Trading Hells

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Description

It is the year 2248.

More than 150 years after World War 3 ended in the "Night of the falling Stars" large parts of the world are an inhospitable wasteland marred by biological and nuclear weapons. Decades after the 3rd north american civil war finally ripped the great country appart.

Powerful corporations have taken control of many nations left standing and are fighting a neverending war behind the public awarness.

In this world, a young woman is forced to leave her home for another city, another country.

She is trading one hell for another.

Cover image is not from me:

Image for Volume 1 is fromPete LinforthatPixabay

Image for Volume 2 is from Image byMark FrostfromPixabay

Schedule isMonday andThursday

Information

Status
Hiatus
Year
2021
Author
MadMcAl

Tags

VIRTUAL REALITYANTI-HERO LEADFEMALE LEADSCI-FICYBERPUNKGENETICALLY ENGINEEREDDYSTOPIA

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.3/ 5.0
Followers
112
Views
189,490

Chapters(169 total)

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Community Reviews(4)

  • RadKatRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    I love this Girl. She is pure scientist with hobbies, and hasn't realized it.
    The setting is surprisingly pluasible.
    The people don't feel like cardboard cutouts.
    The grammer so far is clean. Well no obviuos glarings things I could spot.
    The Technology is easily descrbed, and remembered. It's to confusing if at all. Minimal knowledge is needed as it IS described.
    Read it! You'll either love it, or hate it. I think you'll love it.
  • alexanderyouRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    The world in this is quite interesting, and the science parts are both fun and reasonable within the story. Some of the characters start off pretty bad, but that can be explained as the mc being completely socially inept, and they do improve after a few chapters. Great world building, and fun tech!
  • WaryorWearyRoyal Road
    ★★★ 2.5
    Review is based on Entries 1-15 and then 2.40-2.42.
    Story is pretty ok for a YA novel if the rape/torture is removed.   It's kinda the Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick trope; but nothing is written for impact.  It's just kinda included, like an extra napkin....
    Story is 90% Tell and 8% Show, with a weird flow that dilutes any real flavor or strength into a watery cloud of words, words, words.  The other 2% is jargon about Future-tech and related concepts.
    My original review had this pegged at "OK", but there's been no noticable improvement in 2 years.  Which moves it down a notch for me, I wish the scale was more granular.
  • darksevenRoyal Road
    ★★ 1.5
    In general I enjoy stories featuring clever female MCs. Since it seems that's what this story is about I really expected to enjoy it. Having read the first few chapters I want to provide a strong counterpoint to the only other review which recommends this story.
    I absolutely do not recommend this story.
    The writing is passable but other than that there's not much good to be said about this story. The character is supposed to be a badass hacker but any time she actually hacks the reader must prepare to be bombarded by a slew of misused/misunderstood buzz words.
    Critically this story is (at the time of writing this review) missing the traumatizing/sexual content warnings which it should have. For why (and the reason I stopped reading) click the spoiler.
    In chapter 4 the MC is raped/tortured for three days. Normally I'd say "what a traumatic experience" and wait to see how the MC rebuilds from such an early low. Except that's now what happens at all. Instead, there's really no reaction at all. She doesn't do anything to stop it, even when she does have options, she patiently waits for the best possible option. (Not 5 minutes, she waits 3 days while being raped and tortured) Was she traumatized or mentally scarred? Nope, she's totally fine, just a little upset.
    I decided to upgrade this to an advanced review to give a wider range of feedback/
    Style: The style is almost passable. I think the only thing that really hurts style is the nonsensical hacking sequences. Other than those the style comes across as fairly decent.
    Grammar: Grammar is only OK. There are quite a number of typos per chapter. Definitely, a tolerable amount for folks used to reading translated content but probably not tolerable for readers who are most used to reading edited content.
    Story: The story seemed like it might lead somewhere interesting. The world-building was good. I do think the author needs to focus on balancing how information is given to the reader. I was left confused in multiple areas