Vampire and the Implausible Cube

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Description

Valerie finds herself stranded in a fantastical land of magic, with unknown dangers and no possessions aside from a mysterious, Rubiks Cube-looking silver object that follows her around no matter where her adventures take her and proves to be an invaluable, albeit stoic travel companion. However, things aren't as simple as they first seem, as she soon discovers a newfound thirst for blood, a society built upon strength to combat the oddly intelligent and cunning amalgamations of various creatures cropping out of the woodwork, as well as a hatred for all creatures magical; including her.

Information

Status: Cancelled
Year: 2021
Author: Gnak

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 169
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Above Average AssonanceRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
No noticeable issues with grammar or style. Story is slow, but with a good set-up, too early to comment.
My biggest issue is that the protagonist feels like a blathering retard with zero critical thinking skills most of the time, taking 10 chapters to even ideate that she may not be on Earth anymore, makes constant questionable decisions, and seems to just go with the flow while hemming and hawwing over and over again, never resolving herself any which way at all. She makes no plan, and never applies the slightest logical cognition whatsoever to her situation or environment, and barely examines the tools she has (or could have, being a vampire, and knowing possible vampire abilities from fiction). For these reasons, she annoys me to no end. As an example, simple logic would tell you that a werewolf asking you to help gank humans would likely indicate that your race is considered an enemy of humanity. Or, that trying to go with a bunch of random humans is a horrible idea, because not only do you not know who they are, you'd also have minimal protection from the sun while surrounded by potential enemies.
A shame really, it has potential.
petercoRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
There's some really cool ideas in here.
I mean, there's a justification for isekai that I hadn't seen before and feels pretty sensible. There's a magic system with litRPG aspects but which feels moderately organic. The MC has clear weaknesses but isn't helpless either. It's cool.
Unfortunately I'm really put off by the stupidness of the MC. It starts off with her refusing to engage with the premise that she's on another world for however many chapters, despite it being in her face the whole time.
Then she tries to hide she's from "London". Despite this (true) statement being the best alibi she's got.
More recently I had a better idea for how to earn money whilst reading about her (2 day, one chapter) trip to civilisation than she had herself. (She could become a smith.)