Psycher Chronicles

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Description

Psycher: One who has mastered the ability to maintain their psyche, even after succumbing to the death process.

Psycher Reincarnation: The Final step to ensuring knowledge is never lost and passed down from generation to generation.

Misha Collins is lost, well that is not entirely true, as she knows exactly where she is. She has found her consciousness reborn into a suitable host on a blue green planet called Earth. A planet filled with vast natural resources, and the barest hint of technological progression available. Which only makes things that much worse, knowing that she is close to being able to help, to reach out to her fellow Psychers and once again contribute to the ongoing intergalactic wars that are being waged.

There is a war going on, where her brethren are being born and killed daily, yet she is powerless to do anything but grow up in a world that is barely at the cusp of space travel and intergalactic flights.

Yet this world has its own oddities, as there are creatures and powers here that are alien to even Misha's vast lexicon of knowledge and powers.

Now Misha has to manage her new role on a planet not fully ready for someone like her. She will need to navigate the realms of supernatural beings, while also being what this world considers to be a technological genius, when really what she is doing is nothing more than applying simple understandings that her people, and she herself mastered millennia ago.

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Lykanthropy

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 777
Views: 364,463

Chapters(119 total)

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Community Reviews(8)

misssaturnRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Really liked all the character growth.
Pros:
- Innovative
- Interesting side chars
- Good change of POVs
- Captivating MC
- Glad to have high school without being filled with romance drama
Cons:
- There's quite a bit of lose ends that just disappear from the story
- Some time jumps that feel very abrupt
VanyaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Story graps you and draws you in right from the start.
Highly recommend anyone to read this.
This is early on in the story but can clearly see the potential for this to go far.
Grammar: no issues at all
Story: Unique and well written.
Characters: Although early on in the story the main characters are starting to get fleshed out. Minimal side characters at this point.
Hiep NguyenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
My favorite genre of novel is the black technology theme. This novel hits all my heart strings, meaning Modern Day, Black Technology, and Fantasy.
If you're wondering about the pacing it's a slow burn, slice of life, and progression.
I love the characters and different POV's. It's very hard to do smooth different POV chapters, but I think think this author has done it right. It's a shame this does not have more reviews.
EiferRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
After reading further, an updated review is definitely in order. I put the original in the spoiler below.
So, addressing the POV issue I brought up in my original review. This changes later, after a timeskip. My assumption is that the author wanted to show off the outside perspective of the MC's formative years. The meat of the story doesn't really start until that timeskip. There's still frequent POV changes, but rather than driving the story forward they serve to add meat to the happenings around the MC.
Having insight into what, and how, the MC think have changed the entire dynamic for me, making it easier to get drawn in to the story. The written sound effects are still an issue and is really the only thing preventing me from giving it a full 5. It's simply too disruptive when they happen.
Lastly, I'll just say that so far patience have been rewarded with answers and that I've once again had to learn not to judge a book by its cover, so to speak. (this books cover is pretty rad though)
Written sound effects are one of the most annoying and frustrating things I've ever experienced. It constantly breaks the reading flow and immersion. If those hadn't been there, I'd have given another star.
With that out of the way, its an otherwise interesting read, although quite the acquired taste with the lack of emotional feedback from the apparent MC.
I say apparent, because so far there's been more POV from the mother, who is fantastic and really carries the story, than from the MC herself. I find it a strange choice, and not very enjoyable overall.
The world, while by no means unique, is different enough that its interesting to hear about the different groupings, as well as the magical and supernatural system in place.
All in all, a book I'd keep reading until it's out of chapters, but not interesting enough for a re-read.
104104105fviRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
In my opinion, the story starts at 4, continues at 5, and then it loses it. I recommend reading until you're not having fun anymore, the story starts well.
And maybe what bothered me won't bother you.
Despite my criticism, the idea is interesting and the execution is not bad, I enjoyed it overall.
the main character changes personality because of a releas of a mind spell placed on her.
After that, the story loses much of what makes it particularly interesting (and logical) to me.
It is unlikely in my opinion that the event in question will have such significant effects after so much time getting used to it, just like after the cast is removed, the bone remains the same...
NeonGhostRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
While a story told primarily from the perspective of characters other than the MC isn't inherently a bad thing it is unusual and not many people's thing hence why tags for it exist. Both the synopsis and the tags give you every reason to believe that either the whole story or at the very least the vast majority would be within the perspective of the mc however that is not the case with all the beginning chapters not being the MCs pov and it only becoming more common later on even if it's never actually common.
Then you get the power system of the world and how side characters react to her which are always off at best and never really make much sense.
Words so I can post my comment without diluting the message so much that it feels like a rant. Why does royal road even have a minimum word count for reviews anyways, do they not want people reviewing books or is a way to discourage spam reviews? Either way it is annoying as not ever view has that much too say and not ever reviewer is interested in saying all that much, probably why you see text boxes full of nothing so often.
WednesdaysJestRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The world is interesting and the story is entertaining, but it reads like it is in the middle of the drafting process.
First there are the mechanical issues, like using "weary" for "wary" and "concern" for "concert". Evidence of a lack of proofreading and editing. There are also some issues with how scenes transition and how the action flows, again the kind of thing you expect in an unedited draft.
Then there are the narrative inconsistencies. It seems that the author's idea of what a "Psycher" is changed during the writing of the story, as did what role the Misha had as a "Psycher". For example, in chapter one she claims that she was "pyrotechnic psyche" who later developed an affinity for "technomancy". Later the story focuses on her being The Mechanic within the Psycher fleet whose ability to interface with technology was unrivaled. It also claims that Psychers were "space rangers", which isn't sustained later, and that her last death happened when the ship's commander scuttled their ship to prevent the enemy from tracking them to a new location. This directly contradicts more recent chapters where Misha's past life ended, but the ship survived over a decade. This isn't even getting into the introduction of "technic-codas" and her ability to communicate with ghosts, both of which never show up again.
There are more examples, but all of this points to the story being fleshed out as it is being written. Plot threads show up, then get dropped without much in the way of explanation as the author pivots. Abandoned threads suddenly reappear and are treated as if has been present the entire time. You can find chapters referring to past events that didn't happen in the current version of the story, or terms being changed as the author builds on their world.
Discovery writing is a perfect valid way to write, but it does mean that when reading the story it needs to be kept in mind that you are reading a draft and not a finished work.
Beyond that it is a challenge
UltrabenosaurusRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
While I'm mostly enjoying this, I am quite confused and a little disappointed how irrelevant her Psycher powers are to a story called Psycher Chronicles. We get mentions of her using Psycher powers occasionally, like being told she helps her mum's car run well to editing the calendar in her phone, but we *see* very little of it. Reading this far, it hasn't really felt like reading a story about a Technomancer, that part of her character has just been on the side and incidental for most of it. If it wasn't for her laughable attempt at hacking some alien tech she encounters, she may as well have not had any Technomancer / Psycher powers at all, as they just haven't been used or relevant to the plot.
Some might want to counter with the scene fairly early on where Misha shows her abilities to her "magi" therapist by manifesting elemental orbs, but that could easily have been handled with her testing Misha due to her other various oddities or her office having some passive scan for the "supernatural creatures" picking up on Misha's oddity or something; her Psycher powers didn't really do anything for that situation, besides providing a visible manifestation of her not being a standard human child.
Even then, that's only two situations out of 19 chapters I've ready today, and I can't recall any other scenes where her Psycher powers were even close to being plot-relevant.
There's also the fact that the synopsis says she is reincarnated into a world with powers totally unfamiliar to her, yet it's actually all based on something she's very familiar with from her previous life:
The Bakshee techno-organic evolution system she and the Psychers have been at war with for thousands of years. There's just a half-finished template for another kind of Bakshee that she didn't know about.
Since that was nonsensically integrated with her DNA the story seems to have switched almost entirely to being about the new abilities that has granted her, except for her (off-screen) displaying supe