The City of Arcanus

Self-Published

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Description

Damien had big dreams and high hopes when he was brought into the grand city of Arcanus. However, Absolute power corrupts absolutely and the once glorious city had become his prison and only his cunning and courage can allow him to escape!"

The City of Arcanus is a story of dreams and corruption, how the strongest power in the world isn't wealth, but family!

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Tesoro

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.7/ 5.0
Followers: 2
Views: 1,295

Chapters(5 total)

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Inkwell RabbitRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
What we have here is a story that although there isn't many chapters up, you can tell that the author has a vision and they are trying to make it to certain beats, because of the pacing, we miss important details of the world and story itself. I feel like we are dealing with the cliff notes instead on an actual book.
Style:
We go with a first person pov, which seems to be the prefered narration of most Royal Road stories. Despite the actual connection to the MC, we get very little time inside his thoughts. However where character developement is sparce, the author is excellent at weaving prose. Their descriptions are also spot on. Sometimes paragraphs get muddled as a character might talk, and then we get narratrion from the MC and then that character would talk again. But mainly the prose are well done.
My complaint with the the style would definitely be the pacing and lasck of world building details. We are briefly introduced to a "must wear a mask" concept but without an explaination in the author notes, the book provides no imformation itself. Finally let me touch up on the abruptly ending chapters. It feels like thge author rather cut off a complete thought instead of find a natural ending for their chapters. Honestly the first 3 chapters could have easily worked as one chapter with how fast the pacing was. You get maybe snippets of important info and like 3% of it is actual character developement.
Story:
The plot of the story is that the main character gets a letter from the guards that he has to go to the main floating city of the nation...thats all we know. Seriously, no reason why or what he would do in the city...just "You're going" and that what the story consists of so far. If we shared with the same confusion the reader had with what the main character was experiencing that would feel warranted, but the main character takes real well. I know the author is supposed to hold out information, but i really feel like they are blinding us through this book
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