Skybound

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Status

Hiatus

Author

a_man_in_black

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• monoliithRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  soooo EXCITED! Book 1 is fucking incredible. Book 2 is hopefully gonna keep the trend going!
• CyclopsSlayerRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Loving the start of Book 2 so far! So much more to see that I cannot wait to get my hands on.
  If you haven't read Book 1 yet, why the hell not? You're missing a treat!
  This story continues the excellence we have grown used to from the first book.
  The characters are involved and involving. Fully fleshed with their own quirks and problems. A good dozen storylines wrapping around each other to become a single tapestry
• Kirt77Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  very well written, and engaging characters. even the side characters are well done, and would do well with a novel of their own.  the world is constant and well thought out.
  update:
  alot of people seem to hate on the author for building a well filled world and cast in the novel. its going to take time to come togather.
• Necrontyr525Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Book two is coming, and Book one (Skyclad) was an absolute blast! the HYPE is real!
• GLMRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Now If you're here reading this review you probably have already read Skyclad, if not then you should go read it because this is it's sequel.
  Now... where to start? Its still very much so Skyclad 2 eletric bogaloo, but it already starts with the style prevalent in the second part of Skyclad.
  To avoid giving spoilers for that story, this is the TLDR:
  "Skyclad starts with a clearly defined MC, Morgan, then it transitions away from it as more and more, and more, and some more side characters are introduced and the bigger picture becomes clearer. This one continues that trend"
  This is eerily similar to Game of Thrones' style of writting, except we can be pretty sure at least 90% of the characters will survive.
  Now why some people dislike it? Well thats because the MC's personal tale (a very interesting one) got marginalized in favor of a tale of Epic proportions, the author does an incredible job at it, but its still consists of small discontinued  scenes with several characters and a metric ton of Telling and not Showing.
  As I've said the author does a great job at making it all seem epic, as he should, because I my eyes if he failed at it the story would consist of several MC concepts hapharzadly throw together, with way too many PoVs and not enough time spent on any of them, basically trying to tell several stories at once.
  But MIB suceed at balancing it out, this is a tale of epic proportions for better and for worse.
  This book continues that, and I personally like it; Saying that,  I wont touch it with a 20feet long pole right now, because this is still Skyclad, and believe me when I say it that the cliffs are terrible, really terrible, months long interruptions on storylines terrible.
  I reccomend reading this once its done, or at least once its 3/4 done at the earliest, if you just binged Skyclad, take an advice and sleep on this one, the cliffs are really THAT BAD.
• BlandaxtRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Great start to an interesting spin on isekai stories with statuses to grow stronger.
  Makes each characters status class more organic with some old fashion rituals and requirements in order to grow stronger instead of the usual level up and aquiering the next skill.
  It has an interesting cast of characters too that all come from different worlds. So it's not the influence from one world. The best part for me is that the main character is not adverse to fighting like some other stories.
  Overall I like how the course of the story is going, but I can't say I like the restrictions some of the characters have. It just feels too odd in some ways.
• GraveltonRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Everything I said in my review of Skyclad stands.  This is a darn fine story with a good MC and a complex, interesting world.  A lot of brilliant moments, too.  Well worth the read.  The first volume started with a decent supporting cast, and it just grows.  The world gets more detailed in this volume, with additional history being revealed.  If you can look past the cover and the MC's unusual character class, it actually really works.  It works well.
• SoulFireMageRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  I loved the first book.
  Sadly, he's decided to do something I've not seen a RR author do before:priced the second book at a fairly premium Kindle price. Over £7
  Others I support have gone with kindle unlimited. Here the price is at the premium end.
  A shame really. I'd hoped for another series, like Randidly, DotF, Azarinth Healer etc I could dig into for a long while to come and support on KU or at not much money per book maybe.
  Five stars for the first book, I loved it. Losing two for the premium poor pricing IMHO.
  I appreciate others will, certainly the author, disagree.
  But it's why I stopped.
• KikanoloRoyal Road

  ★ 1.0

  Skybound is the sequel to Skyclad, and is basically attempts to build a story with an epic scale but does so poorly.
  The basic premise of the story follows from that of Skyclad, a portal fantasy with people from Earth coming to a waning world.
  To put it simply, the author is good at writing, but not good at the other parts of telling a story. The actual writing in a given chapter is decent, but the issues of Skybound are bigger picture than that. The author likes to act like every critism of the story is people not liking multiple POVs in general, but the issues of the story go far deeper than that.
  Skybound is a story that wants to be an epic, and is trying to rush to that instead of building up to that scale properly. It attempts to build epic scale by having every chapter jump to a different POV and a different storyline. That results in a world that has breadth but a lack of depth, and a story that is a scattered mishmash of plot devices and 1-D characters. The main character is one of only a few developed characters in the story, but she barely appears.
  A further issue is the way the POVs are handled. Readers enjoy multiple POVs done well, just look at some of the most popular epic fantasy series. All of these stories took the time to built up each POV into one with depth. This story tosses out new POVs more than it revisits previous ones, and it loves ending chapters on cliffhangers. Those cliffhangers will likely not be resolved for months since that storyline won't be revisited anytime soon. In that light, POV-based criticisms of the story become much more reasonable, since its not that people don't like multiple POVs, its that they don't like multiple POVs done badly.
  Overall, Skybound follows up on some good ideas, but its execution is so rushed and poorly done that I wouldn't recommend it.
• TajarimRoyal Road

  ★ 0.5

  Way too many chapters about characters that have no influence on the story so far whatsoever. The MC is only a sideshow by now, which isn't epic, just stupid and confusing, nothing connects the MC with the other POVs. The reader can not look into the head of the writer, therefore not knowing what the possible reason behind all this is, it's just aggravating! Even the litrpg tag doesn't apply anymore, since there's no mentioning of that anywhere.
  This story went too "epic" too fast and too soon, without giving the MC any kind of compelling conclusion, no completed character arc. All while adding sidestory after sidestory with characters one can not care about.