The World Stage Players
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Description
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"
- William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
In a world that's controlled by streamers and their patrons, the players are the main point of interest. Players compete to gain ranks and abilities, egged on by the streamers that exploit them for the patrons' entertainment.
20 year-old Kian Sun is not one of these players. No, instead he much prefers his simple life on his father's farm. However, when a streamer suddenly guides a fatal event to his hometown, Kian's life is thrown into turmoil. His key ability is finally revealed, and his father and their farmhands are put in the hospital with mortal injuries. With the farm destroyed and no other family, Kian sets off to the big city to join the toxic world of players.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2020
- Author
- reelru
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- Rating
- 4.8/ 5.0
- Followers
- 5
- Views
- 2,148
Chapters(9 total)
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- D.N. NewynRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5The World Stage Players by reelru is a fun read. Kian Sun just wants a normal life and of course people who wants normal lives in novels don't ever get to live them.
The first thing I really like about this book is the character's voice. Kian has a mildly sarcastic, mildly full-of-himself kind of voice you see in typical people his age. Since the story is in first person, the character's personality bleeds into the tone and writing style as well, as we can see in lines like 'I'd never heard someone go on about nothing for as long as he can'. The descriptions of important stuff like PA excludes this voice; I hope the distinctive voice can blend in a bit more. Overall, just the type of voice I like in a character.
Another thing that really caught my eye is the use of status screens. I didn't even know you can make them golden before reading this book. The author must have spent a lot of time making them aesthecally pleasing with all the appropriate fonts and different shades inside option boxes. I really like how these screens explain the world when otherwise it would be big expositions.
If there's one thing I don't like, that is the fact the story didn't really reel me in at the start. It kinda feels like the author wants to drop me on a golden egg but somehow I end up inside a chicken barn and see nothing but chicken. Okay, that was a terrible analogy, but thing is it is kinda normal and has plenty of exposition, especially when the MC starts talking about his background. Once you get past that, the story gets much more attractive, so I think the author should be fine once the first chapter is looked at.