Threadbare

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BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT! Threadbare Volume 1: Stuff and Nonsense, Volume 2: Sew You Want to be a Hero, and Volume 3: The Right to Arm Bears are now available on Amazon.com! For US residents, you can find them at the following links:Volume 1,Volume 2,Volume 3. Residents of other countries, please browse your local Amazon market.NOTICE: We've added Volumes 4-6, to complete the story.Volume 4,Volume 5,Volume 6Meet Threadbare. He is twelve inches tall, full of fluff, and really, really bad at being a hero. Magically animated and discarded by his maker as a failed experiment, he is saved by a little girl. But she's got problems of her own, and he might not be able to help her.Fortunately for the little golem, he's quick to find allies, learn skills, gain levels, and survive horrible predicaments. Which is good, because his creator has a whole lot of enemies...Advance chapters are now available on my Patreon, for those who wish to read ahead.(Cover by Amelia Parris)My name is Andrew Seiple, I'm an author and a long time roleplayer. I am the writer of Threadbare, and I own the rights to this story, and many others. I've published works on Amazon before Threadbare, but this is my first litrpg. You can find my various stories available on Amazon.com

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2017
Author: Andrew Seiple

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 5,273
Views: 4,612,094

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Community Reviews(10)

zelot65Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I feel like this story deserves a review, I initially overlooked it, then it became the best rated story on Royal road. Now I understand why, the world is immersive, the characters colourful and the plot intruding. Also, I love Zuula
DragonswordRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a complete trilogy that ending concludes the issues the main characters were facing, but will allow for more to be a possibility. You shall enjoy reading this were most of it is a joyful and fun. There are some parts that are serious but things work out so that the main characters are happy by the end. It is more realistic for a fantasy world but it also has mostly a lighthearted happy tone while a war is happening.
BlueCoffeeJavaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
By the second chapter, I wanted to own a copy of this story, but I couldn't stop reading to go buy it on Amazon.
I loved the way the author poked at gaming steriotypes, and the fact that the luck stat has a negative as well as positive effect? :)
NirgeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
awesome world? check! underestimated MC? check!
Balanced powers? Out of the box thinking? good story? check check check.
insanely, it's working, a fluffy toy became my hero!
Though there are a few holes to it (pun intended), it managed to hook me quickly to it's rapidly evolving world and nicely paced storyline.
The story is definitely worth reading!
RascozillaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Excellent world building, great characters, and interesting plot. Don't let the cutness of the our hero be bearicade to you reading this great story!
SepiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I have been reading on rrl for the better part of a year and this book made me get an account
Spencer MitchellRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Threadbare is an incredible story that has me hooked at every twist and turn. The author creates such amazing depth through a teddy bear. Here is my review in detail:
Style Score:
5/5 - I love the litRPG genre, so I may be a bit biased, but the way that the author uses this creates such an incredible depth in the world of this story and in the teddy bear that has all of our hearts. I think that Andrew may be on his way to reinventing the way that the genre is handled. I love it.
Story Score:
5/5 - I'm not quite that far in yet, but it keeps me hooked through every little detail. There are hints towards a dark future ahead and I cannot wait to see what's in store!
Grammar Score:
4.95/5 - The occasional error here and there, but no more than anyone else makes. Very great, you can tell that care is put into the grammatical correctness of the writing.
Character Score:
5/5 - Incredible character depth in the main characters, and, as far as I can tell so far, no ridiculously stereotypical archetypes.
Overall Score:
5/5 - Andrew can you please make a real MMORPG? Please?
WarmasterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This a great addition to the LitRPG genre. It's funny, lighthearted (but there are suggestions of things much darker in the stories future) and the game mechanics don't seem to be weighing down the story - yet. The story so far has been great.
binspiredRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I actually found this book on Amazon. The cover looked cute and the description was interesting. I began reading, and my life was changed forever.
Great great great story!! I've actually read a bunch of other litrg before (mainly the published ones though) and Threadbare was so refreshing. I absolutely appreciated the character, the plot, the flow--it was all great. The puns are hilarious and keep the entire story lighhearted. Even when things get serious and dark, the overall mood reminds you that it's just a story and things will get better eventually.
ElgoreRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Volume one of Threadbare was amazing, one of the best story starts I've read on RR. Unfortunately, like many others, I found that the second volume wasn't quite as good as the first.
I'd like to start of by saying that the grammar is excellent. Sentences are coherent and paragraphs are pleasant to read. No issues here.
Regarding style, I personally found that the author's writing style peaked in the first volume, as the way he portrayed and described the struggles of a newly animated teddy bear was incredible. Don't get me wrong, I found the writing pleasant to read in volume 2, but volume 1 was on a different level.
The story is where the big issues start to appear for me. I personally found the plot progression to be well paced and worldbuilding was very interesting, but the story took a very different approach at the start of the second volume.
First off, there's a 5 year timeskip. Many of the previous side characters are dead and Celia's been abducted by her evil father & demon "mother".
The interaction between Threadbare and his surroundings in volume 2 feels completely different from volume 1.
as he has basic human intelligence and the ability to speak. The way his decision making process was described was also a bit different.
This makes him feel just like a human and no longer like the teddy bear given consciousness that he used to be. This was honestly probably the biggest negative for me. In exchange, we get a huge focus on LitRpg aspects for not only Threadbare but many other characters. LitRpg elements are fine, but in my opinion it fell into the trap of having dozens upon dozens of active skills, with multipage long skill lists that are pretty damn difficult to keep track of. The combination of the MC feeling more human & the emphasis on LitRpg elements made the story feel much more generic/uninteresting to me.
Finally for characters. They were pretty fleshed out and had distinct personalities, but I found that volume 2 introduced some weird inconsisten