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Some believe Time has been murdered. What once was linear is now uncertain. The spatial dimensions are adrift and unruled; even Tenses vie to be foremost.

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Others think Time is gravely wounded or missing, and hope yet remains. Constants the same and variables rearranged.

∞Me? Oh, we will meet again as we always do - in this prison that was once my palace.∞Finding herself in between your Tale and my Tayl is our Shay, a grieving thief and assassin.

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IthurielRoyal Road

★★★★★ 5.0

A story of rhymes & riddles that harkens back to the fairy tales of old. Incredibly clever with a unique premise and a world that acts like some combintation of dream & fairy logic.
If you are looking for a new story, or just something you haven't seen before read at least the first chapter of this: you'll be hooked instantly.

byxisRoyal Road

★★★★★ 5.0

the story is definitely one of the most interesting things i've read with time dying and all the consequences of this happening to the characters leads to some very interesting situations.
definitely not an easy read with some of the language but for me that just added to the fun of it. No need to read it fast just a bit at a time to get an incredibly unique story out of it.

Triangle TollRoyal Road

★★★ 3.0

It would be incorrect to say that I’ve read the first act. I deciphered it, unraveling over-the-top fancy language to see little to no substance behind it. Yet I pressed on, and at the time of review it finally clicked for me.
This is not a time-travelling sci-fi as the tags suggest, nor does it try to be one. This is a distorted cousin of Alice in Wonderland and/or Through the Looking Glass. The bare-bones plot “get the mcguffin from A to B” is just a vehicle to ride us through all the things the author has conjured up.
So are the characters, it would seem. They have their gimmicks, they are distinguishable, yet they fail at being even two-dimensional. Their only purpose is to do what the author tells them to do, in many cases literally.
As I see it, the story shoots itself into the foot by opening sort of in medias res. There is no normal world to measure ensuing nonsense against. There are no stakes, no reason to care what will happen to our cast of heroes. I leave 4 for the story just because I know for a fact it is not my cup of tea, therefore I cannot even claim I’m being objective here.
The language does not support what remains of a plot at all. At one point our heroes face life or death situation, but it is watered down into nothing as the cavalcade of unnecessary convoluted words washes our attention away from it, only to bring it back some chapters later as if anyone still cares. Suspense turns into annoyance, which is never a good sign.
To sum it all up, I’d argue that you should not read the first chapter to see if it’s the story for you. Open it in somewhere the middle, look at the disconnected snippet of the world and wordplay and then decide, would you like to read more of exactly this.

The Timeless Tayl - Shadows of Amneshay

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