The Rails: Loose Ends

Self-Published

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Description

Detective Kenter is an un-augmented human, in a world of genetic manipulation and cybernetic enhancements. His profession, under normal circumstances, would be dangerous. Having recovered from his previous successful case, he soon discovers that an unresolved element from that case will go to great lengths to make sure it remains un-resolved. Unfortunately for him, he happens to be a loose end that needs to be tied up, and in order for him to survive, he will need to discover what or who he missed before its too late.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2021
Author: Wulden

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Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 10
Views: 8,919

Chapters(20 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

SableWritesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
"The Rails: Loose Ends" Is the first of Wulden's stories I've had to read and I got to say I absolutely enjoyed it. Honestly the only true issue I have is that it's not complete yet.
The Rails does what every good Cyberpunk needs to. Make you grateful you don't live in a CyberPunk world. From artificial food to a dystopian society. Where living is something you rent and prices seem to grow higher each year.
Now, my only real complaint is how it feels there's constant tension without giving the characters and readers much chance to breathe. While I do feel there's a good justification, it's truly a minor nitpick and will eagerly look forward to further chapters.
Keep it up Wulden! You have someone who'll keep an eye out for the next chapters.
DanielWattsRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
For an early offering, this is surprisingly good. You get a heavy sense of just how much care and effort the author put into it. While he makes some missteps, he is overall a very capable writer.
The story is surprisingly complex. He bills it as a standard buddy cop offering, but it develops into much more. There are multiple competing factions, a rich world with the wealthy, politically collected elites and the cast offs. Technology is handled well, with fantastical machines that still make perfect sense in universe. The undercurrent of unrest and the underworld make it all the more rich.
Grammar is good with the usual typos one sees from most writers. Run on sentences, malapropisms (lite is light), extraneous descriptors, and the sort of things that impede flow but don't detract from the overall story.
The only real weakness is the characters. Baxter seems inconsistent. His personality seems to shift to whatever the plot needs him to be. Clueless and awkward at one moment, capable of guile the next, and meek after that. Then hyper aggressive. The dialogue reads a bit like people reading lines. This can be improved with more practice.
Good read overall. Hope he comes back to it someday.