The Fiasco

Self-Published

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Description

When you’ve seen as many catastrophes as I have, “disaster” becomes a relative term. Us perpetual kidnap victims get to hang our heads while waiting for the tights-wearing crowd to arrive.

I'm extra special. Why? Because my only real power is being kept alive by constantly attracting insane events. That's me. Adam. The wrong guy in the wrong place, every single time.

Sit back, grab your drink or drug of choice, and follow along as I hit some of the highlights.

We'll start with Ted, a reporter with a scheme of petty revenge. We'll meet Alice, a psychopath with personality problems whose out to make babies or disembowel me. I'm never sure. We'll watch me fail at being a glorified field trip supervisor for a powered collage.

There's a whole host of other heroes and villains along the way.

At the end of this story about me and those suffering my presence, I'll end the world. Because that's the logical last step.

Book 1 – The Fiasco in News (Complete, Cover)

Book 2 – The Fiasco in School (Complete)

Book 3 – The Fiasco in an Apocalypse (Incomplete, WIP)

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2018
Author: FrustratedEgo

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 697
Views: 357,944

Chapters(61 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

solomon046Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Hopefully you don't stop in the middle like most authors but from your past works that doesn't seem likely. Keep up the good work and I will also recommend it to other readers.
AsmoGhostRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If you could take the style of story telling from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and put it in the universe of the Worm online novel you get this glorious amalgamation! I will be ordering a hardcopy of this book.
Bobidi BopRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Sometimes I am left stunned by the greatness of a story on here. I have gone through a lot of the top rated books, liking some, disliking others, but this here is a hidden gem. I was searching for a new story after catching up to all 209 chapters of "Defiance of the Fall" in about 2-3 days and stumbled upon this on page 4 or 5 of the book seach. I was heasitant at first, as some may be by the description but I've finished book one in less than 24 hours and am amazed. It is charming, witty, funny, and although somewhat tragic it leaves a good taste in the mouth(unrelated to the mints I'm eating at the moment.). It is a very uniqe story which tells both OP and Mary Sue to f*** off into another alternate reality. It also doesn't try to preach about good or evil, it's a tale of people. And best of all, it doesn't bother with stupid events that make no sense, it only deals with crazy ones that make no sense. So once again, unless you are made uncomfortable by sexual implications, Read This Story!
Cal04Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Stunningly good, perfect story to read over a week or two, take it all in and it's really good.
Tanner_1000Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I was scrolling absentmindedly like usual at the ongoing fictions ranking and I found this beauty. The plot, world-building, and basically everything sums up to a 5/5.
ZanderkoalaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I was skeptical about reading 'The Fiasco' because both the reviews and the synopsis felt vague, as if people were purposefully trying to hide the main character's 'Power' in order to prevent 'spoiling' things... Except his power is introduced inside a few paragraphs in the first chapter, and it's completely explained as well. I don't understand why everyone is acting like it's a huge spoiler when it really isn't.
I've currently read through the first seven chapters of this story, at which point I needed a break from it to absorb everything that happened. This story doesn't really have brakes, it's action packed at almost every point which -to be honest- is directly consequential of the Main Character's power (the spoiler one). I shall follow suit and not explain his power either, even though I feel explaining it would actually increase the number of readers for this fiction.
Grammar-wise the story is near perfect. I don't remember finding a single mistake.
Style - The style is first person and the tone is conversational, as if the main character were speaking to some unknown audience... Which, all things considered, might actually be prophetic... Or maybe just foreshadowing :)
The story itself is a ball of nonstop action and nonsense, which is why it's fun. It's also slightly incoherent and doesn't seem to have a set direction other than 'Get to New York' at the moment. I will come back and maybe score this higher when I finish the next two chapters, but for now the overall story seems to just be 'Go with the Flow'. It's not a terrible story model, but I feel the lack of clear direction and narrative hurt the overall fiction a bit.
I rated the 'Character' score at only 4.5 stars because we haven't seen enough of the characters outside of the main one to know much about them. They are all either mysteries or caricatures at the moment -stereotypes. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it leaves open the possibility for the author to drop the ball. Of course, knowi
Amadan Na BrionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
As far as I am concerned, this story is truly a unique gem. there are not many like it on royal road and every time I try to put it down I just have to keep reading.
As for style. the author sticks to first person and has just the right mix of inner thoughts, outer actions, and dialogue. it is not a chore to read and it is easy to understand what is going on.
Grammar is near impecable and Ive only found around 5 small errors, and I'm almost done.
As far as the story goes, this is unique. there is no other story that has this intreguing combination of super powers, horror, wonderland, and romance.
As far as the characters go. Adam is the most fleshed out due to him being the main character. however, that does not mean that any of the other characters are lacking. I particularly like Jade, his lawyer. becuase the author has went through the effort to make them simlilar, if only to a small extent.
To summarise this story, if find it to be an uplifting piece about how no matter how bad things get, there is always a silver lining.
Patryk RysRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
It's funny, full of action, insane story, often you will need a break to proceed what the f is going on but you will want to come back for more. This deserve more attention.
littleshippyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A great story(even though it is so young) i can't wait for more to come out and for the story to progress.
What will happen to Adam? will he be brought to another dimension, held in a torture camp, or attacked by aliens and their lasers? find out more next time on. . .
THE FIASCO
nahojjjenRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Writing the review as of the 5th chapter. If you're holding off reading the story until more chapters are out, I'd like to point out that each chapter is longer that a lot of other fictions on this site.
As for what I think of the story:
Writing style and grammar is mostly excellent, so not much to say about that. There are some minor hiccups in words though, and could be rewritten slightly, I'd give story/writing style a 4 out of 5
So far, the story has not yet taken off, but the world and characters are getting introduced, and it seems to be a quite good start.
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Small spoiler zone (Should be safe to read, doesn't reveal much)
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The main character is so far not thoroughly fleshed out, but is on a good way to be established as a likable character. As for the future of the story, it can become boring if the main character is immortal, and the reader does not care about other characters, so if you're intending to go for a adventure/action story, you should do something about that. The story so far however seems to be in a setting which is mostly humorous, and the world seems to be unserious and feels very volatile. As a lighthearted comedy, the story is so far progressing nicely. I would like to point out however that a good world setting only goes so far. The story setting seems to make it difficult to make the main character have a long lasting acquaintance, which i hope will be addressed in the story, I think more characters are needed to make the story live out its potential.