Nothing but bones [stub]

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Description

When Solus awakens as a lowly skeleton, only undead still roam the barren Earth. Without memory or personality, he must learn fast if he is to keep his new existence. Soon he finds himself dealing with ancient AI, more experienced undead, massive Wyrms, and long-hidden truths. If this wasn't enough, he has to figure out what these pesky emotions are that keep popping up.

Book 2: (Released on Kindle and Amazon)

A year after the events of book 1, Solus is still trying to find a way to restore his status window. Straying deeper into the wastes, he searches for his original sphere, hoping that perhaps it can offer him a solution. Instead, he stumbles upon an ancient hidden installation and finds an AI of a different caliber. It might have the knowledge to help him, but is it trustworthy enough?On the return trip, Solus meets a new adversary: a new kind of undead that is almost as powerful as himself. When he finally manages to return to Skulltown, he finds that he isn't the only one that these strange new undead have attacked.As more and more mindless and highly aggressive undead begin to appear, disturbing news arrives from beyond Skulltown. Black rifts are appearing in the wasteland, ejecting both sentient and mindless undead. The only one who may have the solution is also the one least likely to help him: Scathia, the mysterious leader of Silt, the one who awoke Vingria, and the one who seems bent on world domination.

Book 3: (Released on Kindle and Amazon)

Many years have passed when Solus slowly wakes from his slumber. He quickly realizes that his body is still unable to move and might be for a long time. However, events above ground are not waiting for him, and he needs to find a way to interact with the world if he is to save his friends. Meanwhile, Tirella finds multiple massive threads that might spell the end of the fledgling undead world.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2018
Author: Carrarn

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 201
Views: 57,096

Chapters(26 total)

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Community Reviews(5)

Immovable87Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
thank you! moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ^_^
hoffmannRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Nothing but bones is a very original concept. I could have never come up with this myself. In a world of Harry Potter and Ready Player One look a likes this is a breath of fresh air. I can imagine this might be a difficult story to write but John seems to be a wizard with words!
WilberforceRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Let me start by saying I love skeletons.
Story This is about a lonely piece of bones that wants to find the meaning to his existence. You can feel the potential after chapter 5. Nothing much here because it's just starting.
Style
The style was difficult at first because of how flowery it's. But once you go pass the first it becomes easier to read.
Character
Os Solus is a skeleton with no absolutely zero memory, at least in the beginning. But he/it slowly understands the empty earth as he travels. He didn't make any major decision yet or associates with on deep level with others so it's difficult to say how he will develop.
Grammar
This is good. There are a few sentences that require double read and some that are unusually longer other than that nothing .
Thanks for story. As I said, I love bones.
BidaoRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The 4-5 first chapter were a bit difficult to read (i skip the first chapter), but all those which came after were great.
The MC and sub character are well wrote with a good evolution.
I wasn't able to immerse myself into the story even though the plot is fairly good. But I will continue to read because of the characters and theirs evolutions which are really interesting 😊
ZethuronRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This story follows the skeleton Os Solus and his journey to finding a meaning in his existence, cant exactly say much about him, since he is basically a simple skeleton at first, but slowly becomes more than that after an encounter. The interactions between the MC and the first characters he meets is a bit weird at first, but considering he is a 'newish' skeleton compared to them, its fine. The story also showcases the growth of the MC in various ways, most notable being his intelligence, this does mean his personality changes over the course of the story.
The concept chosen for the story is quite different, and interesting. How the author has built a story without any 'life' and still made it have some sort of weird ecosystem, is just good. Theres also the system of evolution, while it aint that special, it is still done well. Through i still have questions about some stuff since some of the weirder stuff has not been explained yet.
Would say it has a weird start with the first chapters, through it becomes better a couple chapters in, so that is not a big problem. Through the large paragraphs in some chapters can get annoying.
There are the occasional mistakes, but in a normal read, they barely hinder the reading at all. So overall the grammar is of a good quality. There are through the times where the wrong words are used for something, which can be annoying, through those are rare, and are getting corrected when detected.
I barely have any problems with the writing style of the author, its overall easy to read, through its quite wordy at times.
Overall its a good story, from the viewpoint of a skeleton starting at the weakest, and slowly growing stronger. Whats currently released is only the first book so theres a lot more potential in this story. Through i find the story could use some more editing, so it is improved on even more, but what we have currently is already pretty good.