Felix BrightStar is an ambitious, aspiring adventurer who has only just begun his story. With little more than determination behind him, he is set on establishing a name for himself, a fact made harder by being the only child of a legendary hero.

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Fenrir_070Royal Road

★★★★★ 4.5

Very interesting premise to start off with a nice twist as to the identity of the "baddie". Kind of compresses an epic level story into small number of chapter in a well thought out and planned way. It's actually refreshing to read a story that doesn't paint humanity as either the heroic savior or the ultimate villian. It pretty much tells it like it is in that you get the good, the bad and the ugly all working together and ... well, read it and find out if you're interested. I know that I'll be looking forward to reading more from this author.

starvingslothRoyal Road

★★★★ 4.0

This is a good example of HFY in a nutshell. HFY (Humanity F*ck Yeah!) is a genre of certain types of stories that paint humanity in favorable light. If you never read a HFY story before, try to read this short story. It’s complete at around fifteen thousand words and can be read in a single afternoon.
Plot - Humanity realized that all of a sudden aliens exist and we’re in the middle of a warzone. From the onset, there are few hopes for survival but after an alien ship crashes on earth we were able to cooperate and escape ultimate extinction. I have no problem with the premise, but I was skeptical how humanity was able to cooperate. To me, it paints an unrealistic light on the human condition as tribal people. Although I agree that we’re capable of cooperation, I doubt that humanity would be able to escape the doom without a significant alpha leader like in the story. Even though the story has acknowledged this issue and tried to cover the weaknesses, I think it’s still lacking in its execution.
World Building - The story takes place on earth and the alien’s ship, and the author has done a good job to incorporate several earth cultures and certain tropes to the story, like Asian characters, Russian, African, etc. Although in my opinion the main antagonist of the story needs to be fleshed out more, and I had trouble suspending my disbelief how the Plague monster traveled across galaxies.
Character - My main issue is with our main character. He didn’t seem fit to be the leader of the human colony. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but I just felt that he lacks the charisma and traits that leaders under crisis have. This is, of course, just my opinion and nitpick and you’re free to argue otherwise.
Grammar and Style - The first few chapters are fine, but I don’t like the POV shift on chapter five where we were introduced to Azthera. For an alien civilization so focused on knowledge and technology, their conversation doesn’t sound that interesting to me.
Conclusion -

The Hard Way

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