The Doorverse Chronicles

Self-Published

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Description

John Gilliam, the Faceless Man, is one of the premier assassins in the world. His skills are legendary, and he's never failed in a mission. When a job goes wrong, though, he discovers that there's an entire universe beyond what he knows, one where magic and monsters exist and his skills and talents are frail shadows of the powers that be: the Doorverse.

Now, John has a new job. As an Inquisitor, he's tasked with traveling the Doorverse and righting the balance on the worlds he finds. Each world is unique, and John has to learn how to survive anew every time he passes through another door. Led by his AI guide, Sara, he'll have to become more than a killer-for-hire, and more than just a human if he wants to survive the Doorverse!

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2021
Author: Kyle Johnson

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Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 256
Views: 16,820

Chapters(12 total)

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Community Reviews(6)

Elemental1Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There are a few things I look for in a book those are:
* Believable characters, with motives that are reasonable to most.
* An interesting hook to keep you engaged.
* Good prose that is not riddled with errors.
* The writer doesn't over-explain everything.
* A setting where everything unfolds organically, rather than seeming forced.
This book hits all those and just gets better the more you read.
Five stars! Well worth the read.
TechmanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Pretty good story so far. As the synopsis states, our MC is recruited/coerced into traveling to different realms to "correct imbalance". He's got a litrpg system that only other Inquisitors have access to that should help with his growth as he travels to different realms. As of this review, he's currently still on his first assignment in a cultivator world, so we're getting a fun blend of cultivation and litrpg system.
Now I know what you're thinking, "ugh, a former master assassin? He's gonna be a gritty OP edgelord." But no! He's cynical and pragmatic, sure, but not an alpha sociopath. He's already shown a good bit of character growth. As far as his abilities, he's competent without being an expert. There's plenty in this world that's far beyond him.
The first couple chapters are mainly setup, but it's worth it once things get going. I've found it to be an enjoyable read with loads of potential for the future. It looks like we'll get each story arc on a different world, so things won't get stale.
I wouldn't be surprised if this makes it to Rising Stars.
dabo1Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Reviewed after finishing book 1
Story/style Score
Mostly the story is well thought about, it is different from most books, isn't boring, changes often, not repetitive. Contains unexpected twists, some side stories that mesh well with the main story. Only the start of alchemy is a bit sudden, but could also be sort of explained in the end, so I guess nothing to complain about here. It also probably won't have for the next few books issues with content implementation. Many series I recently read had the issue, where they just keep on adding new content to them, mixing magic, cultivation, and technology. Here after every book the author simply change the universe and has a clean-cut. Just the main character switches. I can't say yet though how that will affect the character development of the Main character after each book(only read the first one so far). But I can imagine this will make it easy for the next books to be equally good.
Grammar score 5/5
The only issue I noticed are 2-3 typos, but other than that pretty good
Character score 5/5
There are multiple main characters, each has their own well-thought-out back story and mesh well with the society they are placed within. Each of their interactions with each other make sense and all gets more depth and develop in ways that make sense.
Overall 5/5
I think this series has potential and if the quality and story development have the same quality, then I am definitely looking forward to reading Book 2
KobinghamRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I'm really enjoying the story. It has a rational for muliple power systems and a built in system to allow the MC to grow quickly, but not run into absurd power creep. I also like that while the MC has some definite issues, he's aware of them and works to better himself. He does have a tendency to bring it up more than he needs to, slowing down the pacing a bit, but overall, I'm really looking forward to where this goes.
EstanforthRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
After 5 chapters it's not that I'm against reading the rest but every time the MC had the opportunity to speak it just felt like he wasn't using his brain.
Even if he's surprised by impossible occurrences like appearing on a different world and having to fight possibly real werewolves it shouldn't feel like he had mentally regressed into a teenager with no real world experience - which is what it felt like.
The only part after his assassination that I enjoyed was the info dump by the woman where she shut John up and just started explaining things, everything went a lot faster, and I was thanking every god because of it.
Might come back to this in the future but for now it's on hold for me.
CimmerianRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Because of the story has no apparent end in sight, or way the MC could ever reach any positive conclusion, I'm downgrading a full star for hoplessness of the MC.
Its hard to track, but I just binged about 130 chapters of this story, well into the 3rd arc of this story (or 3rd book, if author publishes). Overally, it is an easy to read story with enough "system" to scratch the itch without being a numbers intensive story. I give mixed reviews and am not sure if I would recommend or not.
Character: Full marks for a great character. Assassin, Faceless Man (MC) with "heart"; pretty much rough, military, background who realizes that the military doesn't much care about him. Living as an assassin until he is selected, at the moment he should die, by an otherworldly being who hires him to be an "Inquisitor" who stops death and "corrects the balance" and/or prevents more imbalance in a multiverse that scores itself based on the physical laws of that universe/world and its receptiveness to Technology - Biology - Arcana. The MC is a quick learner with a good background blending into various situations (part of his assassin training). On each world a new body is created for him that is only partially adapted to the local physical laws (improves over time).
Grammar Score: Always full marks unless it is bad enough to disrupt from storytelling; in this case, it is actually quite good. Fully edited story.
Style Score: No abuse of style to complain about. No flashbacks. Only two end-of-arc POV switches. Plot holes are minimal. However, there are major set-ups by author that he has seemingly walked away from which leave the readers feeling, honestly, helpless and confused. (Demons, unaccessible nexus, curse, heroines who may or may not be immortals in a past or future timeline.) Chekhov has many guns and most are never fired.
Story Score: I'd say this was about half-and-half. The premise of a world-hopping fixer is not bad, but given that each jump resets most of the abilities of t