Tower of Jack

Self-Published

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Description

To some, he’s an idiot savant, to others, he’s a high-functioning alcoholic. To almost everyone, he’s an arrogant asshole. Jack Atlas - self proclaimed “Worlds Best Assassin” has a problem. Earth’s integration into The Tower has ruined his life.

Jack was ready to retire… Well, he wasn’t actually ready to retire, but love makes you do crazy things.

Regardless of his feelings, he was hanging up his guns… and knives… and explosives… All for a chance at love with the most recent girl of his dreams. Enter 'The Tower' stage left. A cruel device designed by the gods to determine just who is the strongest race within the multiverse. Make it to the top and you get to join the gods in paradise. Everyone else gets to experience…notparadise.

Instead of sipping Mai Tai’s on some beach he can’t pronounce; it’s sipping health pots because he just got stabbed in the ass by a goblin. Instead of trips to Vegas with blackjack and hookers; it’s trips to creepy dungeons filled with skeletons and zombies.

Join Jack as he learns to adapt to his new life of “DnD nerd crap” while in search of the perfect multiverse-cocktail. Also, he might climb The Tower and kill a bunch of people while he’s at it…

What to Expect from this story:

An over the top action comedy, set to the backdrop of epic fantasy.

Lots of cursing and wildly inappropriate humor.

A main character who will pass up the opportunity for OP legendary items because he doesn't want to miss happy hour at the bar.

Shenanigans.

An anti-hero lead.

Links:

Amazon: https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B0DF3L5HFF?maas=&ref=

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Tower-of-Jack-Audiobook/B0DG9BWQT6

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: actionverb

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 1,195
Views: 80,300

Chapters(57 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

bloomer18Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Engaging world and characters. Enjoy the tongue-in-cheek humor, literary and historical barbs, and the fast pace. You're bringing your audience along and giving your cast of characters some semi redeeming traits despite their...excintricities. Makes you want to root for your cast, warts and all. Curious to meet Sarah and looking forward to seeing it all play out
Chevalier_9292Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is very enjoyable, the action is gripping and the dose and feel makes you want to come back for more. This coupled with the fast release date(at that time) makes it one of my favorite stories when he still released chapters.
There are part of the story that could have gone better move development with his mentor/archnemesis, less simping for the girlfriend and the rivalry with the dragon.
This could still go either way, as the dragon can still become an enemy and the master is still not dead. The dragon can kill the girlsfriend and then the MC kills the dragon with his master, a lot of way it can go.
Overall this story is not finished and even with the ending being sudden it went on a decent point just like Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices and just like the aformentioned book I still find myself coming back from time to check if there is an answer to my comment and that says something about how much I enjoyed it.
P.S Author come back or do not come back but just put us out of our misery at least.
EmergencyComplaintsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Jack is a... let's call him a unique protagonist. He has a way of interacting with the world that's refreshingly realistic for what is essentially a merger between an isekai and a system apocolypse story. Here is a man who is actively thriving in a situation that most people would realisitically die in almost immediately, and observing it all through the filter of a man who is 112% done with all of these shenanigans. The only shenanigans Jack cares about are Jack-shenanigans.
The story itself is excellently written. The style remains consistent throughout it, and Jack's fractured mentality is reflected in tonal shifts. The author has also taken care to give voice to the secondary characters whenever a chapter of scene comes up that's being shown from their point of view. The author does have one small habit of occasionally addressing the audience when Jack is thinking about something that occasionally throws me, but this is obviously a deliberate stylistic choice, not a gammatical error.
The story is strong, but it's well-traveled ground. Where Tower of Jack really shines is its unique and finely polished voice, which remain strong throughout the entire story. Other characters have realistic (though perhaps not always reasonable) reactions to Jack's... let's call it abrasive... personality and antics.
Tower of Jack is highly entertaining, as long as you like Jack himself. If you enjoy his particular flavor of mayhem, you'll enjoy this whole story.
pepperlikesaltRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I almost stopped reading this story several times throughout the early chapters as I encountered several warning signs of a powerwank story: unexpectedly helpful cabals, interventionist gods, overpowered rare classes, and items "cursed" with awesome power. Luckily, I read long enough to realize that these events are as important as they seem, and this is a world where a person's potential can be boiled down to some numbers on a character sheet.
Kirito17Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is amazing. Character development, plot, world building. It honestly has it all and that's coming from someone who has read over 100 stories on this site. You should start a Patreon if you have not already considered it. Would love to contribute to your work. More chapters please!!!!!!
LifeSoupMeForkRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I really like the worldbuilding coupled with a good sense of humor. A bit of a slow pace, but nothing too drastical. Really excited how Jack will evolve and what the story has in store for us. This sentence is only for the word count - bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
PureAyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is going to down as a royal road classic i swear. This is amazing. I really hope you dont drop this and that it does really well m8m
Quads is a monster under 👻 that that the muscle in a month Punishments Say the most thesejust to make 😳 a big booty 😳 and the food was bussing ong and curls each time you were to the stats increase 😑 and I cant sleep at the deep 😑
SpaceInvaderProRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The prologue gives you straight-up, high-fantasy vibes and a scope of the world being built. It's interesting, expansive, and leaves you with lots of questions.
Then you meet Jack. Oh man, do I love Jack.
While the story is full of fun fantasy tropes, Jack is a breath of fresh air. He's irreverent, funny, and an endearing asshole. He's not the typical main character who gets everything handed to him; though there is plenty of Deux Ex Machina; he skips over relevant quest details, breaks important items, and spends his skill points in a ridiculous way that absolutely makes a goofy lop-sided character.
I love it.
He also really cares about his team, a colorful cast who are interesting and brings new elements to the story. This duality is what makes the story interesting and provides redeeming qualities to what could otherwise be a flat character. He's an asshole by day, caring protector by night, with a growing backstory that helps explain it all.
If you are looking for a fun read to make you laugh while also providing a solid story arc and some great LitRPG elements, this is it.
Herewiss13Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I don't know if I'm going to keep reading this, but I have to rate it highly because the author is definitely doing exactly what they intend and doing it very well.
I have never seen a character so completely oblivious to the narrative. Some characters embrace it, some struggle against it, but Jack just disregards it completely. He is trying to behave orthoganally to the plot! He'd like a drink and his lady friend and pooooossibly not to cause the extinction of the human race...but only if that doesn't interfere with his drinking.
If the plot is going "north-south", Jack's character arc is "red-blue." That's how disconnected we're talking.
He's funny and quippy and surprisingly lethal. There are some really amusing scenes and decent worldbuilding, but Jack is also deeply infuriating and that is on purpose. I can't fault the author for making Jack take bad RPG choices when bad choices are what Jack is about.
...but there's only so much '"ignore the obvious benefit in favor of a martini" that I can personally stand. You can see stuff flying over his head repeatedly and half the time it's because he's deliberately ducking.
Maybe it gels further later on, but I'm not going to bet on it. Still might read it and find out...if only I can manage my aggravation levels. :-)
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FlamebeardRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
TLDR: 5/5 stars, good tower integration with good characters. Worth reading.
Tower of Jack is a standard tower integration novel. Gods are prevalent and...meddly as well as the Tower itself being more than willing to stick its fingers where they don't belong. The primary appeal is the characters -- namely Jack -- their dark secrets in their past, and how they grow to overcome them. This is one of those fictions where the main character is missing a few cards in his deck and is proud of it.
Tower of Jack is an odd one. On the one hand, the introduction to Jack is rather polarizing and I feel that it failed to properly excite me regarding what was coming next. He comes off as an idiot or suicidal with a rather uninspiring amount of plot armor, rather than the ultra-competent assassin wearing the mask of a buffoon. That bothered me, but on the other hand, the story has a setting, plot, characters, the works. It isn't a mindless murder fest, nor is it a repetitive comedy that gets stale after three chapters. My only complaint is that the setting and magic system are a little stale (for me), but they don't get in the way and get the job done.
The story gets lost at times, and there were at least a few occasions where I felt like the plot lost an argument with a brick wall. That being said, I enjoyed what was written currently, and encourage you to give it a try yourself.
Style notes: The author uses nonstandard -- I think -- definitions/spellings for the words reigned and nonplussed. From the context, reigned=rained, and nonplussed=unperturbed.