Small Medium

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Status

Hiatus

Author

Andrew Seiple

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• sillystringRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I know Threadbare gets the most love on RR, but this remains my favorite of your works. From the story and characters to the writing and world-building, I’ve read tons of traditionally published YA fantasy that’s lesser in every respect compared to this halven-led serial. (BTW nonhuman protagonists seem to be trending on RR, but from my observations female humans and demihumans tend to be most popular/common in the general YA market.)
  I love your characterization of the hardworking halvens who are unfairly considered lazy. And how Chase and Thomasi are genuinely charismatic, on top of their high charisma stats. The antagonists are particularly well-characterized
  Both the self-righteous fanaticism of the Inquisitor, spurred by personal tragedy, and whom the local governments just have to work with, warily; and the amoral egocentricity of the Players, which should be familiar to anybody who’s played D&D (“Wait, why do the guards/townspeople hate me? I only burnt their local forest to the ground/ murdered somebody out in the open/ called them all expendable right in front of them.”)
  Although I like them a lot, I think some characters who could’ve used more development are
  Renny and Cagna, though the tight plot might’ve made it difficult to achieve more than plushy cuteness and offscreen romance respectively.
  The story is well-plotted, the climax fittingly epic and poignant, and in the end I am left both satisfied and wishing for more, which is just as it should be. Thank you so much for providing such quality content for free!
  P.S. I would consider changing the ‘Hiatus’ tag to ‘Complete.’ I know some people avoid anything marked with ‘Hiatus,’ thinking the author dropped the series, whereas the story at this point is in itself complete… just possibly continued here and/or in Threadbare, if we’re lucky. More importantly, some people search specifically for ‘Complete’ stories and might be missing out!
• KaeleinRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Andrew Seiple and his Theadbare world are back!!!
  Threadbare was one of the first completed stories I've read here and really stuck with me for a while.
  Now the magic is happening again,  the new characters are enjoyable, the world building expands very well... and whenever I'm not smiling, I'm laughing.
  If you haven't read Threadbare, you may miss a few things but it's clearly not a problem. (Go read it too anyway!)
  This needs to be Trending!
• MalacoRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  First of all can we stop for a second and appreciate that the author gets more work done than chinese sweatshop?
  I just don't understand how the hell this hasn't blown up. The system is awesome, the story is well thought, none of the character fall flat and it's just well written.
  I know people have an aversion to LITRPG, but this isn't basemeant dweller enters game and becomes the leader of humanity, this is halven deceiver encounters a conspiracy and goes on a fucking adventure.
  Don't be discouraged by the shitty thumbnails, Threadbare is God Tier and Small Medium is pure gold.
• RedPineRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Threadbear was a clunky story, but it made up for it through adorableness, character development, and a beautiful world.  It also got much better as the story progressed.
  Small Medium is just as adorable, but all the clunkiness is gone.  The world doesn't cater to our tiny Halven, and even "luck" and "fate" play by the rules.
• bieltRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Even small beings can make great things and that is especially true when when Andrew Seiple is involved.
  After the epic of a plush bear trying to find his little girl owner which has being eternally on this site's top 10 best rated novels, Andrew brings us a new tale in the world of Generica!
  This time we follow the tale of a small halven (halfling/Hobbit) girl which just happens to be the gossip master between the bored teenagers and children in a small village on the countryside which uses her network of secrets to prepare and hide her dreams of leaving her village.
  Chase may be an adventurous young girl, but she soon discovers that those adventures may be a bit too much for even her when she meets secrets she shouldn't have met and finds out exactly why the forest near the village is said to be dangerous...
  The characters of Small Medium are interesting and multifaceted showing different emotions and reactions to the situations and that does play a big role as how the story unwraps itself.
  Chase Berrymore, while our MC may be small she is certainly made of strong stuff but even with her race's natural mental resilience she is still in a deep corner of her mind a young girl, and it's exactly that which makes Chase a wonderful MC. Logical and steeled by circumstances she may certainly be determined to use anything and everything at her reach, but even steel can be battered and bent, stress and exhaustion both physically and mentally will constantly assault our small girl and for more then once she will felter and that makes Chase certainly one of the most human-like characters I have read about.
  But don't jump to conclusions~
  This may be a litRPG~
  And Chase may be many things like an Gossiper, an young girl, a small medium and even a trickster but she is certainly not a hero~!
  At least not how you would expect it, and so you don't need to worry about long and endless chapters of how the MC is strong and how she will search for more power without any further reason
• comandergummybearRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Based in the same world as Threadbare, this story builds greatly uppon the tapastry that is Genarica. Showing us more of this amazing world and some of its history. A tale of groth, self discovery, and the ocaisonal wresteling move thrown in for flavor
• GibsterRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  This is a very creative adventure story with much less grinding than you usually find in novels like these.  The author finds novel ways to make the character fight and interact with other people in her story.  I think it is a fantastic story.
• ZethuronRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  What a nice story this was, and a worthy favorite! As expected from the author of Threadbare, this is a good sequel to that story. I am certainly going to read any future stories by the author.
  Chase Berrymore is a Halven living in the sleepy village of Bothernot, while halvens are typically aversive to adventure, she instead longs for it, considered a oddity by her family and the rest of the villagers. But one day adventure finds her, and it is more than she has asked for.
  On her grand adventures through the world of Generica, Chase saves her own village, uncovers some of the grand secrets behind the world of Generica and its people, meets all kinds of people, solves murder mysteries and eventually saving the world.
  The characters in this story are all amazing, well thought out characters with complex emotions and backstory. Even the villians here can be relatable which is something i dont see that often.
  The very best character for me is Chase, she is just a such deep character, that develops and changes a LOT during the course of the story, while still sort of staying the halven girl she always was.
  One of the things im liking the most is her powers, and the way she uses them, its very rare to see this kind of class in stories, and most of the time they are done badly, not here, Andrew Seiple can make the weird or hard class combinations work, and he does it perfectly. Her being a oracle adds so much to this story, and it is done here in a way thats overall balanced, with her using the job to the best she can, yet however neither her or the job are flawless. The other characters ofcourse are also important, and add even more depth to this amazing story.
  The story builds further on the world created in Threadbare, featuring major additions, especially considering Threadbare was focused on a very isolated kingdom. But also delves further in the mystery thats the world of Generica, there are some quite good plot twists related to that throughout the story.
  This stor
• daytime damageRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Was annoying when we had no idea what all the skills did, and I would've preferred more focus on the wider world than this whole thing with players, but I suppose it's canon now and we'll see how it goes. Overall still a good story and I look forward to seeing where it goes in the next installment.
• silent-judgeRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  the main problem is the lack of interation between adventures what do thay do together why are thay together
  with thred bear his mute inabilaty to talk and his not understanding the world helped the caratores interact ,explore and understand the world toghter.
  the bigist problem is it is to focused of the hero and her adventures and not enough slice of life this could be fixed it tha talked while travling at the least.