Nowhere Island University

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2016

Author

T4nky

• 7.7: Once a Cop
  Jul 18, 2018
• 7.6: People to be put against the wall
  Jul 11, 2018
• 7.5: Bourbon, Scotch, Beer
  May 16, 2018
• 7.4 Somebody's Watching Me
  May 9, 2018
• 7.3: Meet the Police
  May 2, 2018
• 7.2: End Run
  Apr 25, 2018
• 7.1 Welcome to the Occupation
  Apr 18, 2018
• 6.33 This is the End
  Apr 12, 2018
• Track 31: Last of the BLUFOR
  Apr 4, 2018
• 6.31: In the town known as Worcester, MA
  Mar 28, 2018
• 6.30: End of the End
  Mar 21, 2018
• 6.29: The Lights Go Out
  Mar 14, 2018
• 6.28: Massachusetts Is Beautiful This Time of Year
  Mar 7, 2018
• Health Issues
  Feb 27, 2018
• 6.27: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
  Feb 21, 2018
• 6.25: The Takeover
  Jan 31, 2018
• 6.4: Old Friends
  Jan 24, 2018
• 6.23: Is it Just Me?
  Jan 10, 2018
• 6.22: Slippery People
  Jan 3, 2018
• 6.21: Too Many of my Friends are Criminals
  Dec 27, 2017

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• saoRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The level of this story?
• C3rb3rusRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This is very well written it's funny and the characters are life like and believable. I have also read your WordPress and like the direction your story is going in. Overall 5 stars
• ClearMadnessRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I started reading this story, and then I just couldn’t stop. It’s about a young a man who doesn’t know what to do  with his life who is suddenly offered a exciting opportunity. Little does he know how much danger he’s putting himself in, or how much his world is about change. Cue the conspiracies, murder, college radio, and invading clone armies.
  The story is the strong point here, and obviously contains a lot of research into things like guns and other weapons. It starts off great and just slowly builds up until its even better. My only complaint would be that perhaps things accelerate a little too quickly in the latest chapters, where the main character goes all Rambo.
  It has very good grammar with only a few typos, that allows you to immerse yourself fully in the story.
  There are a lot of great characters in this story that get really fleshed out. Unfortunately, there are also a few side characters that were obviously added to the story for one single purpose and stay flat. The main character and most the cast are fun to read about though .
  I can’t recommend this fiction enough. If you like thrillers, action, guns, school life, and mad science this is a story you have to read.
• GopperRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Not often when I read a novel, I get so engrossed into it. I thought it would not be my cup of tea reading the description, but am I glad I read it. Your style is fantastic, story well done, grammar is alright, and your character development... literally off the charts. You have introduced a plethora of characters and each have their own personalities which makes reading this novel so enjoyable. Read until the end of book 4. Keep up the good work
• LasiefoRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  found the story 2 hour ago due to reddit
  and damn im happy i found it
  i already read a story last week that i find is 10/10 one of the best stories rr ever had( savage divinity)
  and today i found this amazing story that also could be called that
  i read 6 chapters and im loving it
  savage divinity entertained me through 60 chapters
  and nowhere island university just pulled me in deeply
  they are 2 completely different stories but both have genres that i love
  seriously out of nowhere come 2 stories that have amazing characters that are likeable
  the plots are damn good(not sure where niu will go but holy shit its been good so far)
  if the incoming chapters are half as good as the previous ones then i would 100% buy the completed work
• TotemRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Love it! Quoting a famous youtuber, "Keep Er Going".
• YeenBeanzRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  A wonderfully descriptive story. i like the plot so far so keep going. it should definitely have more views.
• 13lack12oseRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Picking up the first volume in print is a great way to support the serial, but if you grab this without knowing about the serial, you're probably not going to have as good of a time.
  The basic pitch for NIU is that it's a gritty hunger-games style high school in a world that mirrors our own--apart from all the James-Bond-level mad science, black ops, and superhero programs going on in the background. If you've read Wildbow's "Worm", expect a much less gonzo version of that kind of setting.
  Like Worm, NIU is pretty dark, and like Worm, it struggles a little to get its feet under itself at first. This is again why I'm recommending checking out the serial before making any decisions about the book. In the serial, you can skip ahead and get instant confirmation that the writing matures--and it does. The author's writing strengthens over time, but this also means the first book is going to be rough compared to the others.
  One thing the writer nails, even early on, is bringing in a wide cast of characters, making them each memorable, and then letting them live or die by their own decisions. The line between villain and ally is also pretty fluid, which for me was a big part of the appeal of the book.
  The story moves at a good clip, even if book 1 feels a little unfocused in places, so Glad You're Not Here is definitely not going to bore you. You'll have to work a little hard to suspend your disbelief in a few places, but early chapters of Worm have the same problem. They're signs of a writer getting accustomed to the craft.
  Ultimately, you'll probably have formed an idea of whether you're going to like this by the time you've skimmed a few chapters of the later books, but if you do like it, come back to this page when you can. Support the writer and buy the book.
• pldlRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Grammar is great. Style is great. Characters have their own motivations and are a mystery, especially the big guy. Story has been a great ride and interesting
  The style is rated lower specifically because of pacing issues. The MC is supposed to be someone who hasn't fought seriously before coming to this school. He pretty much goes from 0-100 in a few chapters and becomes an absolute monster before my own version of Nathan caught up to story version of Nathan. More specifically, my own version of Nathan had similar strength, fighting skills, and PTSD with story Nathan. But my version of Nathan did not have the same weapon knowledge and skill as story Nathan.
  This isn't a result of a plot hole, however. It was more of a plot dip. It's because while the physical training was described, the severity of the weapon training was glossed over in three paragraphs at the beginning of 1.11. I thought he had become proficient with weaponry, I didn't realize the training made him into a Navy SEAL.
  Reading those paragraphs at the beginning of 1.11, in retrospect, it is clear that Nathan had become extremely skilled at the usage of guns.  It just became overshadowed by the impact of the immediate Chamber of Horrors, and I quickly forgot about it, resulting in my surprise when Nate began sniping unfortunate students left and right.
  The Chamber of Horrors, in contrast, gave a concrete understanding into how much stronger Nathan had gotten. It matched up with what I would expect of someone eating expensive nutritional sludge and enduring physical training for an entire day. Although the Finale of Hell Semester did the same for shooting, I didn't really have the training to match it up with because it was glossed over so quickly.
  Pacing issues really aren't a big deal, though. It's truly well-written.
• firedrake915Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Nowhere Island University is a spy thriller set in a world with a similar feel to that of Watchmen, but from the perspective of a civilian who got in over his head.  The world itself feels very realistic, based off of our modern world but with super villains, mass scientists, and super powers, it feels like a world straight out of a comic book.  The reason I mention Watchmen specifically is that it has a very similar dark feeling to it.  This is a story that focuses on the moral dilemma of soldiers, as well as some very dark actions the characters are forced to perform.  One of the things that makes this stand out though is the fact that these situations feel perfectly natural and not something shoehorned in to make the story more mature or gritty.  The main character is a normal civilian, something that serves to highlight the moral ambiguity of the characters.
  Another great aspect of this story is the diversity of the characters.  Each character feels unique, with their own story motives and goals.  This isn't simply a world of one side versus the other, but instead one where everyone has their own interests, one where people may fight for the same cause, but for different reasons.  The one complaint I have about the characters is that occasionally they feel like they each fall into their own stereotype, even if that stereotype is different in this world than in ours.  It would be nice to see characters that don't quite fit the mold that the mc has placed them in.  This could be anything from a strange bit of their personality, a hint that their beliefs have, if not acceptable, at least understandable reasons for them, or perhaps a show that they may have the wrong reasons, but they act towards an appreciable goal.  This is simply not possible for every character as the mc is limited in his knowledge, but it would be nice to see slightly more often, particularly in the main story instead of in side chapters.  This is because it would be compelling to see the mc be