Nova: Omega

Information

Status

Completed

Year

2022

Author

LiteraryWho

• Askew Missions
  Mar 19, 2022

Reviews

Community Reviews(3)

• BullerRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Like other reviewers pointed out with this story, the story itself is pretty great. The execution? Now that is something that needs some work, no matter how much of an soft eye the reader has. It is readable, yes, but the issues are too prevalent to ignore. I really do think the premise is great but the execution needs to be either rewritten or extensively edited before it can warrant a higher rating.
• CKJ5Royal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Story: 4/5: Nova: Omega follows the students of the Nova Academy. The main character is a young mercenary named Hitori. Hitori is a knight midway through his time at the academy. So far, there have been a lot of "school drama" arcs and some training-like missions. It works for the setting and appears to be building up to a larger plot.
  Style: 3.5/5 the book is written in third-person and is straightforward for the most part. However, some chapters change to first-person with no setup or explanation. I felt very confused by the sudden change and thought the author needed to set up why this was happening, at least for the first time, so the reader can understand that a shift in perspectives will occur as the story moves forward.
  Grammar: 3/5 It's readable, but fixing some reoccurring issues would greatly benefit it in the long run.
  Characters: 4.5/5 I thought the cast of characters were great and had good chemistry with each other. I appreciated their different personalities and how well the author conveyed them.
  Overall: 4/5 I enjoyed my reading Nova: Omega, and despite some issues, I think it has a ton of potential that should be great after some polish.
• CimmerianRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  Style: Showing, not telling.  But the world is so hard to follow, and so much is happening, that maybe more telling would help. point-of-view switches which are a bit confusing.  Alternate protagonists and groups at the start of the story (Main character guy plus crew, other character girl and her ghost friend, shadowy group of professionals, and others) each with POVs discussing lots of random stuff, possibly the same stuff using different terms?... just... confusing as heck.
  Story: As much as I can tell, after  ~40 chapters, techno-cultivation story in a setting where some "stuff" caused plants and animals to mutate into beasts.  This same "stuff" caused some humans to be able to form cores that let them manipulate energy to perform supernatural physical feats, heal, have quasi fantastic-magical power, and tap into some worldwide network of communications???  There is combat-techno-magic, and a school where people form teams, for some reason (defend or to harvest stuff) but apparently the curriculum is loose since people of different ages with vastly different experience and training are all mashed together?  Plus whomping willows aramanculas and werewolves in a forest (not like Harry Potter, but a different techno-cultivation-mutagenic style). It's STRICTLY off-limits but also very accessible (school trips go there).
  Grammar: No problems.
  Characters: Stretch credibility beyond my fathoming. Child soldier academy.  Fantasy "class" party roles.  Teachers assign death tests and homework; multi-student near-death outings are casually planned and completed on short notice, with battle wagons, magic weapons, giant mutant fauna, and rotting bodies... all expected normal training to help a noob get up to speed; nothing that wouldn't cause any real concern. (And yes, death is final.)  No normal, sane people have been seen yet, or adults (average age is 17, teacher was 18. Dead parents, maybe...!?  Then other groups, elsewhere are tracking magic rocks globally and/or hunti