, both on the surface and in the character's psyche as she grows towards better tomorrow.
The chemistry between key players, each of their own quirks, also makes this a fun reading. Claire and Sylvia duo is just brilliant.
BankruptGreekRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's not perfect, but I really enjoy the book and what I think stands out the most is that the quality seems to be improving, not just the writing quality but the characters and world within the book. I think this is very unique among books on this site, to reach this many chapters and still improve. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of Claires story. My only real gripe is sometimes I think the perspective switches away from Claire a bit too much but it's not too often. Thanks for the chapters Author.
IAzathothRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Misadventures Incorporated is one of my favourites, the only thing I can complain about is the first volume.
I dropped various times in the first volume due to the info dumps but I kept reading and I'm very happy with my decision.
For me the first volume felt a little bulky and too much information, however it gets a lot better in the second and third volume.
Night-OwlRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I won’t spoil, but the beginning of this book, towards the present of review, is vastly different. I felt like the story has matured from how it was originally presented, and it takes its time to let the reader enjoy the world, and cast of characters especially later on.
It’s been a damn solid year since I picked up this book, and finally time I write a review. Not informative, but I’ll say this book was nice, some humor, and great world development as it progressed. It’s LitRPG, but doesn’t bend to the trend much, and it’s kinda its own unique… journey or world or whatever.
It’s a fun misadventure.
Plain SightRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I wrote a full essay of a review an went ahead and presed ctrl + w so I'll keep this short:
Overall: A good read, if this squid becomes the next J.K. Rolling or Tolkien I would not be surpriced. I ended up here coming from lightnovel sites and this is definitly not light, It took me back to the time when I first read Farenheit 451 and a new world was introduced to me. There are 2 movies of this book and I saw them after reading, and as any book lover would say they don't do the book justice. So think of any book with a movie adaptation you know of. If you liked the book more than the movie, give this a read, it should be worth your time. If it's the other way around, you should keep looking for light novels pal, couse this is not.
Style: Interesting, descriptive, wide yet accesible lexic. The prologue of the first volume can be read at the beguining or at the end providing 2 juicy sets of emotions of wich you can only pick one. If you are patient enough, wait till the end of the first volume to read it, if you know you want be able to then read it first. As a volume, it has a beginning a development and a closure, cliffhangers be damned and thats a plus to me.
Story: This is a dungeon crawler story, it is expected to be slow and yet the first volume (dungeon levels aside) provides a milestone already, so the pacing is good. The interactions that develop the story aren't as predictable as usual, at least for me, since I found myself surpriced more than once.
Grammar: As non-native english reader I can't say much about it, the author isn't a native either and surely has made a few mistakes here and there (mostly pointed out by kind readers) and even those don't seem very grave to me and are quickly corrected so it should be good in this area.
Character: Though phisicaly unique, mentaly some of them are common troupes or are repited yet I find them true. The relator angles and the character decision making gives them the aura of real people. None of 'em apears to be th
Sage_ArcherRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story starts off slow in order to build the world and give the reader things to think about. There are many hooks that are presented in the beginning that aren't dove into till much later.
There are a few characters that Claire meets that are really annoying (Like a certain beaver-squirel that I hated). But, they are mostly contained within the arc that they are introduced in. Some might fing a certain vixen to be annoying when first introduced. But, she ends up being silly, funny, and wholesome, (mostly) I ended up liking her alot.
The main character does start out as a spoiled, stuck-up, bratty, sociopath. But, she grows and matures throughout the story into a clever, scheming, competent, tsundere sociopath. A fun and kinda subtle tsundere, not the overblown annoying type.
I urge you to give it a read and stick with it. If you do, I think you will enjoy it.
SensibleMalarkeyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
From the cover featuring a meek and almost ethereal looking creature named Claire, and the opening chapters, my initial impression of what I was getting into was: poor innocent waif struggles to survive in a dangerous alien dungeon. Only to have that notion quickly and wonderfully eviscerated, as Claire turns out to be a vicious little creature who is willing to take risks and plow through anything in her way. Carrying out acts not merely for the sake of survival, but for the sake of gaining power.
Style: It works. Solid and colorful visualization of fantastical environments and creatures. The slow reveal and mystery of Claire's history and parentage was rather cleverly handled - there's no world shattering revelations, it's more that Claire didn't seem entirely happy with half of who she is and where she came from... that, and she seemed to just find it amusing to withhold the information.
Also, referencing the outright destruction and slaughter of a city of monsters as the equivalent of a stress-relieving squeeze toy... is both fantastic and disturbing.
Grammar: Solid. Little hiccups here and there, but nothing glaring.
Character: Claire is endlessly entertaining. We do get a few different perspectives, but they tend to be brief. This is very much Claire's story, which is a good thing because the few other characters she has come across or interacted with have been maddening. This is really my only gripe, virtually every character Claire has come across has been utterly irritating in their own unique way.
We have an energetic prankster fox, a weeb squirrel who needs to be drop kicked more, 3 individuals who are the extreme caricature of high school jocks out of a Harold & Kumar movie, and two cosmic beings that seem to smirk with little, 'I know something you don't know,' smiles whilst winking.
I'm fine with characters being quirky, or annoyingly quirky, the variety is frankly refreshing, but for nearly every single character to have their own brand of agonizing?
Star SeekerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It’s a great novel. One of the most amazing ones on this site no doubt. The author’s subtle jab at the characters allows for just the level of humour to allow viewers to go through dark situations in the story without too much mental stress, without making it a slapstick comedy. The evolution works in such a way here, that anthropomorphic humans (with very wild mixture of traits) are the norm, but our MC is an outlier even there. The whole thing feels like a classic adventure story in a fantasy world, just with some subtle and innovative twists. Sylvia is basically what happens if the wiseman was only as old as you and was still not over their teen phase, Matthias is a parody of knight in shining armour, Natlya is simply the incompetent catgirl companion which every hero must have, and Arciel is the tsundere vampire(?) and marebelle is simply marbelle and of course a mention for our MC’s favourite multi-functional living weapon Boris. The gods are all cool people (other than a few like the God of the Hunt) and only subtly nudge certain events to go their way. Basically, scheming old foggies of Xianxia novels although unlike in classic Xianxia, they don’t interfere directly so no old beating the young and young beating the old. The author’s writing experience clearly shows. Best wishes for the author, may you never loose your motivation and keep writing for the foreseeable future. Also, wishing our favourite longmoose a happy apotheosis.
The_big_eyeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
At the time of writing this review I am about 110 characters in. I have enjoyed the story and it's style and as far I know the grammar is fine and the characters are likeable except Geoff who is so bad I have to only give 4 stars in the Character score because they ruins what ever seen they're in.
Advanced Reviews must be at least 200 words long so I have to put more words in even though it feels like I did enough, because of that am not doing one and I am just putting the score here. Style, Story, and Grammar score of 5 stars and a Character score of of only 4 stars because Geoff is one of the worst characters in history.
Arthur-67Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The story is of high quality and written well with so far some interesting plot descriptions and fight scenes. With the popularity of Lit RPG I cannot speak to its uniqueness but for the genre, it is definitely worth a read.
The balance between lit RPG and story is good throughout the story, there was only one chapter where I felt quite overtaken by the bold text, however, it is written in a humorous way so that adds some balance to it. I often skip stories where half the text is stats and that mumbo jumbo, fortunately, this story is not one of them.
There are quite a few moments with a statement followed by a phrase like ‘she was wrong’ or ‘And go wrong they did’ maybe replacing one or two with something else e.g. description if it going wrong would just make it less apparent.
Some great description and imagery especially e.g. when you introduced the library, hellhog etc.
From what I’ve read so far, the story looks promising. However, most of what I’ve read has only encompassed a short span of time and fights. So I cannot give a final view on the story. So far what I have read has definitely piqued my interest as the author has given just the right amount of information to leave me curious about how the MC got there and what the future might hold.
There was one cliché in the old man giving vague hints just as the mc left earshot but how else do you give the reader that kind of info without it feeling too forced.
Didn’t notice any issues at all so I have little to say on the matter.
I have only met two characters so far so I cannot give much thought to the characters relations. However, Claire so far seems to be a likeable, and believable character in all but one aspect I thought. She is well written and shown to be believable smart and resourceful e.g. fighting the hell hog after it was injured/ not fight head-on. However, there was one part that I felt was like Sherlock Holmes level of deductive which may have been more believable with another line or two giving t