Peek a boo

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Synopsis:

In the spaces between ones and zeros, worlds are born and die at the whim of their creators. Each keystroke births new lands, each click shapes civilizations, and every careful adjustment weaves the fabric of reality itself. Time flows differently in these digital realms—centuries can pass in moments, while a single day might stretch across millennia. Within these spaces, creators are gods, architects of existence who breathe life into empty bytes, crafting histories that span eons and cultures that echo through carefully constructed time.

Before a glowing screen in a quiet room, Estelle sat in front of a monitor displaying the map of the World of Astris. Her eyes were hollow with exhaustion, finger hovering over the deletion prompt—just a single click could wipe away twelve years of creation in an instant. What began as an escape had become a prison, each of its 67,934 item files a weight upon her shoulders, every revision another chain binding her to this digital realm. Yet as she prepared to end it all, an unexpected option presented itself, one that would blur the line between creator and creation in ways she never imagined.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: Graceful Ghost

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.9/ 5.0
Followers: 38
Views: 16,385

Chapters(35 total)

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Community Reviews(3)

EnkiariRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An intricate universe. Expansive world building. Elaborate wordsmithing. A very slow pace.
Those are things that come to my mind first when thinking about this story. It is a woven, layered thing that requires attention to enjoy. Interesting concepts that light up one's imagination, but might not be what you have come to expect from stories that so often fall on tired tropes.
It is a fascinating story that tries to show a place and time someone has pictured in their mind clearly and in the smallest detail. It is unique in many ways and allows the reader to submerge themselves in the world completely.
And I find it wonderful. I often found myself noting an expression or two. Estelle (the MC) is an interesting character, often as strange as the world she finds herself in. And that makes sense, because she built it. Each chapter makes sure to reveal additional details or lore, extending the universe in ways that make sense.
However,
The story is not exciting in the purest sense of the word. The pace is slow and very so. It is a deliberate way of storytelling and while I find it very agreeable, I still think it is too slow. Often, there are chapters where the main character has barely any movement. And it is just the main character at this point - lending to the feeling of isolation. Well, MC and the station.
Because of that, some of the continuation may become a little monotonous. Not because there is repetition, but because of how the story advances itself.
Overall, while not perfect, I think the story deserves the highest rating. I recommend giving the story a try. But - it is indeed slow.
Cheers,
Enkiari
Mastermoptop44Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
And reading this feels like listening to the author pat them selves on the back at how creative and amazing they can describe there world but that’s all there is…. A world. The world is very immersive and attention grabbing but there’s no hook to keep me here. No grand story. No captivating characters. No down on there luck MC, just a big world
There’s 3 tasks the main character has to do once there in the world and there really simple basically just “go here” “go there” and I can get like looking around the world and appreciating it, but that got old really quick after the 4th sequence of being amazed at how amazing their world was. And it’s probably my preference for writing styles that this annoyed me. When the character first got into the world they’re thirsty so they can’t look at many things, they decide to focus on quenching there thirst, food etc, then after they get a drink it’s switches up and and now there taking all the time in world to appreciate how cool and “woah” everything is. This switch up felt very distracting and only got got more annoying the longer the MC was perceived as doing not much. There was a lot of build up but no pay off. When reading at first everything is ohh this a cool but I’m dying of thirst lets go go go no time like the present, then after a quick ice cool drink it’s lets go real slow and waste time and not look at this red blinking light trying to get our attention this was very annoying from a reader POV at least for me. Maybe work on your Prose a bit it felt like there was a a lot of words not saying much
Over all great writing, the flaws from my POV would be there’s a lot of built up but no payoff, even just a little payoff of some sort would really hooked me to keep reading, but that just my opinion so take what you will from that.
ReppyxzRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
i’m interested in where the story will go and have enjoyed most of what I’ve read. that is honestly most of what I can say about this book at this time because not much has happened at the time of writing this review. What I will say though, is there a certain amount of charm and enthusiasm about the way The author describes the environment
The majority of the contents of the chapters is descriptions. Like instead of feeling like I was reading about a character walking through a couple rooms, I felt like I was reading about the room themselves, And whilst some of the imagery described is interesting. it isn’t enough to keep my attention, making it a lot of descriptions Easily forgettable due to the fatigue of just reading descriptions of the surroundings. The descriptions feel way overindulgent, like if you cut The majority of the descriptions and simplified the way of describing things we could’ve gotten all the events that’s happened in these past chapters condensed in to like three chapters.
and while it does pain me to say that, because there is a lot of charm in some of these descriptions, Like it wouldn’t be the same book without them but, I feel incredibly disappointing to read through all the descriptions just to have not gone anywhere. The descriptions are clearly important to the MC because the MC is the architect who created most of this stuff, and I do like that about her character. but it’s just too much descriptions. and I think the only way to make it more bearable is to either have a large backlog that you can binge through or cut down on the descriptions.
like I really like it when the MC is extremely truly proud of the way she designed something, and the way she gets excited about it, and mentions the many revisions she made. but when we don’t get that context or the main character doesn’t comment much on it, The descriptions feel like a waste of time.
for the first like six or eight chapters it’s extremely dry, But after those eight, the main char