The Many Deaths of Kara Lowe

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Description

112 years ago, the Bubble Burst. 103 years ago, the Great War ended. 76 years ago, the War of Two Worlds ended. It is now 2021 and Homo Sapiens, Homo Subcinctus, Homo Variari, and Sapient Beasts have been living together in a hard-won harmony for 75 years.

Or so they say.Atypical high-school student Kara Lowe has some serious doubts about that.

After she is killed and brought back to life by her accidental murderers, she is forced to abandon everything she thought she knew about the world, and herself. While plagued by a mysterious Order that believes she should not exist, Kara must prove her right to life by destroying an age-old enemy with an unfortunate connection to her.

There won't be a ton of gore or traumatising content, that's not the focus, but the tags are there to be safe. The main character uses colourful language when she's angry.

The main character might seem to be talking to you at times. She is not. Things will make sense eventually.

A quick note about religion: this novel takes place in an Alternate History setting.No existing religion from our world exists in this one. Any similarities are coincidential.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: ShiftingSand90

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 90
Views: 28,477

Chapters(37 total)

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Community Reviews(5)

AllantherRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Review at chapter 10.
This story presents something different than the usual stories found on royal road.
Told in the first person pov, the first few chapters are thick with stream of consciousness internal monologue. Very thick.
This presents a wall that is difficult to climb for readers not interested in this style of writing.
Within this stream of consciousness, the author presents a somewhat pessimistic teenage girl as the main character in a world rife with supernatural threats.
Grammatically, I didn’t come across any errors that broke immersion, and the quality of writing is quite high compared to many other stories on this site.
Story-wise, at chapter 10, the plot is still unfolding. No major plot holes. The storyline itself seems well plotted and complex. I think that there may have been a better starting point to introduce the main character, but that is the author's prerogative.
Secondary characters seem flushed out. Main character isn't immediately easy empathize, given her attitude. It's only several chapters in that the story unfolds enough to see that the attitude is somewhat warranted.
What this story does offer is the promise of being something great. I can see a lot of potential in the 10 chapters I've read.
If that sounds up your alley, I recommend you take the opportunity to read. If stream of consciousness and slower start aren't your thing, then this might not be for you.
I'll be following along as the story develops to see where it goes.
ChaosinacupRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is definetly a slow burn but that fire just keeps building.
The primary draw of the story is the intricate and overwhelming mysteries that inhabit every facet of this incredibly deep world. Every answer is alway fascinating and opens up a dozen new questions that are all more gripping than the last.
The worldbuilding is incredible but in a way that is fundementally different from the norm, classic worldbuilding is deep and fleshed out cultures and histories, but in this story even up to the most recent chapters we, as readers, know little and understand even less. But the draw comes from the story utterly convincing you that answers to every question do exist. Though we don't see it every character behaves with history and culture beyond our understanding, refering to events and concepts that make no sense but all add a new thread to the growing teapestry.
That allur of potential kept me more gripped as I desperately tried to figure out how it all fit together more than almost any detailed timeline or exposition dump ever could.
This is all to say that almost nothing is just handed to the MC or us but instead must be worked out and fit together.
So it helps that the lens we see these mysteries through is one of the best characters I have read in a long time. Kara is a bizzarre mix of brilliance and mentally disturbed, with balls of steel yet clear vulnerabilities and immensly human reactions to the things that happen to and around her.
It is perhaps the thing that I am most impressed with in the writing; that the author was able to balance the 'no shits given' hypercompetent badass (that lends portions of this story a power fantasy type catharsis with just how intelligent the main character can be) and her incredibly human side that has no idea what the fuck is happening to her and is rightly very very scarred.
[spoiler] I just have to give a extra big shout out to how the main character almost comes across as a narsicistic paranoid unreliable narrator yet
Mix33Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The many deaths of kara Lowe is as far as I know a pretty decent story, primarily a mystery where we follow in the main character, Kara's head, who also is the only character we can really know so far from the stories nature as first person which is relatively unique for this site. Fully along for the ride in Kara's thoughts almost as if being spoken to as another voice in her head is a pretty interesting way for the story to be told, and one that I quite like, her curiosity and angry viciousness really come through so good job on that author. However character wise shes really the only one that matters because it seems as if every other character is either an enemy, a hindrance, or part of the background, but this is definitely on purpose, increasing Kara's isolation.
Grammar is definitely 5/5 no noticeable flaws
Overall basically just standard YA mystery/urban fantasy so far just a slight step above
e g JamesonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Give it a shot.
Ten chapters in and I'm loving this!
A little disjointed and stream of consciousness for the first few chapters, but that's just a style choice. It starts to make sense after a while. This poor girl clearly has several issues, but just because you're parinoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
A fascinating alternate history/urban fantasy set up, with the twist of being told from the p.o.v. of a "normie." At least she thinks she is...
It's still early on, and at chqpter 9 the real shit is just starting, so I don't really know what's going on yet, but I'm excited to find out.
the_random_userRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
From what i can tell from the first few chapters is that this will be an extremely slow burn (walking through the halls at school to get to the bus stop takes a chapter and a half), with alot of needless exposition.
Everything going on in the main charaters mind is so meticulously written down that there is little time for dialogue or for world around the protagonist. In the first chapter, the main character needs to leave school quickly to do... Something. Something we are expected to know. The main character is also terrified of running into their friend, or at least, are desperately trying to avoid them. I have no idea why they want to escape school so fast, because in the next chapter they readily state that they dont need to be anywhere quickly. All these thoughts are presented to the reader with no explanation for why they are thinking these thoughts in the first place. Maybe later they are explained in more depth, but that doesn't really matter if the person reading doesn't get up to that point.
Im unsure of the rest of the story, but the exposition levels here already are way to high to comfortably read, atleast in my case. Maybe someone else will enjoy this, as the overall quality of writing is decent (grammer, sentance structure specifically) and the premise promised in the synopsis seems like it would be cool to read, but i personally cant stand how long winded, overly detailed, and drawn out these mental gymnastics are.