The Interdimensional Store Owner

Information

Status

Ongoing

Year

2023

Author

Kmattman

• Chapter 39: Quest Completion
  Jun 1, 2023
• Chapter 38: Skill Feature Practice
  May 31, 2023
• Chapter 37: Grace Chen
  May 30, 2023
• Chapter 36: Customer Service Features
  May 29, 2023
• Chapter 3: Product LIne Selection
  May 7, 2023
• Chapter 2: A New Reality
  May 7, 2023
• Chapter 1: Alex Whitford
  May 7, 2023

Reviews

Community Reviews(6)

• aAakritRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Gym + litrpg + quests
  That's all I need, this novel has a pure and relaxing vibe that draws the reader as much as Alex draws more customers, the characters, the AI, the system voice and prompts are just perfect though a bit robotic they somehow blend with the whole universe store system theme and I only have a 1 world for you
  Read it
• jadecriminalRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  ...If you can read the first 3-4 chapters or so.
  Edit:
  Well, this was published on kindle, as two separate books? Despite there hardly being a story in the first 26 chapters.  Can't update review since chapters are already gone. I was hoping for it getting good. Oh well. I hope it's bringing in profits at least.
  End Edit:
  I almost dropped this because the prologue is straight out of a full depresso, being the protagonist is suffering handbook. Though to be fair the protagonist is not being bullied or beaten up for money so it's not going full manga protagonist.
  I can assure you it gets better and seemingly avoids all the pitfals you'd expect from all of this.
  I'm not a snowflake who needs a content warning but I definitely did not like reading the opening since both of my parents died in their 50s like that.
  It clashes majorly with the uplift "feel" of the rest of the story. Though I guess that was the goal.
  Edit:
  The author adjusted the summary to better set expectations.
  Some portions are slightly game changing, especially the VR training stuff. Unless the technolgy actually exists, martial training stuff with feedback? He should be hounded on where he is getting the tech from as more scrutiny arrives. Heck just the fidelity? People should allready be asking!
  And then there is the now super popular AI... Many, many AI model trainers will want to know who the heck pulled that off. Like industry people will hear about it, come check it out and then realise he has a fusion powered space shuttle to their little Cesna airplane. Because I'd call the traininer an AGI or at least nearly so. It can learn stuff outside of it's model, remember hundreds of people and adapt.
  Still it has not yet been touched upon so I am withholding judgement.
  End Edit
  It has an interactive system for example. That never goes well usually, but here? It just works. Because the author is not trying for "funny" or "slapstick" abuse bullcrap. It is genuinely coming off as a slightly inhuman but ad
• TrinalRogueRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  This story is one of the more unique LitRPG stories I have read, with the first (that I have read) being a shop interface based in the real world of the modern day.
  It is an interesting premise, and I certainly look forward to reading more, though there are a few critiques that I have to note which in my opinion is hindering this okay story from being an amazing story.
  The first point is the tone of narration. I have to point this out because after reading thus far into the story, the extreme positivity in the narration combined with the extremely business like narration is very grating and honestly a bit unrealistic
  I understand that the MC is working on a business, and that the tone is what's used in a business, but it is incredibly formal compared to what the actual tone would be. And I am not just talking about the MC either. It's everyone who interacts with him such as customers - who just wouldn't speak in that level of formality in a gym, regardless of how fancy the the technology is.
  In one of the chapters in the comment section the author addresses this overly positive narration as the MC's coping mechanism for Grief, however, there is almost no mention of his father at all after a few chapters from the fathers death or even any sort of indication to the reader that MC is processing the grief in any form.
  Next story wise the pacing is far too mechanical or unrealistic.
  For example when hiring the receptionist, a customer walks through the door off the street and suddenly there is someone you immediately know would be a good receptionist after showing the gym?
  Many of the problems in the store get seemly solved within a few paragraphs (aside from the popularity of specific equipment which would get resolved overtime).
  And whilst that isnt a problem of itself, we as a reader are given virtually no break before moving onto the next thing.
  As we move through the story it gets to the point where each chapter is just a business lesson to the reader, as if we are
• jschulterRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  While the grammar and language use is impeccable, the content reads like an overenthusiastic business major's self insert fantasy. It started out promising but I couldn't get past chapter 6.
  The MC is excited about the most mundane equipment, not because he's excited to have anything at all, but as though he's reading an ad for it in an infomercial. He acts like running a gym is his life's deepest dream despite it never coming up previously- he's just unspeakably excited to run any business whatsoever. And this is all immediately after some emotionally devastating times- he just comes out of a deep stress and grief filled part of his life as a chipper and excited young businessman, raring to go with no doubts or concerns or worries,  risking his entire livelihood on an out of context system with little to no hesitation. I couldn't keep reading.
• PratzStrikeRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  The idea behind this story is interesting, but there's just so much else wrong. We have to talk about the tone of voice used - we're not reading a story, we're hearing someone outside of the events dictate to us what's going on in the story. It's lifeless and dull, and it's compounded by the fact that for the vast amount of the story up to this point it's just been a steady back and forth between the MC and his AI. I feel like the story needs a rewrite.
• SayleRoyal Road

  ★★ 2.0

  It's unfortunate, because the novel is an interesting concept - get items from around the universe, and sell them for success - but there's a reason that second person isn't used for most storytelling. The reader isn't put in Alex's shoes directly, nor are we watching Alex's adventure. Instead we are told impersonally as though it is a narration of what happens, and it's about as exciting. Like the concept but ye gods the delivery is excruciating. I got to chapter 4 and decided I wasn't capable of reading this format anymore.